Bret good evening im Bret Baier its five weeks until election day. Martha we are waiting for the debate to get started with ohio senator j. D. Vance from the top from the Trump Ticket and minnesota governor Tim Walz coming Face To face as there is an active backdrop in america for issues for them to deal with tonight. Bret its the Cbs Vice President ial debate beginning in moments thanks for watching it here with us on fox news. Tonight it the matchup comes as the u. S. Faces escalate in crises at home and abroad with devastation of Hurricane Helene to iranian strakes in israel. All that weighing heavily on the campaigns and on stage tonight. Martha they both share a midwestern background and are expected to have stark views on opposing issues and well see how that plays on the Debate Stage. Postgame and analysis afterwards. Norah im Norah Odonnell and thanks for joining us for the Cbs Vice President ial debate. We welcome our viewers on cbs and other networks here in the u. S. And Aro
But first right now, the lead with Jake Tapper starts right now welcome to the lead. Im Jake Tapper and we are following two major breaking stories. I am right now inside the Spin Room at Cbs Studio goes in new York Hours away from tonights first and only 2024, Vice President ial debate. But the Worlds Attention might be elsewhere at roughly 12 30 p. M. Eastern youre in time. Iran launched a major attack on Israel Firing nearly 200 ballistic missiles according to us officials, cnns Jim Sciutto and his crew were live on an air in israel at the time as Air Raid sirens sounded and missiles began to rain down overhead okay, guys, we got to get off the roof. These are coming down right next to us here. Hes do jim, please do theyre coming down one just about. We got to go Inside Sciutto and his team are thankfully safe. We are waiting for reports as to the damage done by the iranian souls, the Israel Defense forces reports that most of irans missiles its were intercepted by Israels Air defen
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Am not talking about the Federal Reserve, i am talking with the Teamsters Union saying it will not Make An endorsement in the president ial race. Exactly why, we will ask Sean Obrien in an exclusive chat moments away. First, the Fed Cutting Interest Rates by half a point, the first Rate Cut we have seen now in more than 54 years, stocks bouncing around on the news, originally up more than 400 points, down A Hundred points after consumers with lower borrowing costs. It goes to have an impact on the upcoming president ial race and we are on top of all of it. Welcome everybody, on neil cavuto, first of the fed, that surprising cut, not that it was a cut but it was a big one. Kelly ogrady has more. That is why, that were definitely borrowed money today, the temperature coming out of today is that the fed if he was confident enough about its 2 Inflation Target but clearly wants to ensure the Labor Market is not cool off anymore. 50 Basis Points is a big deal especially because Jay Powell ha
Just part of her new warning about project 2025 and a trump second term immigration crackdown. Imagine what that would look like and what that would be. Harris using her platform to urge people to imagine and reckon with this Plan Trump immigration policy, as trump publicly vowed harsher and more violent crackdowns next year in we wins. Im going to play you the full statement here and some other big things that harris has been saying. But before i play that, lets be clear, the factual context and reporting matters. Harris is citing Donald Trumps past policies including how they sometimes illegally and often harshly targeted immigrants and their families and sometimes their children. And so, again, before i play harris for you, with regard to that history, Big Picture top line, i could tell you, Fact Check and true. And many americans may want to forget what it was like back then. But its important to confront that recent history and know and see these facts as the context for Harriss W