wisconsin and accusing biden of caving to the far left. >> president trump: but now biden wants to surrender our country to the violent left wing mob. you see what's happened. if biden wins, very simple china wins. if biden wins, the mob wins. if biden wins, the rioters, an flag burners win. >> the president thinks masks don't matter much. then he has these large gatherings with everybody around with no masks on and it is extremely dangerous. >> julie: john roberts joins us live from the north lawn. john, we'll be getting all of that in a moment. first do you have some breaking news? >> something we'll hear in the next couple hours or so. the white house will be announcing a major aid package for puerto rico stimulates on this morning. you will probably remember last week president trump issued a disaster package. lingering needs from hurricane maria that devastated the island three years ago. sources say it will be an 11.6 billion relief package for energy and education systems. remember, the energy and power grid there in puerto rico was in really horrible shape before maria came in and wiped the entire thing out. president trump has been seeing a lot of hispanic voters move in his direction in recent weeks particularly in florida. an announcement could help him with puerto rican voters in florida. that state has been drawing ever closer. biden barely ahead by more than a point right now. this is something that could turn things around for the president. >> julie: today both candidates are heading north. what can we expect to see in minnesota? >> north and west from washington, d.c. both will be in minnesota. joe biden has got a union training center event in duluth right there at the tip of lake superior. president trump will be 140 miles away in bemidji for a campaign rally tonight. last night both of the candidates going at each other over law and order as well as the coronavirus. the president reaching out to blue collars workers in mosinee, wisconsin, reminding them of his efforts to bring back american jobs, he says the obama administration shipped overseas. listen here. >> president trump: joe biden devoted his entire career to offshoring wisconsin jobs, throwing open your borders, dragging us into endless ridiculous foreign wars and surrendering your children's future to china. >> at a town last night in pennsylvania, biden scorching the president on his response to coronavirus. biden saying he has never seen such a quote irresponsible administration. also again saying that he will do everything he can to insure that people wear masks to combat coronavirus including fining people who don't wear masks on federal property. >> i would like to see the governors enforce mask wearing. i can do it on federal president. we could have a fine for them not doing it. this is about saving people's lives. >> this is about people's lives joe biden said. not sure by what authority he would be able to order governors, though in states that do not enforce mask wearing mandates to do it. nothing for the press yet on the president's schedule, julie. i do expect when this puerto rico announcement comes down that they may add something to the schedule. apologies for almost mixing up mosinee with musinee, ontario that was great for me when i was a kid. >> trace: some say joe biden got the softball treatment by cnn. of the 16 participants who asked questions, 13 democrats, 3 republicans. byron york is the chief political correspondent for "the washington examiner". very good to see you, good morning to you. i would like to start off by playing a sample of the questions joe biden got last night versus the questions that president trump got earlier this week on abc. watch. >> the messaging on the coronavirus from the white house has been all over the place since february. how will you get the proper messaging out to all americans to keep them informed? >> how will you handle russia's involvement with trump? how will we know the many ways he has compromised the united states? i look out over my biden sign in my front yard and i see a sea of trump flags. what is your plan to build a bridge with voters from the opposing party? >> do you feel racial injustices are occurring in this nation? and if so, what can be done to address them? >> do you believe it's the president's responsibility to protect america, why would you downplay a pandemic known to disimportant portion naturally harm low income families in minority communities. >> why did you throw vulnerable people like me under the bus? >> trace: a lot of critics called the contrast stark. your thoughts? >> quite a difference. the two town halls were billed as a chance for actual voters to question the candidates basically for the first time. but, of course, they were controlled by the networks that ran them. abc with president trump and cnn with vice president joe biden last night. the difference could not have been more stark. the questions at the trump town hall were overwhelmingly anti-trump. plus they were sort of mega phoneed by the moderator, george stephanopolous. last night on cnn, as you said, 13 out of the 16 questioners were democrats. that's about 80% of the questioners, which is not reflective of the electorate as a whole and not reflective of the electorate in pennsylvania, either. >> trace: it is interesting because jeff greenfield of "politico" said this about moving forward. quoting, in the first moments the contrast between what trump was asked and what biden is being asked is striking. biden is doing very well, yes, this is not exactly getting him ready to face tough questions from a chris wallace or jake tapper. what do you think going forward? >> exactly. greenfield is a former cnn commentator, by the way. those questions the tone of the questions did not change as the night went on. another plan, you know, for the town hall was that it would prepare biden to deal with the debates. and it just did not give him an experience handling tough questions at all. remember, president trump not only took tough questions at this town hall, he did an interview with our chris wallace in july that was very challenging. and chris and fox and everyone has hoped that joe biden would do an interview as well. he has not. but the debate coming up on september 29th will be moderated by chris wallace and he will get tough questions. joe biden will get tough questions just as the president will. so this love fest in scranton, pennsylvania last night did absolutely nothing to prepare vice president biden for handling tough questions with a big audience. >> trace: it is just not the questions that were asked, byron, the questions that were not asked in this. talk about softballs. a lot of questions should have been asked. i thought taxes would be the first thing asked. he talked about raising taxes. the trump campaign said the following, the communications director for the 2020 campaign said at no time did anyone question biden about his economic record or his plan to raise taxes by $4 trillion while the economy is in rapid recovery ou why he imposed president trump's travel restrictions at the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak from china. a little editorial but clearly the point is taxes and coronavirus, why weren't those asked? >> unclear. someone also could have asked the question, peter doocy tried to ask him the other day. vice president biden, you warned in late january of the dangers of the pandemic yet continued to hold traditional, crowded political rallies until march. why did you do that? there were plenty of questions about biden's positions, about what he has said about defunding the police, saying that he opposes defunding the police and yet at the same time agreeing with left wing activists who want to redirect money away from the police. there is plenty of questions biden could have been asked. >> trace: condemning violence on the far left. it goes on and on. byron york, always good to see you. thank you. >> thank you, trace. >> julie: phoenix police are looking for the getaway driver in an ambush attack on a public safety trooper. the police say the suspect drove up and then to the trooper sitting in his patrol car yesterday morning to his surprise. the passenger got out with an assault rifle and started shooting. the driver took off when the trooper returned fire. the 17-year-old passenger was arrested. no one was injured. >> trace: in east camden, new jersey a manhunt is underway for suspects accused of firing into the home of two police officers tuesday night. the car was located and being searched for evidence. it was clearly a targeted attack. at the time the pair was home with their 10 day old baby. thankfully nobody injured. >> julie: investigators are increasing the reward for information leading to the arrest of a gunman who shot two los angeles deputies last weekend. the shooter fired at the deputies as they sat in their patrol car in compton. it comes as some city and county officials in los angeles call on the sheriff to resign. jonathan hunt joins us live in los angeles this morning. jonathan, what can you tell us about the latest in the investigation? >> well, julie, the reward is now almost $700,000 with large contributions coming from the association for los angeles deputy sheriffs and the l.a. county metropolitan authority as well as several private donations. you would think with that kind of reward and given the resources being dedicated to finding the gunman who carried out this brutal ambush attack it is frustrating to some the shooter has not already been arrested. the sheriff says the investigation is progressing. investigators are following numerous leads but he also said, quote, we have not yet identified the involved suspects and he appealed for an apparent witness to the shooting to come forward. >> investigators are trying to locate an individual. if you see towards the top of your screen there, let's go to the next slide, that individual. who is standing in the walkway when the shooter ran by. that person is a witness. >> the 24-year-old male deputy seen being helped by his colleague the 31-year-old female who was shot is out of the hospital and recovering and facing more surgeries. the woman is still in the hospital. the sheriff is under some pressure not because of the failure to arrest anyone in these shootings but because, according to his critics, he has been slow to enact reforms and has pushed back against oversight of his department. two county supervisors and several members of the sheriffs civilian oversight commission have called on the sheriff to resign. a spokesman for the sheriff's department said the fact that officials were even contemplating forcing out the sheriff when two deputies have just faced this life-threatening attack is, quote, morally repugnant. >> julie: jonathan hunt, thank you. trace. >> trace: the justice department confirming it explored filing criminal charges against city officials over the rioting in portland. the mayor is not mincing words in his response. plus joe biden called out by multiple media outlets for a claim about president trump's coronavirus response. >> you got to level with the american people. shoot from the shoulder. never been a time they haven't been able to step up. this president should step down. hike! coming to the green flag, racing at daytona. they're off... in the kentucky derby. rory mcllroy is a two time champion at east lake. he scores! stanley cup champions. touchdown! only mahomes. expect anything different? 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if you wear a mask, it will be bad. later if you don't wear a mask you are going to die. the president has followed the advice of dr. fauci and the council that he surrounded himself with. the data has changed. time after time. but the big point is this, joe biden has had more flip-flops than miami beach on the fourth of july and he can't have it both ways. but for him to say that every death was the personal fault of the president? that's pretty outrageous. >> julie: he cited the data as his source look at the data after saying i'm not making this up. you talked about the "washington post". they did. they called him out and wrote this. biden is making this up. there is no data to support this. even if the president had moved rapid fly january to deal with the coronavirus and been able to persuade the chinese leadership to be more forthcoming about the situation. i should also remind once again and you just touched on this i want to bring it back. i remember the cdc saying there is no need to wear masks insisting masks do not protect you. that was the cdc recommendation, not the president. he is not the expert. the cdc was supposed to be and thaerp dead wrong. i knew they were wrong at the time. if doctors are being protected by masks, why wouldn't we be? >> we were all scrubbing our vegetables and groceries and spraying them with lysol when they came to the house. that's what we were being told to do. the president did something he isn't being given credit for. he believed and put in motion the 10th amendment if the federal government doesn't have constitutional authority to do something, you leave it to the states. so the president allowed governors of states to make the big decisions as to how they were going to do it. some of those decisions like in new york where cuomo let patients to go to the nursing homes were disastrous. governors made many of those decisions, not president trump. >> julie: i want to play the other side. some would argue the governors made decisions based on leadership in washington they were listening to the cdc and to the president. now as you know, biden's remarks come as the president told bob woodward in february that the coronavirus was deadly stuff while publicly comparing it to the seasonal flu. he admits he down played it. the president is getting some backlash there. what about biden? did he exaggerate his own record on the pandemic? >> he certainly did. he didn't go out there and say we ought to shut everything down even when the president did it, he called the president xenophobic and said he was hysterical and nancy pelosi was inviting people to come to chinatown and rub shoulders and enjoy the great atmosphere down there. nobody called out nancy pelosi or accused her of killing anybody. again, a lot of the decisions were made in hindsight we'll look back and say we might have done this differently. we were dealing with something that no one, no president, no governor, no health official had ever dealt with before and so i think there is just a little bit of absurdity on the part of joe biden and others who think donald trump is responsible for every single death in america. on it's face it's so wrong even the people on the left who love joe biden have had to call him out on it. >> julie: that's all the time we have. always great to see you. thank you very much. have a great weekend. >> you too, thank you. >> trace: the u.n. general assembly taking up a big topic for discussion, iran. the plan to keep tehran's aggressive behavior in check and how a group of u.s. lawmakers is leading the charge. plus clean-up efforts underway in pensacola, florida. why the massive flooding from hurricane sally could take weeks to recede. >> the hurricane is past florida but we'll continue to see impact, widespread river flooding is ongoing and it could continue over the next week. alright, i brought in ensure max protein to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don't. 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>> good morning, julie. things are starting to look better but it could be a long process when you see sights like this large ferry boat behind me that was literally lifted up by the surge caused by sally and set down on this walkway. more than 7,000 crews are on the ground working to restore power to about 141,000 customers. residents are beginning to clear debris and large trees that have fallen onto cars and smashed through homes and many thankful that's the worst of it this morning. >> this tree and how massive. it could have went all the way through and landed on my boys. that would have been -- i mean, i'm here today and i'm blessed. >> the threat for additional flooding remains today as folks in alabama and florida try to clean up from the storm. at least eight rivers between the two states could rise to record levels in the next few days. >> it could be much more. it's been mighty bad. our state is reeling just as our people are hurting. but in many ways we're still in the phase of rescue and recovery. >> governor kay ivey will take a helicopter tour of some of the hardest-hit areas today, julie. >> julie: thank you so much. appreciate it. >> trace: the wildfires out west forcing yosemite national park to close down. two of the fires are burning near there. the toxic smoke making it unsafe for workers. >> not a decision we made lightly. but again to have employees out in these conditions and visitors, it is just not healthy. >> trace: still no word on when the park will reopen. >> julie: the u.n. gearing up for this year's general assembly and a whole lot of focus will be on iran. greg palkot is live in london. how is this meeting going to go? >> it could be very interesting, julie. the showdown time again between u.s. and iran not just at the u.n. but other forums as well. in the face of stepped up activity by iran on the nuclear and other offensive fronts the u.s. is set to declare the resumptions of international sanctions against iran. these so-called snap back sanctions are built into the iran nuclear deal the u.s. signed onto in 2015. the hitch is the trump administration backed out of that deal in 2018 and so iran and most importantly perhaps other participants in the deal including european allies and russia and china say the u.s. no longer has any grounds to trigger those sanctions. they won't go along. that isn't stopping washington experts saying iran has enough nuclear fuel to make two bombs and could be less than four months away making its first. it will impose its own sanctions and secondary sanctions against other countries that don't go along. all this will be the topic of a virtual trans atlantic summit on iran policy run by the iranian opposition group set to speak a range of bipartisan senators, congressmen and political figures. julie, president trump will get in his two bits as well next tuesday when he addresses the u.n. general assembly for its 75th session virtually. back to you. >> julie: greg palkot, thank you. >> trace: did you see it? 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get back in your place. joe biden really needs to just not take the bait. look, donald trump is a real serious debater and a fighter. he knows tv. he knows the antics, he knows how to draw in an audience. he also knows how to, you know, knock them down. but don't take the bait. take this opportunity to really talk to mom and pop america and their kids who are really scared and nervous about where we are going as a country. i look at the president and said you've had four years, i'm sorry, time is up, my friend and go right back to the question. >> trace: maybe you should be in the debate. >> i don't know if it will work. >> trace: joe payne said the following. joe biden's challenges with his style are well-known. his team will be working with him to prevent gaffes or missteps and what he is talking about are moments like this. i want to play this from the 2019 debate. watch. >> what responsibility do you think that americans need to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country? >> they have to deal with the -- look, institutional segregation in this country. teachers deal with the problems that come from home. we bring social workers into homes and parents to help them deal with how to raise their children. it is not that they'll want to help. they don't know quite what to do. play the radio, make sure the television -- excuse me make sure you have the record player on at night. >> trace: the record player got a lot of talk in the days after that, donna. >> yeah. i have two record players downstairs. i'm not one to complain. at least i have my vinyls. joe biden has some pre-sets. i had a brother who stuttered. i had trouble with pronouncing words as a child. i think sometimes when joe biden is talking he hits a word in his mind and struggles with it. i have a great deal of respect and fondness for joe biden. i've known him for 37 years. be yourself, we know what your flaws are and we also know what your greatest gifts. his greatest gift is one of empathy. he is a man who cares. he is a hugger, somebody who cares about ordinary people. show that to the american people and guess what, they'll vote for you. >> trace: and there is this final concern, donna, about joe biden kind of getting to the point saying, quote, he has a tendency to wrap up very well but he is one of those people who takes some time to get there. he is not a guy who performs well in those initial moments. i think that's something that makes us all a little nervous. you look at last night's town hall, there is a little bit of run-up in all of this thing that gets kind of tedious. what are your thoughts on that? >> well first of all, you know, i'm a catholic girl and joe is a catholic man. i will speak like a baptist. start low, go slow, go slow, rise high, strike fire and sit yourself down. you need to -- biden is the kind of guy that needs to just build it up. donald trump can -- but biden has to build it up. he has a little baptist tendencies in him and i would hope that he can just fill this important moment we're facing as americans and go straight to hey chris, you're right, jobs, jobs, jobs and not be bothered by the distraction on his right or left. i'm just happy to chris wallace is starting us off in the 2020 debate season. he is a pro. i'm not saying that because i'm a fox news contributor. i'm saying that because i've watched chris over the years, over the decades and i have immense respect for his moderating style. >> trace: he is the man. i have to go here, donna. i want to get very quickly your thoughts on joe biden's performance last night. a lot of softball questions. >> softball in some sense. but you know, i watched the president the night before and i watched joe biden last night. i'm just glad that they are talking to the american people. look, i'm not looking for an a performance. i'm looking for them to connect with the american people. i thought joe connected last night. i thought the president the other night while he struggled with some questions he also connected. just connect with the voters, tell us what you are going to do to improve our lives and get rid of this awful pandemic and get us back to normal. get us back to working again. that's what the american people want to hear. >> trace: so make sure we got it. start low, start low, -- >> don't get high on me. start low, go slow, rise high and then sit down. don't get high on me, baby. not this huh-uh. >> trace: great to talk to you, donna. thank you. >> always, god bless. >> julie: i understood, trace. so a firefighter killed in california as fires burn thousands of homes on the west coast. will crews get any relief finally from mother nature? 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[applause] >> joe biden talked to voters in pennsylvania during his first prime time town hall since accepting the nomination. >> if he just acted one month -- one week early he would have saved 37,000 lives. he knew it and did nothing. it is close to criminal. >> in los angeles sheriff's deputies are still searching for the man opening fire on two deputies outside a compton train station. the reward is $675,000 this morning. >> trace: more on those stories in a moment. democracy 2020 and the focus is now on minnesota. the president and his democratic challenger both campaigning there today and it is no coincidence early voting in the state starts today as well. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm trace gallagher. julie, good morning. >> julie: i'm julie banderas, sandra smith is off this friday. president trump is hoping to flip minnesota, a state he narrowly lost in 2016. the long-time democratic stronghold now a contested battleground where 10 electoral votes are up for grabs. hillary clinton won the state by fewer than 45,000 votes in 2016. now both candidates are speaking out about it last night taking aim at each other on issues like the recent tensions bubbling up across america. >> president trump: biden wants to surrender our country to the violent left wing mob. if biden wins, the mob wins. if biden wins, the rioters, arsonists and flag burners win. >> he is the president. i'm not the president. do you feel safer in donald trump's america when he incites these kind of things. it's wrong no matter what. >> trace: peter doocy is live in duluth, minnesota. >> now biden says he cannot impose a national mask mandate even though two days ago he said he probably could. >> what presidents say matter. people listen. i will make it clear what is needed to be done. i cannot mandate people wearing masks but we have just been told we should expect another 215,000 dead by january. but if we wore a mask we would save 100,000 of those lives. nothing but that. >> have a look at the screen. early voting underway here in minnesota as the big issue remains covid-19. biden is saying he could only mandate mask wearing on federal lands. that's new. he will deliver remarks in duluth three hours from where president trump will speak tonight as the president argues he has greater enthusiasm behind him than biden does. >> president trump: the people, they couldn't care less about him. he could be that piece of wood that was left in the ground. biden will hand the left wing mob the keys to your kids' classroom. >> the president also repeated his beliefs that if joe biden wins, then china wins, trace. >> trace: back to last night. how did joe biden describe china? >> not as an opponent. >> i view china as a competitor, serious competitor and that's why i think we have to strengthen our relationships and alliances in asia. >> biden did refer to russia as an opponent, though. we expect to see him here in minnesota later on this afternoon. >> trace: peter doocy live for us in duluth. peter, thank you. >> julie: fox news alert on the fight in washington over a coronavirus relief deal. house speaker nancy pelosi is set to hold a news conference later this hour where she is expected and likely to face questions on the status of the negotiations. pelosi has said she has already compromised enough and that democrats will keep pressing for $2.2 trillion package. watch. >> when we go into negotiation it's about the allocation of the resources. but it is hard to see how we can go any lower when you only have a greater need. >> julie: congressional correspondent chad pergram is live on the hill. are they starting to get closer on a deal? >> they are certainly having a lot more intense offstage discussions. no formal talks. they're talking about trying to do a shorter bill. they are $1 trillion apart. you have moderate democrats from swing districts who continue to push the speaker to do something. dean phillips is a freshman democrat from minnesota. >> we introduced our framework a couple of days ago. i think conversations have been ignited. that was our mission. i think this is just beginning. >> phillips is a moderate democrat who flipped a seat from red to blue in 2018 working with republican members. i asked pelosi what she says to the members advocating a smaller package. >> they don't say that actually. they don't say it to me. what they say is we need to have a solution and we want the best possible agreement that we can for america's working families. >> so far pelosi is not budging in pushing for a bigger bill. the biggest sticking point is funding for state and local governments. >> julie: there is also worries about helping the airlines. tell us about that, chad. >> you are starting to hear from a lot of senators concerned about this because they rely on the airlines in their state airlines are down to 30% capacity right now. they are supposed to be a lot of layoffs at the end of the month and why lisa murcowski is concerned, a republican from alaska. >> as one who doesn't have any other choice in terms of getting home, i want to make sure that our airlines and the industry not only the passenger carriers are able to make it through this really difficult, difficult time. >> democrats will be willing to provide some airline assistance. there are some talks about that offstage as well. but they want extra unemployment benefits first. julie. >> julie: chad pergram, thank you. >> trace: hurricane sally may have come and gone but flooding a still a threat on the gulf coast. rivers and creeks that can't hold anymore water from the storm's heavy rains. drone footage shows the scene in alabama. downtown just about completely underwater. parts of the panhandle bracing for more flooding. >> julie: the white house is reportedly blocking a post office plan to send 650 million facemasks directly to americans back in april. instead it delivered 600 million masks to companies, healthcare groups and community organizations. that is according to the internal postal service documents. a watchdog group. the "washington post" reporting, however, an administration official says the white house feared sending masks directly to households could have caused a panic. >> trace: developing right now the tension between the u.s. and china. trump administration plans to sell major weapons systems, including mines, missiles and drones, to taiwan. let's get to benjamin hall live in london. what more can you tell us about the weapons package? >> i think the most interesting thing about this package is the timing. according to reuters taiwanese officials say if president trump was to lose in november they believe biden would not sell them this kind of advance u.s. weaponry they need to push back against china. the trump administration plans to sell as many as seven major weapons systems to our ally taiwan including drones, mines and cruise missiles. this support infuriates china who see taiwan as a chinese province and have repeatedly denounced the trump administration's support for the island. washington is eager to create a military counter balance to military chinese forces. as beijing's military makes more aggressive moves in the region. china is not happy about this. they sent bombers and fighters into taiwanese air force whose air force was scrambled numerous times to deal with it and conducting military drills near the taiwan straits as a simulated invasion some believe. it comes at keith crack arrives in taiwan. the highest-level state department official to visit the island in a decade. the weapons package is part of trump's wider effort to export weapons to u.s. allies trying to bolster their defenses, decrease dependence on u.s. troops and boost u.s. companies and jobs. the trump administration has been harsher in 2020 on china than in the last four years. it's that part of the south china scene becoming a flash point. that's going forward taiwan saying it needs these weapons to protect itself against china. trace. >> trace: tensions are rising. benjamin hall live in the u.k. >> julie: so many businesses closed during the pandemic. will they ever come back, those that are still in business? what some new numbers are telling us. we'll share that with you. plus joe biden keeping hammering away at the president's coronavirus. is he going too far? chris wallace with a look at biden's campaign strategy. >> if the president had done his job from the beginning all the people would be alive. i'm not making this up. look at the data, look at the data. when managing diabetes you can't always stop for a fingerstick. with the freestyle libre 14 day system, a continuous glucose monitor, you don't have to. with a painless, one-second scan you can check your glucose with a smart phone or reader so you can stay in the moment. no matter where you are or what you're doing. ask your doctor for a prescription for the freestyle libre 14 day system. you can do it without fingersticks. learn more at freestylelibre.us. >> julie: some sad statistics here. nearly 60% of businesses that closed due to the pandemic will never reopen again. that's according to a new report from yelp. most of those businesses are restaurants and gift stores, but permanent closures also appear to be growing for bars, nightclubs, beauty shops and fitness clubs. the five top cities for permanent closures new york, los angeles, san francisco, chicago, and dallas. >> it's all about his reelection. it should be about the american people and they're in trouble. you have to level with the american people. shoot from the shoulder. there has never been a time they haven't been able to step up. this president should step down. >> trace: joe biden in a town hall last night attacking president trump's response to the pandemic trying to keep the issue front and center in the 2020 campaign. let's bring in chris wallace, the anchor of "fox news sunday". chris, always great to see you. i just wonder if you watched that town hall last night, chris, and you saw some softball questions critic say. 16 questions, 13 from democrats and 3 from democrats. your thoughts. >> honestly i didn't watch much of it. i was watching thursday night football. i watched a little bit. but i will say that from what i've heard, that the questions were noticeably easier to biden on cnn last night than they were to president trump on abc earlier in the week. you know, i think you should ask tough questions and i'm delighted to see voters get a chance to ask these candidates for president tough questions. but you hope that both sides will play fair and have an equal mix of questions from supporters and questions from doubters. >> trace: instead of talking about biden/trump we should be talking about the football players last night. the trump campaign responded by saying at no time did biden offer any examples of anything he would have done differently to combat the virus despite six months of relentless criticism of the president's response. he did, however, manage to lie by claiming he said in january it was a pandemic and that the president did not mention the threat of the coronavirus in his state of the union speech, which of course the president did and of course joe biden said the president's ban on travel from china was xenophobic. what do you think about coronavirus? too much focus on coronavirus for the biden campaign? >> no. i think it's their best issue. at the top of people's minds according to a poll out today. only 39% of americans approve of the president's handling of the coronavirus. so i would expect joe biden to keep pounding away on the issue. it doesn't mean he can ignore other issues, the economy is also a big issue. he has to talk about that. race and the violence in our cities is an important issue. i think his campaign would agree they made a mistake to the degree they ignored the violent protests during the convention. so he has to talk about those as well. but coronavirus is a good issue for him and i think it's fair to say if you believe the polls, not a very good issue for the president. >> trace: by speaking of polls i want to put this on the screen. you talked about coronavirus being in the top of people's minds. these are in the states of arizona, florida, and north carolina where it says the economy is top, 32%, criminal justice and policing there. covid as third, chris. economy, you know, if you look at some of these numbers that came out with the census and the president coming out saying look, we had the greatest economy in history prior to the pandemic. a lot of support in the census numbers that boost poverty being at an all-time low and wages all-time high. the economy really is a big talking point for the president at this point in time. >> absolutely. although, you know, there are two sides to that story. and it will be so interesting. they have diametrically opposed ideas how to bring the economy back to the degree that it still will need to be brought back in 2021 and it will. millions of people out of work. the president sad we have a v-shared recovery sort of an alphabet soup. the biden campaign it is a k shaped recovery. good at the top for going down for people at the bottom. two different stories on the economy as there are on a lot of these issues and they'll battle it out over the next really now less than seven weeks. getting close. >> trace: speaking of coronavirus, you interviewed bill gates this week. it will air on "fox news sunday". he talked about the pandemic as well, chris? >> well yes. they issued the goalkeepers' report, a business oriented report that gates puts out every year about the billions of dollars that he is putting into global health, world poverty, and the very sad news is that covid has really hit the developing world, africa, the poorer countries in asia very hard. and a lot of the gains that they had made over the last 20 years have been reversed. in the course of the interview, trace, i asked gates about the fact that he said that since he was a teenager whenever he has a problem he always says who has handled it well and how can we learn from them? and then i said well, how has the u.s. handled the coronavirus and he brought up the effectiveness of the president's restrictions. take a look. >> we created this rush and we didn't have the ability to test or quarantine so people. that seeded the disease here, the ban probably accelerated that the way it was executed. >> you are saying that the travel bans made the situation worse, not better? >> march saw this incredible explosion. the west coast coming from china, and then the east coast coming out of europe. and so even though we have seen china and europe that testing capacity and clear message of how to behave wasn't there. >> what gates was saying is he wasn't opposed to the travel restrictions. it really was never a ban. a lot of americans were allowed and also some foreign nationals got in as well. but he is saying we weren't equipped for when they came into this country and he compares it to australia and south korea where he said everybody was tested when they came in and anybody who had any symptoms or had the virus was immediately mandatory quarantine. that didn't happen in this country. he said there was this rush of people when the ban happened in china, a rush of people when the restrictions happened in europe and a lot of them actually spread the virus once they got back to the u.s. >> trace: it will be fascinating to watch. what else is coming up on "fox news sunday" this weekend? >> we'll talk to dr. tom frieden, former head of the cdc. a big tussle between the president and robert redfield this week. we'll hear from the vice president's chief of staff, mark short will be giving the administration point of view on all of these issues. >> trace: chris, always good to see you. thank you, sir. >> you bet. thank you, trace. >> trace: chris will also be moderating the first presidential debate. tune in for our special coverage hosted by bret baier and martha maccallum tuesday, september 29th beginning at 6:00 p.m. >> julie: fox news alert now on those devastating wildfires in oregon. a storm front is moving in. that is both good news and bad news for fire crews trying to put out the flames. we'll explain next. plus help is on the way to the heartland. what president trump plans to give farmers the pandemic has hit especially hard. >> president trump: we did many things, not only the $28 billion to our farmers. we did so much and i'm proud to announce i'm doing even more to support wisconsin farmers. starting next week -- welcome, today's discussion will be around sliced meat. moms want healthy... and affordable. land o' frost premium!!! no added hormones either. it's the only protein i've really melted with. land o' frost premium. fresh look. same great taste. look, this isn't my first rodeo and let me tell you something, i wouldn't be here if i thought reverse mortgages took advantage of any american senior, or worse, that it was some way to take your home. it's just a loan designed for older homeowners, and, it's helped over a million americans. a reverse mortgage loan isn't some kind of trick to take your home. it's a loan, like any other. big difference is how you pay it back. find out how reverse mortgages really work with aag's free, no-obligation reverse mortgage guide. eliminate monthly mortgage payments, pay bills, medical costs, and more. call now and get your free info kit. other mortgages are paid each month, but with a reverse mortgage, you can pay whatever you can, when it works for you, or, you can wait, and pay it off in one lump sum when you leave your home. discover the option that's best for you. call today and find out more in aag's free, no-obligation reverse mortgage loan guide. access tax-free cash and stay in the home you love. you've probably been investing in your home for years... making monthly mortgage payments... doing the right thing... and it's become your family's heart and soul... well, that investment can give you tax-free cash just when you need it. learn how homeowners are strategically using a reverse mortgage loan to cover expenses, pay for healthcare, preserve your portfolio, and so much more. look, reverse mortgages aren't for everyone but i think i've been 'round long enough to know what's what. i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better >> julie: bottom of the hour. time for top stories. storm front out west is expected to hit spots in oregon where exhausted crews are fighting some of the state's worst wildfires. >> the u.s. will send $13 billion in new relief funding to farmers. the money will be available next week. >> julie: in los angeles the reward for information on last saturday's ambush shooting of two sheriff's deputies has grown to $675,000. both deputies survived the shooting with serious injuries. a manhunt is still underway for the shooter. >> trace: tragic news coming out of california. firefighter died yesterday battling the eldorado fire according to the u.s. forest service. no word yet on the cause of death. the eldorado fire was started by pyrotechnics at a labor day gender reveal party. jeff, what's the latest damage from these fires? >> it will be another hot and dry day here in southern california making conditions ripe for wildfires and this is what's concerning firefighters right now. as these winds pick up, you have these spot fires that reignite on the hillside and there is no telling where the gusts will carry the hot embers. potentially extending a growing fire. in oregon they deal with an opposite problem. the northwest is expecting thunderstorms. bring much needed rain to the fire-devastated areas and help clear the smokey air that caused awful air qual tee. with that precipitation is the rain hitting already loose and unstable ground could cause flash flooding as well as landslides. >> i felt of couple of raindrops at the house before we left. i hope for more. >> we need the rain. unfortunate it will affect anybody on a hillside on the upper hills. >> the smoke, however, is not clearing up in california quite yet. so much of it is floating around. yosemite national park closed. the highly visible half dome could hardly be seen. a park ranger said he has been working there for 25 years and he can't remember a time that yosemite has closed due to smoke or poor air quality. the same story out here as you see the fires continue to burn and expand, trace. >> trace: jeff paul live on the fire line. thank you. >> julie: as the u.s. nears 200,000 coronavirus deaths dr. anthony fauci says he expects to see a vaccine proven safe and effective by the end of the year, maybe november or december even. meantime with students back on many campuses, colleges have become hot spots in nearly every state. many of the worst outbreaks in the south and midwest. garrett tenney is live in chicago. garrett, are we seeing an uptick in cases overall nationwide? >> for the first time in nearly a week on thursday the number of new daily cases in the u.s. passed the 44,000 mark. a lot of these is due to the outbreaks on college campuses. at least 300 students at ball state university in indiana have tested positive in just over two weeks after students started returning to campus last month the surrounding county has become the state's epicenter of the virus. that's a similar story at dozens of college towns across the country particularly in the midwest. thursday wisconsin reported its highest number of new daily cases since the pandemic began. with outbreaks in madison 500 students are either in isolation or quarantined. there are signs of progress. in texas most businesses will be allowed to expand capacity from 50 to 75% due the improving conditions. still a lot of hope riding on an eventual vaccine. this week the head of the cdc said a vaccine likely won't be available until the middle of next year. president trump took issue with that insisting a vaccine could be ready in a couple of months. the morning the coronavirus testing czar weighed in on the divide. >> both are correct. if we had a if you million vaccine in november it could make an impact on the health of the country but true that everyone who wants a vaccine may not be able to get it until mid next year. both are true. >> trace: we're keeping an eye on college football. today the pac-12 ceo is scheduled to meet about playing this fall. this comes after every other power five conference has announced plan to play this season. we'll keep you updated on that. >> julie: thank you, garrett. >> trace: as fox news celebrates hispanic heritage month we want to tell you the story of danny vargas. he wore the uniform in service to our country and later became a successful businessman. now he is on a new mission to honor the hispanic community in america. we're live in denver with more on this story. >> hi, trace. yes, and for the next four weeks fox news media will highlight the lives of individual american latinos. today we begin with danny vargas who survived a childhood of poverty and being homeless and hungry. now decades later he is a successful businessman dedicated to helping others overcome challenges and chairs a nonprofit building a museum dedicated to american latinos. he beat the odds to find the american dream. >> my mom is from puerto rico. she grew up very poor. never learned to read or write. >> after moving to new york city she found herself divorced with four young kids. >> she was the one who taught me when you were told to sit down and be quiet that's when you needed to stand your tallest. >> danny was the youngest child and only boy and lived in brooklyn. it was filled with crimes, drugs and proffer tee. he graduated high school at the top of his class and saw a way out at 17. >> my mom had to put an x on the piece to paper to join the air force under age. >> he believes that not only changed his life but saved it. >> it got me out of that environment in new york. statistically i ought to be dead or in jail now. >> serving five years in panama he landed jobs in multi-corporations before launching his own marketing and communications firm. in 2017 he was elected friends of the national museum of friends of the american latino. >> we are a vibrant, essential component of the american story. >> this july the u.s. house passed a bill for its creation as part of the smithsonian on the national mall. danny's mother passed away in 2016 surrounded by loved ones. her lessons now being passed to her grandsons. >> that's one thing she taught me was to have faith that tomorrow will be another day and tomorrow could be better than today. >> the museum bill that passed in the house this summer had 295 bipartisan co-sponsors. supporters are working to get it passed in the senate. trace. >> trace: big tip of the hat to danny vargas. >> julie: joe biden taking part in a town hall last night to face what critics say were softball questions. could this hurt him as he gets ready for the debates? 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how will we know the many ways he has compromised the united states? >> the messaging on the coronavirus from the white house has been all over the place since february. it has been extremely inconsistent. it has caused so many people in this country to ignore the virus and not take the necessary precautions. how will you get the proper messaging out to all americans to keep them informed as to how to properly protect themselves and others from this pandemic? >> julie: that's a sample of the questions joe biden got at a cnn town hall last night in the battleground state of pennsylvania. some critics are saying the democratic voters there tossed only softball questions to the former vice president. howie kurtz is here to break it down for you. the fox news media analyst and the host of "media buzz". great to see you, howie. okay. i want to start with greenfield and his tweet about biden doing well but it isn't getting him ready to face tough questions from the chris wallace and jake tapper, the first presidential debate on september 29th. he writes in the first moments the contrast between what trump was asked and what biden is being asked is striking. so was the town hall a bit too easy on biden? >> well, i don't want to say cnn town hall was full of softballs. it was tee ball, a love fest. the contrast between the abc town hall or any presidential press conference night and day. anderson cooper was so gentle asking the former vice president such questions as can you work across the aisle? how are you preparing for the debates? are you one of those people concerned about law and order? when you combine that with the generally friendly or anti-trump questions from the audience selected by the network it was a walk in the park. the former vice president is very good in these settings. showing empathy but thanks to cnn he didn't have to break a sweat. >> julie: the breakdown of the 16 participants who asked biden questions. 13 of them or more than 80% were identified as democrats. only 3 were identified as republicans. now let's compare those numbers to the town hall attendees the president faced on abc news. that group featured 4 trump voters, 3 hillary clinton voters, 1 joe stein voters, 3 non-voters and one unidentified. there -- this isn't just a stark contrast. it is night and day between the two. >> absolutely. here is the result of that. first of all, for all the people who think that the news media as a whole can't stand president trump and are rooting for joe biden this gives them more ammunition. biden just didn't get a tough time at the cnn town hall. secondly, as you mentioned and some critics have pointed out, you know, this is not going to be easy. this is the regular season now. it won't be easy when you get to the debates when he is facing off against chris wallace who will ask tough questions about both candidates and so because biden does so few national television interviews, maybe one a week compared to the president who is constantly sparring with journalists, this could hurt him in the sense that it is not preparing him for the kind of grilling that he will get and should get in these interviews. >> julie: it is no surprise abc would jump on the president after the woodward book with the president being interviewed and talking about down playing it because he didn't want to create a panic. here is the president being asked about his down playing covid on abc. watch. >> down playing by your own admission the receive -- severity of the crisis. >> i upplayed it in terms of action. >> could you have done more to stop? >> i don't think so. i think what i did by closing up the country i saved 2, 2 1/2 maybe more than that. >> julie: would you consider that a fair question considering it's a topical topic? was that a fair question or did they attack the question? >> that was a fair question and shows you how the bob woodward book has changed the debate over the president and coronavirus. president's own words on tape. it comes up now in almost every segment and story about covid-19. with the president now picking a fight with the cdc direct for robert redfield who said the vaccine won't be fully available even if cleared for approval in november or december until the middle of next year. after the previous feuding with anthony fauci it is allowing the press to go after the president saying that he is more interested in politics than science. that may or may not be true but not the best ground for the president in the remaining 6 1/2 weeks before election day. >> julie: you write why trump's wilder claims are complicating his campaign saying they are distractions to be sure but there are a whole lot of them and you continue to say i don't see how such tactics help the president's campaign given the inevitable media pushback. maybe they excite or entertain base supporters but focusing on the middle east peace agreements or western wildfires would pay higher dividends that jabs that critics can dismiss as untrue or unfair. if you were to advise the president, what would your advice be aside from focusing on middle east peace. that is something that has gained him a lot of praise. to continue to kind of i guess walk down the positive narrative path if you will. >> yeah, well the president doesn't need my advice. anybody can see when you have -- we've been debating the president's tweets forever now. when you have the president retweeting somebody who calls joe biden a pedophile, no evidence. inflammatory, and some of the videos that have been called manipulated media by twitter. i don't see where it wins him extra votes. his base loves this stuff. it is a distraction. the press loves to pounce on it. talk about covid, economy, what he would do in a second term. a much clearer path for a president seeking reelection other than the distraction. >> julie: the base loves it and he is speaking to his base. so far what has worked for him is keeping the base put. we'll have to wait and see if it continues to work. howard kurtz, great to see you. thank you. >> julie: thanks, julie. >> trace: new security measures from twitter ahead of the november election. how the social media platform says it is protecting high-profile users from account hackers. that's next. our retirement plan with voya gives us confidence... ...we can spend a bit now, knowing we're prepared for the future. surprise! we renovated the guest room, so you can live with us. i'm good at my condo. well planned, well invested, well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement. some companies still have hr stuck between employeesentering data.a. changing data. more and more sensitive, personal data. and it doesn't just drag hr down. it drags the entire business down -- with inefficiency, errors and waste. it's ridiculous. so ridiculous. with paycom, employees enter and manage their own data in a single, easy to use software. visit paycom.com, and schedule your demo today. everybody felt fine. but now im super sick. everyone is sick. i just wish we had been more careful. it would have been easier than this. so wear a mask. do what you can outside. stay six feet apart. because some things you just can't take back. do your part to lower the risk. >> trace: with less than seven weeks until the presidential election twitter is beefing up security on big name users after the bitcoin users hijacked some high profile accounts including joe biden and former president barack obama. brett larson is good to see you. who this affects here. we talk about the executive branch and congress, governors and secretaries of state, presidential campaigns, political parties, and candidates with twitter election labels. finally, major u.s. news outlets and political journalists, give us an idea what's now required of these people? >> it's first of all a laundry list of people who will have to go through the extra steps. here is what's going to be required. twitter is taking some proactive security steps here. if you're one of those people on the list the next time you log into the twitter app or you log in through the website in the next week or so you will get an alert about your security settings. checking to make sure that your account is as secure as possible. so no more password 1, 2, 3, 4. if that is your password let's take that away right away. they want users to enable two factor verification. if you try to log into twitter from a different device, one of your handlers needs to log into your facebook or twitter account, that two factor authentification will send a code to your smartphone. you have to put in the code and log in. i'm aware it can be hacked but it is an additional step and asking people to lockdown their account reset information. so if you need to go in and reset your account, they want to make sure they have all the accurate information right now. and trace, the reason they are doing this is simple. facebook is taking a similar step in that what they don't want to happen on election day and election night. they don't want to cause any chaos or have hackers to gain access. maybe you are running for the senate or congress. they don't want a hacker to get into your account say something i'll concede my race or we're happy we won. that will start knocking over the dominoes and it will end up in a chaotic world we are in now. facebook is doing the same thing. they have been very clear for the past several weeks on election day, come election day they won't allow the campaigns to call any of the elections. they'll rely on specific news sources for that bit of information. so twitter now doing the same thing. as you mentioned, this mostly stems from the kid in florida a couple of weeks ago who hacked into several of these accounts with the bitcoin scam got $100,000 plus and got himself in a serious amount of trouble with the law. >> trace: the heap of hot water. i did have a password 1235 one time. nobody is getting me. i thought that was clever. i want to put it up on microsoft. they say and i'm quoting it is critical that everyone involved in the democratic processes around the world directly or indirectly be aware of threats and take steps to protect themselves in their personal and professional capacity. they are saying to the whole world we don't have to call you out to do this, you should do this on your own. >> and you absolutely should. if you are a public figure, if you are in front of other people, you really want to make sure those passwords are as secure as possible. you are a shiny target to hackers around the world and they are all around the world and some are state-sponsored. we've seen some of that before with the massive data breaches. they aren't kids sitting in their parents' bedroom. they are actually government-sponsored by some of the nefarious governments around the globe. make sure the passwords are set difficult and two-factor authentication. >> trace: brett larson, great to see you, thank you. >> thanks, trace. >> julie: 1235 i'll remember that, trace, what a great pass code. undetectable. fox news alert. minnesota is the main stage in the presidential race. both candidates are stumping there today as early voting gets underway. what is at stake in that swing state? 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>> julie, it random and unprovoked. the implication being the trooper was targeted simply because he represented law enforcement and the gunman intended to kill. >> he began to shoot at our trooper as he exited his vehicle. our trooper was clearly visible in his vest. it said police. >> the g*nman was a passenger in an infinity g37 with temporary plates that pulled up near where the trooper was sitting in an unmarked car. the gunman jumped out of the infinity and opened fire using an ak-47 pistol. a modified version of the well-known a.k.47 rifle. not the most accurate weapon in inexperienced hands. that might have been what saved the trooper's life. he was not hit and then he and another trooper returned fire. >> had the trooper not had the wherewithal and the ability to quickly exit his vehicle and engage the suspect undoubtedly he would have been shot or killed. >> the driver took off leaving the shooter behind. he was arrested. he is 17 years old. police are still searching for the driver. and here in los angeles in the meantime still no arrests in the ambush shooting attack on two sheriffs deputies last weekend. the sheriff says the investigation is moving forward with many leads as the two deputies, a 24-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman continue to recover from their injuries. a reward for information leading to an arrest in that case is now almost $700,000. julie. >> julie: wow, all right. jonathan hunt, thank you. in camden, new jersey police searching for the gunman behind an attack on home of two officers. seven rounds were fired at the house while the couple was inside with their 10-day old baby tuesday night. fortunately no one was injured. police do say the shooters drove up to the house in a honda odyssey which has been found. >> i had no idea that that kind of shots were -- they just had a new baby. the cops came out from everywhere and was banging on the door and everything. >> we're looking into every arrest they've had. their contacts. we won't leave a rock unturned until we're able to get those responsible. >> julie: police say it was a targeted attack. there is a $20,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest. turning now to the race for the white house. both president trump and joe biden will be in minnesota later today as early voting gets underway there as well today. the rivals hitting up the same battleground state after ramping up attacks on each other while the latest real clear politics polling average showing biden leading president trump by more than 10 points in minnesota. chief white house correspondent john roberts is live from the north lawn this morning. what does the political roadmap look like in minnesota currently? >> let's take a look at it. the first debate isn't for another 12 days. minnesota started voting today showing the rcp average there at 10. an uptick because of a new abc news poll that showed biden ahead by 16 points. that would appear to be an outlier with other polls that show biden up by 9. the president believes he still has a shot there. in mosinee, wisconsin that's night the president appealed to blue collar voters hitting on shipping american jobs overseas with the biden obama administration and complaining of a double standard in how the media treats biden compared to him. >> president trump: biden wants to surrender our country to the violent left wing mob. if biden wins, the rioters and arsonists and flag burners, they win. >> the president complaining that biden was getting softball questions at a town hall in scranton last night. a town in which biden slammed the president over his coronavirus response. >> if the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. all the people. i'm not making this up. just look at the data. >> pronouncement coming from the white house today a relief package for puerto rico for energy reconstruction and education. still trying to recover from hurricane maria three years ago. democrats skeptical about the timing and application of the aid. chuck schumer said the trump administration delayed and refused to deliver timely disaster aid for the people of puerto rico. i'll work with the puerto rican community to see the desperately needed funds are put to use in a wise way providing a cleaner and better energy grid. president trump may be looking to capture puerto ricans displaced from hurricane maria that came to the united states. both candidates are in minnesota today battling over that state's -- hillary clinton won it in 2016. could go democratic again. the president believes if he works hard enough he may be able to turn it. >> julie: we'll wait and see. thank you very much, john roberts. trace. >> trace: joe biden's town hall last night in scranton, pennsylvania getting slammed by some critics for its softball questions. >> if you were president, could you see a scenario where you down played critical information so as not to cause panic? do you trust the head of the current head of the fda and cdc and would you keep them in their positions? >> how are you preparing for the debate? >> do you think it is still possible to reach across the aisle? >> "politico" blasted the network's performance writing if abc's event with president donald trump was an icy grilling the conversation with joe biden thursday was an affable reunion of old acquaintances. let's bring in karl rove. deputy chief of staff. an affable reunion of old acquaintances. 16 questions last night. 13 from democrats. 3 from republicans. nobody talked about raising taxes. nobody brought up hunter biden and his ties to ukraine. nobody brought up joe biden's resistance to the president's ban on travel from china. what do you make of that, karl? >> look, the audience was clearly far more disposed than the audience for the event with president trump. president trump audience were swing voters. this was apparently local friends and family of joe biden. and look, you are going to get weird questions and you may get softball questions from the audience but what got me was anderson cooper's dreadful performance. joe biden could say things that any other anchor -- jake tapper said let's examine that further and he is with cnn. it was like a silver colored poodle would have been tougher on joe biden than anderson cooper. think about this. if the president -- we showed the footage earlier. if the president did the job everybody would be alive i'm not making this up. nobody says that. he says i wrote an editorial in the usa today we have a pandemic. somebody else would have said in that op-ed that you wrote, you didn't describe anything that needed to be done now. you described three things that you would do after you got elected president next january. and most of those were aimed at the world not at the united states. finally, this is just -- time and time again first president without an ivy league degree. jimmy carter didn't have an ivy league degree. lyndon johnson and eisenhower and clinton. get to lincoln, jefferson, jackson and washington he could say something as inane as that and anderson cooper smiled and looked pleasant. >> trace: i was questioning that. one of the first people diagnosed with coronavirus in the country before we even knew it was spreading had died from it already. there goes that theory off the top. >> yeah, also the day that that person just north of seattle died, zeke emmanuel, advisor to joe biden is on television and says don't run out and get a mask because it won't do any good. this is just ridiculous for him to look back now and say i was on top of this. he was not on top of this. his people down played it. his chief advisor said in february, we don't have a health pandemic, we have a fear pandemic criticizing the president for overhyping the issue of coronavirus. >> trace: you are exactly right on that. i wanted to put the president's weighed in last night. you know what he has been doing? i see he is up there tonight getting softball questions from anderson cooper. they don't ask me questions like that. they don't. he is right when he talks about in this tweet. in his town hall on abc it was a much different scenario. quickly on that one, karl. >> i think the guy who won the battle of the two appearances is president trump for exactly that reason. he got tougher questions. he got grilled by george stephanopolous. this is poodle boy night for joe biden and the audience was just jumping on him like a dog pawing at him and licking his face. it doesn't help him. american people want to know you can take it and deal with it. not that you have to be adulation and everybody cheering you. letting you say stupid, inane things. >> there will be a surprise, several. mr. biden has a tactical advantage team biden is more disciplined as in its long silence as cities burned and looters ram paged. mr. trump's campaign manager said whichever candidate wins more of the remaining days wins the contest. if the president -- whichever candidate wins more of the remaining days wins the contest. it has been a week later now. who has won in your estimation the last week? >> last week was not good for president trump. we had the woodward book and that consumed a lot of the energy in the room. the underlying events are the economy is improving. today we have the federal reserve yesterday said it would upgrade its forecast of how good the economy was going to be by the end of the year. we had a good jobs number. earlier in the month for august. the fourth highest job gain in any month in the history of the bls, the bureau of labor statistic data collection. so the underlying is good. the back and forth in the media was not good because of the domination of the woodward book. well oh he see how it goes this week and next week when we look back. >> trace: we showed live pictures of the former vice president joe biden getting on his plane heading to wilmington, delaware with that. there goes the picture on that. very quickly, karl, i want to get your take on one more thing. the new numbers that came out a couple days all from the u.s. census that shows that president trump says he might have had the greatest economy in history, there is a lot to back that up? >> absolutely. that's one of his great strengths. in the last six polls i've seen on a national lever who will do a more effective job on the economy the president led by an average of 49-43. people understand in 2017, 2018, 2019, the country had a degree of spreading prosperity particularly for less educated lower income workers were gaining significant ground and prosperity was spreading to dark corners of our nation that hadn't seen it before. >> trace: lowest level of poverty, highest wages. always good to see you sir, thank you. >> thanks. great to be with you. >> julie: sad news in the fight against the california wildfire. a firefighter loses his life killed trying to put out a fire sparked by a gender reveal pare. the u.s. wants to reimpose sanctions on tehran. joe biden said he would reenter the nuclear deal if he is president. we'll have reaction from judy miller next. >> president trump: if they hit us in any way, any form, written instructions already done. we will hit them 1,000 times harder than we've ever hit them before. 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let's bring in judy miller, fellow at the manhattan institute for policy institute. first of all, what do you make of the president's administration. they plan to say the sanctions under the nuclear deal are back in force. >> they are going to announce new sanctions. but the problem, julie, is whether or not our allies will enforce them. every indication is that they will not because the trump administration has systematically alienated the very people it needs to enforce sanctions against iran and get it to comply with the agreement that it signed in 2015. >> julie: this is all happening as joe biden is offering what some have called a failed strategy on iran. he says if he is elected president the u.s. would rejoin the iran deal while addressing some of the deal's weaknesses. he says that he wants to go back to that policy that was set in place by his former administration. is biden and his iran strategy is smart way forward or is it a step backward to a flawed approach? >> clearly this negotiation would have to involve a renegotiation of the terms of the jcpoa, the iran nuclear deal which was signed in 2015 by seven powers. the problem here is that iran has not stopped its aggressive activity so the nuclear deal has to be part of a broader campaign to get iran to stop those activities. you can't do that without allies. and when the united states tried to get sanctions against iran reimposed in the form of extending an arms embargo last month the u.n. security council, our allies basically said no deal. you withdrew from this agreement. you don't have any standing here. so what the united states really has to do, which is what joe biden wants to do, is to repair relations with the very people whom we need to implement the trump administration's maximum pressure policy. you can't impose maximum pressure alone. the united states needs allies in this fight. >> julie: what is going to happen then? like you just pointed out despite the administration's intentions there are other members of the u.n. security council including allies that disagree with the sanctions. so if they ignore this step, where does it move forward? here is the president at an event with words for iran and then you will react. >> president trump: right now i will tell you i ran, if we win, iran will be calling us within the first week. they are dying to make a deal. gdp down 27%. they don't have too much money for terror anymovement it is amazing. >> julie: what do you make of that? >> it's just amazing to be the extent to which countries like iran always find enough money for terror. and iran is very insistent that if trump is reelected, they are not going to knock on his door to make a deal. i have heard this from iranian diplomats again and again. on the other hand, something must be done about iran and the maximum pressure campaign of donald trump has not succeeded in stopping iranian misbehavior. so i think the biden plan would have to be two-fold. one, you have to return to the jcpoa even though it has very little time left. but secondly, you have to renegotiate a tougher deal with allied buyin. that's the secret. everyone agreed that iran cannot develop a nuclear weapon and that we will work together to stop it from doing so. and you know the president did a very good thing in brokering the uae/israel deal. that puts added pressure on iran to come to the table. so ironically if biden has leverage it will be because of the deal that president trump made to further isolate iran. >> julie: judy miller, thank you very much. great to see you as always. have a great weekend. >> trace: twitter is back in hot water accused of political bias for refusing to pull a joe biden ad that has some fact checkers crying foul. plus cleanup is underway along the panhandle in the wake of hurricane sally. why the recovery may take a lot longer than anyone expected. the showdown on capitol hill over a new covid relief deal while democrats pressure nancy pelosi to keep negotiating, how she is responding to that next. apps are used everywhere... except work. why is that? 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>> i think so. could you imagine, trace, the daily show trying to survive twitter 2020? remember when john stewart used to manipulate different sort of politicians saying something and making a jock out it. satire. that's what the trump campaign was doing clearly. not a person on the planet would think joe biden was playing nwas blank the police in that situation. but they've opened up the pandora's box where they are only fact checking the trump campaign and flagging the trump campaign for misinformation while the biden campaign, as you noted, is getting away with false statements. the one you just mentioned around the president calling coronavirus a hoax. that's been multiple fact checked by the associated press, by cnn. it has been debunked and twitter keeps it up. let me share with you one stat. 84% of americans feel that the media -- that includes social media, bears the burden in dividing the country. 2/3 of americans get their news from social media. that encompasses that. remember that number. when twitter starts to take a side it only feeds into that sentiment, trace. >> trace: we went through this. the whole idea of joe biden and calling saying president trump called the coronavirus a hoax. we went through this back in march, right? they went through this in march and they said that the hoax was really about the president talking about impeachment and the media had nothing to do with coronavirus, even the "washington post" at the time said that was four pinocchios for joe biden doing that. they called it a hoax. the trump campaign is saying on the bottom, the very bottom of trump tweets that have been manipulated it says manipulated media. and all evidence at the bottom of the screen. it's that blue flag thing. what the trump campaign is asking is for the same response for the biden campaign to at the bottom of the tweet say look, it is manipulated media and twitter so far is refusing to do that, which is a valid concern. >> it's consistent, trace, of what we're seeing from many in political media in terms of the way these two campaigns are being covered. americans just want consistency. if you will be tough on this guy or hostile to this guy you have to be tough and hostile to the other candidate. we saw it during joe biden's town hall on cnn last night. he gets 16 total questions during this event. 13 from democrats, just 3 from republicans. again, consistency. this is bias under bright lights. and we see the type of people that work at twitter, for instance, trace. the head of site integrity, a title. he actually has called president trump a racist tangerine and nazis in the white house. these are the people doing the fact checking and keeping integrity of twitter intact we're in big trouble if we want that consistency i just spoke about. >> trace: you talk about the people in twitter and campaign. kamala harris's former communications now works for twitter and the twitter public policy person is with the biden campaign. it brings up questions saying wait a minute, what's going on here? >> it's amazing, right, the jeff gentleman you just mentioned will be on biden's transition team. where do they get the titles from? he goes to work for the biden campaign from twitter. i'm seeing videos all over the place on twitter today, trace, as far as what joe biden said last night. the town hall. he said if the president had done his job from the beginning all the people would still be alive. he is talking about coronavirus. all the people. i'm not making this up. actually you are making that up. it could have been fact checked by the moderator last night. for twitter to allows the videos to be shared if he were president no one would have died in the u.s. i would think twitter would flag that as well. that won't be happening either i'm afraid, trace. >> trace: the moderator anderson cooper last night in the joe biden town hall not calling joe biden out on a number of things that were clearly false. some would say moderator is not there to fact check in realtime. what are your thoughts on that? >> cnn introduced a fact checking chyron in realtime during the republican national convention during president trump's peach and fact checked on the screen. you have a control room who can do that. it was retired last night. it was served softball questions. i play softball. these were beach balls, a lot easier to hit. as i mentioned 13 questions from democrats, only 3 from republicans. on abc for donald trump the questions were hostile. it will do nothing as far as biden having to handle chris wallace who refused to sit down to an interview to this point during the debates when he is facing actual questions about actual policy that won't be deemed softballs, that i can guarantee you. >> trace: i here tell you are a heck of a softball player. joe concha from the here. >> batting title 2019. >> julie: hurricane sally blamed for at least two deaths. it hit the gulf coast hard in pensacola, florida where cleanup efforts remain underway there. charles watson, what is the latest? >> things are slowly improving for folks along the gulf coast but this region is not out of the woods just yet as more than 300,000 people remain without power. the florida national guard is in the area with high water vehicles and has so far rescued more than 100 people from flooded areas. scenes of people cleaning up are all over the place as folks clear out trees and power lines. orange beach, alabama battered by the high winds and storm surge from hurricane sally claimed the lives of two people. >> we're very thankful we had a very well-built house that it was a very scary situation, scary. i wouldn't advise anyone to stay, that's for sure. >> trace: many have to wait in long lines to get much-needed fuels in pensacola as crews are trying to restore power to tens of thousands. >> normally the shelves are empty, people have prepped and filled their gas tanks. the lines at the gas station show you that people were not prepared. they don't have full tanks. >> portions of i-10 are closed indefinitely due to flooding. it could take crews months to repair the three mile bridge between pensacola and pensacola beach after two barges slammed into it and destroyed a part of the bridge. hurricane sally caused more than $29 million in damages here alone. >> julie: charles watson, thank you. >> trace: school chaos and outrage in new york city. [people chanting] >> trace: those teacher protests force the city to announce another delay. students and parents caught in the middle. with the new plan address widespread concerns? >> not until it's safe. not until it's safe. not until it's safe. i want to make it absolutely clear. rioting is not protesting. looting is not protesting. it's lawlessness, plain and simple. and those who do it should be prosecuted. fires are burning, and we have a president who fans the flames. he can't stop the violence because for years he's fomented it. but his failure to call on his own supporters to stop acting as an armed militia in this country shows how weak he is. violence will not bring change, it will only bring destruction. it's wrong in every way. if i were president, my language would be less divisive. i'd be looking to lower the temperature in this country, not raise it. donald trump is determined to instill fear in america because donald trump adds fuel to every fire. this is not who we are. i believe we'll be guided by the words of pope john paul ii, words drawn from the scriptures. be not afraid. i'm joe biden and i approve this message. >> trace: new york city mayor bill deblasio announcing a second delay for the start of in-class learning. the plan is to begin phasing classes in starting september 29th. we are joined from the fox business network. >> you said it. many parents and administrators were shocked to hear the news school wasn't set to begin on monday as planned leading some experts to say it is yet another blow to the comeback of the big apple. >> delays in school reopening and the indecision we're seeing in new york is another drop in the bucket to all the headwind, all the other challenges that new york city is facing. business owners have to deal with as they contemplate whether or not to open up offices or even stay in business. >> as parents struggle to deal with childcare now the future of businesses in new york city remains in question. you had several business leaders including the ceo of morgan stanley sign a letter to the mayor of the city saying they're warning of widespread anxiety in the city and deteriorating conditions in commercial districts and governor cuomo raise concerns the longer the work from home policies are in place, the more likely people are to not return to the city. we have a new study saying that 44% of high-income earners that make six figures or more are thinking of leaving the city citing the cost of living as the reason. the higher-income earners contribute roughly 80% of the tax revenue in the city. so now you are left with what the city has to hire 2,500 extra educators in less than two weeks leading some to believe the delays could continue. >> trace: christina, live for us in new york. thank you. >> julie: house speaker nancy pelosi just moments ago wrapping up her weekly news conference with new covid relief talks topping the agenda. chad pergram watched it for us and joins us live from capitol hill. anything new come out of this one? >> what we're trying to figure out is what would pry loose a deal. i asked the house speaker about that and she was rather unclear. she indicated yesterday that she thinks that democrats have already compromised going down to as low as 2.2 trillion. they are a trillion apart. the one issue with the coalition of moderate republicans and democrats. the problem solvers caucus trying to get a deal and push a bill around 1.5 to 2 trillion. pelosi so far has dismissed that particular piece of legislation and she was asked about that this morning what her problem is with that bill. listen. >> i've made my statement, just go read my statement. i respect what they are doing. i made a statement about it as have our peers. perfect is 3.4 trillion. remember, we've come down 1 trillion and we met and said we would meet them in the middle. this is not about being an enemy of the good. >> where you have so many moderate democrats wanting to get a bill done sometime before the election. they're in the ear of the speaker and some republicans getting ansi as well including kevin mccarthy. he believes politics is behind this and asks why they can't do a narrow bill. listen. >> i think knowing her well, she cares more about politics than she does about the people. that's unfortunate. that's why she should not be fit for that job. >> the main issue here the sticking point continues to be money for state and local governments here. again there are about a total of $1 trillion apart. the house and senate are out for the weekend. they will be back next week. we are expected to get later today the text of an interim bill to fund the government to avoid the government shutdown at the end of the month and the speaker has indicated repeatedly to me and others she would not attach coronavirus relief to that piece of legislation. that is the only bill that they absolutely have to do this month. julie. >> julie: all right, chad pergram. thank you very much. trace. >> trace: one organization provides hot barbecue meals for families and first responders dealing with natural disasters. coronavirus is hampering their efforts. jarrid collins is chief program officer for operation barbecue relief and he joins us next and tell you how you can help his cause as they begin feeding people affected by hurricane sally. ♪ ♪ everybody needs a helping out ♪ ♪ what can i do today with newday's va streamline refi, there's no appraisal, no income verification and no out of pocket costs. let newday help you use your va benefits to save $250 a month, that's $3000 every year. one call is all it takes. >> when you ask us why we barbecue, it's cause we believe barbecue is more than just comfort food. it brings back laughter and nourishes the soul and strengthens communities and ultimately transforms the stranger in front of us into a friend. >> julie: a missouri-based nonprofit travels the world feeding people after natural disasters called operation barbecue relief. they are answering the call to help those affected by hurricane laura and now responding in the wake of hurricane sally. jarrid collins is the operations officer. you are amazing, by the way. you lost your leg in combat. you missed your 20th wedding anniversary which by the way happy anniversary to you just for a good cause to set an amazing example for your two children. tell us about your disaster aid relief group and how you guys need help. >> so first off it has been a complete blessing. when i was in walter reed people invested in my family and gave us a hand up if i didn't know if i would walk, run, be a dad, good father let alone a soldier. people raised me up from some real low places. it is my opportunity to give back and make a difference. operation barbecue relief was founded in 2011 by competition barbecue source. they thought they would serve a few folks in need after some tornadoes and now today we've served over 8.4 million meals to those in need. there is a need for comfort food in disaster. one hot meal that matters really resonates and makes a huge difference. >> julie: operation barbecue relief as you just mentioned over the course of its entire life over eight million meals since deploying to lake charles over 340,000 meals i believe were served. 343,431 to be exact. but you did run into a little bit of a roadblock, if you will. how is covid-19 affecting your response to hurricane sally victims? >> absolutely. we're very reliant on volunteers. we believe that intertwining meals back into the community is best served with volunteers from that community. community face and having your brothers and sisters in the community serve the one hot meal that matters is an integral part of what we do. because of covid we have had to change our approach both in footprints making it much larger to allow social distancing and protocols but affected our ability to get volunteers. we're operating 25% capacity now for volunteers. it's a very dire need. as you mentioned with just a handful of people we've served 350,000 meals as of later today. so it's a blessing. >> julie: and those people are so blessed in so many communities. you delivered food into the community following hurricane laura that threatened an unsurvivable storm surge in texas as the military. the sense of accomplishment that you feel doing this day after day. >> absolutely. we like to say the power of the one hot meal that matters and how it resonates with that person and how it affects a family and a family affects a community and keeps growing from there. when you stand with someone who lost everything they have and they are emotionally broken and spent and you walk up and provide them a hot meal and you see the tears rolling and the emotional connection of that person it is overwhelming. it is positive. it makes a difference. you don't really know how that moment in time will change the fortunes of the people moving forward. you expand that out over an entire community whether in texas or lake charles after hurricane laura or hurricane sally, it's an amazing tool and makes such a difference in commune -communities. >> julie: those in these communities please help and voluntary and help this great organization. jay, thank you. l. with less eczema, you can show more skin. so roll up those sleeves. and help heal your skin from within with dupixent. dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups. dupixent is a biologic, and not a cream or steroid. many people taking dupixent saw clear or almost clear skin, and, had significantly less itch. don't use if you're allergic to dupixent. serious allergic reactions can occur, including anaphylaxis, which is severe. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems, such as eye pain or vision changes, or a parasitic infection. if you take asthma medicines, don't change or stop them without talking to your doctor. so help heal your skin from within, and talk to your eczema specialist about dupixent. if your financial situation has changed, we may be able to help. it was 1961 when nellie young lost her devoted husband. without him, things were tough. her last option was to sell her home, but... her home meant everything to her. her husband had been a high school football coach and it turned out, one of his former players came up with an answer. a loan, created just for older homeowners. and pretty soon, nellie young had one of the first reverse mortgages. discover if a reverse mortgage loan is right for you. use it to eliminate monthly mortgage payments and increase cashflow, create an emergency fund, preserve retirement savings and more. call now for your free information kit. that first reverse mortgage loan meant nellie could stay in the home she loved so much, with memories that meant even more. a reverse mortgage loan isn't some kind of trick to take your home. it's a loan... and it's tax-free cash just when you need it. it's about making your retirement better. call today and find out more in aag's free, no-obligation reverse mortgage loan guide. access tax-free cash and stay in the home you love. of course, you can use it to pay some bills, cover medical costs, update or repair your home. but best of all, it eliminates those monthly mortgage payments so you get more cash in your pocket, every month. learn how you can use a reverse mortgage loan to cover your expenses, pay for healthcare, preserve retirement savings, and so much more. a lots changed since 1961... since then over a million older americans have used a reverse mortgage loan to finance their retirements. it meant so much to nellie, maybe it could mean as much to you... call now and get your free infokit >> julie: that's going to do it for us. watch the white house, the president expected to speak in just about two hours from now, then heading to minnesota. it was great working with you, trace. >> trace: you, too, julie. we will carry that live. always great to see you. 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