[cheers and applause] >> give it up for randy and justin. [cheers and applause] >> all right, you guys, >> lawrence: we'll see you. >> she is from arkansa too. she is excited to be here. >> bret: the long wait is over. vice president kamala harris

sitting down for an interview after 40 days atop the democratic ticket and doubles down on a more moderate positions on various things marking a vast contrast from whener previous stances, i'm bret baier in for bill hemmer. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith in for dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." the first time harris faced formal questions during her candidacy. she defended her moves to the center but while mostly avoiding specifics, she claims her core values have not changed. >> generally speaking, how should voters look at some of the changes that you've made that you've explained some of here in your policy? should they feel comfortable and confident that what you are saying now is going to be your policy moving forward? >> i think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed.

>> bret: five years ago we heard a much different tune on a litany of hot button issues. >> we've got to critically re-examine ice and its role and the way that it is being administered and the work it is doing and need to probably think about starting from scratch. in question i'm in favor of banning fracking. folks have plenty enough problems instead of a wall. that wall ain't going to stop them. no. no. access to affordable healthcare shouldn't be a privilege but a right. >> many people watching at home have health insurance of their employer. who would abolish the private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan? all right. >> bret: in a statement the trump campaign says kamala said her values have not changed three separate times. she is still a san francisco radical. the "wall street journal" editorial board calls this

nothing more than smoke and mirrors writing we take it as a studied wink to her left flank that she is on their side but can't say so clearly until she is elected. >> sandra: byron donalds is standing by. first rich edson is live from rehoboth beach, delaware for us this morning to kick things off. hey, rich. >> good morning, sandra. well, few specifics and no major policy breaks with the biden administration. though vice president kamala harris says she is stressing her support of the current administration and its policies but while also saying it is time to turn the page from the leadership the united states has had over a past decade. the v.p. defended moving to the center on issues like fracking and the border during a 2020 primary debate she indicated she would support decriminalizing illegal crossings at the border. yesterday she said her administration would enforce those laws. >> i believe there should be consequence. we have laws that have to be followed and enforced, that

address and deal with people who cross our border illegally and there should be consequence. let's be clear in this race i'm the only person who has prosecuted trans national criminal organizations. >> on the economy harris says this administration has done good work but more to do. in the 2020 primary campaign she once said she supported banning fracking. harris said last night that the u.s. can increase a thriving clean energy economy without banning fracking. her opponents running mate maintains these positions shifts are all a front. >> she has been coached to pretend to be a moderate. unfortunately, guys, she has governed as a san francisco liberal and because of it americans are poorer, the world is in more chaotic and our border is wide open. >> president biden has faced opposition from within his party especially among arab american voters over u.s. support of israel. last night harris said israel

has the right to defend itself. far too many innocent palestinians have been killed in gaza and hamas and israel need to reach an agreement to free the hostages and end the fighting. >> sandra: rich, thank you. >> bret: florida congressman and trump surrogate byron donalds joins us now. good morning and thank you for being here. the "wall street journal" editorial board, the vice president got away for the most part with repeating her campaign's platitudes. that's a shame because the voters still haven't received a straight answer whether and how she has changed her views from the far left positions she espoused in 2019. for some voter out there who may want to give vice president harris the benefit of the doubt, what do you say to them? >> i would say don't give her the benefit of the doubt. i watched the interview twice yesterday. let's be clear. she hasn't changed her positions and she said she hasn't changed her values. when it came to the border she said we should follow the law.

i will make sure we do that. you've been vice president for 3 1/2 years. you are not following border security law. you were in charge, why didn't you do that? she had no answer. when it ca im to fracking, she is saying i don't want to do it anymore. the green new deal which was embedded in the inflation reduction act where she was the tiebreaking vote in the united states senate, that actually winds down fossil fuel production in our country in about ten years and starts in ten years and moves forward after that. she didn't have any specifics. dana bash gave her an opportunity to provide specifics but side stepped them all. the reason why she has the same policy visions and values she had in 2019. but now she has to hide them from the american people. that is why she didn't look confident in her answers. this is why she was looking at the table more than she was looking at the camera or dana bash because i do not believe

and i think if people watch it they will see she doesn't believe what she is saying. she is just trying to get elected. the country needs leadership, it does not need fake pandering from the political class. >> sandra: checking her website this morning no policies listed out there and the slogan front page let's win this. she was asked a question. she was asked about whether or not she would be willing and open to appointing a republican to her cabinet if she does win the white house. listen. >> will you appoint a republican to your cabinet? >> yes, i would. >> anyone in mind? >> no one in particular in mind. 68 days to go in this election. i'm not putting the cart before the horse. i would. i think it is really important. i have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion. i think it is important to have people at the table. >> sandra: what was your reaction to that, congressman?

>> i don't have a reaction. it's fine, i guess. it doesn't really matter when you are talking about inflation, which is crippling families, what is happening on our southern border, foreign policy and the massive issues our nation is facing. you can have a republican, pseudo republican, rhino republican. it doesn't matter. it wouldn't change the policies she would implement. if you look at her track record and what she has supported it has always been these dangerously liberal progressive policies. adam kinzinger being in the cabinet won't change that. >> bret: how does the trump campaign most effectively run against this? you see how she is answering these questions. one of the things that is a challenge is that she has been vice president for the last 3 1/2 years and embracing what she says are the good things of the biden administration. three times she said bringing inflation down to under 3%. when they took over it was 1.4%. how does the trump campaign run

against this? >> i think what donald trump and j.d. vance are doing is the absolute right approach. because she hides from the media and because frankly her campaign hides her from the media. we saw last night she is not very good at this. they are flooding the zone pushing their message rerentlessly. demonstrating that she is the current vice president. in the interview last night she tried to deflect when she was a prosecutor. that was almost a decade ago, more than that. she is in the vice president seat right now and lives at the naval observatory today. what has she done? pressing the contrast between the trump administration and the kamala harris joe biden administration is how you win this election. i'm on the record. her support might be wide today but it is an inch deep. you can break through that shallow support by holding her accountable for her record and drawing that contrast between donald trump and kamala harris

and joe biden. >> sandra: new reaction from the trump advance ticket this morning when vance joined "fox & friends" earlier this morning. he responded to her explanation or reasoning of her flip-flops. listen. >> you have the same values, why have you changed your mind on every topic you held an opinion on? it is important for us not to bye this. if you look at the way kamala harris has governed. she governed as a far left person just pretending she isn't now. if she does she will do the same thing she has been doing the last few years. >> sandra: final thought. >> j.d. is correct. forget all the things she said. go back and watch her body language. when she talked about her niese she is looking at dana bash and smiling and relaxed. when you ask her about her policies and flip-flopping she is looking down and small.

she doesn't look like she has confidence in what she is saying because she doesn't believe it. she is trying to remember what they coached her to say. that's not the leadership our country needs in this pressing hour. we need donald trump. >> bret: congressman, thank you. >> sandra: thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> bret: live look at johnstown, pennsylvania where former president donald trump is set to hold a rally this afternoon. he will likely almost positively address last night's harris interview. the latest fox polls show the race tied in the key battleground state of pennsylvania. >> sandra: the idf with brand-new strikes as its west bank raid reaches day three as israel agrees to have humanitarian on sunday for polio vaccinations. jeff paul is in tel aviv with the latest on the conflict.

>> a third day of the raids is underway now where israeli forces are focused on the northern portion of the west bank. that's where the idf says they took out and eliminated a local commander involved in hamas's wing in the city. the idf said she spotted a man in a car and decided to eliminate him. he was responsible for shooting and bombing attacks in the palestinian territory. eventually two other militants were killed in a drone strike. a day before israeli officials said it killed five including a top commander with islamic jihad. they called the days of raids concerning and explosive situation. pointing to destruction from air strikes. bullet riddled cars and homes and streets torn up by israeli machinery. >> they bulldoze streets, they destroy parts of houses and they

bomb places of worship which affected us the most and made us cry. >> the war in gaza continues all while a new health emergency services there. the first case of polio has emerged in the territory for the first time in 25 years. israel and hamas have agreed to allowed to u.n. to come in and attempt to vaccinate the 500,000 kids who call gaza home. a series of local pauses in the fighting to allow the doctors to have access to patients to administer vaccines. this happening as cease talks continue to try to get a cease-fire deal between israel and hamas. white house has progress has been made. so far no deal just yet. sandra. >> sandra: jeff paul live out of tel aviv. thank you. >> our department is hurting. we have officers who are injured, in the hospital, and we lost one of our own. >> bret: breaking news out of

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>> bret: some residents in a denver suburb are living in fear today. they claim this video shows a gang of armed venezuelan migrants taking over a group of apartment buildings in aurora. william la jeunesse is live in the west coast newsroom with more on this. good morning, william. >> there are two stories here and they are related. one is the takeover of these apartments by venezuelan migrants. the other is the biden-harris administration deciding this week to restart its program bringing in migrants from cuba, haiti, nicaragua and venezuela despite widespread fraud. migrants lying on application, sponsors using fraudulent identities including dead people. addresss that don't exist.

traffickers demanding payments from those they sponsor and many believe that's what we're seeing a blames the administer and how to arrest and evict those who took over the complex. >> several buildings under the same ownership. out of state ownership that have fallen to these venezuelan gangs. we did everything we could to keep them out of the city because it's not our problem. this is a federal problem. >> under the chnv program, dhs paroles migrants so they don't overwhelm the border. >> they are funneling people into the united states under this program with no expectation they will ever leave. >> colorado's governor says the video is part of a misinformation campaign and that aurora officials are imagining the problem. residents don't see it that way. they are moving out and former

president trump weighed in yesterday. >> we tried reaching out to the resources but they told us since it wasn't condemned building we would have to wait until that was the issue. but we didn't want to wait for that. >> they took over a building? they took over the building and walked in machine guns and guns. you haven't seen even the beginning of this migrant crime. >> there is very little vetting for migrants under this chnv program. we don't have access to criminal records at home and most don't fear being deported because their countries won't take them back. back to you. >> bret: william. thank you. >> dana: thank you. a district attorney for colorado's 18th judicial district joins us now. people have a lot of questions about this. we were able to break a lot of news with that mayor yesterday out of aurora confirming this gang has indeed taken over

multiple buildings there in aurora. he cited a lot of illegal activity. as the district attorney, what is being done about this? >> i can tell you we're aggressively prosecuting any of the cases that we see come across our desk. we've got a multi-agency task force looking into these crimes right now and whenever we see a gang try to infiltrate our community or get a foothold we'll prosecute them vigorously. we've done that in the past. over the last few years we saw elements of another trans national gang ms-13 try to establish a foothold in our community and indicted over a dozen members of that gang. aggressively prosecuted them for multiple murders and shooting violent crimes and several of them are spending the next few decades looking back on their life choices in prison and regretting them. some are spending the rest of their lives in prison in colorado. >> sandra: we were able to lock up a lot of those guys. when you look at the situation in roar ya you see the urgency

at the moment. the residents are scared and intimidated. a huge economic repercussion to all this as well. people are afraid to go out. businesses are afraid to talk. this is the mayor yesterday talking about the growing threat that is happening right now in that city. listen. >> yeah, it's intimidation factor. we have venezuelan gang members who have gone into an apartment complex that where there was a concentration of venezuelans and pushed out the property management through intimidation and now they are intimidating the tenants there to pay them the rent and probably extort other things from them. >> sandra: when you say you aggressively prosecute these individuals, that could take time. people see this is happening in that building right now. why isn't the police going in, addressing this situation? you said you have developed a task force. what can be done today?

>> sandra: that is actually happening right now. i can tell you our police department is aggressively looking into these cases and trying to identify these individuals and sending cases to my office for prosecution. i have heard criticism of some folks saying things this is imaginary. i can tell you the people in this apartment complex and people of aurora know it is not imaginary. i look at a case involving four co-defendants, migrant crime from this apartment complex involving a home invasion, burglary, kidnapping, theft. these are real things and real people that are being impacted. we are taking it extremely seriously. there are many open and active investigations going on right now. >> sandra: as far as the suggestion from the mayor because they don't have a sanctuary city status there, denver and the state does, he suggested that the feds, that the federal government is responsible for sending some of these venezuelan gang members

into that city. do you have any evidence of that? >> i haven't looked into that specifically. i do know this is a real example of how cities across our country that are extremely far away from our border are dealing with the impacts of a failed border policy. a porous southern border, fentanyl and cartels killing our citizens or human trafficking or importing gangs and the criminal element that is not being vetted before they come into our communities. >> sandra: one of the people you referenced that seems to be down playing this mess is the governor himself of colorado, he said through a spokesperson we know violent crime was down between 2022 and 2023. expect the data will show further declines in 2024. recent misinformation campaign referencing this moment with gang activity in aurora threatens actually criminal investigations and hurt the climate for small businesses in

aurora. your reaction to that. where is cookie monster, the gang leader that is now locked up according to the mayor, has a lengthy rap sheet. some heinous crimes this person has committed and arrested once, let go. we were told yesterday he was arrested again. where is this person and isn't he a wealth of information in all of this? >> i can tell you i strongly disagree with the governor's comments. this isn't misinformation. right now there is an active investigation to a massive shoot-out that occurred outside of one of these apartment complexes. one man ended up dead. that's not misinformation. these are real problems and when you are talking about a specific individual i'm not going to comment on those in open cases that we have going on. but i can tell you this is real, it is not imaginary and it is certainly not misinformation. >> sandra: is he in custody that gang leader? >> i don't know about their

particular nicknames. i can tell you about aurora spans multiple counties, there are several other law enforcement agencies involved that might have more information about that. >> sandra: we have reached out to them and attempting more. the mayor said he is in custody. we haven't been able to find a recent mug shot or information on his arrest. we'll keep digging for that. thank you very much for joining us today. >> thank you for having me. >> bret: former president trump set to stump in the key state of pennsylvania later today. his first chance to react to vice president harris's sit-down interview. new developments in the deadly shooting of a dallas police officer. we are live with an update next.

texas was killed and two others hurt after a shooting in oak

cliff, a suburb of dallas. mike tobin is on this with more. >> the dallas police officer is dead and another fighting for his life. a third shot. the first time the department knew there was a problem there was a call for an officer in distress in a neighborhood on the south side of dallas. when other police arrived they found the officer in a marked police cruiser shot dead. the suspect was still at the scene and opened fire. officers returned fire in the gun battle two police officers were shot. >> our department is hurting. we have officers who are injured, who are in the hospital and we lost one of our own. we ask tonight and this morning for the thoughts and prayers of our city for not only those who are recovering in the hospital, but for our fallen, for their family, and for their loved ones and for us as a department as well. >> the suspect jumped into a car and headed north creating a high speed chase up interstate 35.

he reached the town of lewisville and got out of his vehicle. police say with a long gun. other police agencies were involved. dallas police say it was one of their officers who shot the suspect dead. identity of the cop killer hasn't been released yet. police don't know why he opened fire on the officer in his cruiser. >> sandra: tough story. >> bret: vice president kamala harris standing by president biden. she says when it comes to her previous defense of his capabilities there is no second guessing. >> you insisted that president biden is extraordinarily strong. given where we are now, do you have any regrets about what you told the american people? >> no, not at all. not at all. i have served with president biden for almost four years now and i will tell you it is one of the greatest honors of my career. he has the intelligence,

commitment and judgment and disposition that i think the american people rightly deserve in their president. by contrast, the former president has none of that. >> bret: let's bring in our panel. jessica action, former trump associate director of omb and matt bennett. third way founder, former clinton white house deputy special assistant. matt, let me start with you. that's a bit of a disconnect there. that question about do you regret anything about saying that he is strong? and agreeing with all the biden officials who said that he could run circles around everyone as she is sitting there as the democratic candidate. there is a bit of a disconnect there. >> well look, obviously the president did make the decision to step aside after the really rough debate. but i think what the vice president was saying there was that she has watched joe biden for 3 1/2 years very closely and

that he has performed very capably and her understanding was that he had the wherewithal both physically and mentally to keep going. it was a close call. the president took a long time, several weeks after the debate to make that decision. a bunch of people around him thought he should stay in the race. this wasn't, you know, an easy decision for anybody. and look, only the president and his family, his doctors can really tell you whether he had what it takes to keep performing the job for another four years. it is clear he can do the job for at least another six months and i think that's what she was referring to. >> bret: "new york times" headline how biden's senate allies helped push him from the race. they feared he would drag them down and spoil his own legacy and played more assertive role that was previously known in his stepping aside. that was one of the striking things in the interview the hugging, embracing of the biden

administration but also saying that she wants to turn the page and that american people want something new. >> i think it was incredibly confusing, the entire interview from the tone to the setup to the questions that were asked without any sort of follow-up. on this point in particular, i think what we actually saw was harris doubling down on biden's record but with that comes accountability for her. she has played a heavy hand the last 3 1/2 years and is actually now accountable to the american people for bidenomics, for the 39% increase in housing prices, for a failed foreign policy which has much of europe and the middle east at the brink of war and for a border that today, even though says she would enforce the rule of law, today they aren't enforcing the rule of law. she is in charge of the border keeping it safe and secure for america. the flip-flopping was confusing, reveals a lack of trust but

shows the inept news of this entire campaign. >> bret: this is a close race. the momentum that came out of the dnc is real and you look at polls that shows that in the swing states and look at the national polls in the "wall street journal." harris 48%, trump 47. quinnipiac, 49, 48. a tight, tight race. to jessica's point, if you say that you have the same values and same values you had in 2019 when you ran for president, but the policy issues at times are 180 degrees different, where is that? how do you square that circle? >> i think it's very clear where that is. she is able to learn and to grow. i think if we know one thing about donald trump is he is capable of neither of those things. what she has experienced in 3 1/2 years as vice president. remember, she was only in the senate relatively brief time. before that she was a prosecutor

in california. and what she found after 3 1/2 years of traveling the country and talking to americans working with the president and congress, is that there are better ways of achieving some of the things she wants to achieve. we need to get to a clean energy economy. we can do it without banning fracking. we can do it by investing in clean energy, which is what the biden administration has done in the inflation reduction act and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. as she said last night the ends she is seeking haven't changed. the means have because she has learned a lot and circumstances have changed and we're in a closely divided country with a divided congress. i will say that the fact that she hasn't changed her principles makes her, i think, a much better leader. if you look at somebody like vance who tossed aside principles he had for his whole life to join a ticket with donald trump i think that's a

different situation. >> bret: a long list of changes here, matt. she hasn't really explained all of them. she has a chance to explain some of them. jessica and matt. we appreciate it. thanks. >> sandra: vice president kamala harris meanwhile defending bidenomics as she touts her own economic plan for day one. duckduckgo comes with a built-n engine, like google, but it's r and doesn't spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browsel but it blocks cookies and creepy ads that follow youa and other companies. and there's no catch. it's fre. we make money from ads, but they don't follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today.

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>> bret: the hockey community, nhl star and his brother were killed when a car crashed into them while riding their bikes last night. johnny was one of the nhl's best forwards during 11 seasons are the calgary flames and columbus blue jackets. they were set to be groomsmen in their sister's wedding later today. >> day one will be about implementing my plan for an opportunity economy. >> sandra: vice president harris defending the administration's record on the economy. she said the country needs to turn the page from the last ten years of politics. we'll see what james free man has to say about that.

from the "wall street journal" editorial page and joins us in new york. great to see you. what is your reaction to what you heard last night? >> i guess she is trying to thread the needle here to sort of pretend things have been going well, not repudiate the mistakes but also suggest that things are going to be better. >> sandra: did she achieve that? >> i would say no. the problem is the facts. when she was sworn in in january of 2021, inflation was much lower. people are kind of celebrating this 2 1/2% pce today. it met expectations. it was 1.6 when she was sworn n. it is another one of these stats where inflation is worse, economy is growing more slowly, our news site had a story today about more people taking second jobs, a sign of consumer pain, inflation is now allowing them to cover their costs with their regular wages. so what you would love to see, which you've seen from the fed,

is an acknowledgement of mistakes that created this inflation. >> sandra: that core personal consumption number is one you were watching went up in july. a year-over-year change. slightly softer than the estimate. there are growing indications that this is an economy that, you know, people say they have been feeling that is now showing up in the economic numbers. very deep in the federal reserve report, they look at the meat people are buying. when people are buying more sausage extending their food longer and an economic sign of slowdown. a nugget that stuck with me. here is more from kamala harris's interview last night about the opportunity economy. listen. >> when we came in our highest priority was to do what we could to rescue america and today we know that we have inflation at under 3%, a lot of our policies have led to the reality that

america recovered faster than any wealthy nation around the world. i'm proud of the work we have done that has brought inflation down to less than 3%. >> sandra: we know she pitched this plan for going after price gouging, which is a form of price controls, right? >> she is propagating the myth that has haunted joe biden. how he went wrong economically and how we got all the inflation. he continues to say and now she continues to say american economy needed a rescue. it was a shambles when they took over and had to do all this spending. it was growing faster than it is now. inflation was lower than it is now. if they had just done nothing we would be in a much better place. biden would probably still be faking his way to re-election. so until she acknowledges and understands what went wrong i don't see how any voter could assume we would get something better. to say inflation is under 3%,

when they took office it was 1 1/2. so what are they -- what is she celebrating? why is there no acknowledgement of the problem? >> sandra: there was not an acknowledgement that massive government spending got us here and inflation is twice what it was when they took office. she touted the inflation reduction act. spending that didn't result in lower prices. this is the reaction from former president donald trump on what he says about kamala harris's economic policies. >> but the problem is that's not her belief. her belief is open borders. her belief is getting rid of social security. her belief is doing all these plans for health insurance. it is a communist-type of government. >> sandra: comment on that. >> it is hard to say exactly where she is now. she is vaguely batting away questions by saying i still have my values, i haven't changed

them. if you go back to that 2019, 2020 period when she is running for president, it is a pretty radical agenda she sketched out. obviously when you came out and said now i want price controls, the "washington post" noted you aren't rebutting the claim you are a communist. >> sandra: same values but once no fracking, e.v. mandates. >> if that's the values that the country wants, then people should vote for her. >> very interesting. james, good to have you here this morning. bret. >> bret: straight ahead as we look at chicago o'hare airport. airports across the country bracing for 17 million passengers. 17 million. but a lot of severe weather could cause chaos. fox weather tracking it all next. ♪

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>> bret: a stormy start to labor day weekend in virginia as severe thunderstorms brought hail to the northern part of that commonwealth. fox weather meteorologist adam klotz with the holiday weekend forecast. >> a couple areas we are tracking big storms. we saw them yesterday, more today. storm reports in the mid atlantic and upper midwest. the upper midwest storms on the move and we're seeing a low end risk but a risk of severe weather from chicago to indianapolis. detroit is an area two on a scale of five for a risk of severe weather. this afternoon ingredients are in place to have big thunderstorms . that kind of weather that slows down travel the next couple of days as you are looking at some delays expected across area airports. everything you are looking at in the yellow. the gulf coast is expecting a bunch of rain and yellow

slowdowns at airports along the gulf coast and back across the midwest. areas with some risk of severe weather will be more spots where we could see slowdowns today. east coast and west coast are looking good. airport delays so far. so far so good. new york, chicago are the most delayed but still those numbers are not looking too bad for now. the weather headlines for now, bret, back over to you. >> bret: not too bad. thanks. >> sandra: thank you. and americans will be hitting the road for the long labor day weekend. fox business's jeff flock always has the best reports around these days and he is live from the pennsylvania turnpike. careful out there, jeff. >> actually, we're trying to get through philadelphia right now to get maybe down to the jersey shore, sandra. it is supposed to rain but you can always be optimistic. a lot of people will be on the road this labor day holiday. big increase in travel. they are being greeted by good

news on gas prices. got another picture, by the way, downtown philadelphia as we pass through it. take a look at gas prices. you get a 50% discount this year compared to last year, 381 last year for the average gallon of regular, 335 this year. travel increase about 9%, they say. more people on the roads, the air and seas this labor day compared to last year so i guess that's good news as well. the top destinations miraculously the jersey coast is not on the list. seattle according to experts, orlando, anchorage, alaska and of course new york city, everybody likes to go to new york. i don't know why you would go right now but whatever, it is labor day. there you go, sandra. we're in the midst of a traffic jam but that's what happens when you get on the road on labor day. they say leave early particularly today and then leave early coming back on monday because it will be even

worse. >> sandra: the only person i know who can deliver a live television report while driving and merging. the good news is, you are moving, right? there is not complete gridlock on friday. >> absolutely. we took the advice, we got out early and so hopefully, there is a state trooper. i hope i didn't do any untoward there while talking to you. there you go. >> sandra: getting pulled over while doing a live report while driving. always great. >> his lights are on. the lights just went on. not me fortunately. the other camera. his lights just came on. i don't think it's for me. that's good news. >> sandra: jeff, always great stuff. thank you very much, sir. everyone enjoy your labor day safely. >> what would you do day one? >> day one it will be implementing my plan for an opportunity economy. there is the work we'll do that's about investi