Getting worse. Sandra with election day two weeks out the two candidates hit two galgts grounds this weekend preparing to face off in their second and final debate on thursday. Here we go. Im sandra smith, hello, trace. Trace good morning everyone. Im trace gallagher. Today joe biden is off the campaign trail after a Voter Mobilization event in North Carolina this weekend while President Trump continues his western swing holding backtoback rallies in arizona today. 11 electoral votes are up for grabs in that state. The president carried arizona back in 2016 but the real clear politics polling average this morning has biden ahead by nearly four points. Sandra Fox Team Coverage as we begin a new week. Byron york with analysis, peter doocy in delaware. With begin to john roberts live on the north lawn for us this morning. John, whats on the president s agenda today . He wakes up in the west this morning. An event in prescott, arizona in the afternoon eastern time. This follows a weekend w
Hamas must be held accountable for the tragic loss of life. Again, this is a temporary ceasefire. At least for now. The truce formally ends this friday morning. And the big story today, out of the mid east, are the talks now beginning in egypt. To try to cement this. To extend the ceasefire. Hamas is there. The plo is there, Islamic Jihad is there. Those are the three big factions out of gaza. Of course, the israelis, theyre there, as well. Egypt playing the role of mediator. Now, officials in gaza say the month of israeli air attacks, not just from the air, which well point out from land, by sea, that all caused 5 billion worth of damage. All estimates here run in the billions. And it is unclear now whether restoring gaza is up for discussion there in cairo. Throughout this conflict, we have shown you not only the death and destruction out of gaza, we have shown you how hamas was firing rockets from gaza at israel. In fact, we showed you this very picture. These rockets rising from ga
We will give our military the tools you need to prevent war and if required to fight war and only do one thing. Win. Senate has confirmed ben carson as housing secretary. Several democrats also crossed over to confirm former Texas Governor rick perry as Energy Secretary. Her first solo outing reading to sick kids in a new york city hospital. You have in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. This is going to be the best day of my life my life. Steve oh the places you will go. Thats the dr. Seuss book that melania was reading from. Start your broadcast day the places we will take you today. Ainsley at any age that book is wonderful. Brian i have a problem with dr. Seuss. You try teach kids real words answered comes up with words that isnt real. Ainsley like green eggs . Brian there are a lot of words that dont exist. Ainsley whoville . Brian those words can i deal with you about other words that dont exist wrong vocabulary. Ainsley today i believe is dr. Seuss birt
Happen again. Snug big news back stateside. The president getting new lawyers because of the special Council Investigation and his former National Security adviser pliblg flynn faces new pressure, too. More subpoenas today for documents detailing his Election Year russia contacts. The walls feel like they are closing in on the Trump Administration right now. Im not sure that they can hold them off much longer. Plus, todays an anxious day for republicans. A new report card on the new Gop Health Care bill is due any minute. The big budget cuts proposed by President Trump being framed by democrats to you as heartless and has more promises broken. Simply put, the trump budget takes a sledgehammer to the middle class and working americans, lavishes tax breaks on the very wealthy and imagines all of the deficit problems away with fantasy math. With us to share the reporting and insights Ashleigh Parker of the Washington Post, perry bacon of 538, kelsey snell of the Washington Post and dana b
Military. Now we know. He is outnumbered. Good to have you. Pete its great to be here. There are a big part of the spending bill. Lets get to the news. Going concerns of a potential government shut down at midnigh midnight. As President Trump threatens to veto the funding bill, congress dispatched overnight. The president tweeted this earlier today. Im considering a veto of the omnibus spending bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus Daca Recipients have been totally abandoned by the democrats, not even mentioned in the bill and the border wall which is desperately needed for National Defense is not fully funded. Now the blame game is on. Currency chairwoman backing President Trumps on daca while going after democrats for their inaction. He has put together a completely reasonable deal, gone further than barack obama did, and he has said lets take care of the Daca Recipients, lets make sure we put in place a wall and better Border Security so we dont find ourselves in the same pos