Time to stand up and take back our country. We can do this. Martha but this time they will have to navigate the mute button. Bret you have a ringside seat for the second and the final president ial debate live from nashville. Martha our special two our preview begins now. Bret good evening and welcome to nashville, tennessee, come on bret baier on bret baier. Martha i martha maccallum, this is the site of tonights second and final president ial debate, we are getting ready during the next two hours during music city usa. Bret we will speak to surrogates for both campaigns, nikki haley from the trump team and Pete Buttigieg representing Vice President biden. Martha brandnew developments in the story of the biden Family Business ventures overseas, an investigation is gaining traction tonight as we headed to this evenings debate. Bret one of the recipients of an email from hunter biden is confirming its authenticity, actually several emails and Text Messages and shedding some new light on
Bret baier. Martha good evening, i martha maccallum. Next couple hours we will set the stage for the finale of the 2020 election season. Two races that will shape the legislative picture in congress for the next two years. We will have interview with senator david purdue in a moment. Bret john roberts at the white house, lawmakers are saying about President Trumps phone call with the georgia secretary of state, peter doocy in atlanta with president elect bidens visit to the Georgia Capital but we begin with correspondent Steve Harrigan entailed in georgia where the president will host a rally for the republican candidate in about three hours. Good evening. Speak a good evening, three i was away from the president s appearance you can see the last of the crowd filing through. Theres people here overnight about two dozen people on the asphalt, 20 do 20degree weather to make sure they got in. And checked out before they go in and local officials are talking about at least 5,000 people com
Citing a quick trial and an acquittal. The president is in switzerland. We have the complete coverage of all that is happening tonight. Bret we begin tonight with correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill. Good evening to you. Before about on the resolution, democrats are offering an amendment to try to make some tweaks such as demanding white house documents and state department documents. Earlier this afternoon there was a change to the guidelines set by majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. He agreed that each side will have up to 24 hours over three days to present their opening arguments. Initially it was supposed to be over two days. The house record will now be admitted as evidence while originally it was going to be left out. Senator Susan Collins and others requested changes from senator mcconnell and over todays luncheon. She is seen as a key to having a vote in critical stages of the trial. Senator Chuck Schumer was thrilled about the change from hitting more changes could be on
White house review, of President Trumps decision to hold up hundreds of documents that reveal extensive efforts to generate at afterthefact justification for the debate over whether the delaying was legal. That is known as a coverup, actually. The white house lawyers had apparently uncovered early august email exchanges between acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and white house budget officials seeking to provide some explanation for withholding the funds the president had already ordered on hold. The documents also reportedly include communications between white house officials and outside agencies. Not only does congress have a right to see them, the public does too under freedom of information laws. As a matter of constitutional authority, the senate has the greatest interest in and right to compel those documents. Indeed, as the news article explains, white house lawyers are reportedly worried about unflattering exchanges and fact they could at a minimum embarrass the president. P
Rebuttal time just to delay further into any unit senators as they are trying, i would say that it was a raging success on their part. But if the point was to convince people, i think they are off to a terrible start. Schiff has such power in his speech that you are forced to look at him and listen. Just about every republicans eyes were glued to mr. Schiff. So it was a powerful rendition of your dispute once meanwhile, joe biden shutting the door on the idea of a witness walk for him or his son, hunter, to testify. Watch. This is a constitutional issue. We are not going to turn this into a farce, into some kind of political theater. They are trying to turn it into political theater, but i want no part of that. Harris outnumbered. This is it. Harris faulkner. Kennedy. Executive director, marie harf. In the center seat, former House Oversight share and fox news contributor, jason chaffetz. Great to see everybody today. We only have 30 minutes, so it is going to be compressed and powerfu