Donald trump looks at the violence and sees a political lifeline. Bret donald trump and joe biden live electrical Battle Grounds in urban hot spots deliver contrasting messages on how to confront racial unrest. We are joined by Biden CampaignSenior AdvisorSymone Sanders only on fox news sunday. Plus, the president pushes back on reports he privately disparaged american soldiers. Its a fake story written by a magazine that was probably not going to be around much longer. Bret we will ask our sunday panel how it could impact the crucial military vote, all right now on fox news sunday. Bret angelo again from fox news in washington. Its now just 58 days, eight weeks, until election day and the first debate between President Trump and joe biden just three weeks away now. Coronavirus, racial unrest and the economy all key issues that could impact the vote. We begin with fox team coverage, david spunt at the white house and Jacqui Heinrich in wilmington, delaware. Lets start with the latest on the president s strategy as he faces reelection and the backlash over a report he mocked american soldiers killed in action. The president is fuming over the report that he disparaged meanwhile, the white house is trying to fit the focus to a potential Covid Vaccine. Its a disgrace that somebody is allowed to write things like that. President trump aggressively denying your report in the atlantic claiming he called american war dead losers and suckers. There is nobody that feels more strongly about our soldiers, our wounded warriors, our soldiers that died in war, than i do. Its a hoax. In november 2018 the president spoke at a cemetery outside paris, but did not visit one some 61 miles east. The white house as the decision for the president to skip the visit was weatherrelated. Back on american soil, portland hit its 100th day of unrest. At the same time, the president ordering a scaledback of Racial Sensitivity Training and federal agencies. In a memo, office of management and budget director says the u. S. Has spent millions training government workers to believe divisive, antiamerican propaganda. The white house instead looking to focus the attention on 1. 4 million jobs added in august and a potential sustainable Covid Vaccine by late october, early november. This week the president will travel to michigan and North Carolina to hold campaign rallies. On friday hill had to pennsylvania on september 11th to memorialize flight 9093. Also on friday, president mike Vice President joe biden. Bret david, thanks. Now lets turn to Jacqui Heinrich, whos covering the Biden Campaign. Good morning, bret. After more than a week on the defensive, republican messaging about law and order, joe biden is using reported comments by the president to undercut a central theme of his reelection campaign. Who the heck does he think he is back joe biden is trying to get the message across. Donald trump is not patriotic. President trump has demonstrated he has no sense of service, no loyalty to any cause other than himself. Always caution not to lose my temper. This may be as close as ive come. He speech brought it was expected to make headlines in thomy and jobs, but following a President Trump disparaged american troops, bidens most memorable remarks invoke the memory and military service of his own son, beau. The servicemen and women he served with, particularly those that did not come home, were not losers. While biden runs on character, his running mate is sticking to issues. Senator Kamala Harris saying she would not trust the president s word alone on potential Coronavirus Vaccine following reports his administration is rushing a rollout for political points. Hes grasping for whatever you can get to pretend that hes been a leader on this issue, when he is not. The campaign is taking stops and swing states, resonating vest on the issues. Tomorrow, labor day, biden heads to pennsylvania to talk jobs with union leaders. Right. Bret Jacqui Heinrich reporting from delaware, thank you. Joining us now, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin. Mr. Secretary, thanks, welcome back to fox news sunday. Secretary mnuchin thanks, great to be with you. Bret id like to start with where the coronavirus stimulus bill, the next iteration, stanza negotiations as of right now. Speech of the president that i couldnt be more pleased with the way the economic plan is working. Weve injected 3 trillion into the economy. People thought wed get 25 on appointment, fortunately it never came close to that. We are down to 8. 4. But the president and i believe we should do more stimulus. We have about seven and a half million jobs that we need to get back until we are back to where we were up and we want to help Small Businesses. We want to help businesses that are particularly impacted by this and we will continue to work on proposed new legislation. Bret whats the Sticking Point . Do Speaker Pelosi want this to believe . Secretary mnuchin i think you know in my discussions with the speaker, where we are really stuck his uncertain policy issues but more abou more import the top line. She has refused to a negotiated unless we agree to a two and a half trillion dollar deal in advance. And as you know, we put 3 trillion into the economy when the economy was completely shut down. We have now reopened the economy. Lets do a more targeted bill now. If we need to do more in 30 days we will continue to do more but lets not hold up the American Workers and American Businesses that need more support. Bret on the logistics, will Senate Republicans move a socalled skinny bill next week . Secretary mnuchin id like to call it a more targeted bill, not a skinny bill, but our expectation is we will move forward next week. Bret what exactly did you agree with the speaker on government funding . Secretary mnuchin the good news, bret, is the speaker and i have agreed, we dont want to see a government shutdown, so weve agreed that we are going to do a clean cr. We will do this separately from the cares act negotiations. We are having the appropriations staff the four corners meet and go through some specific details on it, but the good news is weve agreed on a clean cr and i hope by the end of the week we can begin moving forward with that, because thats important to the American People. Bret cr, continuing resolution, how long would that extension last . Through election day, some other timeline . Secretary mnuchin we havent agreed on the specific details but my expectation it would be through the beginning of december. Thats what we did this year, we had one through december, we then needed another one into the beginning of next year and then we had final appropriations, so for now, the most important thing is to make sure the end of the month we dont shutdown the government and we get something past the election. Bret mr. Secretary, there has been some vocal criticism from republicans about you negotiating, saying in essence are giving away the store, the president has joked he doesnt know whether youre a democrat or republican. Theres the wall street journal editorial board, republicans and the age of donald trump dont know what they stand for on economics. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin is a keynesian whose idea of compromise is half of whatever mrs. Pelosi wants, saying if ther election agenda. Your reaction to that criticism, and would it be better to bring the president in, have him get everybody in the oval office and try to hammer out a deal . Secretary mnuchin let me first say, i dont take the wall street journal editorials personally. Sometimes they have good things to say and sometimes its nonsense, like this case. As i said before, i dont agree to anything that i dont agree with the president. I speak to the president daily. Our economic plan got us back to an extraordinary reopening of the economy and the president wanted us to move forward with 3 trillion of spending. Thats what we did. Its helped an enormous amount of American Businesses and American Workers and the answer is, the president constantly has not only his Economic Team in the oval office, but now mark meadows and i have been on the phone with Mitch Mcconnell and the Senate Republicans every single day. We obviously speak to Kevin Mccarthy him and the republicans in the house, but let me be clear, any legislation or criers bipartisan support. We couldnt be more proud. The last two bills in the senate 1000 and 960, so i find that anything other than complete bipartisan support from both sides. Bret most look at job report as positive, strong expectations. Heres how the former Vice President characterized it friday. The report reinforces the worst fears and painful truths, the economic inequities that began before the downturn have only worsened under this failed presidency. When a crisis started, we all hoped for a few months of the shutdown would be followed by rapid economic turnaround. No one thought theyd lose their job for good. Bret your reaction to that . Secretary mnuchin the former Vice President on the former president had one of the longest economic recessions that weve had. Under President Trump we have the lowest on employment way fat. Without the best economy weve ever had enter no fault of any American Businesses, the president made the very difficult decision to shut down the entire u. S. Economy because of this terrible covid disease. The good news is weve reopened it buried him again, let me just say, people thought we have 30, 40 Million People unemployed. We never did that because of the bipartisan support putting money into the economy. We are now down to 8. 4 and the president is going to get it back down to three or 4 where it was before all of that in the beginning of next year when hes reelected. Bret 1. 4 million jobs added in august, Unemployment Rate down to 8. 4 . Looking right now on the current trajectory, what you think it will be by election day . I think we will continue to see it go down. We will have one more employment number this month that youre going to see. I think youre going to see another good number. Youre going to see a phenomenal Third Quarter gdp. In some people think its going to be in the neighborhood of 30, 35 . Whether its 25 , 30, 35 , youre going to see this is the American Economy rebounding. This is American Business. People know when the government gets out of the way and we let American Business work, and with a little support from industries that are the hardest hit and thats why we want more legislation, this economy will fully recover and the president s job and my job is not done until everybody gets back to work. Bret the countries still in the Iran Nuclear Deal says the u. S. Doesnt have standing to do snapback sanctions. Can and will the u. S. Go alone on this . Secretary mnuchin we will. If so let me just say we dont agree with that Technical Analysis at the u. N. I think our allies understand that selling arms to iran right now would be perhaps the worst decision that one could do. We are talking about the number one country in the middle east that has created terror around the middle east. In the president is determined. At one, theyre never going to have a nuclear weapon, and two, we are not going to let them hurt our friends in the area. Bret you are not on that trip to france with the president , thats the focus of the atlantic piece, that has received so much attention in the past few days. Administration push back on the record, but unnamed sources confirming parts of that story, at least parts of the account. Have you ever heard the president use any of that language, about veterans, dead or alive, ever being around him . Secretary mnuchin quite the contrary. This president supports the military and an unbelievable way. Hes created more funding to rebuild the military. That was one of the things he campaigned on and delivered. Ive been with the president to arlington on memorial day. Let me tell you, ive listened to him there, ive watched him go visit sites there. Ive been with him to the anniversary of world war ii, it was a very emotional exper think this president has enormous respect for the military and for the generals and ive been at the tank at the pentagon with him. Ive been at 9 11 at pentagon with him. This president respects and supports the u. S. Military. Bret the president also says he is against cancel culture. Do you think its right for him to call for the firing of a reporter who has unnamed sources who confirm parts of that story . Secretary mnuchin bret, i really dont know anything about that, so its just not something i can comment on. Bret okay, hes tweeted about it and obviously he says that he wants a reporter who happens to work here at fox fired buried secretary mnuchin ive been busy on economic issues, to be honest with you. I focus on a lot of things and as i said on the military, ive always heard him to be 150 supportive. Im just not aware of the issues they are talking about. Bret must think im of the cbos as the National Debt will reach about the size of the u. S. Economy by the end of the year. Ive interviewed you many times before and ask you about the growing size of the debt. Its approaching 27 trillion. The deficit and the debt are a concern. Youve always said its manageable, but after this pandemic, if the president is reelected, would you see a second term some serious Administration Plan to address the debt . Secretary mnuchin i would, bret. I think before we got into covid i thought the debt was very manageable. We were having extraordinary growth, creating growth that would pay down the debt over time. Unfortunately, this china virus has cost us trillions of dollars and as i said before, this is like a war. In a war youve got to spend whatever you need to spend. Thats the reason why we spent 3 trillion. Wed spend another trillion dollars, the speaker wants to just spend unlimited amounts of money. I think the former Vice President , if you were elected, would have socialist economic policies that would take the debt out of control, but theres no question in a second term, once the economy is back, we will focus on this issue. Bret mr. Secretary, we appreciate your time and happy labor day. Secretary mnuchin thank you. 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Is that a problem for your campaign . Symone i did hear the treasury secretary just a moment ago and i think we folks have to ask themselves at home, is this recover working for you . Economists are starting to call this recovery ak shaped recovery, mean it is going well and up for it folks at the top but folks who are middleclass or below, its going down. So the question it really is, is this working for working families . And the answer is no. One in six Small Businesses have shuttered their doors. If you work more more than 24 Million People have noted that they are teleworking. If you have a job that has you working on a laptop and you are working at a desk, you are less at risk for covid, i am thinking of joe bidens thinking but the folks who are Truck Drivers into work is as cashiers, those are folks that are at higher risk, shortened hours, but also higher risk of being exposed to covid so i just think we have to think about the pain on the working families across the country are experiencing. Bret the prospects for a vaccine election day. I asked about the safety of that, dr. Anthony fauci said this. I think that we can have some confidence and have faith in what the fda is saying. They are saying very explicitly that theyre going to be making the decision based on the scientific data, and we hope that thats going to be the case. Bret is the Biden Campaign saying essentially if a vaccine comes out before election day, it shouldnt be trusted or that its pure politics . A couple of tim the former Vice President has weighed in on that buried symon want to va. But we want that vaccine to be safe and when a vaccine is eventually available, we want it to be equitably distributed, and the question really is, how can americans and folks across the Country Trust the president to be able to effectively and equitably distribute a vaccine when hes had issues getting personal protective equipment to frontline workers all across this country. So we all want to vaccine, bret, but we wanted to be safe and we want to get folks across the country in every community. Bret if it comes out the last week in october and the fda gives at the goahead, youre okay with that . Symone bret, again, we all want to vaccine. The question is how will it be distributed . Will working families across this country i just talked about the folks who work asashig counters and work in Grocery Stores and folks who are Truck Drivers, will they have the ability to get this vaccine . We know that africanamerican and latino folks in this country are disproportionately affected by covid19. Will those neighborhoods and communities across the country have the opportunity to receive the vaccine . That is the question, and if we look at just frankly how this white house and how the administration has handled the mitigation or the lack thereof of covid19, has handled disturbing personal protective equipment to folks across this country, there have been real issues. So we would hope that if a vaccine is available, that it is safe, but its a question of can the Trump Administration distributed equitably. Bret they say they have a plan for that buried will joe biden get the vaccine if its available . Symone look, bret, as i just noted, first and foremost i think folks have asked, weve had conversations about testing and as folks know now, by spartans and in biden at senator harris are being regularly tested, as our Campaign Staff but first and foremost a top of mind for Vice President biden are the American People getting what they need. You know, the white house has folks are tested very regularly coming in and out of the white house, anyone whos around the president , but that testing, that level of testing is not available to folks across the country so if a vaccine were to become available, again, its about will working families benefit, will they be able to receive the vaccine . Bret many journalists detected a shift in the former Vice President answer about shutting down the economy. Take a listen. Get off twitter. And Start Talking to the congressional leaders in both parties, invite them to the oval office. The oval office, negotiate a deal. A deal for somebody other than yourself. So weve decided to stay shut it down. I would shut it down. I would listen to the scientists buried there is going to be no need in my view to be able to shut down the whole economy. I got asked a question, if i was asked to shut everything down, i took that as a generic question, am i going to follow the signs. Bret so would he shut it down are not . Symone i think the vice present was very clear in that last clip, he noted that he was asked by david, he took it very generic, that if it was recommended by the scientists that that is what happen to keep americans safe, would he do it, and the answer was yes, the reality is this, Vice President biden wants folks to be able to go to work, just like i noted we want folks to be able to get that vaccine, we want working families too we want folks to be able to send their children to School Safely and currently in Donald Trumps america thats not happening, so i think at the beginning of that clip, what you heard his Vice President biden urging the president to call in the Democratic Leaders in the United States congress and senate and in the house, bring them to the white house, lets negotiate a deal and get this done. Bret it goes the other way, symone, too. He is now the de facto head of the democratic party. Why doesnt joe biden called nancy pelosi and say lets get a deal done . Symone i do believe that Speaker Pelosi passed a stimulus bill in the house more than 115 days ago. Bret is a big difference, a gap between what theyre talking about as far as the negotiations buried symone right, bret, i dont think ive read anywhere were Speaker Pelosi or leader schumer have noted that theyre unwilling to work with the president. I think even you have noted that the president has to come to the table and negotiate, so what Vice President bidens urging and i think with the American People want is a deal. Donald trump talks about being this business later that can cut great deals. They could deal with congress, come on, do your job, this is part of the job. Bret lets talk about the protests in the violence around the country often turning into rioting and looting, significant violence stemming from it. The former president has condemned that violence and looting and violence, spoke out about it but he has yet to condemn antifa, a group that is behind a lot of the violence specifically. Why . Symone bret, the Vice President has been very clear, he condemns all forms of violence and frankly what you heard him say in the speech that he gave on monday of last week was it doesnt matter what Political Party you belong to. It doesnt matter what your political beliefs are. Violence is wrong. In this moment he is calling for calm and we have also noted throughout the week, bret, that he asked the president to join him in condemning violence, regardless of who is causing itp that has not buried bret to the dozen plus Biden Campaign staffers who donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund have any regrets about that now that at least one person who has been bailed out as been rearrested . It has not been our Campaign Position of bailing anyone out. So im sure about specifically what youre speaking to bret Kamala Harris tweeted about it, if youre able to chip into the Minnesota Freedom Fund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in minnesota, please do buried symone you ask a good question. Do we condemn the violence and the answer is yes. Protesting, we have to make a clear distinction between protesting and violence. To be clear, Vice President biden has said, burning communities, looting communities is not protesting, thats violence. And we condemn that in all for forms. But protesting peacefully as necessary, its american and folks should be raising their voices in this moment. Bret why do you think all the Police Organizations have endorsed President Trump . Symone im unsure. Im not a negotiations, if you will, inside these various Police Organizations but what i can tell you is more than a 132 Law Enforcement officers from across this country and highranking positions, former folks, endorsed vice present biden on friday and i can also tell you this, that when you ask the American People looking at these polls, voodoo voters trust to keep them safe in this country, overwhelmingly they say joe biden. I think this law order campaign, if you will that President Trump and his campaign are trying to gin up and run, i dont think its working, because the question is, are you safe in Donald Trumps america, are you safe from covid, are you safe in the incitement of violence, is it safe to send your told him to school and nonequivalent of the answer is no. Bret here is new york governor andrew cuomo. Changed his residence to go to florida, why . He cant come back to new york buried he cant. Hes going to walk down the street in new york . Forget bodyguards, he better have an army. If he thinks is going to walked on the street in new york. Bret talking about speaking out against violence. Was not appropriate are helpful for your campaign . Symone well, bret, duffin or to Governor Cuomo doesnt work for the Biden Campaign. Im not sure what context he was speaking bret about donald trump buried symone i can tell you what joe biden and Kamala Harris believe, they believe that we should live in a country with a president does not incite violence or fan the flames of hate in this country, pour gasoline on tense situations. They believe that we need leadership was ready to stand up for all of the folks, not just people who voted for the president. And that is the kind of leader that joe biden will be, a president all americans. Bret so they would condemn that language from Governor Cuomo . Symone i dont know what context i dont speak for Governor Cuomo. I speak for joe biden and senator harris and what i can tell he was what they believe. Bret we really appreciate your time, happy labor day. Symone thank you, happy labor day. Bret up next we will bring in our sunday for their take on the Vice President s travels to kenosha, wisconsin, in the state of the campaign. Accelerate your investments or pull back . Change the plan or stay the course . Thats why Northern Trust is here. With specialized expertise. A history of success through every economic climate. And proven strategies rooted in data and analytics. Giving you more control. Clarity. And confidence. For now and whatevers next Northern Trust wealth management. Come on in, were open. All we do is hand you the bag. Simple. Done. We adapt and we change. You know, you just figure it out. Weve just been finding a way to keep on pushing. Ident trump declares this election is about law order. Bidens plan is to appease the domestic terrorists and my plan is to arrest them and prosecute them. Bret we will ask our sunday panel how both candidates hey, my twitter is blowing up dear jack box, bring back the spicy chicken strips, still waiting for the spicy chicken strips, so many about spicy chicken strips. Wow, i hear you. So im bringing back my juicy 100 allwhite meat spicy chicken strips combo for only 5. 99 allwhite meat spicy chicken strips combo where you can find games, news and highlights. All in one place, right on your tv. The xfinity sports zone. Use your voice to search every stat, standing and score. Follow the teams you love. And, even get notifications with breaking news alerts and more. So youll never miss an update. With the xfinity sports zone store for details. Lick, a is it the juicy 100 allwhite meat . Or because you can spice them up or cool them down . Or because a little birdie told me you wanted them back really bad. Get my spicy chicken strips combo for only 5. 99. Im committed to helping kenosha rebuild. We must give far greater support to our Law Enforcement. Its all about giving them additional support. These are great people. The underlying racism is institutionalized in the United States, still exists, has existed for 400 years. Bret President Trump and joe biden with contrasting messages during their visits this week to kenosha, wisconsin, as protests continue after the Police Shooting of jacob blake. Its time to offer our sunday group, cofounder of the federalist, ben domenech. Jessica tarlov and president of real clear politics tom bevan. Lets set the table for this race as the real clear politics average in polls, since we have tom on, we will show these, rcp. Biden up 7 and the average of recent polls, if you look at the key battleground states, also biden with an advantage buried them of those closing slightly in recent days. Back with the panel. Tom, when you look at these numbers and the state of the race, where do you see it . Welcome as you mentioned theres been some tightening of some of these battleground states, florida example which is a keer 5, its no wonder 2. Theres been some tightening pee polls showing some tightening. In other states, not as much but if you look overall and you take an average of bidens lead in the top six battleground states in this election, it is at 3. 0 . It is exactly where Hillary Clintons lead was four years ago so i think despite the National Polls showing biden with a bigger lead than Hillary Clinton had at this point in time, in the Battle Ground states its still very, very competitive. Bret getting ready, jessica, to see Kamala Harris go on the trail for the first time, to wisconsin. The same day mike pence is there, clearly the Biden Campaign thinks its necessary to get out of bloomington delaware. Yeah, absolutely and they started doing this a couple weeks early. If you are a member, joe biden was supposed start traveling in earnest after labor day but hes been out on the road. If there were a few polls out of wisconsin that shows independene attention to this law order or crime issue and people were really pushing the Vice President to show up in kenosha, which he did and met with jacob blakes family as well and even spoke with mr. Blake from his hospital bed. So its very clear that the Biden Campaign is reading the tea leaves that tom just laid out for us there. You know exactly where they need to go and they also are working really hard to protect a number of different routes 270 electoral votes. With the fox news poll in arizona, thats looking better than anyone expected and really great for mark kelly, i should say, running against Martha Mcsally there but they know that florida is getting tight, pennsylvania is getting tight and they need to make sure that wisconsin and michigan go their way this time around versus what happened to Hillary Clinton. Bret i mentioned with symone, i asked her about why these Police Organizations are seemingly all endorsing President Trump. Lawn organizations entering the fraternal order of police, 355,000 numbers, the National Association of Police Organizations, International Union of Police Organizations, clearly going one way. Some of them enforced to endorsed obamabiden ticket in 2008. This is probably the first time you dont see any major cop backing for joe biden. Hes historically had quite a lot of it in terms of al i do think, to jessicas point, one of the reasons that they be expected is that they saw some of these law order messages having Significant Impact potentially in the states. When you look at these polls generally, its kind of interesting situation though because i wouldnt say that the Biden Campaign is acting like they have the lead that these National Polls indicate that they do. They are behaving as if its much closer, as if it is, to toms point, something that is just a couple of points separating them from the president and i think that theres a real concern on the part of democrats that, you know, this race was lost last time, perhaps in the last 60 days after what happened on the 9 11 ceremonies with secretary clinton and i think the debates obviously went well for thencandidate term. If theres a lot of concern what they could lead to this time around. Bret first debate, three weeks away. He was the president and dr. Fauci on vaccines. It will be delivered before, in my opinion, before the end of the air but it really might even be delivered before the end of october. Not because of the election. It would be nice because we want to save people. Most of us project that is going to be my november, december, by the end of the year. Could this be earlier . Sure. It is conceivable that you would have it by october, though i dont think that thats likely. Bret earlier i played the song but were dr. Fauci said you have to trust that the fda is not going to put anything out that thats not safe, but the Biden Campaign multiple times has suggested that if it comes out before election day, that its pure politics. Right. I think thats a dangerous move for Kamala Harris, or comments, joe biden, to sort of politicize the vaccine. I think if youre an average american, you know, everybody wants a vaccine as soon as possible so they can return to the normal lives. I thought Symone Sanders actually made an interesting angle during her interview, bret, where she said, look, where where this isnt going to be equitably distributed and at the coronavirus has disproportionately impacted africanamericans, latinos, so they are going to actually, i think, based on what she said, not politicize the vaccine, the safety of the vaccine. They may question a little bit but actually politicize trumps handling of the distribution of the vaccine to communities of color. Bret thats a good point, jessica, it seems like they are preparing for this vaccine to be available in the president to talk about it. Right. Absolutely. It will certainly be a boon for the president s campaign if the vaccine is a deliverable before election day and that operation warp speed was a success. Thats kind of where hes put all his eggs into that basket after he said it was just going to go away, now at least we will have a vaccine and i do think Symone Sanders answer was equitably smart and nuanced and also avoided talking about Kamala Harris mention of being suspicious of the vaccine. I know a lot of people who also feel that way though, especially in light of the cdc pushing convalescent plasma and then having them walk that back in the fact that the president has boosted hydroxychloroquine, for instance, on tv a number of times or dr. Fauci has had to contradict him to ensure that people are not just taking it for sport. I personally, if the fda approves it, will be taking that vaccine if i can get my hands on it buried i want to go back to normal life like the rest of us, but i think the equity issue is a very smart place for joe biden to be in this campaign and its really underpins everything is talking about. Bret symone didnt answer whether joe biden would take the vaccine once its available. When you rank things, bend, coronavirus, where we are, november 3rd, the economy, whert is, and demurred with the treasury secretary said about that. And law order and protests and where that stands. How do you see which issue is taking most prominence . I think the virus still is very prominent for the most part. Most peoples minds and in the decision factor when they come in terms of looking at the different priorities of issues, but i do think that these economic questions that are going to become more and more important as we get closer to election day because a lot of this has to do with who people have confidence in to lead us out of this situation. The president has been hammerind from secretary mnuchin, that the obamabiden years were a stagnant recovery, one where wages really didnt go but hes going to do it again. I think is going to lean into that strength as we get closer to election day and try to establish a message that only he can take us back perhaps to where we were before. Bret 58 days from now, and we should point out a lot of states, including North Carolina, already voting. The ballots are going out the door. Thanks, panel, we will have to take a break here, but one would come back, President Trump denying a report that he disparaged veterans even as his campaign sought to show support for members of the military. But then. Oh. Ah. Okay. Plan, pivot. How do you bounce back . You dont, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. Powered by the largest gig Speed Network in america. But is it secure . Sure its secure. And even if the power goes down, your connection doesnt. So how do i do this . You dont do this. We do this, together. Bounce forward, with comcast business. Its a beautiful thing. Superfast internet with an xfinity flex 4k streaming device included . Even beautifuler. And now flex also comes with peacock. Ooh la la. This rare bird lets you stream tons of movies, shows, news, sports and more. And with flex, its all at your beck and call. Show me parks and rec see . The best really did get better magnificent. Switch to xfinity internet and get a flex 4k streaming device with peacock premium included for no additional cost. It was a terrible thing that somebody could say the kind of things, and especially to me, because ive done more for the military than almost anybody else. These statements are true. The president should humbly apologize. Trevor gold star mother and father and every blue star family. Bret President Trump slamming a report he denigrated american soldiers, calling them losers and suckers. Big push back publicly onl joe e claims. We are back with the panel. Tom, interesting couple of days on this story, the on the record pushback from the white house vigorous, but unnamed sources confirming parts of that account. It seems like where does the story go . Well, i dont know. I mean, to me, the sender of this story is all about the way that the media has gone wild with the use of unnamed sources and Anonymous Sources. Weve seen that happen it wasnt so long ago that the rule in journalism was if you dont go on the record, it doesnt make the paper. Weve gotten away from that and particularly with donald trump, the use of Anonymous Sources has really come up by factions within the government that are really trying to hurt him politically and undermine his administration, i think we need to really get back to that. If youve got something to say derogatory but the president or youve got a story to tell about the president , go on the record, so you got these four unnamed sources and on the other side youve got a dozen people from the administration who are now on the record saying look, i was with them, i was in the room, it didnt happen. I think it just speaks to the way the journalists and media, their integrity has been undermined by the use of these unnamed sources. Bret will use unnamed sources on various stories, including on this one, Jennifer Griffins reporting. I should also note, your late fatherinlaw, john mccain, part of this reporting and the alleged remarks made by the president. Your thoughts on how this story plays . First, if youll indulge me, we as a family have gone through a lot of tough years with the reporting about various things that President Trump has said about my late fatherinlaw. Its always hurtful, its never fun, but i would say that this is also beef that lasted for several years, now two years that we mark since the senators passing and at a certain point, we feel like the media entered an area where theyre more interested in pouring salt on the wound, trying to get the president to go back and contue point where the senator passed, and honestly itake breaking news, they had beef. This is not a new story for us buried on the other hand, on the story itself, i have to say, the atlantic is not really covered itself in glory, they were carrying water for the russia collusion hoax and the steele dossier, they smeared Brett Kavanaugh but the most recent higher than announced was lost her job at l magazine given the outrageous nature of her allegations against the president and they actually had to retract and correct a major piece recently thanks to our own reporting at the federalist about a Police Shooting. I do believe that the first paragraph in this piece is false, theres a paper trail to prove that there was in fact a weatherrelated lease reason for this delay and i believe john bolton when he says that this was true it would have been an entire chapter in his book. Say terrible things often about people with whom i think you should have more respect and more acknowledgment of the sacrifices that theyve made for our country, particularly those who served in harms way. Bret former National Security advisor john bolton wrote a very negative book, if youre looking for President Trump his point of view about his time serving there. Here he is talking about this instance. I didnt hear either of those comments or anything even resembling them. I was there at the point in time that morning when it was decided that he would not go to the cemetery. He decided not to do it because of john kellys recommendation. It was entirely a weatherrelated decision. And i thought the proper thing to do. Bret jessica, i understand the Biden Campaign jumping on this. I understand that the former Vice President and his passion about talking about it with the caveat, if true, when he delivered those remarks. What i dont understand is the Campaign Surrogates who are out going after donald trump for his deferment to the vietna vietnamr because of bone spurs. That seems interesting, because joe biden had deferments too to avoid the draft. In fact, he had five of them because of a diagnosis of asthma as a teenager. Bone spurs, asthma, thats very much in the past. I dont think thats necessarily the relevant point right now. Joe biden speaks about this issue passionately not only because he cares about her trips, and he famously carries around a card thats updated on a daily basis of how many lives we have lost of servicemen and women abroad, but as the father of someone who fought honorably for the United States, bo biden, who passed away a few years ago, so i dont really want to talk about bone spurs versus asthma, i dont think thats the issue. I think there are really two issues at play here. One, to toms point about sources. Was an anonymous source. It was not revealed who he was for decades. I dont think anyone on this panel or in the world would deny the fact that account mattered and that it certainly carried weight and has Jennifer Griffin defended her own reporting yesterday with neil cavuto, her sources are very real, they are not anonymous to any of these reporters, and she even says, im sure theyre not anonymous to the president himself. This isnt an account that came out of a leftwing rag. The atlantics reporting has been confirmed by us, by the washington post, by the new york times, by the associated press. All buy very good reporters at those outlets as well. So to say that this is bret we should have a caveat in there. I agree with you, there are elements of that reporting that jennifer confirmed from sources, but as been pointed out, there are other elements that appear to be pretty pushed back pretty hard. Absolutely. Absolutely, and john bolton is saying the decision because of weather, thats fine. He also said he didnt spend the entire day with him and the president said i called melania to tell her all upset i was about this, she was back up. Guess what . She was with him in paris and they went to dinner that night. If he also said its a hoax and then he said but it could have been john kelly, he was super fatigued and bad at his job. I dont think john kelly has ever been bad at anything or super fatigued and not capable of doing it. So i think john kelly would probably come out and say he didnt say this thing at my. So pushing this aside re could come out and confirm the report on the record too, hes no longer incited administration. I welcome them to do either of those things, i think it would help a lot but that military times ball that shows that biden is getting more support among asked if active Service Members shows that they are running scared here. Bret i guess thats where i want to wrap up, the political impact of Something Like this. There are a lot of things we thought were going to move the needle ahead of the 2016 election. A lot of things, improving all kinds of things that were said, let alone the access hollywood people thought that the thing his campaign was cratering a number of different times. Where are we on this to does this not fall into some of that category . I think it absolutely does. If your supporter of donald trump, you look at this piece and think its a total hit job, the president has denied it, his folks have denied it, theyre not going to believe it and if youre a biden support you look at it and say of course he set a this is absolutely true so what is that small slice of folks in the middle, how do they react to the story and particularly sitting in the states that are going to matter . I dont think we know but i think this does fall into that category, the bucket of things in the final analysis, is not going to move the needle or matter on election day. Bret we are getting ready for a Michael Cohen book thats probably going to have more kinds of things like that. I think people need to brace themselves. This is the beginning of a series of anonymously sourced pieces that will go after the president and all manners of ways. You will see a lot more of this before election day. Bret panel, thank you very much. We will see you next sunday. Up next, our power player of the week. Our broadway legend who gave thanks to those on the front lines of the coronavirus bite. Its what we did with coogans. You felt safe and, if you were safe, you could be joyful. Everybody has a coogans. And almost half those Small Businesses, they could close if people dont do something. We have to keep our communities together. Thats how we get through this. Theyve really stood the test of time. Much like these majestic rocky mountains. Which must be named after the. That would be rocky the flying squirrel, mr. Gecko sir. Obviously ahh come on bullwinkle, theyre named after. Our first president george rockington that doesnt even make any sense. Mr. Uhh. Winkle. Geico. Over 75 years of savings and service. Mr. Uhh. Winkle. Bret when the coronavirus hit new york this spring, residents began to open the windows each night to Salute Health care workers fighting to save lives. As we first told you in april, a broadway legend lent his voice to that tribute. And what a voice ithere is chrir power player of the week. I would go to the window, as everybody does here in new york city, and cheer on all of the essential workers, the first responders, the health care workers, every night and one that i just started spontaneously singing the impossible dream. Broadway legend Brian Stokes Mitchell, his signature baritone to his window each night to spread a message of hope. Its don quixotes ballad from the man of la mancha. Think its a song about doing the impossible, its a song about trying, trying, period. The lyrics of the song couldnt be more perfect, to dream the impossible dream, fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go. Musical physical the song is a trademark for this to time tony winner. Once dubbed the last leading m man. Only now, instead of singing in a broadway theater, he sings from his apartment window on broadway. Still drawing a crowd. I will look down sometimes and is a fire engine there or theres an ambulance or theres a police car and im singing for them. Ive been laying low for the last number of days because i could feel my body fighting something unusual bret in early april, mitchell announced he tested positive for the coronavirus. I got it with the fever, the body aches, chills, a very high fever. There was a period or Brian Stokes Mitchell couldnt sing . Yes. Without coughing. If you know any of these things and will be able to sing again if something happens . Will it get into my vocal cords . Now i have a few more answers than i do questions, but still, theres a whole lot of questio questions. Now recovered, mitchell wonders when do you worry about one broadway will open again, one people will feel safe coming to new york and sitting in a theater with strangers . Yes, im very worried about that, actually. If the theater, movie theaters and live theater are going to be one of the last sectors to kind of get back to any kind of normalcy because we rely on people showing up, sitting next to other people in theater seats. If when mitchell sings the impossible dream, he changes the lyrics. The quest is to get through this. The quest is to get through this together. The quest is to collaborate. Everybody sing with me [cheers and applause] bret one day closer to getting through all this. Finally today, some big news to share. Our own Chris Wallace has yet again been named a presideas yos became the first fox news anchor to moderate a debate. The final debate between thencandidates donald trump and Hillary Clinton. This time around, chris will moderate the first debate between President Trump and joe biden. Thats just three weeks from now, september 29th. It will be held in cleveland and i guarantee you you dont want to miss this. Thats it for today, have a great weekend a great labor day i will see you tomorrow for special report. Chris will see you next fox news sunday. Why do i love being a doctor at Kaiser Permanente . My only job is to take great care of my patients. Im empowered to do whats right for you. Our digital records mean your medical history is in one place, so i can give you great care. Your primary care doctor, your specialists. Its great we all Work Together as one team. Our integrated approach to health care helps my patients live longer, healthier lives. I dont just practice here, im a patient, too. I wouldnt trust my familys health care to anyone else. 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