Breaking tonight, it should have been president ial Debate Number 1 here on fox but Kamala Harris took a pass. So Donald Trump decided to go it alone, holding a live Town Hall and marking his ticket tickets 36 interview in the past month. Meantime after just one interview last week, Harris And Walz continue to play dodge the media. Governor, are you going to take any Policy Questions . [ inaudible ] madame Vice President , how is debate prep going . Trace more on that in moments but we begin with the former president taking questions for more than an hour with a fired up crowd in battleground pennsylvania. Live in harrisburg with the details on this. Reporter good evening. In that Town Hall, the former president also of course making his first comments about the upcoming president ial debate and talking about the rules, the rules changing backandforth. Those rules were just announced by abc News Today and that includes that the microphones will be muted, there will be no audience and n
sandra: kristin fisher has more. president biden will be delivering his first prime time address hours after signing his biggest first legislative accomplishment in to law. this american rescue plan 1.9 trillion. now, remember, this was supposed to be a bipartisan package. in the end, it had zero republican support. now the white house is proudly calling this the most progressive bill in american history. that is not sitting well with republican senator john kennedy. listen here from this morning. we tried with president biden. he said look, i ll meet you halfway. we said okay. well then he just ignored us. if he was meeting us halfway, he s a damn poor judge of distance. in terms of what to expect tonight, the white house says the president will mark the one-year anniversary of the country shutting down due to the coronavirus pandemic. he will be talking about the sacrifices that the american people have made over the last year and what they have to look forward to
matter. sandra: absolutely. you made that point yesterday in the wake of all of this. mercedes. we ll see where the day takes us. one of his accusers, one of the victims calling him a circus act. mercedes, thank you. my pleasure, thanks, sandra. sandra: that stunning sexual harassment report is just one of cuomo s scandals. he is still under investigation for his policy that caused thousands of covid deaths in nursing homes in new york state. outspoken critic janice dean with a very personal take on this in a scathing op-ed out today. she will join us live on set next. plus this. we don t need mandates to know what to do. we need to talk to people about getting vaccinated to protect themselves from the delta variant and these other variants that are out there. sandra: so clearly the debate over mask mandates is not going away and getting more and more personal by the day. yet more messy messaging from
are on the president s agenda. and the whole world knows that the president doesn t make empty promises. it s something that s been proven both with domestic policy and with foreign policy. and i think it s speaking directly to the heart of the leaders that are in north korea to know that there if there is going to be a red line, it s not going to be allowed to be crossed. pete: you live in the south. you have got to be for alabama or georgia. are you making a call for tonight? i stick with our florida teams. pete: come on. i m going to be supporting and cheering for whoever comes away as the victor and congratulating them. it s always painful for me to not see one of my own teams there. pete: you are right no gators or sim nos. thank you. alan dershowitz says we aremie generation. how do would fix it? it s an important question. he joins us live on set next.