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Sandra these new images of San Francisco where the fires have turned the skies there a smokey orange. That happening in the middle of the day and even as the nearest flames are more than 200 miles away. Well have more on this in just a moment. Were just 54 days out until election day. Can you believe it, as President Trump heads to michigan today for a Campaign Stop. He is firing back at Bob Woodwards new book about his first term in office calling it a political hit job. At issue audio tape of the president saying he knew about the severity of the coronavirus in january. President trump its a very tricky situation. It goes through air, bob, thats always tougher than the touch. You dont have to touch things. The air, you breathe the air and thats how it is passed and so thats a very tricky one. A very delicate one. Its also more deadly than even your strenuous flus. Sandra woodwards book has a lot of reaction this morning weeks before the election. Im sandra smith. Hello, trace. Trace good morning to you. Good morning, everyone im trace gallagher. It quotes President Trump saying he knew the coronavirus was highly contagious and more dangerous than the flu while down playing the risk in public. The president defending his remarks saying it was important to express confidence and show calm. President trump this is a disgusting, terrible situation that was we dont want to show panic. We wont show panic and thats what i did. I was open to woodward or anybody else. Its just another political hit job. Trace john roberts is live for us on the north lawn. Good morning to you. The woodward book made waves at the white house yesterday. What is the president saying . More like a tsunami than a wave. Get to what the president is saying today and last night about this. I think karl rove really put it well yesterday when he said that every president does a woodward book that he later comes to regret. Rove should know. President bush did a book and came to regret it. The president called it a political hit job. Revelations that the president in recorded conversations said he knew the coronavirus was very serious but intentionally played it down. Here is one of those recorded conversations. President trump i think, bob, really, to be honest with you, i wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down. I dont want to create a panic. The president insisted he did what he thought was right and that was that on one level he was reacting very strongly to what was going on with the virus but at the same time trying to reassure the public. Listen here. President trump what i want to show is i want to show a calmness. Ifm owe the leader of the country. I cant be jumping up and down and scaring people. I dont want to scare people. I want people not to panic. Thats exactly what i did. If you look at the representatives of joe biden you see what they were saying. They were saying no problem. This wont be a problem. He didnt think it was going to be a problem until months later. He was way late. It is unclear what the political fallout will be. Joe biden certainly trying to capitalize on it yesterday. Listen here. He lied, its wrong. Totally irresponsible. Totally irresponsible. [inaudible question] kick him out of office. In an interview with me i was filling in for dana perino dr. Fauci defended the president saying he didnt distort any of the information being discussed in the Coronavirus Task force meetings. In an interview for 60 minutes woodward says the president should have been more forthcoming. Listen here. The president of the United States has a duty to warn. The public will understand that but i get the feeling that they are not getting the truth, then you are going down the path of deceit and coverup. Many people are saying bob woodward had a duty to come forward. If he knew as far back as february and march that what the president was saying according to woodward was different than what the real situation was, that he should have come out and reported it then as opposed to waiting until now so that he could capitalize on it to sell books. Trace. Trace well hear a lot more about this. On capitol hill there are other accusations of top officials in the Trump Administration down playing other threats. This time intelligence information when it comes to russian interference in the election. What do we know . Adam schiff yesterday saying he has received another whistleblower complaint that he will begin to investigate. This one comes from brian murphy, the former head of the department of homeland securitys intelligence and Analysis Division claiming top officials down played the threat of election interference from russia as well as the threat from White Supremacists groups. He said he was told to stop and focus on iran and china. Murphy also claims he was demoted for raising concerns about it. But in a statement the dhs spokesman is saying we flatly deny that there is any truth to the merits of mr. Murphys claim. We look forward to the result of any investigation and expect it will conclude that no retaliatory action was taken against mr. Murphy. Dhs is working to address all threats to the homeland regardless of ideology. Murphy was reassigned after compiling and disseminating what were open Source Intelligence reports about protestors and journalists covering the Trump Administration response to the protests in portland. We will hear a lot more about this in the days and weeks ahead. Basically on capitol hill here we go again. Trace john roberts live for us from the white house. Thank you. Sandra thank you. For more on all this Dan Henninger deputy of the wall street journal editorial page joins us now. Joe biden reacting to yesterdays reports. He lied to the American People. He knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months. He knew how dangerous it was. While this deadly disease ripped through our nation he failed to do his job on purpose. Sandra problem is, this is on tape. The president in march talking to a journalist about the severity of the threat and his intentions to downplay the threat of this virus. Dan, at least people wondering if he had been outright with this information to the American Public, could it have helped stop the spread of this virus earlier on . Well, i think the issue there is what trump was saying and what the administration was doing. Anthony fauci is now on record as saying he doesnt think the president distorted the governments handling of the virus. But that detail is being washed away in this tape of the president talking to bob woodward. The Trump Supporters i was talking to yesterday are less upset about the substance of what he said than the fact that he talked to bob woodward 18 times. How was that going to end well . It plays right into what is clearly become the primary biden reelection strategy. To attack Donald Trumps character. Less than a week ago we were all talking about the president s alleged disparagement of the military. I saw watched joe biden respond to that. He said if true and then launched into a fiveminute attack on the president as if it were all true. And now yesterday reading off a teleprompter joe biden is again ripping into the president s character. One way or another it is not a plus for the president s reelection chances to have the argument focusing on the president s personality insofar as thats the democratic strategy. I think the campaign, the Trump Campaign has to find a way to move this subject off of the president himself and onto the issue of the president s policies visavis joe bidens and the democratic partys policies. Sandra tees up his biggest critics to come after him. Chuck schumer more reaction. We all know President Trump puts himself first but this time the consequences were deadly. And when i think about how many people in my state died in february and march and april, it just makes me angry. I cannot believe he deceived the American People the way he did. How many people would still be alive today if he just told americans the truth. Sandra tough to avoid the timeline of events of the president on that tape talking about the deadliness of this virus, the severity of this virus more so than the flu and then it is easy to pull up a string of events that followed, public statements from the president saying it is going to be fine. This is like a flu. It will go away. Im not concerned at all. Well, sandra, if we go down this path i suppose were eventually hopefully the press, if it has the reporting capabilities, will get into the actual substance of what the administration was doing back then, like governments all over the world as they were being hit by this virus. Did, in fact, the Trump Administration absolutely do nothing through that period . Was there no preparations being made under the president s orders . That would be damning but i suspect the truth is that the administration was trying to figure out where the virus was going, how they were going to respond, what was needed. And those are the details that i think really are the proof in the pudding here. The administration, the government did respond, the United States did get its hands around the coronavirus. We had 50 state governors trying to do the same thing. At the end of the day, sandra, im not so sure that the American People, given the complexities of the virus, are going to hold that one statement against the president. Again, it is not a plus, it is not gaining him votes, but whether it ultimately is the straw that breaks Donald Trumps back in this reelection bid i really kind of doubt that. Sandra the focus has to be also on whether or not lives could have been saved with that information being made more public by the president. The president put out a tweet. Bob woodward had my quotes for many months. If he thought they were so bad dangerous didnt he want to save lives . The president just wrote that a few seconds ago. As you write in your piece a trumpbiden, how the pandemic and protests are floating the u. S. Into a political crisis. Final thoughts. Sandra yeah, i mean we have a crisis that is taking place with the mailin ballot situation. Lawsuits being filed all over the country to expand the mailin ballots even as the Postal Service says anything mailed within seven days will be a huge problem. Federal judges are telling states like georgia they have to open them no matter when they show up. I think the country is sort of blindly rolling towards a political crisis. You have 66 of trumps voters saying theyll vote in person. Nearly 75 of bidens voters say theyll mail it in. Effectively we have two parallel elections taking place, sandra. You can bet that after election day both biden and trump are going to claim that they won their election. This is a crisis i think needs a lot more attention than it is getting as we roll towards this disaster on november 3. Sandra it will continue to get a lot of attention 55 days out to election day. Stick around. Well get the latest white house reaction to all of this and more from Vice President mike pence. He will be joining us next hour. Trace more on the wildfires scorching the west now to blame for killing at least seven people including two children in oregon, washington and california. Crews trying to get dozens of wildfires under control as they burn up and down the west coast. Jeff paul live for us from the bobcat fire in monrovia, california. Some fires are really growing at an alarming rate. Yeah. That of course is rightfully so scaring many of the people who live in communities like here in monrovia when they wake up to the news this fire thats burning behind us, the bobcat fire, has nearly doubled in size. Now burning more than nearly 20,000 acres and counting. Many remain under an evacuation warning as the flames continue to creep lowser and closer to the foothills communities. One of more than 20 large fires burning here in california. As you move up the west coast to the Pacific Northwest, it is the same devastating story. Dozens of fires impacting both oregon and washington at least three people were killed in oregon, one in washington in the fastmoving fires. In oregon, they have stretched to nearly 500 square miles in total. Roughly the size of phoenix, arizona. The fires have destroyed five small towns as the flames continue to spread. Governor says the state has never seen anything like it. I want to be up front in saying we expect to see a great deal of loss both in structures and in human lives. This could be the greatest loss of human lives and property due to wildfire in our states history. In Northern California authorities have confirmed at least three deaths but as many as 12 in that area are missing. Hundreds have already been rescued via helicopter and even a group of firefighters trying to protect their fire station were injured. And even though the fires are burning a few hundred miles away from the bay area winds have pushed ash and smoke into cities like San Francisco creating an eerie sight causing a bright orange sky, something you would see on the planet mars. I was wondering what time it was. It looked like doomsday. It feels like the end of the world. It is pretty scary. Now in total here in the west 90 major fires burning right now. Burning 5300 square miles which is roughly the size of the state of connecticut, trace. Trace dry winter, dry summer. A lot of fuel to burn. Jove paul live. Sandra well continue to watch that. The mayor of rochester new york and Police Union President calling on each other to resign in the fallout from the death of daniel prude. How both leaders are now responding and President Trump explains his reasoning for down playing the coronavirus in the early days of the pandemic saying that he wanted to bring calm to the country. But how will all of this impact the race for the white house . President trump whether it was woodward or anybody else, you cannot show a sense of panic or you are going to have bigger problems than you ever had before. Tada did you know Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need . Given my unique lifestyle, thatd be perfect let me grab a pen and some paper. Know what . Im gonna switch now. Just need my desk. My chair. And my phone. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Can it help with snoring . Ive never heard snoring. Sleep numberexactly. Rt bed. No problem. And done. Save 50 on the sleep number 360 limited Edition Smart bed. Plus zero percent interest for 24 months. Ends monday. President trump what i want to show, i want to show calmness. Im the leader of the kun tree. I cant be jumping up and down an scaring people. I want people not to panic. Thats exactly what i did. If you look at the representatives of joe biden you see what they were saying. They said no problem. Sandra President Trump defending his response to the coronavirus pandemic after a new book by bob woodward quotes him as admitting that he intentionally down played the danger in public. Rachel camposduffy, good morning to you. Thank you for being here. We just had a long conversation with Dan Henninger from the wall street journal about this and he looked at a lot of different sides of it. It is important to hear from dr. Fauci himself who takes the back of the president. Listen. Obviously when we would be speaking to the president we would talk about the cold facts. He would get them. Often he would want to make sure that the country doesnt get down and out about things but i dont recall anything that was any gross distortion in things that i spoke to him about. Sandra really important reaction from dr. Fauci, rachel. You go back to march when dr. Fauci said on the record he believed the president was doing Everything Possible to beat this virus. He called his response the president s response impressive. What do you make of all this, rachel . Well, interesting to see how democrats, how they respond to faucis defense of the president because theyve so supportive of him and a hero to them. Will they listen to him now . I think this whole incident and the way the media ran with this will backfire. They got the democrats with the help of the media got a quick sugar high headline but i think it will backfire. When you look at the facts. This is what the headline is forcing us to do. Look at what actually happened and when you look at what the president did and when you look at what the democrats and joe biden were saying should be done from january up to now, theyve been wrong at every turn. And the president has been right. And so you can look starting with shutting down the flights to china, they called that racist and hysterical. At the same moment they were telling people to go out and go to chinatown. Joe biden didnt even change his position on the flights to china for another two months. Then you look at when the president said im not going to do a National Lockdown of this economy. Ill leave it up to the states. And he got criticized heavily democrats on that. I think it was a right decision to make. Sandra to your point we put together this montage of democrats down playing the virus back in february. Here they are in their own words. I understand the fear. Weve gone through this before. But lets have some connection to the reality of the situation. You should come to chinatown. We think its very safe to be in chinatown and hope others will come. Its not a time to panic about coronavirus, but coronavirus is a Serious Public Health challenge. Sandra there is all of that but the president is the president and he receives a daily intelligence briefing, Robert Obrien the National Security advisor confirmed he told the president in late january, january 28th that this virus would be the biggest National Security threat he would face during his presidency. The president talking to bob woodward february 7th said this was deadly stuff. More deadly than your strenuous flu and a series of Public Events for weeks where the president said it could just go away. The number of cases could go to zero, compared it to the flu, rachel again, january 31st he shut down the flights from china, highly controversial. The president isnt just managing a pandemic. We all want him to do this, has to also manage the economy. Keeping a sense of calm, trying to figure out. This is the fog of war, the fog of the pandemic. This was information but there was also conflicting information, a lot of unknowns. As we moved through the decision to allow governors instead of the one size fits all response of the democrats to shut down allowing governors to make those decisions based on what was happening in their state, region and their cities. Also even as you move forward right now. He is saying lets open up. Its the democrat cities that are still trying to destroy businesses, shutting down restaurants and salons unnecessarily when we already know how to manage this disease. One other thing this virus. One other thing i dont think the president gets credit for and deserves credit for, the strength of the economy we had going into this pandemic. I dont think we would be able to weather this the way we have. Were already single there are a lot of pain but were at single digit unemployment and moving in the right direction. I believe what the democrats have proposed along the way at every turn has been to destroy our economy because i believe they think that was the president s best card moving into the election. Theyve politicized it and theyre politicizing it right now with these headlines and i believe the president made the right decision. Sandra a lot to take in. This is still happening and still something the country is battling and the president is battling. We appreciate you coming on this morning. Always good to see you. Thank you, sandra. Trace new weekly jobless numbers just in showing layoffs stuck as historically high levels. What it could mean for the economic recovery Going Forward. Stu varney will join us and break it down from the fox business network. Plus the nfl kicks off its 2020 season tonight with a limited number of fans in the stands. Why businesses around stadiums are bracing for a blowback because of it. You try to stay ahead of the mess but scrubbing still takes time. Now theres powerwash dish spray its the faster way to clean as you go just spray, wipe and rinse it cleans grease five times faster dawn powerwash. Spray, wipe, rinse. Sandra new weekly jobless numbers are just out. Almost 900,000 americans filing for unemployment benefits, a sign that layoffs are still stuck at a historically high level after the covid pandemic flattened the u. S. Economy. Were going to bring in stu varney over at fbn. He joins us now. Its sandra. Youre with us. Were simulcasting. Stu, this is another data point for the u. S. Economy. While we still struggle to come out of this pandemic and recover. What does this tell us . You are talking about the 884,000 firsttime jobless claims reported an hour ago this morning. Thats a pretty good number. For the second week in a row we have less than 1 million new jobless claims. So i guess you could say that we have a recovery in progress. This points towards a recovery. It is not particularly vigorous at this particular moment but we are recovering. I would put a lot more emphasis on what the Federal Reserve is doing. I dont want to bore everybody. Suffice it to say. Sandra so unlike you. Are we talking the fed with stu varney . History is being made, believe me. When the Federal Reserve is printing trillions of dollars, take notice, please. Because a lot of that money ends up obviously going into the economy and onto wall street. And thats part of what you are seeing. Dow right now up 155 points. Sandra thats right. Stuart, we were talking to rachel camposduffy and brought up the strength of the economy when this pandemic hit and we were looking at robust jobs growth and we were looking at a dow that was continually climbing to record highs and she suggested that perhaps we couldnt weather the storm in the way we are had the economy not been as strong as it was. You have the white house predicting 20 growth in the last two quarters of the year, stuart. What does this look like . The dow is recovering but millions of americans out of work. Thats absolutely true. There are millions of people out of work. There is a great deal of money out there in peoples bank accounts, 2 trillion at last count. We are recovering. I want to refer to the job situation. I dont think all of those old jobs are going to come back. There will be real changes in the travel industry, for example. Hotels, airlines. Real changes coming there. There are real changes coming to americas big cities because theyve emptied out. I dont think all of us will go back to those offices. So changes in the way we work. Changes in the way we travel. Changes in what we call entertainment. Certainly changes in support and entertainment across the board. So youve gotten rid of a lot of old jobs. Now make way for new jobs in what is emerging as a new technologydriven economy. At the end of this year and well into next year. That i think is whats happening. Thats the key factor to remember. Especially when we show you what has happened with these Big Technology stocks. They are still going towards trillion dollar valuations, still going up. Extraordinary things. Sandra our viewers cant see it but you have the big financial names up. Bank of america and goldman sachs, Big Technology names are thriving. The stock market thriving. You pointed to the massive amount of stimulus. Final thoughts what you are hearing about the ability for the stock market rally to last. Im always asked that question. I never give a real answer because im not in the business of predicting the stock markets future. I will say this. I have a really big worry about the election. I can see chaos coming on election day and election month. Ive got a big problem if joe biden wins, and especially if he wins and there is a democrat senate. If that happens, i think the stock market has a real problem. And sandra, i will leave it at that. Sandra all right. You left us hanging. Well tune in for more. Well keep on watching you. Thanks for joining us. Trace markets are up and football is back. Nfl returns tonight with super bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs taking on the houston texans. 16,000 fans will watch from the fans because of covid19 restrictions. Other stadiums will be completely empty. Thats a problem for a lot of local businesses. Jeff flock is live for us in chicago with more on that. Jeff. Most of them will be empty, trace. Vast majority. We have a map that perhaps depicts those cities where you can watch a Football Game in person potentially. Those range from jacksonville, to miami, to cleveland, indianapolis, but i say you can if you can get a ticket. That Golden Ticket could be hard to come by in those places. Look at the numbers of fans. You report the number in kansas city but in jacksonville, for example, just 17,000 fans, cleveland 6700 fans is all theyll allow. Indianapolis just 2500 fans. So this is as you report a huge piece out of the local economies where people go in places like green bay to go and watch a Football Game. They come from all over wisconsin, stay in hotels and patronize the restaurants. We talked to the Hotel Manager of one small hotel in green bay and minced no words when she said it sucks. We typically fill up almost every home game weekend. Now every day consists of cancellation phone calls and apprehension. A lot of impact to those local economies. I leave you on a positive note perhaps. Its a picture statue of a man named george alice who survived the 1918 pan i shall flu pandemic and just two years later founded what would become the Chicago Bears and the National Football league. Hope perhaps in the air in chicago. Trace. Trace he was a great one. Jeff flock live in chicago. You can catch the nfl on fox this sunday at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. The eagles versus washingtons Football Team and the packers face the vikings and the bears go up against the lyons. 4 00 p. M. Buccaneers versus saints and cardinals take on the 49ers this sunday on your local fox station and fox sports. Sandra we could always use a little hope and football. High number of Police Chiefs now stepping down as violent protests sweep the country. How will that affect the Public Safety in American Cities . Vice president mike pence will join us next hour 10 30 a. M. Eastern time. Plus Election Officials gearing up for an influx of mailin ballots and how it could delay the outcome of the 2020 race as President Trump shares his concerns again. President trump they cant control the ballots on a small congressional race and smaller races even than that and now you are going to control 80 million ballots . I dont think so. Ates with progressives home quote explorer. International hand model jonjon gets personal. Your wayward pinky is grotesque. Then a high stakes pattycake Battle Royale ends in triumph. You have the upper hands its a race to the lowest rate, and so much more. Only on the upper hands. Rioting is not protesting. Looting is not protesting. Its lawlessness, plain and simple. And those who do it should be prosecuted. Fires are burning, and we have a president who fans the flames. He cant stop the violence because for years hes fomented it. But his failure to call on his own supporters to stop acting as an armed militia in this country shows how weak he is. Violence will not bring change, it will only bring destruction. Its wrong in every way. If i were president , my language would be less divisive. Id be looking to lower the temperature in this country, not raise it. Donald trump is determined to instill fear in america because donald trump adds fuel to every fire. This is not who we are. 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The real clear politics average has biden with a narrow 2. 4 lead over the president. But we may not know who actually won the state until well after election day because ohio state allows mailin ballots to be counted up to 10 days after the election. As of yesterday more than one million absentee ballots were requested in the state. Ohio secretary of state joins me now. You say your states Voting System is strong and secure and county boards of elections are prepared and yet back in april in your primary there were significant problems and you wrote the following to congressional delegation quoting instead of first class mail taking one to three days for delivery weve heard wide reports of it taking as long as seven to nine days. As you can imagine these delays mean it is very possible that many ohioans who have requested a ballot may not receive it in time. So there was some problems in the primary, sir, you acknowledge that. Well, i acknowledge that the Postal Service was moving slower than were accustomed to. Theyve stepped up. Well hold them accountable. Handling all election mail as first class mail. Those are the kind of things people from ohio expect. We get the absentee ballot requests out to every registered voter much earlier this year. Weve already received a million back. The interesting thing is absentee ballots can be sent out three days before the election. So in this case in your state they can get them as late on noon on saturday, october 31st. Three days. The Postal Service has warned you, sir, the ballots would likely not be received postmarked in time to be counted. Thats a problem. It is. I agree with the Postal Service and were asking our state legislature for many months to fix that deadline. Were telling people from ohio even though the law says you can wait until noon on saturday thats a very bad idea. Were telling ohios voters they should request their ballot by the 27th of october to leave time for it to arrive. No reason to wait. Now is a great time to get in your request for an absentee ballot. They start going out to voters october 6. Trace why wasnt there any action to change it . I suppose you would have to ask them. There are a few changes weve asked them to make. For some members of the legislature they have the sense it is better to leave everything alone with elections. Ohio has a strong system for running elections because we have three good choices, inperson voting is available but early voting and a month of absentee voting. Pick one and make sure your voice is heard. Trace you have ballots postmarked by november 2 can be counted up to 10 days later. Lets assume this election is razor thin. What happens then, 10 days to count the mailin ballots. How do you proceed . Thats long be the law here in the state of ohio. We believe as long as that ballot is legally cast it deserves to be counted whether it is one of my teammates in the military or people in ohio that procrastinate. We make it very clear to journalists like yourself and everybody else how many outstanding absentee ballots there are. If the margins are tight you will be able to look at the number of outstanding ballots and make predictions. Ohioans know Election Night results is the unofficial result. Its the official result weeks later that really counts. Could be a long 10 day wait. Thank you, sir. Sandra President Trump attacking joe biden over his position on police funding. Is that helping him at the polls . Plus this. Suspended for five days today for insubordination as a result of wanting to go to school. That High School Senior suspended for showing up at his school when he was supposed to be at home for Remote Learning. Wait until you hear what happened when he did it again today. 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I dont think he is aware of what he is even saying to be honest with you. Ive never seen anything like it where he talks about defunding the police or not doing much for the police. All of a signed he sees the poll numbers for him and were going way up. Trace President Trump slamming joe biden for his stance on defunding the Police Suggesting the democratic nominee changed his position due to falling poll numbers. A new survey from Marquette Law School say voters in wisconsin dont agree. Biden is leading trump 4743. Lets bring in dnc spokesperson xochitl hinojsa. Joe biden has been back and forth on the police thing. He didnt call for defunding the police but redirecting funds and showing that black americans supported the same number of Police Officers and maybe increasing it joe biden came out saying maybe we should increase the funding for police. Your thoughts. Joe biden has never supported defunding the police and i know that donald trump wants to go out there and lie to the American People because his poll numbers are going down given his response to covid and the economy and given that he wants to strip americans of healthcare. Reality is if you look at the polling and as you mentioned especially there was a fox news poll released last week. If you are looking at most of the battleground states people trust joe biden to keep communities safe over donald trump because if you see the videos that are out there in communities across america, those are this is Donald Trumps america. If you look at the violence, that is Donald Trumps america. And frankly i do want to point out that joe biden has called for a 300 million increase to community policing. It the Donald Trumps budget that would cut half a billion. Trace just now in response to the polls joe biden called for as we were talking about there increase the funding when the polls come out and say people support police, joe biden says increase the fungd. You talked about polls. The fox news poll you were talking about for clarity when asked who would you trust more on policing and law and order wisconsin favored joe biden by five points. I want to put the wisconsin average up there. Joe biden 49. 6. President trump 43. 2. There is a little tightening. The votes, the electoral votes in wisconsin you can see 10 delegates. You have this call for because this is a person who is in executive wisconsin former executive director of Wisconsin Republican party who says you have to honor that headtohead poll and that trump upticked a bit. This race is in the margin of error. Wisconsin is in play. Speaking of the marquette law poll only four points in the margin of error dead heat could be. Your thoughts. Well, weve always known this race is going to be tight. Thats why they call them battleground place and places like wisconsin, north carolina, florida and michigan are called battleground states. You saw joe biden go to wisconsin. You saw him in michigan yesterday. You will see him in florida next week. You see senator Kamala Harris in florida today. We know this race is going to be tight. We want to make sure that were getting our message across. One of the things that youll hear both candidates talk about significantly is this pandemic and were almost at about 200,000 people who have died from that pandemic and people are scared and worried as they send their kids back to school. Those are the messages that well talk about. Well talk about the economy, the virus and well continue to talk about healthcare, the number one issue in election after election. Trace i have to go. Do you think in hindsight maybe the democrats had a chance to do over would talk about the violence in the Democratic National convention and not ignore it . We have talked about the violence. Trace at the convention. You talked about how he said that rioting isnt protesting and he has condemned this before. We have also heard at our own convention you saw Law Enforcement in our convention that talked about the majority of Law Enforcement are good people and they want they need the resources to succeed and they support joe biden. Trace were out of time. We appreciate it. Thank you. Sandra fox news alert. More on the recordings of President Trump telling bob woodward in february and march he knew the coronavirus was deadly but wanted to downplay it. The president firing back. Vice president mike pence joins us next hour. Im the founder of a fullservice nanny agency. When covid hit, i happened to be the main bread winner. Sixty percent of my nannies got laid off. 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Hall joining a growing list of Police Chiefs stepping down in major cities across the country amid all the unrest and calls for police reform. We serve the people. We dont serve a politician. Sandra more on the top stories in a moment. First joe biden taking a day away from the campaign trail after teeing off on President Trump yesterday in michigan jumping on the justreleased audio recordings revealing the president down playing the coronavirus pandemic in its early stage. Good morning, trace, im sandra smith. Trace good morning. Im trace gallagher. There are 54 days left until the election and both sides are stumping in key states. The former Vice President s running mate senator Kamala Harris will head to the swing state of florida today as President Trump travels to michigan. The president s visit coming just one day after biden made a Campaign Stop there. The democratic nominee calling out the white houses Coronavirus Response after President Trump admitted in audio recordings he wanted to play down the virus to avoid creating a panic. This caused people to die. What did he do the whole time . He acknowledged if you breathe it, it is in the air and he wont put on a mask. Talking about what do you need social distancing or the mask all about his wealthy friends wouldnt lose money and the stock market wouldnt come down. Sandra a long day in south florida. And a rainy day as well. A lot of rain this morning and supposed to keep coming back for several hours. Critical battleground state of florida taking in a lot of candidate attention this week. President trump visited jupiter on tuesday and today senator Kamala Harris will be hosting a round table here at florida memorial university. That is happening around 3 00 eastern. It is being billed as a Community Conversation with the Vice President ial candidate and africanamerican leaders. She did a similar round table monday in milwaukee, wisconsin, of course, also a key swing state. While harris does that her husband will be meeting with rabbis across town. Those will be talking and listening to the issues important to black and jewish leaders. It all precludes former Vice President s joe bidens florida visit on tuesday. His first visit to the Sunshine State since last october and since the coronavirus pandemic which is something biden hit hard on yesterday after President Trumps audio tapes from his interviews with bob woodward surfaced and revealed that the president down played the virus threat to the public. President of the United States has admitted on tape in february he knew about covid19 that it passed through the air. He knew how deadly it was. Much more deadly than the flu. He knew and purposely played it down. Worse, he lied to the American People. He knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months. We all know the 29 electoral votes in the state of florida are critical for both campaigns. Florida being the biggest battleground state there is, well, this is how close it comes. Four years ago President Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 1. 2 . Very tight. And recent polls have been showing joe bidens lead over trump has been shrinking and narrowing with the real clear politics average now putting biden ahead of trump by 1. 2 as well. Sandra. Sandra tight race indeed 55 days out. Phil keating in florida. Much more on all this coming up with Vice President mike pence who will be joining us live at 10 30 a. M. Eastern time, about 25 minutes from now. Trace Senate Voting today on whether to move forward with a 300 billion Coronavirus Relief bill. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell saying he knows it is not perfect. Democrats say it is going nowhere fast. When it comes to bipartisan aid for kids, jobs and schools, democrats say its either their entire wish list, all of it, or nobody gets a dime. Senator mcconnell says he has prepared a socalled skinny covid bill to put before the senate. Putting before us a take it or leave us. No amendments, no debate with this proposal, it isnt skinny, its anemic. Trace chad pergram live on capitol hill. It appears the bill is dead on arrival. Thats right. A procedural vote theyll take in the senate this afternoon at 1 00 or so. You need 60 votes to be able to clear a filibuster. There are only 53 republican senators. They need at least seven democrats. They will probably not get there. Democrats oppose this bill including richard blumenthal, democrat of connecticut. It is skinnier than any proposal theyve made so far. Theyre going in exactly the wrong direction in the midst of an economic crisis, a Public Health emergency. Trace republicans know democrats wont support this plan so theyre trying to get them on the record as blocking this package. This tactic applies pressure on moderate democrats, republicans are aiming this bill at west virginias joe manchin, Kyrsten Sinema of arizona and doug jones of alabama. Jones has the toughest race of any democrat coming up this fall. Republicans are daring democrats to vote no on this procedural vote this afternoon. Trace do republicans have the 51 votes on their side . Its unclear. Weve heard a lot they probably dont and this is something that i pressed the Senate Majority leader on yesterday. Listen. Your side has at least 51 votes, yes or no, do you . If you dont, how can you assign blame to the democrats if you cant get the cloture tomorrow. The vote will be cast tomorrow. You are saying that there are senators on your side Mitch Mcconnell is usually pretty clear to say what he means and that means he is trying to whip the vote to try to get 51 votes today. I was told by a senior republican aide last night they thought they would get there. This is just to show that they have enough support on their side. Rand paul, republican of kentucky, he is probably going to be a no. A lot of concern about piling on more debt even though this bill is the socalled skinny version only 300 billion. Trace. Trace chad pergram live on capitol hill. Sandra the u. S. Planning to stop enhanced coronavirus screening for International Travelers on monday. That is according to new reports. The extra screening began back in january after the virus first spread to the u. S. From china. A tsa official reported that 675,000 screenings at 15 different airports turned up fewer than 15 positive cases of covid19. Trace a new report by two Democratic Senators says some americans are facing Serious Health risks because the slowdown of the Postal Service is causing delays in the delivery of prescription drugs. Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and pennsylvania senator bob casey cowrote the report claiming the recent changes at the usps have led to the delays. Senator warren is demanding the removal of postmaster general louis dejoy for imposing new policies that reduced overtime and removed mail sorting machines. Sandra a High School Senior from long island, new york has been arrested after showing up at school for the Third Straight day. He did it again this morning. The school had already suspended him for showing up for inperson learning on his Remote Learning day. Laura engel is live in long island, new york. What exactly happened this morning . Hey, sandra. 17yearold maverick stow showed up at his high school today as you mentioned after being warned repeatedly not to. He was told if he showed up today he would be arrested for trespassing and that is exactly what happened. When i spoke with his mother this morning she told me she supports her son 1,000 percent saying they knew it was going to happy and they were ready for it. They feel it is important for their son to make his point that he wants to be in school and he wants to be in school fulltime. This is the third day in a row the senior has defied the rules and leading to his arrest. A School Administrator says the rules are clear. They have a very specific protocol in place as mandated by the state to socially distance students with their hybrid plan of alternating on campus and row moet learning days. He was suspended for five days. Wednesday he returned violating the suspension and was told to leave but not only by School Administrators but by police as well. Stow was also given an official warning saying your child is here by warned on the next occasion he is found illegally on any William Floyd School District property the police will be notified, he will be prosecuted for third degree criminal trespass. Mavericks mother says her son is doing this for all of the students that want to go to school fulltime. Maverick stow was just released from custody and here is what he had to say. I feel that i was arrested for going to school. Thats all i ever actually did. I just went to school and i just walked out of the seventh precinct because of wanting to go to school. Third degree criminal trespassing is a class b misdemeanor, not a felony. He has a court date of september 24th. His mom told me she expects this is not the end of it and he will start picketing the school but start that next week. They dont want to do it tomorrow on september 11th. More to come on this one. Sandra what a story. Reporting live from long island. Laura engel, thank you. Trace the top cop in dallas is stepping down marking yet another resignation of a police chief amid calls for police reform. How do we begin to heal the divide between Police Officers and the communities they serve . Violent protests and low morale are reportedly driving rank and file officers off the job. What needs to happen to fix this. Vice president mike pence will join us at 10 30 on that and much more. President donald trump has stood every day with the men and women who serve in Law Enforcement and we will stand with them for four more years. The shift has begun. The antes been upped. To lead the charge. Good had to be amazing. And amazing had to become the expectation. The drivers feel it every time they get in. The power. Has shifted. Todays all time low Mortgage Rates just dropped the power. Even lower. Veterans who refi now can save three thousand dollars a year. 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There are budgets being slashed that Police Chiefs refuse to do the job with the amount of budget cuts that are being made. So there are many, many Different Reasons why a lot of these guys are stepping down. Trace and the resignation of Dallas Police chief renee hall, what are your thoughts on that, sir . Well, you know, i hate that we are losing chief hall. I think chief hall is what dallas needed at the time. I think too Many Political views and reasons that, you know, we could talk for days about a lot of that stuff but i think sometimes when these chiefs find it so hard to do their job i think they choose to do Something Else or go other places. Trace when you say do their job, sir, you mean they dont have the support of the politicians, they arent allowed to tell their forces to go out there and protect the law and enforce the law . What do you mean specifically . Right. So youve seen on several of these chief resignations where there are controversy with the mayors, with the City Councils, so that government structure in each particular city weighs in heavily in a lot of these chiefs resignations. Trace Sheldon Smith says im pleased for the officers of dallas, morale has been so low and i think Dallas Police department is going to move forward. We absolutely have people that are already in place that can do the job. So he says when it comes to chief hall stepping down, okay, fine. Well again, thats im not going to comment on his statement. Thats how he feels. I have a larger group here that i represent and i have not got one call that said our morale will go up because chief hall is gone. Ive been here 30 years this month. Morale was bad when i hired on. So to me thats just a catch phrase for a lot of folks. Trace you talk about morale across the country. You have Police Officers and we talk to Police Officers all the time and they feel like morale is low and they feel like they cant do their jobs, the politicians and chiefs dont have their backs. Why is it . Do you understand why some young people are not going into policing and do you see a major problem down the road . Yeah. Policing has been controversial in recent years and times are changing. There are Police Oversight boards that we are having to deal with. A lot of that is because of some of our misconduct and thats what we dont want to address a lot of times in Law Enforcement. Im standing in front of you as a 30year officer stating there are things that we have to fix ourselves. That doesnt mean im against my profession. It is just im able to see it and say it where a lot of guys do not respect that component. Trace fair assessment. Terrence hopkins, thank you for coming on, sir, we appreciate it. My pleasure. Sandra Deadly Wildfires out of control up and down the west coast. 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The jury will hear other criminal cases first in preparation for the taylor case. Fox news weather alert. The out of control western wildfires arent showing any signs of slowing down. The eldorado fire in Southern Californias San Bernardino county sparked by a gender reveal stunt gone wrong has scorched more than 10,000 acres. In oregon hundreds of homes have been destroyed and tens of thousands of people are forced to find shelter. On monday alone Washington State had more acres burn than in all of 2019. More than 300,000 acres. Here is the governor, jay inslee. California, oregon, washington, were all in the same soup of cataclysmic fire. The reason were in the same soup is because the grass is so dry, the temperature is so hot and the winds are so heavy. Trace lets bring in janice dean live with us. Where are the worst fires and how is the weather fueling all of this . I think we have fires all up and down the west coast and the storm that was bringing snow to the rockies was also fueling some of those strong winds. So the good news is the winds are starting to die down. The temperatures have come down a little bit. The problem is the dry conditions. We dont have any moisture getting into this area for the foreseeable future. So you have the dry to severe to extreme danger in terms of the drought and then you have the warm temperatures as well along the coast. The winds have subsided but these temperatures will remain with us for really the foreseeable future. No rain in the forecast. Lets take a look at the next five days. Very dry in all of the areas that were seeing those wildfires burn. In terms of wildfire danger, red flag warnings for the northwest, not california today but still for the northwest where the fires are burning out of control. Well continue to monitor it, trace. Back to you. Trace winds arent helping. Janice dean live in the weather center. Thank you. What was president xi saying yesterday . President trump we were talking mostly about the virus and i think he will have it in good shape. It is a very tricky situation. It goes through air, bob, thats always tougher than the touch. The touch, you just breathe the air and thats how it is passed. Thats a very tricky one. A very delicate one. It is also more deadly than your even your strenuous flus. People dont realize we lose 25,000, 30,000 people a year here. Who would ever think that . Thats pretty amazing. I say well this is more deadly. This is 5 versus 1 and less than 1 . This is deadly stuff. Sandra President Trump talking to bob woodward about the pandemic in early february saying that he knew that the coronavirus was deadly but wanted to downplay it. Joe biden and other democrats jumping on that news. The president hit back yesterday calling woodwards new book a political hit job. Vice president mike pence is todays headliner and joins us now. Mr. Vice president , good morning. Thank you for being here. Good morning. Good to be with you. Sandra the president and his defense of the audio tapes has basically said this was a strategy on his part to prevent panic, to bring calm to the American People. So if it was a strategy, is it one that you knew of, mr. Vice president . What i saw firsthand from that day in january in the oval office when President Trump took the unprecedented step of suspending all travel from china, declaring a Public Health emergency is that this president put the health of America First from day one. But he also wanted to reassure the American People all along the way. There is that old saying from world war ii in Great Britain that keep calm, carry on, and that was the president ial leadership that i saw. But when you look at the fact that joe biden, democrats and even the World Health Organization criticized the president s decision to suspend all travel from china, it took place a week before that audio clip that you just played. And when you see that it was in march, the other audio clip that is getting a lot of coverage is from march 19th where the president spoke about his desire to create a tone to prevent panic. It is important to remember the president made that comment four days after we shut down the entire American Economy to put the health of America First. And so look, from the moment he tasked me to lead the white house Coronavirus Task force, the president made it clear he wanted us to deploy the full resources of the federal government, a whole of america approach, and the progress that we have made i believe is literally saved hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives. But all along the way what the American People saw was a president who was projecting the kind of leadership, the kind of confidence in the American People and all of our healthcare experts and doctors and nurses that you would expect from a president in a challenging time like this. Sandra to your point our producers put together some of those various moments that followed these audio tapes of the president putting out this calm to the American People as the pandemic was really setting in. Listen. President trump i think it will all work out fine. Rough stuff, i tell you rough, rough stuff but i think it will work out. People have to remain calm. I want to keep the country calm. I dont want panic in the country. I could cause panic much better than even you. Sandra mr. Vice president you rewind to february 7 and hear him on the tape saying its deadly stuff. More deadly than your strenuous flu and talking about how contagious this virus is spreading through air. In the weeks that followed publicly at a New Hampshire rally telling the American People it is going to be fine. February 26 the white house Coronavirus Task force meeting saying that its possible the case number will go to zero. Comparing it to the flu twice. He talked about calm but he also told the American People it is going to go away. So the question is, with the president s strategy to in your words and the president s to bring this calm, did he harm the ability to stop the spread of this virus by not warning the American People what he knew were the dangers of it . Absolutely not, sandra. Again, i want to go back. Joe biden, the democrats, and the World Health Organization criticized the president s decision to suspend all travel from china. In early february we were hearing tell about this respiratory illness that was spreading across wuhan. The president put the health of the American People first. In that first week of february we started work on a vaccine. In six short weeks we already were in Clinical Trials for a Coronavirus Vaccine and we believe that were well on our way to having a Coronavirus Vaccine in record time before the end of this year. All along the way, assessing supplies, assessing logistics, and when we came to that moment on march 15th, the president announced that first 15 days to slow the spread, it would become 45 days to slow the spread. All along the way the president s mandate was that we would spare no expense, we would put the health of America First despite the criticism that he endured. You need to remember, too, sandra, that on the last day of february there were roughly 15 domestic cases of coronavirus in america. And a month earlier the president suspended all travel from china under a hailstorm of criticism from joe biden and the left. Two weeks later we would suspend essentially much of the American Economy to put the health of our country first. We reinvented testing. Now were doing more than 800,000 tests a day. We saw to the distribution and the manufacture of hundreds of millions of supplies of ppe and new medicines. I couldnt be more proud of the response of the American People. More proud of the response of Health Officials in every agency of government, states across the country. I couldnt be more proud of the strong, steady leadership that President Donald Trump brought to this coronavirus pandemic from day one. Sandra i should acknowledge that dr. Fauci was interviewed after the revelation of these tapes and he said he didnt see a disparity on what the president was telling him and what he was telling the public and what he was doing, mr. Vice president. But thats exactly right and let me help you with that. Ive worked with dr. Fauci every step of the way in this and all of our Health Experts. When dr. Fauci said yesterday that everything that our Health Experts told the president in the oval office he went out and told the American People. So i believe what the president was speaking about with bob woodward on march 19th was just the tone that he was projecting. This is a president who believes that a president of the United States in such moments needs to project strength. You cant project weakness. Sandra there is a difference, mr. Vice president. That we will together get through this. His tone was one of projecting calm and confidence. I heard him at that podium and in every setting, we gave the American People the facts and i literally believe that the president s decision to suspend travel to china, the largest mobilization since world war ii and asking the American People to shut down our economy four 45 days to slow the spread to save lives is exactly the kind of president ial leadership that the American People hope and pray for in times like th. Sandra what is being debated while we all take in these audio tapes is whether it was misinformation to the American Public when you consider that the president knew how deadly it was. More deadly than a strenuous flu and to compare it to the flu. Robert obrien, National Security advisor confirmed in late january at an intelligence briefing warned the president this would be the biggest National Security threat that he would face during his presidency. Were you privy to that same information that day . Did you receive that briefing, mr. Vice president . Sandra i was in the oval office the day the team briefed the president about what we perceived was happening in china. Remember, the World Health Organization failed us, china was not forthcoming with the United States about what was happening there. But the team came in and laid the facts as we knew them on the table to the president and again, i have to tell you, to see the president sit behind the resolute desk in the oval office and do what no America President had ever done. It was suspend all travel from china. To me it was an historic example of president ial leadership. It saved hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives. But the truth is we were learning all along the way. I mean on this network, on other networks you had Health Experts. Our own Health Experts were not yet convinced about the level of contagion or how serious it was. I think dr. Fauci often speaks eloquently about the fog of war and when i stepped into the white house Coronavirus Task force leadership at the end of february, again we only had 15 cases of coronavirus domestic in the United States. And the first case of Community Transmission also happened at the very end of february. So look, you know, hindsight is 2020, recriminations. What the president was communicating, i believe what you hear in that february tape was the seriousness with which he took this from day one and again, i think your viewers deserve to know that when the president made the comment about down playing on march 19th, that was four days after this president ordered us to shut down the entire American Economy to put the health of America First. Sandra on that note, he did speak to bob woodward in 18 different interviews for nine hours. The president s chief of staff mark meadows on fox news last night is not something he would have recommended was he in the role at that time. Did you know he was talking to bob woodward 18 different times for nine hours . I ran into bob woodward once in the white house. I dont know there has ever been a more accessible president of the United States than President Donald Trump. Sandra was that a good idea . Walking to the airplane, walking to the helicopter, press briefings. This president has been straight with the American People. When you look at the way he has led through this pandemic, thats also been true. Honestly, tony fauci put it so well yesterday when he said everything that our Health Experts told the president in the oval office he told the American People, okay . And its important that people understand that. Thats what i saw as well. I actually didnt sense the president was down playing anything. We were giving the American People the facts as we knew them, as we learned them every step of the way. And the American People are incredible doctors and nurses, Health Officials in states across the country and all across the federal government responded with incredible professionalism. But it is so important in moments like this that the president of the United States project confidence to the American People that they understand that we were deploying the full resources of the federal government, calling forth the full power of the American Economy to meet this moment. And i promise you, sandra, we will continue to do that every step of the way until we have a Coronavirus Vaccine and we put this pandemic in the past once and for all. Sandra we have a lot more to get to. If i could ask you about the wildfires raging on the west coast. Three states affected. Seeing seven deaths now, one involving a small child. What can you tell us as being done at the federal level now to step in and help as these fires are still raging . Were working very closely with governors in states that are affected. I think when governor gavin newsom submitted a disaster declaration President Trump approved that in roughly 24 hours. Weve issued 22 separate federal fire support grants and weve already got resources by the millions of dollars that are flowing to impacted families. Look, my daughter and soninlaw live in california. Our hearts go out to all of those that are enduring or threatened by these fires. I want to assure everyone that we are going to make sure those courageous firefighters that homeowners and businesses have the full support of the federal government as we make our way through these fires, but also as we make our way through what is just actually the beginning of the fire season out west. Sandra amazing to see the orange skies of San Francisco and such an enormous task for those on the Ground Fighting the flames. I want to move on to you on the ground in pennsylvania yesterday, mr. Vice president. Pennsylvania a key state in the upcoming election. A state the president carried in 2016. He is behind in the real clear politics average of polls in that state right now. Obviously you were there on the ground trying to sway voters with your yours and the president s law and order message. Message on the economy. What are you doing as you work your way towards your big debate october 7th with Kamala Harris . What is the strategy to win over voters in a state like pennsylvania . Were going to go out and talk about the fact this president has kept more promises than he made to the people of pennsylvania. He said we are going to rebuild our military. Well revive the economy with less taxes, less regulation, more free and fair trade, and more american energy. Well stand by our most cherished values including the right to life. Yesterday in pennsylvania we celebrated this president s nomination of more than 200 strong conservatives to our federal courts including two Supreme Court justices. President trumps strong stand for the right to life which resonates with people across the heartland including pennsylvania. But the message that i drove home yesterday literally standing at a drilling site in pennsylvania President Trump promised we would unleash american energy. Weve done just that. For the first time in 70 years were a net exporter of energy. But joe biden and Kamala Harris actually have talked about abolishing fossil fuels. I know joe biden now he went to pittsburgh and said he is not banning fracking, but thats at odds with everything that he has said for the last year. He told one supporter i guarantee i guarantee that we will abolish fossil fuels. He said in a debate that even if it costs hundreds of thousands of american jobs, that there would be no place for fracking or fossil fuels in his administration. Based on the enthusiasm i saw on that particularly hot day yesterday in freedom, pennsylvania is that people of pennsylvania are getting the message. They know it. They voted for a president who was committed to a strong military, to law and order at home, to a growing economy, to more american energy, to traditional values, and they know the choice in this election could not be more clear. I think people of pennsylvania will vote for four more years for President Donald Trump in the white house. Sandra mr. Vice president , were out of time. It was great to have you here on americas newsroom. Really appreciate your time this morning. Thank you, sandra. Sandra thank you. Trace mailin ballots that dont arrive on time could hold up final results from the president ial election. How will the uncertainty affect the stock market . Money man Charles Payne is next. Want to brain better . Unlike ordinary memory supplements. Neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. Memory. Focus. Accuracy. Learning and concentration. Try it today with our moneyback guarantee apps except work. Rywhere. Why is that . 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Well, we can use history somewhat of a guide as the 2000 hanging chads debacle from december 7th to early november 7th to early december the s p was down more than 8 . When the country the market hates uncertainty. They certainly hate not knowing who the commanderinchief is. That would be the ultimate uncertainty. Then you look at some of these polls. One suggesting 40 of democrats would demand a redo if President Trump was declared the winner. 30 of republicans saying trump shouldnt leave the white house if biden was declared the winner. Were sitting on a powder keg and all the lawsuits. Then the media i think actually would stoke it a lot more than they did in 2000. A lot more biased media going on. It could be a very scary time. A lot of people are concerned. Im getting a lot of phone calls about it. Trace you talk about a lot of people, charles. We teased in the intro about Morgan Stanley. They quote in our election week a reliable result wont be available for a few days. If polls tighten and indicate the polls are close it could shift to election months. The prospect of an election month. You mentioned back in 2000 it went from november 7th to early december. An election month really is a bad thing for the financial markets. It really is. Hopefully we keep talking about the handful of swing states actually determining all of this. Maybe if its a bunch of mail that hasnt been counted from california that kind of stuff that would be a best case scenario. It is one of the things that proponents of vote by mail should consider because there will be some problems. Everyone agrees our system is not robust enough to really handle it. Thats why people are guessing how long will it actually take to get all the mail to open it up and to insure that these are legitimate votes . It will be a daunting task. Listen, we just got a taste, right, at the end of last week on tuesday of what volatility can do. The quickest Market Correction in history on the nasdaq in three days we lost 10 . Now listen, weve done a remarkable job. The market is rebounding nicely. People need to understand not knowing who is in the white house is not something that the market is going to take kindly to. Trace as you talk were looking at the bottom right hand of the screen. The market is up 42 points today. You talk about the swing states. These are the slow to no states. The ones still counting mailin ballots for days and may not know the final outcomes. The big number is the total at the bottom. 157 electoral votes. Thats a lot of room for delay, charles, i guess thats the concerning thing for a lot of Financial Advisors. You know what . We get all these states and comes down to one state, even florida back in 2000. We have a lot of states that could really hold this up because we know despite the polls, it will be razor thin in the end. It really is. And so its one of the things we have to brace for. I would caution the audience, particularly people invested in the market for longterm. Volatility comes from time to time. I would be careful not to sell a great stock that has the ability to go up over the next 10 years because we may be in turmoil for a couple of weeks. It wont feel good if it does happen but remain focused on the longer term. Trace what about the flip side . What about the people who will make money on this . Clearly people are betting against the market. Hedging all the time. Is there a significant portion of the financial world that will say you know what . We can make some money on the fact this whole thing will be delayed for a while . You know, the people who do that kind of investing have already been crushed because they really were sort of loading up after march when we had this initial swoon in the market. There will always be a pocket of folks who do that kind of thing. Anyone who goes out and tries to do it on their own without any sort of experience and not dealing with these whip saws. One thing about the market when we think it zigs, it zags. Always folks betting against this country unfortunately but i tell you what, over the last few years theyve gotten crushed in the market. They have a lot less dry powder than they had a few years ago. Trace youve been talking about if joe biden gets in he will raise taxes. You think that will hurt the market . The prospect of joe biden being in the lead in all these legal things may run down the road, is there a fallout from who gets elected or who looks like they are leading if this thing is delayed . If its delayed i think the markets will the stock market is going to recoil. To what degree is debatable if joe biden wins. Joe biden has already declared war on amazon, perhaps the most Important Company in america right now. Theyre hiring 70,000 people for the latest warehouses. They have a million employees. He is declaring war on them. He is declaring war on wall street. They will raise taex on the middle class, 400,000. Wall street is going to take a hit if biden wins. To what degree, i dont know. Trace always good to see you. Thank you. You too buddy. Sandra President Trump saying he publicly down played the coronavirus to keep calmness. Dana perino will join us to talk about potential fallout from the president s comments top of a brandnew hour coming up. Thats how much veteran homeowners can save every year by using their va benefits to refinance at newday. Record low rates have dropped to new all time lows. With the va streamline refi theres no appraisal, no income verification, and no money out of pocket. One call can save you 3000 a year. Sandra developing right now the president coming out swinging against Bob Woodwards new book blasting the journalists latest title rage as a political hit job. The book is loaded with a wide range of topics from the president s response to the pandemic to racial issues and white privilege. According to woodward the president spilling information on a weapons system. Trace im trace gallagher. The president not backing down from his remarks about the coronavirus after telling bob woodward on tape he knew he was highly contagious and deadly and knew it was worse than the flu. President trump said he played down the danger deliberately to avoid causing a panic. Vice president pence joined americas newsroom moments ago and said the president told him to fight the virus with force. From the moment he tasked me to lead the white house Coronavirus Task force, the president made it clear he wanted us to deploy the full resources of the federal government, a whole of america approach, and the progress that weve made i believe has literally saved hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives. Sandra we have Fox Team Coverage for you this morning. Dana perino has analysis on insight how the book could play out weeks before the election. Lucas tomlinson with details on the spilled Nuclear Secret and to john roberts. How is the white house reacting to the fallout from woodwards book this morning . Good morning. The president continues to push back on the perception of what he told bob woodward in several recorded conversations regarding what the president was saying publicly versus what he was thinking privately about it. The president insisting that he was not trying to mislead the American People, he was simply trying to be measured in his public comments. Here is what he told hannity last night. President trump what i want to show is i want to show calmness. Im the leader of the country. I cant be jumping up and down and scaring people. I dont want to scare people. I want people not to panic. Thats exactly what i did. If you look at the representatives of joe biden, you see what they were saying. They said no problem, this wont be a problem. He didnt think it would be a problem until months later. He was way late. The president also responding to criticism of woodward that if the revelations were so explosive woodward should have reported them back in march, not waiting until now to capitalize on them to sell books. The president tweeting in the last hour quote bob woodward had my quotes for many months. If he thought there were so bad ordaining rouse why didnt he report them in an effort to save lives . Didnt he have an obligation to do so . No, he knew they were good and proper answers, calm, no panic. Democrats have taken the ball and run with it like forrest gump. Joe biden calling it a life and death betrayal of our country. Sandra john, the interview did not just touch on coronavirus. What else did the president have to say . Clearly there is a lot more in the book. A lot more we dont yet know as well. And more of that will be revealed this weekend. Of course, when the book comes out. One section where woodward was talking to the president back in june about the protests that had gripped the country in the wake of the George Floyd Killing and specific the issue of white privilege. Listen to this exchange. Do you have any sense that that privilege has isolated and put you in a cave to a certain extent . As it put me and lots of white privileged people in a cave and that we have to work our way out of it to understand the anger and the pain particularly black people feel in this country . President trump no, you really drank the koolaid, didnt you. Listen to you, wow. I dont feel that at all. President has no events until tonight until tonight in michigan. He won saginaw by a single point in 2016. He would like to win it again this year. Im sure he will have lots more to say about this tonight. Sandra well watch all of it. John roberts, thank you. Trace the new book reports President Trump bragged about a classified Nuclear Weapons system. A secret so guarded military sources were surprised the president would let it slip. Excerpts from the book suggest the president mentioned in reflecting how close the u. S. And north korea came to nuclear war in 2017. Lucas tomlinson following this from the pentagon. Last night an special report bret baier asked the president s National Security advisor what is the top secret new nuclear weapon. Robert obrien wouldnt say. Were always on the cutting edge and always have something out there our adversaries dont know about. The president didnt talk about any specific weapons system. You can rest assured that we can protect the United States of america against any threat thats out there. President trump was quoted as saying i have built a Nuclear Weapons system that nobody has ever had in this country before. We have stuff you havent even seen or heard about. Another revelation woodwards book said kim jongun tells me everything how he had his uncle killed. Also in woodwards book defense secretary jim mattis went to Washington National cathedral to pray about the nations future and told dan coates they might have to take collective action because the president was, quote, unfit to be president. As cia director shortly becoming secretary of state mike pompeo made a top secret visit to north korea to meet with kim jongun in 2018 to lay the ground work for their meeting in singapore two months later. The president s historic visit to have his first meeting with kim some number of months later has put us in a position where i hope one day we can deliver on the fully verifiable denuclearization of the korean peninsula. North korea is preparing for a massive military parade on october 10th, 75th anniversary of the Workers Party and it has also been marked by more missile tests. Trace Lucas Tomlinson live at the pentagon. Sandra for more on this lets bring in dana perino. Great to see you this morning. Thanks for being here. If i could ask you your thoughts now that youve seen a lot of reaction to the bob woodward book and the president s own words on tape. So i know what it is like to think that you can cooperate with a bob woodward book and think it will make the next one better. We tried that in the bush administration. Cooperate, not a great book. Dont cooperate, not a great book. Back and forth it went. I understand the temptation to try to cooperate because you think you will be able to make your points that you will be on the record, not going to do any more of this anonymous sourcing stuff. I can understand the temptation. Doing it on tape was a mistake. Partly because even though the president is going to stand by whatever he said. Thats fine. But there is something about the intimacy of hearing him say things that might make you if you dont like the president might make you cringe but reconfirms things. If you love the president this interview thats how he always is. We knew this. We think he is so smart to tap the brakes and not let people panic about the coronavirus. If you dont like the president it confirms everything that you thought before and you think about Kamala Harris and joe biden. They kept saying during the Democratic Convention about the coronavirus. It didnt have to be this bad. I would bet now theyll take the audio and use it to have their advantage. Now, this seems like a big deal in this news cycle and last a few days. There are a lot of nuggets to tease through. In the long run its the beginning of a million cycles well go through before election day which i see we have on the screen, 53 days to go. Sandra hard to believe, isnt it . Mike pence the Vice President joined us last hour, dana. The president is defending his words on tape and so is the Vice President. Listen. Its so important in moments like this that the president of the United States project confidence to the American People that they understand that we were deploying the full resources of the federal government, calling forth the full power of the American Economy to meet this moment. Sandra the days will determine when we look back at what we knew when we knew it and what was publicly said and what was said to bob woodward on those telephone conversations. In that interview mike pence confirmed to me that he was privy to the same information that Robert Obrien, the president s National Security advisor gave the president that day in late january when obrien told the president that this could be the virus could be the biggest National Security threat he would face during his presidency. So you can obviously look at what he said publicly and the Vice President as well leading the Coronavirus Task team what was said publicly in the days and weeks that followed, dana. There will be a lot of that. There will be a ton of it. I do think that yesterday when you had dr. Anthony fauci come on the Daily Briefing show and say this is not in keeping with how i saw the president at the time in terms of the bob woodward context that he was talking about. And also you had a lot of different opinions about the virus. The Trump Campaign will be able to point to a lot of Different Things that biden said at the time or schumer at the time. And you think about what were we doing in january as a country . Sandra, you remember, we were sitting for hours every day having to cover the impeachment trials. I think there is probably enough here to go around. I do think what matters Going Forward . Do we have an available vaccine soon in order to get people back to work . Can people get their kids back in school . Theyve been in school for a week and im hearing and you are hearing from parents across the country it is not going well. Technology isnt working, kids are melting down. Parents arent able to do this. We should all be trying to row in the same direction to get the country back in working order. It is hard to do this in the middle of a president ial election when all the chips are on the table. As citizens we have to do better. Sandra nancy pelosi starting her Weekly News Conference right now. Chuck schumer had this to say on another network this morning. Listen. He doesnt mind panicking people when it serves his interests. He will not tell the truth when it serves his interests and people are so badly hurt. It is a despicable incident and i hope it wakes up some of those Trump Supporters to realize what this man is. That they cannot have him be president again. I will get worse. He will tell more and worse lies. Sandra that was Chuck Schumers one of the president s biggest critics. Senator kennedy went on last night and again this morning says he doesnt like gotcha books. It will be interesting to see how both sides continue to react to this. Final thoughts, dana. I dont know if you can call it a gotcha book if you participate in 18 interviews and do it on tape. As ben shapiro the call is coming from inside the house. If you want to know what the president is thinking its right there for you. There is nothing that is nontransparent here. The other thing about chuck schumer, the democrats will once again today block a coronavirus bill Going Forward that would get money into the hands of School Districts, Small Businesses and people out there that really need it. When you talk about words verse yours deeds the Trump Campaign might want to seize on that. Sandra well see you this afternoon and tonight on the five. Thanks. Trace fox news alert from lebanon. The beirut port has gone up in flames again weeks after an enormous blast set off a deadly fire there. The cause of this fire not known but it apparently began in a warehouse that stores oil and tires, both as you can see highly flammable. Folks are being told to stay clear of the area as crews race to bring it under control. Sandra the pandemic may not turn out to be the biggest election issue. What karl rove says voters are focusing on now and how it will impact the race between President Trump and joe biden. The salon owner at the center of Nancy Pelosis scandal made a big decision about her business and the Deadly Wildfires across the Pacific Northwest as the flames rage out of control and turn the sky orange. Were live in the fire zone. Its scary to think about losing a home. At the same time its a monetary thing, you know. I think people fail to remember that our lives are irreplaceable and thats the most important. 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Sandra strong winds fueling wildfires raging out of controls. It turned the skies smokey orange in the San Francisco area in the middle of the day even though the flames were hundreds of miles away. Seven people died including this boy in oregon. The damage is catastrophic from california to Washington State. Homes incinerated. Thousands more threatened by the fires. Kttv is on the ground near the eldorado fire in Southern California for us this morning. Good morning. Good morning, sandra and day six of the efforts to contain this fire just resumed about an hour or two ago. Want to show you this checkpoint. This is an evacuation zone. Were in the area of 70 miles east of the l. A. Area in San Bernardino county. One of several checkpoints in the neighborhood. Just up the road dozens of homes were ordered to leave immediately. We can see activity picking up here. Several surrounding agencies have been called in to help. More than 1,000 fire personnel and dozens of engines out here to battle the eldorado fire. Overnight the fire grew several Hundred Acres to nearly 13,000. Crews have been working overnight to protect homes in the fires path. The latest numbers released about an hour ago put containment at 23 . Crews have a perimeter around 23 of the fire. Additional mandatory evacuation orders were issued in several communities along the south end of the San Bernardino national forest. Whats happening today as well as keeping flames at bay teams are surveying destruction. Weve seen residents who have seen homes damaged or loss. One of several local wildfires. This one has been burning since saturday when it was sparked by a pyrotechnic device at a gender reveal party in a local park and today the temperatures are warm. We just escaped the heat wave in the west coast and can tell you tomorrow that dry, hot weather is returning and that always poses a challenge. The low humidity for firefighters during a wildfire. Sandra a challenge there. Mario, thank you. Trace the San Francisco hair salon at the heart of the nancy pelosi scandal is shutting down. The owner telling Tucker Carlson she is closing up shop after getting death threats. I started to just get a ton of phone calls, text messages, emails, all my yelp reviews, just saying that they hope i go under and that i fail so just a lot of negativity towards my business. Trace last week nancy pelosi was seen on Surveillance Video violating city regulations getting a shampoo and blowout without a mask. Two National Chains are going under. The Parent Company of loveys cafeteria and fudruckers. Going under. All locations are shutting down. Sandra joe biden ripping into President Trump over the revelations in that new bob woodward book. He lied, thats wrong. Totally irresponsible. Totally irresponsible. Sandra joe bidens answer just ahead. Plus how the economy and jobs are playing in the election. 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High above what it was before the coronavirus. Trace President Trump is back on the campaign trail tonight heading to michigan. No travel today for joe biden. His Vice President ial nominee Kamala Harris is stumping in florida where the candidates are running neckandneck. Sandra President Trump hitting back at the new book from the journalist bob woodward. The author did a hit job like he does with everybody, the president s words. The book reports the president intentionally played down the coronavirus threat. He says that as the nations leader he did not want to cause a panic. Today karl rove tackled the coronavirus in an oped for the wall street journal suggesting voters are shifting their focus from the pandemic to the economy. Voters will decide on who they think can better rebuild the economy. With the charges that the president set out to mislead the nation about the virus, will President Trumps handling of the virus be at the forefront of voters minds . The big question. Founder and ceo of real clear politics tom bevan. Put it in perspective where it all fits in the big picture when it comes to the 2020 race and what matters to voters most . Well, the coronavirus certainly matters to voters. It is still a top issue in the race, the economy also matters a great deal. Those two issues are intertwined with the Public Health aspect of that and also the economic health, right . What the lockdowns have done. Im not sure its clear exactly how this is going to work out in terms of the politics of it. How much of a hit trump might take for the revelations in his book. Well have to wait and see. Sandra karl roves headline. Biden has the edge as the final stretch begins. He can keep his lead by pitching unity and surviving the debates but trump has time. It is an interesting point, 55 days out or so, tom, on how we will see these strategies evolve as we get closer to election day. Yeah. In particular on the economy. Biden has done in our real clear politics average trumps job approval, when the covid virus hit in march he had a plus 16 net rating, over 55 . Its now down to 3 1 2 lead. Biden has done smart things. Copied trumps language. Buying and building american and very many ways he sounds similar to donald trump. Second thing he has done is that he talked about how the recovery he is acknowledging the recovery but saying it is not working for everybody. That leads into the aspect of joe biden, another advantage he has over trump is that people voters think he cares about them more than donald trump does, right . Cares about average voters like me. The third thing he has done is walked away from the more radical elements of his party on fracking, for example, doing away with fossil fuels. So all of those three things have combined to really help him minimize trumps advantage on the economy. Sandra its really interesting, tom. You look at karl roves point in the piece is about voters concern over the coronavirus being a Health Crisis versus now growing concern about being an economic crisis. That benefits donald trump most if thats happening. He says shifting concerns about covid19 may turn the race more in trumps direction. September 7th nbc survey monkey poll said 52 say the pandemic is more of a Health Crisis down from 56 in july. 47 say its more of an economic crisis up from 43 in july. If that trend continues, karl says the election will be less about trumps handling of covid and who will be better at restarting the economy. Team trump would like that, says karl rove. Thats exactly right. Ive talked to folks within the Trump Campaign and hoping that looking at the numbers, the caseloads, infections, all of those things were trending in a positive direction. They were hoping that that continued and they would be able to put covid as an entire issue in the Rearview Mirror for the homestretch. What woodwards book does it brings it back to the fore. To the extent covid is a settled issue and more looking for the economy and who can lead us forward on the economy still plays to trumps advantage. Sandra on the economy new jobs numbers 884,000 jobless claims. What does that tell you where we are in the economic recovery, tom . Final thoughts. Well, its not good news for trump if the economy stalls out. Weve only had three president s reelected with unemployment over 7 . Barack obama was one of them. The Unemployment Rate spiked to 14 . Last number was 8. 4. Donald trump gets one more jobs report that comes in before election day. If he can get that number under 8 down into the 7 range and continue to show progress on the jobs front, absolutely is an asset for him heading to election day. Sandra well keeping watch. Tom bevan. Great to see you. Trace joe biden slamming the president over the comments he made to bob woodward about the coronavirus accusing the commanderinchief of lying to the American People. Griff jenkins live for us in washington with more. Griff. Trace, it has been a no holds barred response from the former Vice President who pounced on the revelations moments after the news broke from the campaign trail in michigan. He blasted President Trump for down playing the deadly threat of the virus calling it a life or death betrayal. He lied to the American People. He knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months. He knew how dangerous it was. While this deadly disease ripped through our nation, he failed to do his job on purpose. Afterwards he continued attacks telling a reporter on the tarmac this should have serious consequences. He lied. Thats wrong. Totally irresponsible. [inaudible]. Kick him out of office. He ramped up the rhetoric of the president s handling of the coronavirus overall. He can say anything that happened had nothing to do with him. He waved the white flag and walked away and didnt do a damn thing. Think about it. Think about what he did not do and its almost critical. He said donald trump knew it was deadly and dangerous and purposely down played it. Nearly 200,000 americans are dead. Its unconscionable. The president says biden was right now the story is a fire hose for the white house and the biden camp is seizing on it in every way. Well hear from Kamala Harris this afternoon from miami. Trace. Trace Griff Jenkins live in washington thank you. Sandra bill deblasio is the worst mayor in the history of new york city from a democratic congressman from staten island. The scathing new attack ad thats turning heads in the big apple. President trump revealing his list of potential Supreme Court justice nominees. Why he is calling on joe biden to release his own list. 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Trace new campaign ad slamming bill deblasio by a fellow new york democrat running for reelection. Bill deblasio is the worst mayor in the history of new york city. Thats it, guys. Trace consciousman max rose cuesed deblasio trying to kill off new York City Restaurants earlier this year blasted democrats for opposing all of President Trumps Foreign Policy moves. While President Trump expanding his list of potential Supreme Court nominees. On that list are senators ted cruz, tom cotton and josh hawley. The president is calling on joe biden to do the same. Kristin fisher live for us at the white house. Kristin. Trace, we knew this list was coming. President trump did this back in 2016 to great effect to help convince conservatives voter he is a safe vote and he is doing it in 2020 to make sure he keeps their support. The big difference this time is the addition of those three wellknown senators, all devout constitutionalists. They are texas senator ted cruz, arkansas senator tom cotton and missouri senator josh hawley. It has been 50 years since a former senator has sat on the court. They went to Ivy League Law schools and already those two senators are pouring a little cold water on their addition to the president s list. You have senator hawley saying while he appreciates the president s confidence, quote, i told the president missourians elected me to fight for them in the senate and i have no interest in the high court. Senator cruz called it humbling and immense honor but looks forward to defending the rights of 29 million texans and i look forward to continuing to do so for many years to come. And then you had senator tom cotton really sticking to the issues in the statement that he put out right after his name was added to that list. He said its time for roe v wade to go and the right to own a gun and the right to worship, end of story. There is no disputing where the president picks, where his picks stand on some of these Critical Issues to so many conservative voters. Now the president himself is calling on his opponent, joe biden, to release his own list. President trump joe biden has refused to release his list perhaps because he knows the names are so extremely far left that they could never withstand public scrutiny or receive acceptance. And in fact the Trump Campaigns question of the day for joe biden is where is your Supreme Court list . This is something the Trump Campaign is likely going to hammer the Biden Campaign on between now and election day. So far, trace, no word from the Biden Campaign on if the former vp intends to release his own list. Trace Kristin Fisher live for us in a rainy d. C. Thank you. This President Trump intentionally misleads the American People about the threat of covid. How do you swear the president s words to woodward . How can a president bear no responsibility for the almost 200,000 lives lost when he down played the virus initially . How is that at its core not an abject betrayal of the public trust . Sandra reporters focusing on woodwards new book yesterday in the press briefing. Howie kurtz is host of media buzz. Thanks for being here. A lot of reaction still coming in. Looking at the timing of this, the president s words, and the fact that the president sat there and gave 18 different interviews, nine hours total. Yeah. Some of those interviews the president was calling bob woodward at home. Melania came over and president said the book will be at troeshous but thats okay. This is not deep throat. No anonymous sources. Whether people believe that the pat was lying as much of the media and democrats are saying. Or whether they buy the president s account he was trying not to cause a panic in the country. This recasts the most important issue in this campaign and unlike many of the summer storms that surround this president knock down a few trees and power lines and quickly go ought to sea. Because of the pandemic the president s opponents will be pushing this until election day. Sandra and the president turning this around an bob woodward for the timing of his release of the tapes. He tweeted this morning. Bob woodward had my quotes for many months. If they thought they were so bad ordaining rouse the president writes, why didnt he immediately report them in an effort to save lives . Didnt he have an obligation to do so . No. Because he knew they were good and proper answers. He ended it with calm, no panic. President trump tapping into some criticisms. Having worked with him years ago i know that donald trump would not have said these things to bob woodward if he thought it was going in the paper the next day. At the same time, the interview they had on february 7 coronavirus wasnt a major issue. No one died. Woodward told the Washington Post he needed time to put everything in context to verify trumps account and thats what happens with these books. Interesting that the president is calling this a political hit job since as is clear he was angry with a staffer not having him talk to woodward for his last book and i think he thought he could win him over or get a more favorable book. Sandra mark meadows said if he had been in the role of chief of staff he would not have recommended the president do that and give the interview to bob woodward. A part of your foxnews. Com piece. As an author of best sellers dating back to watergate woodward is entitled to declare his conclusion on trumps tenure but that opens him up to charges that his real motive is to help oust the president in a book published two months before the election. Of course, this puts the focus back on the timing of all this and what the impact will be for voters in the election, howie. Yeah. Woodward crashed this book in 10 months and trying to get it out before the election. The last sentence in the book is trump is the wrong man for the job. Its very different than the approach he has taken throughout his career. I remember him telling me you put down fact a, fact c, fact c and let people make up their own minds. Its not about the foour its not about woodwards opinions, but its the president s own words. There is a lot the president is able to provide woodward on the variety of subjects that make a case for himself. So i think ultimately what is said on the last imagine of woodwards conclusion is less important than the fact it is on tape. Having the president s words that we can hear them i think is what gives this punch. It doesnt mean that he was somehow misleading or lying as his worst critics are saying but it casts the whole situation in new light. Sandra howie kurtz, not over. Thats going to largely be debated as we get a look at the timeline, exact words of the president and this will go on. Howie, thank you. Great to see you this morning. Trace an assistant professor at Transylvania University is apologizing for criticizing Nick Sandmann. How he is reacting to her comments coming up. You know that look . That life of the party look walk it off look one more mile look reply all look own your look. With fewer lines. Theres only one botox® cosmetic. Its the only one. Fda approved. To temporarily make frown lines. Crows feet. And forehead lines. Look better. The effects of botox® cosmetic, may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms. 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He says i dont advocate barring liberals or even socialists from going to college. It is wrong for any of us to demean people who hold different beliefs. Now more than ever we need more speech, not less. We need to hear new ideas and learn from others. Thats exactly what i and so many students returning to school want to do. I invite democrats to join us. It should be noted by the way that Nick Sandmann was not in the wrong as cnn learned by paying out a chunk of change. Trace, you are absolutely right. First of all Nick Sandmann was accepted into Transylvania University, a college in kentucky and the hits keep coming for this kid. First a member of the aclu who attacked him online saying that he essentially saying that he should be barred from the college, shouldnt be accepted. And the irony is not lost a member of the aclu, defender of free speech is saying Nick Sandmann shouldnt be accepted into college calling him a stain on the university and then a professor at the college wrote another post saying he was going to kind an eye on Nick Sandmann to make sure he doesnt troll or harass anybody. That video shows he never trolled or harassed anybody. The only thing these two people dont like about him are his political views. Imagine being a young teenager going into college feeling like you have that target on your back. I truly hope he has a thick skin or a very strong circle of friends because college may be difficult for him. We should point out Transylvania University released a statement theyll investigate the situation with this professor. The professor apologizeed and they accept people of all political views as well. Well see. Trace i would hope the aclu would at least call that staffer on the carpet. Nick sandmann was not wrong in any of this ordeal. Speaking of young people and adults in college. The idea that more young adults are living at home now than in the Great Depression . You know, the headline sounds dramatic but it makes sense. It is true according to the Pew Research Center that more young people ages 1829 are living at home than ever before. In february that number was 47 . And then in july it increased up to 52 . Thats a 2. 6 million person increase. I say it makes sense because think of about all the College Students who were asked to come home and all the young People Living in cities who say they had to work remotely. Why not move back home with mom and dad and get a free meal. Those are the lucky people. The unlucky ones are young people who were fired from their jobs or let go for some reason because of this pandemic. And we do looking at the numbers we know millennials were particularly affected by the pandemic in terms of workforce. Trace the caveat to that is that even if you are at college and you are living off campus and not in one of the dorms or one of the dorms on campus they still count you as living with your parents and so thats part of the whole 52 . A lot of people involved in that as well. I also kind of found the next headline a little baffling the whole Millennials Want to redistribute wealth from the older generation . To the Younger Generation . This is the opinion of one man, a Deutsche Bank strategist. He believes because young people are so upset and feel like they arent being heard because of the brexit vote. Young liberals and because of President Trumps election theyll try to implement policies either through running for Political Office to redistribute wealth to young people through corporate taxes. Joe biden is trying to raise taxes on the wealthy to provide college for most americans. So this guy may not be wrong in that sense. Trace it is fascinating. You look at the list of stories we covered. Nick sandmann is a conservative and welcomes people on the other side giving their opinion. You drop down to young adults living at home and then you talk to young adults who say maybe we should take a lot of money from the older generation and give it to some of the Younger Generation. There seems to be i only have 15 seconds left for you, seems to be the younger people kind of getting involved and are actively speaking and arguing and debating about these topics. The tide is turning. Well have to wait and see come the november election if they put that voice into action via voting. Well have to wait and see on that one. Trace thank you so much. Sandra brandnew reaction to the revelations in Bob Woodwards new books as we hear from the white house and Biden Campaign response. Analysis on how it could impact the election 53 days out plus whether whiplash, summer turns into snow overnight. 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