phil murphy, has shrunk dramatically while nobody was watching. went down 20 points according to real clear politics. that spread is between 4 and 6% now, somewhere in that range. the president goes to virginia tomorrow. that's the hottest race next tuesday to be sure. republican glenn youngkin is now in a stunning lead neck and neck with former clinton team player and former governor of virginia, terry mcauliffe. biden has a deadline that is looming to pass his -- what he referred to as the build back better plan, which will completely transform the country. >> very positive to get it done. >> martha: that trip there, the g-20 in rome, he heads there this week, a busy week. going to a climate summit after that in glasgow. he wants to go with a win under his belt. that's thanks primarily on the push-back from joe manchin with regard to fossil fuels. right now co-host of "outnumbered," kayleigh mcenany and katie pavlich, fox news contributor. welcome to both of you. you know, every presidency tends to go up and down in the poll numbers. this is a very dramatic drop. it's a drop unlike ones that we have seen in the past. kayleigh, as someone that worked as a press secretary in the white house, you can feel them sort of trying to get their arms around this thing and put him in a position to have a positive impact on some of these things this week. >> yeah, i don't think it's going to happen. quite honestly i was stunned when i heard jen psaki saying biden would go to virginia. i was stunned when they found a date because when you dig into virginia polling, martha, what you see is a president that carried the state, joe biden, by ten points. but now he's at 43% approval in the state. so when you ask voters, are you more or less likely to vote for terry mcauliffe with a joe biden endorsement, 39% say less likely. 22 purse say more likely. so sending the president is in a confounding decision. terry mcauliffe called him unpopular and refused to say his name in a debate. he's coming in because of arm twisting from the white house. there's no reason that joe biden should be going to virginia. >> martha: very interesting. the areas that terry mcauliffe is working in hard right now to shore up his numbers are areas that you wouldn't expect he would need to do that work at this point in this race. here's ro khanna talking about how significant the next nine or ten days that we just mapped out are for this presidency. >> the president looked us in the eye and he said i need this before i go represent the united states in glasgow. american prestige is on the line. >> martha: i think about in football terms. you think about plays that are game-changing. look at third down, this is it. they get across the line on this or and the game goes in one direction or goes in the other. do you see this period as one of those moments? >> absolutely. the president is on deadline to try to unite democrats. he claimed he would reunite the entire country. he's having trouble reuniing the democratic party. the democratic party has talked about things that will benefit american families down the road and ignoring the problems that americans are faced too. for example, upwards of 80% of americans are seeing their grocery bills go up and the white house has tried to sell this multi-trillion dollar package arguing that they may not be seeing the benefits now but they'll see them moving forward. on the issue of how they're selling this as well, especially in virginia, they're acting like the problems that americans have in their homes that they're seeing daily just aren't happening. terry mcauliffe has president obama come in this weekend and accused concerned parents who terry mcauliffe has had a difficult time getting back after he said parents had no role in children's education. the former president said they're trumped up culture wars when they're worried about student safety inside virginia schools. not only talking to the american people where they at this moment saying things will get better in 2022, at the end of that year, but they're also acting like very serious problems now don't exist. that's not only insulting but out of touch with reality. >> martha: it's a great observation. you look at the cbs poll that came out recently that showed that the things that concern people in the economy are inflation, number 1. our poll said 87% said it was a big concern and border concerns. there's two things that the president doesn't hit those issues on. especially inflation head on to make sure that this turns and and that they have the tools and the means to make sure that they're doing that. that's a big concern for a lot of voters out there. thanks so much, katie and kayleigh. great to see you both. joining me now, debbie dingell from michigan. she was with speaker pelosi over the weekend as democrats work to finalize this spending agreement. great to have you with us. thanks for being here. you know, when you look at some of these polls and how the president is addressing them and you see this very big slide with the gallop poll in independents you, what concerns you? >> remember what you're talking to. i don't believe polls. i remind everybody, i said that trump could win michigan and he did. >> martha: so you don't believe independent voters are concerned about what's going on right now? >> i think independent voters -- everybody is concerned about what is happening. i'm going to tell you the difference that i've seen in the last two weeks. the president is engaged. he understands that people are worried. he knows that we have got to get the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed but we have to address a number of other issues in this bill. the number has come down from 3.5 trillion to somewhere between 1.75 and two trillion. the programs are critical from child car, three to four million women have left the workplace. they're also worried about child care and how to make sure that their children have it. the president is investing in k-12 education and early education. so i think -- i disagree the president doesn't care about these issues. i think he does. i have seen him personally engage and saying we have to get this compromise -- we have to come together, get this done and we have to move these bills through. >> martha: we were talking not that he doesn't care about the issue he talked about but inflation and -- if you forgive me, 59% say they don't believe this build back better bill will hurt -- that it could hurt the economy or won't help the economy. when you look at the numbers and you just wonder, when you talk about what's going on out there, how do you see the president specifically addressing inflation? >> so for starters, let me say i think -- first of all, i think democrats are firmly reunited than anybody wants to give us credit for. failure is not an option. two, when you see small businesses be -- people going back in to the workplace and some issues are being addressed. the jobs will be created when we fix our very broken roads and bridges. one of the biggest issues i have is getting the lead out of every water pipe in american. there's not any american, republican or democrat, that wants a child drinking water with lead. you get a study last week that 50% of the children whose blood has been tested have lead in it. we need to get people working, we need to pay for this. like anybody, i'm worried about inflation. but some of it, by the way -- look at the automobile industry. our plants are closed and prices have gone up because we don't have chips or the the supply. we have to get this done. i think once it still happens, you'll see results. then i hope we move to addressing the supply chain in this country and bringing it back to this country. >> martha: thank you very much, debbie dingell. great to see you. >> thank you, martha. >> martha: coming up, president biden pledged to speed up the ports in southern california and deal with the supply chain crisis head on that you just heard congress woman dingell referring to. so how is that going? are they moving 24/7 right now? the director of the port of long beach joins us. you think prices are high now? there's worries about hyper inflation. look at that. look at that chicken. we'll be right back. homeowners. news for n newday's refi rate is the lowest in their history. two and a quarter percent. just 2.48 apr. one call can save you thousands every year. and it's easy. there's no money out of pocket and no upfront fees. and while some banks are raising their rates, newday is holding the line for veterans. lock in your rate. >> are you ready to start a great career? >> safelite is now hiring. >> you will love your job. >> there's room to grow... >> ...and lots of opportunities. >> so, what are you waiting for? >> apply now... >> ...and make a difference. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ >> man, i love that song! >> martha: okay. so much for this assurance on inflation from president biden in july. >> as our economy has come roaring back, we have seen price increases. some folks have raised worries this could be a sign of persistent inflation. that's not our view. our experts believe and the data shows that most of the price increases we've seen are -- were expected an expected to be temporary. >> martha: don't have to worry. here we are in october and his treasury secretary saying it's not going away any time soon. >> on a 12-month basis, the inflation rate will remain high in to next year because of what is already happened. but i expect improvement by the end of -- by the middle to end of next year, second half of next year. >> martha: joining me now, fox business anchor, david asman. >> it's called moving the goal posts, right? they keep moving them. interesting democrats that have said that inflation is much worse than what the president or janet yellen are saying yet jack dorsey, coming out with a tweet saying hyper inflation will change everything. it's happening. well, hyper inflation is 50% a month. we're a long way away from that. 5% inflation, if you get 4% gain in wages and 5% gain a year, your losing 1% a year. it's hurting you in the pocketbook. it's probably going to be more than 5% by the end of this year. as i said, you also have larry summers, a democrat, said we're in more danger of losing control of inflation. we have a generation of central bankers defining themselves by their wokeness. what he means by that, there's this woke idea that you can print as much money as you want, have deficit spending, print more dollars and it will take care itself. that what causes inflation. the trillions of dollars that we spend in covid relief the past year under republican and democratic administrations has been monetized. that debt spending has been monetized by the fed. the fed buys up 60% of it. they just print money in order to cover that purchase. so that is why the president today spoke about this bill will pay for itself. they're worried about deficit spending causing more inflation. they know that that is the history of deficit spending. they're making up all kinds of ways to pay for it. now they have this new wealth tax, something called unrealized capital gains. they're going to take -- they say it's billionaire's money that they have and they're doing to tax the stock holdings that they have before they have actually sold the stocks. imagine you have stocks that go up 50% in the past year. even though you haven't cashed them in, you'll be taxed on that. that is a wealth tax. wealth tax has been tried before and failed terribly. in france, they had a wealth tax similar to that. capital flight, money moving away. $200 billion every year. they had an annual fiscal shortfall of $7 billion. they were actually receiving about 1/2 as much as they were expecting to get because of this, because all the money was leaving. they had a reduction of gdp of 3.5 billion every year. france is very small compared to us. so imagine those figures multiplying by a factor of ten and you get and idea of what we're in for. >> martha: you start taxing people on money they haven't made is saying this is an asset. we see that you have that asset. if you were to sell it, you might make money off of it. so we're going to tax you on the idea that you could sell it and make money. it's an astonishing idea. we're talking about during the break, it's unsound constitutionally. congress has the right to tax income. so it's not income if you haven't made the money on it. if it's sitting there at an investment. another number to put up and i referenced this, we heard the president talked about how popular he believes the build back better human infrastructure plan is. he said people want this. people want this. they're spending this credit and all of this capitol to try to get it jammed through. look at this. this is what people said about it. do you think it will help the economy? 38%, where then't president's approval number is. 40% think it will hurt the economy if they pass this enormous spending bill. 19% say it's not going to make a difference to the u.s. economy. 59% that think it will either hurt or not make a difference. so if you're sitting there at the white house thinking how will we get it passed? look at the numbers. >> i always the question of the cost. of course people would like free healthcare, free child care. but at what cost? at the cost of inflation? if it's at the cost of much more inflation than we have right now -- >> martha: paying for it at the pump and $18 chicken. bought a $49 steak over the weekend. >> you're not supposed to say that on air. oh, well. it's amazing. >> martha: it's crazy. >> prices are going up. >> martha: people get it. you see it every time you buy anything. david, great. great to have you with us. thanks for coming in. >> absolutely. >> martha: major supply chain issues are one of the huge issues that inflation is going higher. president biden assured us the ports -- people said can't the government do something about this? isn't this the kind of thing that the transportation department would put muscle into? he said we're going to up the ports 24/7. how is that going? here's mario cordera from the long beach port. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> martha: how is that going so far? how many of the ports in your some are operating 24/7 at this time? >> both of the dynamics are on going. we've lad a lot of collaborative discussion from the major stack holders with regard to the use of the gates. again, needless to say any time you move to a new model like a 24/7 type of frame work, there's challenges with regard to the supply chain buy-in. the good news is, we've had a lot of substancive discussion with regard to people coming together to make it happen. >> martha: that didn't answer my question exactly. how many of the ports are currently operating 24/7 and if they're not right now what is the time frame for that to happen? >> we have the port on long beach side, we have our pilot project that is open 24/7 with regard to, again, having those gates available for interested bcos. there's two parts to this. the truck gate component and of course the cargo that moves by rail. so on that latter one, again, we are making inroads in terms of a 24/7 movement of that cargo. so obviously there's a dire capacity issue here at this complex like in other major gate ways. we're doing everything we can to move the needle. >> martha: would it be helpful to you if the national guard brought in additional trucks, the military did what they could use, the capacity that they could have that isn't being used? would that be helpful? >> well, at this point i could represent that in terms of the labor here open the docks, we have the labor. the dynamic right now is of course to make sure that everybody comes together to make sure that we make use of the extended gate hours. for the truck drivers, that's another question and a national discussion. again, at this point, we're focusing on in terms of how we move the cargo. more particularly, to be more specific a real question with regard to the number of empty containers we have in our terminals. that we have to fix. >> martha: would there be any military role, you know, if you had the capacity of drivers from the military, for example? would that help to sort of get this glut moving and start to grease the wheels? would it be helpful? >> i could represent to you that the discussions that we've had up to this morning, we're focusing with the international carriers to fix this problem. so there are commitments by the major international carriers to do all they can to make sure that we address this empty cargo issue. empty container question to relieve capacity. if that's done, then of course eliminates options that we have to take other than what we're focusing on today here. >> we heard the president in a town hall say sure, we would get the national guard involved. then he had a parenthetical phrase after that, if we can't make this other stuff work. sounds like you're saying, if we can't make the other options work. what is your time frame for that? over a week, two weeks, then i'm going to pick up the phone and call the white house and say, you know, anything you can to to help, whether it's through some kind of executive order or an implementation like we saw during covid how they took dishwasher places and turned them into ventilator places. what is your time frame? >> it's difficult to make that assessment. what i can say, we're having phone conferences, virtual conferences with major stakeholders every other day. in fact, some cases every day. so i think what i can represent there's a full court press to address this. has there been progress as compared to what it was a month ago? my answer to that is yes because again, we have a lot of commitments that are being made to solve this problem. when you talk about a global issue, the impact of the supply chain or even at the national level, these are very complex matters. again, it does take time. i can represent to you, the discussions are substantive and commitments, we're seeing it more and more. >> martha: so you're saying you don't want help from the government? >> the directive the president gave a couple weeks against regarding the importance of the supply chain question and to have a 24/7 frame work, that is a directive that moved the needle here. whether you're a carrier a truck driver, warehouse person, unions, everybody is on the -- everybody is at the table with regard to this. we know our marching orders and try to address them. >> martha: we've heard the truckers saying they've not seen a difference in terms of work hours so far. we'll stay tuned. appreciate you coming in and talking to us about it. everybody is concerned about this issue in the country. hope you come back again. thanks very much. >> thank you so much. >> martha: so an act face for a group that compared passionate parents to domestic terrorists. a former continue from president obama are calling tone deaf on this. we'll play parts of it and see what you think next. >> instead of stoking anger aimed at school boards and administrators who are just trying to keep our kids safe, we should be making it easier for teachers and schools to give our kids the world class education that they deserve. is struggling to manage your type 2 diabetes knocking you out of your zone? 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>> yes and yes. we are militarily -- >> you're saying the united states would come to taiwan's defense if china attacked? >> yes. we have a commitment to do that. >> the white house was forced to walk that back. that would represent a departure from what experts called a longstanding policy of strategic ambiguity. official policy says they acknowledge china, considers taiwan part of one china. the u.s. has long reserved the right to use force to help china defend itself. the u.s. has not said whether american forces would ever intervene. >> the president was not announcing any change in his policy or nor has he made a decision to change the policy. the policy is guided by the taiwan defense act. >> republicans say this misspeak really only emboldens china as they seek more strength as a world super power. >> sounds like diplomatic double speak. i think a lot of nations around the world have some concern over what america may or may not do because actions speak louder than words. what we saw happening in afghanistan does not give people confidence. >> the president has faced more pressure to become clear on u.s. policy toward china especially after the test of that hypersonic missile that suggested that they're further ahead than the united states believed. >> martha: thanks, jackie. joining me now, john ratcliffe. great to have you with us today. there's two layers to this. one is this way of talking about it, right? then there's the reality of the threat that china presents right now. with regard to the way the president and presidents talk about it, it's interesting the note in 2001, joe biden wrote a critical op-ed about president george w. bush because he felt that he was being ambiguous about where the u.s. stands with taiwan and whether or not we would defend them. he said where once the united states had a policy of strategic ambiguity, we appear to have a policy of ambiguous strategic ambiguity. bush's attention to detail has damaged u.s. credibility with our allies and sown confusion. words matter wrote senator joe biden and now he's done the exact same thing. what do you think, john? >> that is a problem. there's a number of problems with this, martha. look, i think a whole bunch of us would like to see the more stand and fight joe biden as opposed to the run and retreat joe biden that we saw in afghanistan. he picket the wrong place and the exact wrong policy to try to make this tough talk point. the policy of strategic ambiguity hasn't worked. it allows -- it has allowed us to be in the position of leading countries around the world, particularly china, to believe that we will defend taiwan without specifically saying that we will fight on their behalf. so you know, joe biden by stepping out there allowed china to escalate and as you saw through the global times, it called the biden administration incompetent and degenerate. that looks at the larger problem, this is another example -- probably the 20th or 30th time where joe biden has said something about american foreign policy that the white house has walked back, which leaves our friends and foes alike with the very probably accurate impression that joe biden's for -- foreign policy is not decided by joe biden. so words matter. every time this happens and the white house back-pedals on what joe biden says, that's as much of a problem as him changing the policy in the first place. >> martha: before i let you go, is it time to change our one china policy? >> the one china policy has worked. we've kept china -- mainland china, the chinese communist party at bay. what has changed, martha, policies may need to change moving forward. what is becoming clear to everyone and even those in washington that have been reluctant to get there, china is proving to be as ruthless that many of us have been saying they have been. this is a country that the best thing you can say about it, at best it's negligence that caused the death of millions of people last year. so they're a very bad actor and our policies are going to have to change with respect to china. we're going have to get tougher but we're going to have to be clear. because china sees this as weakness. weakness as an opportunity. i fear that they view joe biden as a three-year opportunity. >> have a lot of economic problems right now, a lot of reasons to think that they're on edge and might want to flex military muscle which we've been seeing them do recently. john ratcliffe, always good to have you here, sir. thanks. great to see you. >> thank you. >> neil: so what actor alec baldwin was doing in the seconds that led up to an accidental deadly film set shooting. we have more details after this. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ got a couple of bogeys on your six, limu. they need customized car insurance from liberty mutual so they only pay for what they need. what do you say we see what this bird can do? 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who put that live round in the gun and why? martha? >> martha: that is the absolute crucial question here, jonathan. thank you very much. an investigation is underway to answer that question. who put a live round into a prop gun? let's bring in steve wolf a weapons safety expert for films. he's been involved in investigations of four movie shootings including bruce lee's son, brandon lee. and they put in rules as a result of that shooting. thanks, steve, for being here. what about that question? do you believe that this was a live round in this gun based on what you've heard and how on earth would live ammunition be anywhere near a film set? >> these a great questions. yes, i believe it was a live round because the residue or wadding from a piece of a blank wouldn't cause any lethal injury at that distance. so a blank is a casing, a cartridge and powder in there. a live round is the same three components with a bullet attached on top. so this or a manufactured version like this, you know, they don't look the same. anyone should be able to tell that. people saying shot with a prop gun. it was not a prop gun. it was a real gun. prop guns can not emit live ammunition. there's a physical blockage in there that prevents you from putting it in there. if you can't put live ammo with bullets into a prop gun, it was not a prop gun, it was a real gun, a real gun like this, there's your cylinders, live ammo goes right in. so if somebody was shot with this, it was from a real gun. that means we had a real unmodified gun that we should stop calling a prop gun and we had live ammunition with a bullet on it. so not a blank. blanks are potentially lethal. they have killed people before at close range from the pressure of the muzzle blast coming out. it can take a piece of your skull and push it through your brain. we transgressed in that we had the wrong type of gun because it was capable of live ammo and live ammo was on the set. you can make any of those mistakes without a lethal consequence. we can take a real gun, put live ammo in it. if we don't point it, nobody gets hurt. you have to have all three together. this show as gross -- >> martha: a stunning opinion and a lot there as the investigation goes underway. you've given us a lot to think about. steve wolf, thank you, a lot to think about. wow. all right. a quick break here. more of "the story" when we come back. te for a same-day repair. and with their insurance, it was no cost to them. >> woman: really? 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