Scene. Crisis at home and abroad, threatening to upend the race for the White House as we look into Southern Lebanon there overseas. Good morning, everybody. Bill hemmer. We have a ton to get to on this tuesday. Thank you for being with us today. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. Well take you through the breaking news. Israel launching a limited Ground Invasion to fight hezbollah in lebanon. At home american Dock Workers beginning to strike which could send ports and the economy reeling. Recovery efforts from a catastrophic storm still underway in the southeast. The stories are evolving by the minute and all three could impact the election. Bill 35 days until america votes and despite these major developments at home and abroad the Vice President , Kamala Harris, still has yet to hold a formal news conference. Rnc cochair Michael Whatley is with us today. Steve harrigan reports on the Recovery Efforts in North Carolina. First to Brooke Taylor covering the Port Strike
Along with the judge jeanine pirro, harold ford harold fordo, junior and greg gutfeld pick it is 5 00 in New York City and this is the five. [ ] the debate over the debate isme somehow it is a back, the trump and Harris Campaigns clashing over their showdown on abc including whether the microphones will be muted. Kamala harris wants them hot, with trump hopefully losing his cool on the microphone. Trump steam wants to keep them muted as it was for biden. Kamala harris Attacking Trump for wanting to stick to the rules after her campaign bashed him as a coward but wanting those same rules to change it back when trump ordered a new Debate Schedule after bidenfo dropped out. Earlier the former president sayingrmnt thats fine, watch this. Mr. Trump you want to change the rules because she cant answer questions. S we agreed to the same rules, i dont know, would rather have ie on probably blood agreed it would be the same as it was last time. T in thahat case it was muted. I did not like at t
president felt he had a moral obligation to take that. it was either get one american out, in this case, britney, or get none. you said earlier today, the u.s. has not been back to square one with whelan s negotiations. where do those stand? i think, look, over the last certainly over the last several weeks and months, we ve become much more informed about the russian position. because we work so aggressively to get both of them out. we now have a better sense of where the russians are coming out this, from a negotiation standpoint with respect to paul. so, going forward, we are smarter, we are more informed, and we are going to use that context as we try to aggressively negotiate for his release as well. dr. john kirby, appreciate it, thank you. the thank you, sir. we will have much more in the senate as we wait for britney griner s return. next, a man who got sent back to russia. the so-called merchant of death who was viktor bout in his
modern history where we have looked more feckless and beat and i m in touch with special operation range they are ready to go get our americans their hands are being tied behind their back by this white house. bret: i want you to take off your republican congressman hat that obviously politically hitting this administration and democrats are doing it, too. and i want you to put back on the green beret and say what do we need to do as military? can they draw up a planned say, mr. president, this is what we need to do? what militarily do we need to do on the ground? well, first of all, we need to get the force in place to go get our americans behind enemy lines. thousands that are behind enemy lines and from a negotiation standpoint, you know, there just seems the fear of what the taliban will do or some type of escalation. we need to put the fear in them,
recent immigration proposal, his infrastructure plan which is yet to be released, trade and national security. joining me to discuss all of this cnn political commentator brian lanza former deputy communications director for the trump campaign. why doesn t the president pitch any new proposals ahead of the speech, getting that momentum going? you know, i think the momentum already exists and i think we re looking at a president and why he does things differently he looks at it from a true negotiation standpoint. as part of the negotiation process going forward you don t put your markers out there first. you want to put the priorities of the american people first. he has to deal with the paritisn approach. then we understand afterwards trump does not plan to take his state of the union message or