[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] good evening. You are looking at a live picture of Longwood University in the small town of farmville, virginia, where in about 90 minutes, the Vice President ial nominees, mike pence and tim kaine, will meet in their first and only debate of the 2016 campaign. Approximately 500 people are in tonights audience. They are just beginning to take their seats. They will include 100 Longwood University students who won tickets in a lottery. Lets take a look at how tonights stage is set for the debate. There are no podiums. The candidates will sit sidebyside at a desk across from a single moderator for the full 90 minutes. Lots ofbe giving you information about the venue and the candidates themselves to set the stage for tonights debate. We are going to begin with our colleague, steve sully, who is in
Trish trump firing right back. Is a businessman and Real Estate Developer i have legal use of tax laws to my benefit and to the benefit of my company. Honestly joining me from the si of the big debate, sean spicer. Good to see you. It has been a tough week, bere we get to the tax controversy, i am sympathetic and understand the viewpoint, why would you pay anymore then you have to . Lets talk about these debate numbers we have been seeing in a brandnew cnn National Poll clinton is ahead of trump by 5 points, 4742, a four way race, same story when it comes to critical swing states in florida, north carolina, pennsylvania, donald trump is only leading in ohio. He has been down before, we have seen that. Is he listening to folks like yourself . Is he listening to his advisers that are telling him you got to do a better people are offering him advice and opportunities to go after her a little more, he knows what is at stake and is well aware of it is our job between now and the next 35 day
The people polled about them who say they do know the two men, both come in with positive approval ratings. And honest and trustworthy numbers. Tonight, the glare of the president ial race spotlight will hit the differences, perhaps. We have Fox Team Coverage of the 2016 race. Jennifer griffin is covering the Clinton Campaign tonight. She joins us from the spin room. Here in farmville. First up, though, chief Political Correspondent carl cameron is outside the debate hall and starts us off tonight with the latest on team trump. Good evening, carl. Reporter hi, bret. Governor mike pence of indiana knows in addition to criticizing Hillary Clinton, he will need to answer and defend a number of controversies that have been revealed over the last year and a half of trumps candidacy, as well as questions about his temperament. In colorado, trump visited with Energy Executives this morning. She said shes going to put you out of business. Reporter hours before his running mate takes the debate
For Hillary Clinton. The candidate herself in the last half hour or so campaigning in pennsylvania. My opponent insulted Miss Universe. How do you get more acclaimed than that . New this hour a brand new poll showing a comfortable tenpoint lead over donald trump. Thats it in the last five minutes or so. We have reports on todays debate as well as following the two president ial candidates today. A full court press here. We have Kristen Welker and kasie hunt. Thanks for being with us today. I want to start with you. As we talk about Hillary Clinton out campaigning today, taking a look at the crowd behind us. A lot of clinton supporters at Longwood University. We have some Trump Supporters in the crowd or mostly clinton . Clinton [ cheers and applause ] thats Gary Johnsons head behind us as well. Let me get to kristen. We saw Hillary Clinton wrap up her event, her rally out there. What was the message . Whats Hillary Clintons Campaign Strategy today ahead of the vp debate. They are tryin
You are looking live at willett ll, longwood university, farmville, virginia. The second of the debates that will shape this countrys president ial election 35 days from now. One of the two men who take the stage tonight will be this nations next Vice President. And in just a few hours, we will know who prevailed here tonight in their only facetoface matchup of the season. Brian williams along with Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews who is leading our coverage from virginia tonight. Our best in the business Political Team is here. And rachel, it was said today by a friend of ours, the job of mike pence tonight is to normalize the notion of a trump presidency. The job of tim kaine is to make it all about donald trump. Yes. I think thats whats happening at one level. I think at another level even if you just dissolve the personalities out of it, Hillary Clinton and tim kaine right now, broadly speaking, are winning, and donald trump and mike pence are not winning. I mean, its close, but at