Plus, brawl on board after a passenger refuses to wear a mask on this flight. A campaign for civility. How two political rivals, one republican, the other a democrat are actually coming together before election day. And snowed in already. The snowstorm setting records and what to expect today. Good wednesday morning, everyone. Im mona kosar abdi. Im andrew dymburt. Kenneth is off. We begin with the race for the white house one day before the final crucial debate. President trump is on the attack calling on the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the bidens. The president also taking aim at 60 minutes anchor lesley stahl after cutting their interview short. All of this coming as the pandemic rages across the country. More than 20,000 people have died in the last month. New york is now urging residents to avoid nonessential travel to neighboring states. Meanwhile, the white house says these 31 states are now in the socalled red zone due to their infection rate
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White house correspondent for the white house journal. The question, how can you expect americans to follow the administrations safety guidelines to protect themselves from covid when you at the white house have not been doing so . The first question to the Vice President. And kenneth with the washington post, susan pages questions so far are incredibly incisive, cutting, but fair. She was doing a great job controlling the debate. Its a lot easier to control pence and harris van to control the president than to control the president than to control the president. Pence is literally ignoring the questions he was asked. To answer a question of his choice. Unclear if that will irk voters or if it is savvy debate strategy. Senator harris was asked a similar question and she also did not answer it. Okeefe says notable that susan page asked Kamala Harris to ask whats up with Green New Deal . She never explicitly says the biden plan is or is not the Green New Deal. Says pence gets asked a Cli
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Wallace good evening from the Health Education campus from Case Western University and clinic. I am Chris Wallace of fox news and i welcome you to the first of the 2020 president ial debates between President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden. The commission has designed the format six roughly 15 minute segments for the first candidate to open and open discussions for the rest of each segment. Both campaigns have agreed to these rules. For the record, i decided to the topics and questions in each topic. I can assure you none of the questions have been shared with the commission or the two candidates. This debate is being conducted under health and safety protocols designed by the Cleveland Clinics serving as the Health Security advisor to the commission for all debates. As a precaution both campaigns have agreed that the candidates will not shake hands at the beginning of tonights debate. The audience here have promised to remain silent, no cheers or other entered options, an