Reporting from Jacqui Heinrich with the biden team in delaware. First john roberts kicks off the coverage. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. The headline of the day continues to be that the commission on president ial debates is thinking about making some changes to the structure of the last two president ial debates to facilitate a more orderly discussion. Of the issues. One of the ideas being floated is a kill button on the candidates microphone so that if one were to go along or excessively interrupt the other, the moderator could push the button and cut them off. The Trump Campaign saying that the idea of a kill button was raised by the Biden Campaign. Tim murtaugh saying that the Biden Campaign knows their guy had a lousy performance and so now they are running to the commission to try to get the rules changed. They cant deny it because the request was made by the lead negotiator in front of plenty of witnesses. They really should ask for a mute button for joe biden because hes really the biggest threat to himself. The Biden Campaign says this request is not true. Saying theres as much truth to this is the other week lies the Trump Campaign told in advance of the first of eight before donald trump exposed his own record on the pandemic as a failure, told the violent White Supremacists to standby. Looks like the president is not going to be agreeing to any changes. The president reading on Board Air Force one on his way to bedminster today why what i allow the Debate Commission to change the rules for the second and third debates when i easily won the last time . Still some lingering fallout over that moment on tuesday when the president told the rightwing Group Proud Boys to stand back and standby when asked if he would denounce White Supremacy. Senators tim scott, mitch mcconnell, Lindsey Graham and others looking for clarification from the president , and leaving the white house yesterday the president was asked again about denouncing White Supremacy. Listen. Like theyve done in new york. I just told you. I have always denounced any form, any form, any form of any of that. You have to denounce. The issuing lingers the issue lingers. I asked Kayleigh Mcenany at this mornings briefing. Does the president denounce White Supremacists and in groups . This has been answered yesterday by the president himself, the day before by the president himself on the debate stage. The asked the president was asked and he said sure three times. Yesterday he was asked do you denounce White Supremacy and he said ive always denounced any form of that. It looks like the issue hasnt been finalized to the satisfaction, resolved to the satisfaction of South Carolina senator tim scott. In a Statement Issued moments ago by his press secretary, sean smith, saying senator scott communicated his concerns to the white house immediately following the debate, heard from the white house earlier today and spoke with mark meadows recently as well. No indication that this has been resolved. To the satisfaction at least of South Carolina senator tim scott who was very concerned about what he heard at the debate tuesday. Bill thank you, john roberts. 32 days left in the campaign. The biden team is mobilizing volunteers to campaign, telling fox news launching in person canvassing operations and some of the critical battleground states with covid Safety Measures in place. Thats a bit of a change from earlier. Jacqui heinrich reports live in wilmington, delaware. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, bill. This is a brandnew strategy for the democrats who twice over the last two months defended their choice to keep their outreach entirely virtual. Back in august the dnc slammed the Trump Campaign tweeting the Trump Campaign is risking the lives of their staff, voters, and risking become a superspreader organization. It sounds in line with how trump is running the country. Two weeks ago Biden Campaign manager said this. Republicans want to say we have a million door knocks a week. It doesnt matter. What matters is the conversations. We have over 2500 staff across all the battleground states directly engaging with voters. They are doing it over the pho phone. A reversal, the Biden Campaign says its expanding upon the most innovative outreach to connect with voters who are hard to reach by phone. They kick off in nevada, michigan, New Hampshire and pennsylvania. Expecting several hundred volunteers. They plan to move forward with all battleground states soon and they say volunteers in pennsylvania are especially enthusiastic. 6,000 people signing up for a range of in person activities in the last 36 hours. They note that mask wearing and social distancing will be followed. The rnc saying that the Trump Campaign is averaging 2 million doors a week. They write that the trump team and the g. O. P. Have knocked on the 19 million doors leaving that Biden Campaign behind. Joe bidens campaign trying to shoe string together a ground game with less than 33 days to go. Despite the abrupt shift, the democrats insist they been planning to expand and in person phased outreach since the democratic convention. Bill thank you. I want to bring in bret baier, anchor of special report. Good afternoon, my friend. A bit of a shift. The trump team likes to say being in contact through out the campaign. The Biden Campaign seem to lay back on it. Theres adjustment. What do we make of it . I think some of the on the ground democratic backers and some of the chairman in those counties in pennsylvania and North Carolina, ohio, starting to get worried, they started to see the Trump Organization knocking on a lot of doors and not a lot of push an organization from the biden folks. I talked to some people on the ground in pennsylvania they were starting to sweat. I think the biden camp is changing, doing a final push and getting back on the ground and knocking on doors. Maybe stepping back a little bit. Bill i wonder what this means. The washington post, the early surge in democratic voting. Worry inside the g. O. P. Earlier today we found this in pennsylvania North Carolina and florida. Voter registration trends are higher for republicans now than they were in 2016. Try to put the data points together, figure out whats going on in the ground. Do you think something is changing that tells us a different story . The g. O. P. Is beating the democrats on registration in these states, new voters. They are out registering voters. The democrats are out requesting ballots in all of these states, absentee ballots. Someplace like florida, its exponential, upper 50s to 28, 30 . Republicans have in the past chosen to vote in person, whether early voting or on election day. I think youre going to see more of that as there is concern about the mail and process. Democrats may be shifting to a more in person voting. Bill yesterday at joe biden coming off the debate. He went to northeastern ohio, western p. A. And hes looking at democrats who crossed over four years ago and hes trying to win them back. Heres part of what he said last night. I get the sense of being they get the sense of being left behind. They know they have been screwed by trump. They are not sure the Democratic Party is listening. I have characterized them as wayward democrats. Its fair to say. I think come Election Night if we have it, based on the delays, this is the voting bloc to watch i believe as of today. I agree, the forgotten man and woman. Donald trump really tapped into that in 2016. Hillary clinton didnt go to some of those states. Wisconsin, michigan. It really felt like they were left behind. You had debbie dingell, the congressman they are setting up a flare, saying its not working. I think joe biden is trying to cover it to do it and he cant be obtained as a creature of the left which is what the Trump Campaign is trying to do. Hes making the whistle stop tours, giving the sound bites that he gave. Bill what you think about this proposed debate . Not even proposed. They have been talked about. There are changes in the offing with two or three more debates left. Im skeptical. I think shutting off the mic doesnt stop the interruption. You can still hear the person if they continue talking. I also think the format is going to change. This is a town hall next time. I doubt its going to be the same tone and tenor of what we saw the first debate. Bill thank you. Nice to see you. See you at 6 00. Mitch mcconnell do i have that right . Youve got it. Bill in a moment i mentioned joe biden breaking with the Progressive Left on some key issues this week. Teaming up on the joint party platform. Does he owe voters more answers on where he stands . Postdebate interview with Chris Wallace, what he thinks about the proposed changes in the future debates. We will talk about that and more. We look at the drama of Brett Kavanaughs confirmation. The senate gears up for another contentious hearing. Would you say you have been through hell . I have been through hell and then some. Its not a Job Interview. This is hell. Sa thats what were doing. We put our arm around the veterans. 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I think the best indicator that there is no problem is that there is no jill stein this time. A lot of the reason there was a third party in 2016 was exactly because what youre saying. They thought hillary was too far to the middle. Bill sorry about stepping on you. Covid times. But there is an aoc. There is. I think she knows. Its a pretty simple, pretty binary choice. Do you want four years of joe biden or do you four years of donald trump. I dont think aoc or Bernie Sanders or anyone of that wing of the party is concerned. Democrats, youre right, democrats do very few things better than being fragmented. We seem to be rather unified this year probably because its not entirely about policy. It is so much about the person. Bill there is a possibility, trying to motivate voters. Make sure things dont get fractured. He said the Green New Deal is not my plan. I dont support the Green New Deal. You check out his website, theres a plan there. At a cost of 2 trillion. Yeah, no. I dont think a lot of this is the terminology and maybe that gap from all the way to the left. He is clear he does not agree with defund the police. He says in terms of protesting theres a big difference between protesting and rioting and looting. And the last is not okay. Look at the flip side, a lot of what the Trump Administration motivates people on the left, so and this is obviously not anything to do with donald trump at the fact that we lost another justice and that we are about to get probably a prolife justice is something that also animates the left and i dont think bill is that why is that why he did not answer the question about the filibuster in the senate and the future for the u. S. Supreme court on tuesday night . I think those are two different things. I think on the court, he probably wanted to keep his powder dry. On the senate on the filibuster, i have to i think you have to forget although donald trump makes it hard to forget, joe biden spent decades in the senate. He remembers a day when it was more functional. Thats why he reacted that way. I think hes hesitant to upend the apple cart. I think its a credit to him because he remembers the day when you could work together. He also remembers the day. We had less rancor on judges because it required 60 people. You couldnt get a Brett Kavanaugh or Amy Coney Barrett if it was 60 people. People tended to be more down the middle. Bill one more thing on that. Youve got two more debates. He could confront this again. You cant sidestep it every ti time. Look, first of all, there was so much going on the other night i am surprised he could even hear what was going on and cut through it. I understand why this is something the Trump Campaign and trump wants. The Trump Campaign and donald trump himself decided before there was a nominee that they were going to call the democratic nominee a socialist. I think that was why they pretty much preferred bernie and frankly to be honest as a democrat its why i had fears about bernie being the nominee. You are making it easy for the president and for the Republican Party to tarnish or put a very broad brush on the democrats saying we are all commies. You cant do that with joe biden. I understand why its frustrating. I understand why maybe you why trump wants different answers out of him. I dont think the president s frustrations with the rays have anything to do with how joe bidens answering or the unity of the party. Ill be the first to admit i am shocked by the unity in our party. 33 more days. Its possible we do what we do best which is fractured. Bill well see if that happens. Well talk again soon. Thanks. In a moment, Airline Workers facing job cuts, covid19 relief is in limbo on the hill. 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