>> as you can see, there has been an interruption in the supreme court preview. we are just letting you know that the missile attacks on israel from iran went underway at about 12:00 p.m. eastern. we believe there is a connection between the two. we will try to get some clarification. we should also let you know that we will be looking for remarks from the white house, the state department and pentagon on the beginning of those hostilities. in the meantime your phone calls from washington journal. media. facebook at facebook.com/cspan or on x at @cspanwj. we will show you some clips from both vance and walz, and we will

show you historical clips from the past let's start with the rules of the debate tonight. they will not have an audience. candidates have to stand behind the podium. they will not be opening statements, although there will be closing statements. the campaign staff cannot interact with candidates during the commercial breaks. no thoughts are prewritten notes allowed on the stage, although they will be allowed to take notes during the debate. cbs news reserves the right to turn off mroones. otherwise, they will remain o two minutes to answer the moderators' qstions, and the other candidate have two minutes to respond. an additional minute for rebuttal. moderators may allow an additional minute to continue the discussion. look at the house majority whip,

minnesota republican tom emmer, this sunday, talking about his role on prepping senator jd vance for the debate. [video clip] >> trump has been a disaster and minnesota. what happened is he is so good, this down-to-earth guy, until people get to know him and his policies. this whole congressional district where he played this character for several years of being kind of a folksy, ag- friendly outdoorsman, he has lasted in both gubernatorial races. he is not well-liked, because once you get to know the real tim walz, he is like gavin newsom a flannel shirt. >> i know you say things like that, so when you play him in debate, what do you do? have you had any mock debates yet? have you actually played him for jd vance? >> the debate is on tuesday night, so i will let your

viewers decide that. i am not going to get ahead of jd and the team. if they want to talk about what we did, when we did it, how many times, they can do that. for me, i have been doing my job in helping jd see what it is he will be dealing with tuesday night, but he is going to do a great job. he has the issues on his side. he can talk about the economy that donald trump fixed and that harris and biden broke and the border that trump fixed and they broke. he can talk about peace and stability around the world, which they do not even have a clue. they caused all this disruption. once he understands that tim walz is going to try to deflect with his folksy whatever, he will hold him accountable. i think jd will do a great job. host: also from sunday, vermont democratic governor lamont talked about what governor walz needs to do for the debate. >> i love tim walz.

i like guys who actually had a life before politics, unlike his opponent. i like that he is a coach, teacher. i like what he did in the guard. i think he puts the human face on the harris-walz policies. a big emphasis upon small business and startups and innovation. as opposed to big business orientation on the other side. what they are doing for the middle-class class to raise people up, helping people to own their own home and business. they will tell that story, and they will tell it well. host: we are taking your calls this morning on the vice presidential debate. it is happening tonight. the numbers are on your screen, divided by who you are supporting. we want to know if you think they matter. are you going to be watching? do you think it will impact your vote? we will be simulcasting tha debate live, coverage starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight.

p.m. after the debate, which will take about 90 minutes, we will be taking your calls and getting your reaction to it. we will start with elise, portland oregon, harris-walz supporter. caller: good morning thank you, c-span. i am voting for harris-walz for many reasons. and the people of america need to know how the democratic party is responding to catastrophic disasters. biden and harris are doing wonderful. i am a survivor of hurricane michael in 2018. and trump and governor scott,

they did not give the panhandle the herd earned money for 283 days. it is wonderful that biden and harris are helping the people. host: elise, are you going to be watching the debate tonight? caller: yeah, because i am tired of trump making false claims, lies about catastrophic disasters. i went through a cat 5 hurricane, and governor scott did not cover it. he denied the panhandle people money for years and years. he covered it up because of tourism. host: all right. let's talk to eric in washington, d.c., also a harris-walz supporter. caller: good morning, ma'am.

how are you? host: good. caller: i am a democrat, but the thing about it is that i sit here and watch the other running team, which is vance and donald trump, and the stuff that they are saying is just -- i just couldn't. for him to sit there and get on tv and lie that the president had not contacted him and people falling for it and the economy and good. the people are buying stuff and going on vacation. we fall for the okey doke that the sky is falling. and they going to leave the country. you went left the country yet.

you still here after four years. it is mind blowing for me that people are going for it. then you have people calling your station -- and i do not know what c-span's thing is about fact checking, but when you have someone spew stuff that not true, i would love for y'all to say, you know, that's not true, not accurate. host: what i thought was interesting was that cbs is not, and they have said this, they are not going to be fact checking the candidates. they said it was up to the other candidate to fact-check. they will be on their website, a lot of people will be doing live fact checking on the website. what do you think of that, that the moderators are not going to fact-check the candidates? caller: i think that is ridiculous, and that is on both sides. because false claims is false claims. but i was speaking of c-span.

i am just like, all you got to do is tell them that's not accurate. i know you do not want to date -- to debate with somebody, but we have got to stop spreading untruths. that is the problem of this country nowadays. the border situation has been horrible, and when donald trump says it has been bad -- the border situation, it is what it is because these people come here to work. and even though they are illegal and we need to change some laws and stuff, but he dun allow people to come in here. all presidents, ain't nobody going to stop this border. we should stop pretending that the border is going to stop. once the labor force is going, it is over with. we got people saying they taking jobs from people, black people jobs. ain't nobody taking my damn job. i work. sorry for the language. host: it is ok, but we got your

point. let's look at senator vance on the campaign trail in michigan eek. [video clip] sen. vance: the way i see the debate is simple, an opportunity for 90 minutes, governor walz and i are going to debate the issues that matter to the american people. it is simple, the candidacy, the team of substance, the team that actually has the record that we are proud of instead of running away from, and the team that actually has a plan is the team of trump vance. that is what i am going to try to do. [applause] i think one of the fundamental differences between kamala harris' campaign and donald trump's campaign, we speak to our fellow americans like they are citizens, because they are. kamala harris fixed a fellow americans like their children. i am going to try to talk about, here is explicitly what we are going to do to make your life better, and here are the things

that have made your life worse from the current administration. i think that is what the american people care about. that is my plan, so we are studying up on the issues and matters of the american people. i am looking forward to it, because as much as the moderators -- they may very well be biased, i know they were the first time, but it is an opportunity for me to tell the american people how i think we can make their lives better and how donald trump's policies can take the more prosperous and make the world more peaceful and then secure that southern border. if we do those things, we are going to win, and i believe we will. host: you can watch the date tonight, our coverage starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern time, t debate starts at 9:00 p.m. breaking news from the ap, dockworkers at ports from maine to texas go on strike, which could cause shortages.

dockworkers at ports walking picket lines early tuesday in strike of wages and automation that could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes on for more than a few weeks. some 45,000 members of the international longshoremen's association, affecting 36 ports, part of the union since 1977. we will continue to watch that and take your calls on the vice presidential debate. cheryl in lancaster, california. you are unsure. caller: i would like to know if anyone wants to hear my story as far as abortion goes. i was married and got a divorce, and 10 years later i was alone and wanted to raise a child by myself. i fell on hard times. i got pregnant just before 9/11. a month before the towers fell,

that is when i found out i was pregnant. i thought, great. i had that baby because i wanted that baby and wanted to raise it alone. i was with my ex-boyfriend, and i knew we were not going to be together. so i fell on hard times and was on welfare. i got on welfare and allowed my daughter through my marriage to live with her dad because he was doing well. so i found myself on the streets. i was raped -- might as well say, because i was misled. either way, a man came and got me pregnant. a tear came down my eye. i had to think of everything, and i ended up not having an abortion because i did not believe in it. then after 9/11, they cut welfare. here i was with two young babies and they cut my welfare because i had that baby. so i was supposed to have an abortion, apparently, because i

cannot afford it. i just thought, well, i will have to work real hard and come up with a support system. host: relate this back to the vice presidential debate. caller: yes, because that is a big issue. kamala heads the department of children services, so guess what, my kids were not taken from me but i became homeless because the youngest baby's dad decided -- he had his girlfriend call -- yeah, so my sister said she would take the kids. host: sorry to cut off your story. you are calling on the undecided line. has this issue caused you to decide on who you want to support? caller: no, not at all, except i do not want kamala harris because she does not care for children and she is a woman herself. you would think she would be changing the laws like nancy

schaffer did, and nancy was killed for us. she gets murdered -- murder-suicide, swept under the rug, by the way. yet, she killed her husband, and she was a senator for georgia. so the predators -- host: ok, we are moving on to rick who is a trump waltz supporter in iowa. that's who is a trump-vance supporter in iowa. caller: do i think the debate will change minds? i know it will not change mine. most likely, it will not change somebody who is voting democrat. the undecided, there will be more information to come out that folks don't normally get to hear. i think plenty of folks will tune in, but i do not think it will change the democrat or republican vote. but maybe on the margins, some of the undecided. the other thing, you mentioned

this longshoreman strike. i don't know, i listen to the business channel, and they were mentioning that they have not spoken, either side, to each other since june. this is just my take. this thing was a campfire, and it has now turned into a forest fire. they have not spoken since june, and i just noticed that biden and harris -- well, there folks, have mentioned it. they said, you know, these folks really ought to get together and do something about it, talk about it. we do not want to see a strike. like i said, this thing has been going on since june. so now we are getting at it. host: rick, are you going to be watching the debate tonight? caller: i will be, yes. host: what are you going to be looking for?

caller: just more info. like right now, i am sharing what i am sharing, which is basically more fodder to share. it is not going to change my mind. i am going to vote republican. but at least if somebody asks me, i will be a little more educated on the views of the participants. host: all right, rick. let's take a look at governor walz on the campaign trail in pennsylvania a few weeks ago, speaking about senator vance and project 2025. [video clip] gov. walz: this project 2025, and it funny to watch these guys -- oh, never heard of it in my life. 900 pages of it, i said, as a football coach, when you take the time to draw up a playbook, you're going to use it. they drew up a playbook, they know.

but i want to tell you something, it is what and how we think about this. my opponent, senator vance, headache q -- had a quote, you read it and hear camille gloss over it, but it is deeply disturbing. he said that when they could power, and they will use project 20 25, they need to be ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power. who says ruthless in the exercise of power who is running for a democratically elected position? this is not about power, this is about public service. [applause] this is not about power, it is about governing. host: we are taking your calls this morning, and we are also taking your facebo and

posts. kareem on facebook, answering the question, do debates matter? he says, probably not, but this will be entertaining television tonight. diane on facebook says, the one with sale -- with sarah palin was interesting, tonight's not so much. jennifer says, yes, it matters, the vice president has to be ready to be president. let's talk to francine in north carolina, a harris-walz supporter. caller: hi, good morning. thanks for taking my call. i will be watching tonight, and it will not change my mind because i have already made up my mind. character matters and honesty matters. truth matters. and i have seen none of that from trump or vance. they continuously lie about everything. trump just lied about the

response to hurricane helene. and he just lies for no reason. and he is about to be sentenced for a felony crime, and i just cannot understand how you can support a man who is a convicted felon, who has cheated on all three of his wives, who lies continuously. make no bones about it. who hates brown and black people with everything he says, puts targets on their backs. and just divides and lies about everything to all of us. i cannot understand why you would support someone like that. host: francine, are you in an area of north carolina affected by the storm?

caller: i am in charlotte. we got a lot of rain but not a lot of flooding, no. we were pretty safe where i am. host: here is tom in garrison, minnesota, supporting neither of the candidates. caller: yes, hello, good morning. actually, the question was, to the vice presidential debates matter? -- do the vice presidential debates matter? host: what do you think? caller: no, because i think by this time people have made up their mind. barring an outrageous gaffe by either walz or vance, nobody is going to change their mind at this point. frankly, the two sides this year have been very pulled to the extremes. i think the candidates, presidential and vice

presidential, have showed that, and i think it is because of the primary and the caucus process nowadays that things have gotten extreme on both sides of the party. so once we get to the debates, i think it is pretty well cut and dried who you are going to vote for, or maybe this time people are just going to -- host: let me ask you this, when you say they do not matter, do you think that we should even have vice presidential debates? is it a big waste of time? caller:, well, i understand where you are going with that, but maybe it is just for entertainment value at this point. you know, it is something to talk about. how did the candidates do last night? and it is good fodder for inside the beltway. but out here were people actually vote, i really do not

think they do matter. i don't think they matter, except for some little minor issue in a history book 100 years from now, the vice presidential candidates really have not swayed the election, from what i read. host: and here is ray, elizabeth city, north carolina, trump-vance supporter. caller: thank you for taking my call. first, i want to correct a couple of the callers. yes, debates do matter because they bring up issues, issues the people are interested in and also vote for. one caller said trump does not like brown people, that is totally false. he is not a racist. he's not a racist in any shape or form. anyway, debates do matter.

i will be watching the debate very closely between vance and walz. primarily because of the issues, but the personal attacks i am leaving aside. but the issues really are important. we have a nation with inflation. we were energy independent, totally independent, under trump, which is a fact. we were selling energy. are we respected? i do not think many of the outside nations really would respect harris and walz at all. i shudder to think of a presidency with someone so indecisive as harris is. she had three years as vice president with biden, what has she done?

she did not go to the border, got called out on it. and she says she's going to do this as president from day one, but what is important to me is show what you have done. and that is a pretty dismal showing on her part. host: all right, ray. christopher, valiant, oklahoma, a harris-walz supporter. caller: good morning. i am going to watch the debate tonight. kind of worried about why people do not research people more. they talk about the left being radical and all these different things. jd vance, everybody talks about a book he wrote.

they should be looking at the books he reads and maybe his mentors and benefactors, like curtis your oven -- curtis yarvin and others that they have talked about a little bit, but they do not really do a deep dive. involved in a movement called the dark alignment. [indiscernible] to say the least, they talked about destroying democracy, having their own country outside of the united states, silicon valley and venture capitalists, and all these -- a lot of these people are atheists.

said he was a catholic. host: what are you going to be watching for in the debate? caller: well, i would hope that they would ask some harder questions about the backgrounds of both candidates, both vice presidential candidates. i do not know much about tim walz, but i do not think he reads this type of material. host: have you read jd vance's book, "hillbilly elegy"? caller: i have skimmed it, have not read the whole thing. host: all right. let's talk to willie in north carolina. caller: good morning. i find myself voting for president trump because of policy. the personal attacks on both sides --

host: go ahead. caller: yes, the personal attacks on both sides are irrelevant, have no merit, do not mean anything. the point is who can do the job. we have one person who has ascribed to do the job, and he has had three years in a secondary position and has accomplished nothing, another individual that has done it. he brings baggage, so does she. a lot of people use the race card, i heard someone say trump is a racist. most people, in particular, blacks in the southeastern coastal areas not know kamala harris, they really do not know her record as it pertains to black america. host: if we go back to -- we're talking about the vice presidential candidates. what is your opinion of jd vance? caller: i think that jd vance is going to wipe the floor with

walz. unlike trump, i think jd vance y stick more to policy. host: we did hear you. caller: whereas, i don't think tim walz wants to stay on policy in the policies and state of minnesota. so i think that's a very strong line of attack for jd vance on -- and that's prematurely have to say this morning thank you. host: carlin hedge vie,est brother marine will kick his but , just hope it's replay of the abc where the moderators are allowed to fact check the republicans but let the democratsiehrough his teeth. sue in whiting new jersey says i am undecided, the vp debate matters if they can managto stay on point and actually

answer rather than dodge the questions. and here is mimi in virginia. good morning. >> the debates do actually matter especially the vice presidential debate. because if it wasn't for mike pence, we would have never had a biden harris administration. so i want to know whether or not jd vance is going to certify the vote if you were to win in the trumpet mr. schumer to win, i would assume tim walz would because most democrats say that they would certify the vote. so what happens back in 2020, january 6, it's very important to democracy and i don't understand how people aren't engaged in think that even matters. it absolutely matters and that's

going to be whether or not the republicans want to accept the results i assume that the democrats will. host: here is vice president harris she was at fema headquarters yesterday talking about this. [video clip] >> i've received regular updates and over the past when he four hours i've spoken with governor kemp of georgia, cooper of north carolina and many local officials. i have shared with them that we will do everything in our power to help communities respond and recover and i've shared with them that i plan to be on the ground as soon as possible but as soon as possible without disrupting any emergency response operations because that must be the highest priority in the first order of business. the devastation from hurricane helene is immense. millions of americans are

without power, thousands of families have lost their homes. entire neighborhoods have been destroyed. many roads have been blocked or damaged leaving entire towns inaccessible at this very moment. nearly 100 people up and confirmed dead in the hundreds more missing. the destruction we have seen in alabama, north carolina, tennessee and virginia is heartbreaking. in coordination with state and local officials president biden deny continue to make sure communities have the support and the resources that they need not only to respond to this storm and its immediate aftermath, but also the resources they will need to recover. so far more than 3300 federal personnel are on the ground to assist with recovery efforts. they are deploying food, water

and generators. as we continue to work with teams on the ground to restore water and power as quickly as possible. to everyone who has been impacted by the storm and to all of those of you who are rightly feeling overwhelmed by the destruction and loss, our nation is with you. president biden and i and all the folks behind me are with you. we will continue to do everything we can to help you recover and to help you rebuild no matter how long it takes. host: back to the phones to tony. harris end wall supporter. caller: good morning, i think debates are very important because if you listen carefully you will hear the character of the candidate. in regards to personal attacks, i think they are not called for but unfortunately in this high

issue with immigration and discrimination and sexism it is ridiculous. one thing and i really don't understand is how can america not see what's going on when president trump was the president i did not fault him for the pandemic, but what i do fault him izzy wasn't a merit -- honest with america on covid. he did not have a distribution plan for the shot because -- it's not a personal attack to say trump is a criminal because in a court of law he was found guilty. so that's not a personal attack, it is a fact. and people say the moderators fact-check trump, yes they did

because he lied in the debate. , lewis fact checked also a bit on cnn that she had three overstatements. the bottom line is i support because the democratic platform. name one vice president that had a vice president -- had a policy in history. she's not the president. trump has no policies. if you ask them for a policy he will ramble on about immigration tradename trump -- policy the trump wants to do. that's the problem. if we want to say we want candidates to have a policy, you can agree or don't agree but she has policies, she is relayed what her plan is paid host: let's hear from former president trump talking in georgia

yesterday. [video clip] >> as you know where countries in the final weeks of a hard-fought national election. but at a time like this when a heist -- crisis hits, none of that matters, we are not talking about politics now we have to get together and get this solved with a lot of help. we look out for one another. we pitch in and we persevere and we pull through and that's really the american spirit. that's what made america originally great and that's why we come here with large semitrucks filled with relief aid and a tanker truck filled with gasoline with castling which they can get now. and we will be working to distributed throughout the day. i want to thank franklin graham

and everyone at samaritans first paid you people are fantastic. people appreciate you very much. [applause] for the incredible partnering and work that they have done not only here but all the time they always seem to be the first ones at areas a short time ago i received a briefing on the situation here from fema and the national guard as well, quite a few of them it's amazing the way it's all been pulled together. really amazing. >> let's go to steve. a trump vance supporter. caller: how are you doing. host: i'm doing great. caller: first volley of a great station. it's very unbiased. i want to hear anybody from walz or harris give proof about the project 2025. there is no proof.

pennsylvania real live in somerset pennsylvania where i live close to have been dropped off when he 500 haitians, 500 and somerset and i hear johnstown is being targeted next. third of all, how many women have to be raped and murdered for people to wake up. my son is very democratic. these people that came over didn't want to traffic humans, they did not carry fentanyl on their backs, it's a mess. we have to control this border. but again back to 2025, why can't somebody show proof that trump is tied to that. the answer is because there is none. thank you for hearing me i really appreciate it. host: sue in high fire, pennsylvania. harris supporter. caller: good morning.

i was calling to respond about the question about if the debate matters and yes certainly very much so i believe debates matter. it gives the average person an opportunity to see the candidates, what they believe in , what their ideas are. how truthful they are. just a general introduction sometimes to each candidate if you do not know them. as far as the two different sides of our political makeup, the democrats and the republicans, -- host: what will you be listening for tonight. what issues do you want to hear about? caller: well of course, how they feel about the border situation,

the economy. general big questions at all -- that are on everyone's minds and in their thoughts, how they help the average person, not the rich , let's face it the republicans, they are mainly for the rich. the democrats are for the working people. that's the way it is. and i want to hear more from jd vance to find out who he actually is. he seems to have a lot of extreme ideas just like trump to totally destroy our country is what trump is out to do. he is just out for himself and his rich friends. he wants to be a dictator. and that's the way i feel. from his last term it was horrible and it's going to be worse next time if he gets in. host: here is jimmy, undecided voter. caller: good morning. i just drove across the country,

this debate is actually in mean something because i think nobody knows either one of them to be honest with you and you can -- one thing about -- depressed needs to ask questions and for some reason you really can't get either side of them to focus down on what the problem is. i drove across this country i went with my wife, she's 93 about -- and we were in account bumper stickers. we started out in connecticut on i 70 right through from maine to california. we saw one bumper sticker for harrison connecticut and after that we didn't see one bumper sticker, one sign, anywhere along even in california it was amazing. we got to kansas and i went to

get some soup at the diner and there were a couple of black gentlemen in their it was the day trump almost got assassinated the second time and i had a conversation with them. they are totally for trump trade they said why do you think they're trying to kill them, he's not part of the country club. i talked to people along the way. we got back to california i said you know the total is paid she's a rachel maddow democrat she said it's unbelievable. trump signs are everywhere. host: where you can a tillis did that cause you to -- what are you thinking about? caller: the one gentlemen he was probably about 30 years old and said you know she works at mcdonald's, he said i works at mcdonald's i know exactly where i work. she's running for president, nobody has worked with her mcdonald's. the other one said yeah when joe biden called her and said he's

getting out of the race she said the day before he was the most competent guy in the room and all of a sudden now on sunday he's dropping out of the race and she didn't ask why you dropping out because according to her he was the most -- this is what they are telling me. host: so did you decide or are you still undecided? caller: i'm good to watch tonight and pay attention. host: i was give us a call us back a month and tell us what you decide. how long to that drive thank you? host: it took us four days -- caller: it took us four days. it was really an eye-opener. host: appreciate you sharing that with us. jonathan in michigan. good morning. caller: hello. thanks for taking my call. i think the debate is really important is one of your

previous caller said we can get to know these candidates better and i was can make a suggestion the jd vance's book you can read it, you can also listen to it on audible and if you listen to it, jd vance himself narrates it. so i think there's kind of no excuse for people to not know who he is at this point. as for myself, i remained -- i voted democratic mostly my entire life but i remained open-minded. and i'm good to be supporting trump vance this go around. i did listen to hillbilly elegy, i thought it was an excellent book. jd vance obviously understands drug addiction because his mother suffered horribly from drug addiction. to me he came across as very articulate, very smart, very thoughtful.

and so i recommend people do that. i did want to make one other point which is that i hear a lot from the trump -- from the harris supporters talking about trump's lying all the time, that seems to be like number one thing, it's always about trump. well, a lot of the -- a lot of the attacks on trump are the -- are themselves lies. on of your the call is made the point about project 2025 not being trump's plan, it's a simple thing. you play the coat -- the quote from tim walz that that's trump's playbook. that's just a straight up lie. it comes from the heritage foundation, sure the heritage foundation is conservative but that doesn't mean it's trump's plan.

you know, everybody has ideas so why do we allow that to be said that it's trump's plan, it's not. the last thing would like to say is the most heinous lies are about calling trump a racist and just one simple example there. if you listen to what trump said about charlottesville about the riots in charlottesville, you get the whole clip, he made it crystal clear he was condemning neo-nazis and white nationalists. he made it crystal clear that he condemned them totally. yet in the trump paris debate we heard harris bring that episode up saying trump supported neo-nazis and white nationalists. i urge people to do that, that was alive. host: this is pulled fact is doing some fact checking right now. this says prep for the vice

presidential debate with fact-check and you can see all of these things, false and misleading claims about immigrants, about project 2025 like jonathan just mentioned. military and political record, it is all there and they will also be live fact checking the debate. we want to show you this poll that came out from the ap about favorability ratings of the two vice presidential candidate tim walz is favoble at 42%, is unfavorable of . those that say they do not know enough about him are5%. for jd vance's favorability rating is 27%. unfavorable at 57. and don't know enough about him at 21%. so about one in five. woodstock, virginia, mike. a harris walz supporter.

caller: good morning and as always thank you c-span for doing a great job. i have a couple of quick things. i am part of the shenandoah county virginia democratic committee and we have been all over as you know a pretty red district as far as our u.s. house representative and as far as our state legislature representatives. however going on some of your major questions if i may and i will try to go quickly, vice presidential debates do matter, you just had the favorability, don't know enough numbers up on screen. i like our fellow americans to remember that whether historically or currently people look at a vice president as what did they really do, etc.. you have to remember that the vice president has to step in

regardless of who the president may be. they have to be prepared to walk into the oval office, whether in the past it was reported mr. trump did not take many of the briefings, etc., i think mr. pence obviously was a more honorable man. but those debates -- tonight's debates so-called debate, is the question posed to both persons participating and are they held to here is the question. when -- if you and i had a conversation, if you asked me here's a question and i just did not go there at all, you would have no confidence in what i was saying. governor walz is a governor, that is a chief executive position. a chief executive, the

presidency is a chief executive position. and that experience overseeing executive branch department operations and working with legislatures on law and appropriations, etc.. mr. vance has recently been up on several video clips saying write out when the whole springfield issue about haitians came up and not only has he doubled down on that, but he out right said we are running a campaign and if we have to lie to advance. host: create stories, yes. if we have to create stories to get media attention we will. caller: yes ma'am, thank you for making the clarification.

you are obviously picking up on what i was saying. host: here is brent in pennsylvania. an undecided voter. caller: how are you doing. host: i'm doing great. caller: the question today is due debates matter and i think this vice president will debate will matter much more than many in the past. simply because the policies may be discussed instead of just personal attacks and innuendos, i think these two gentlemen will probably stick to the policies later are than the previous debates. so in that i hope to get more informed about what they will actually say and what their actual positions are. host: do you think you will decide at the end of this debate who you will support? caller: at this point i would

probably lean to the republicans side on debate issues that i have heard. some of the things i don't particular care about the democratic party is they attacked the republican party about democracy being upheld when their candidate did not receive any votes. so it's a little struggle for me to understand how they use that and say -- use that as a talking point against the republicans. the truly it would be nice to hear what the positions are without all the personal attacks and i think this will be a much more articulate debate about policies and we have seen in the presidential debates. host: given that you are in pennsylvania in a very swing state are you getting a lot of visits, are people knocking on your door trying to convince you

one way or the other? caller: basically i live in a very rural area and i've got nobody knocking on the door although i do get mailings, things that i receive in the mail. from both political parties. another issue that is kind of geared to me is women's rights issues and when i look at the policies being put forward from the democratic party, supporting transgender athletes and i believe that has a negative effect on the scholarship opportunities of women. i feel that that's a little bit misleading when they push women's rights but you know,

with bathroom facilities being opened transgender's i believe that that affronts the privacy rights of women. so in that i feel as though the democratic party is a little bit misleading on how they -- host: i have one more question for you paid early voting has started in pennsylvania. you plan to vote early or are you planning to wait until election day? caller: i will wait till election day. i personally believe elections should be held on a national holiday so that all people are able to go vote in person. host: that would be nice brent. we are going to go on to jim in florida. good morning. caller: good morning. first of all i want to tell you i've been a democrat most of my life. i did vote for trump when he ran last time and i am now a

republican, i changed. i want to explain something to all the people out there. down here in florida we have a lot of citrus, we did have but a lot of it has been destroyed this disease. my father worked over 100 mexicans from mexico every year. my dad would go down and make sure everyone of them had their green card and we would check once a week or every two weeks by the border patrol and he did it the right way. i notice a lot of the mexican people are upset because of the people coming across the border. they did it the right way and 90% of them are americans now. my dad help them get their citizenships, but i think tonight the vice presidential debate means a lot. an ideal to hear what both

parties have to say but i will tell you people attacked trump about this, whatever he's done in his life, that is his business and that's all we have to go with. but as far as kamala harris, she didn't do nothing and people say well, the president told her to. she told her -- she went one time to the border. host: can i ask you a question about immigration in the border. former president trump has said he wants to do mass deportations. would you be in favor of that and would that work given the type of work that you do? caller: no ma'am, this is what i think. i think the ones that came over here to work and brought their families over here, i think they need to set up a program like they did when my dad was running the crew, they need to get through the whole process and if

they want to come here to make a better life and work and raise their family i don't see nothing wrong with that because they are hard workers, but the ones that come across here that are gang members sure they need to weed them out. every one of them people is not bad. listen i grow up around these people from mexico working for my dad, they are hard workers, they are great people. they would send money home for the family that could not come here. stuff like that. i just think everybody needs -- and another thing i want to make a point real quick. i really respect you and i respect c-span, but listen, i really believe -- i'm not saying kamala harris is a bad person, but i'm afraid if she gets in office we are going to go to world war iii. it's really getting bad.

trump does have a way with these people. he can stop a lot of this. but you know at the end of the day i just want to say people are people. god loves everybody and these are hard-working people. some came over here and they did really bad things. but how many people in america have done bad things? look at the prison system. host: gary in washington, d.c.. an undecided voter. caller: yes, i think this debate will be very positive and we will find out more. i'm leaning towards tim walz. he is an enlisted man in the military, my wife was a teacher, he is a teacher. i think he knows the middle class, that's where he came from. i think he's can it be another lbj and i think he is going to do a great job area -- great

job. all these people who are saying that vice president didn't do this and didn't do that. do your research to find out what she's done. she's been preparing for this presidency. she has done a lot of stuff, she was a very successful ag and senator. she is pretty hard on hard on c. i don't know why these people are so blind. they don't know anything about her. if they just want to pass judgments. it trump is a liar and heritage foundation is -- on the republicans. host: mark, a harris-walz

supporter. caller: i have already voted for harris. i want to vote for public servants who are experienced and who know have to do the job and working for me. i don't feel like republicans worked for me. jd vance got out of bl as a lawyer, the first thing pete did was worked for a billionaire. he hasn't even been a senator for two years. tim walz has been a congressman for 12 years and has been a governor. he has been a soldier, a teacher, a coach. this is the kind of person i believe in and i don't believe trump cares about me. i believe he cares about putin and musk and all of his buddies. so please, a vote for your own

interests, someone who will protect social security and protect medicare and protect unions in somebody who cares about >> the associative press reports explosions were heard in tel aviv and near jerusalem. it is not clear whether the soundsere from missiles landing or being intercepted by israeli defenses or both. it is really military sent orders for residents to remain close to bomb shelters on mobile phone and on tv as air raid sirens sounded. israel and the u.s. have warned there would be severe consequences in the event of an attack on israel from iran, which backs of militant group has below -- has below -- president biden's mind and

attack from the situation room and receiving regular updates from the national security team. president biden directed the u.s. military to aid israel's defense against iranian attacks and shoot down missiles that are targeting israel. we will have live coverage of a white house briefing when it gets underway currently scheduled to begin shortly. we will also keep you updated with remarks from the state department and the president and other pertinent sources as they become available. >> he said we shouldn't allow weapons are used in war to be in america's streets. when we you ever in more? -- war? what was his weapon given that you abandon your unit right before they went to iraq? he has not spent a day i, zone. >> senator vance got called ou t about telling lies about immigrants. they asked if maybe it was an accident. he said i admit it.

i willing to create stories spread fear to drum up support for us. >> watch the cbs news vice presidential debate simulcast live tonight on c-span has minnesota governor tim walz and ohio senator jd vance take the debate stage and go head-to-head for the first time. coverage begins with a preview show at 8:00 p.m. eastern, followed by the debate at 9:00 p.m. the cbs news vice presidential debate simulcast live tonight on c-span. c-span. your unfiltered view of politics. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including buckeye broadband. ♪