we have like a 3-hour pregame so hope you can be a part of that later today. >> i will see you at 6:00 o'clock this afternoon and happening now starts right now. john: trump's kitchen could use gold-plaited fixtures. >> it has a basement. john: hours away from presidential debate moderated by our own chris wallace. welcome to happening now. i'm john scott. heather: i'm in for jenna lee. nice to be here. both candidates making last-minute preparations preparing for show in las vegas with brand new fox new poll showing donald trump has some catching up to do. do. 20 days until election day. on john let's go to senior

correspondent, john. >> donald trump is in a tough spot. he's trailing hillary clinton and losing in every battleground except for ohio, missouri and iowa and even if he wins all of those, he doesn't get in the brand new office and he's even in arizona trailing hillary clinton for 5 points. for donald trump he needs much more than a game changer, what he needs is a resurrection of his campaign. he needs to get the scandals off of the table as soon as possible and ten pivot quickly to issues and contrast what he would do for the country with what hillary clinton wants to do for the country. earlier today kellyanne conway had comments. >> go to the problems for hillary clinton, why she's unfit to be president. 600 times the embassador asked

for more security in benghazi, now we see transcripts where hillary clinton is being dishonest. you have to be one person in public -- >> that's his job. >> donald trump continues to run the idea in colorado as well as green bay, wisconsin that the election is rigged. there's no evidence to suggest that there's ever been widespread fraud in u.s. elections, donald trump is urging his supporters to keep a close eye on polling places specially in big cities. listen to what he said yesterday. >> we have just begun to fight. they even want to try and rig the election at the polling booths where so many cities are corrupt and voter fraud is all too common and then they say, there's no voter fraud in our country. [laughter] >> there's no voter fraud. if nothing else, people are going to be watching on november 8th. watch philadelphia, watch st.

louis, watch chicago. >> now earlier donald trump was talking about the system being rigged against him and that's to energize supporters to get out but now what he's talking about in terms of being a rigged system and potential voter fraud, john, a lot of people are seeing as donald trump creating a convenient scapegoat in the eventuality that he may lose. john: among independents trump holds a 7-point edge over clinton. 31 to 38% with johnson and stein at 7%.

issues facing the country jobs and the economy top followed by terrorism at 18% and health care at 8%. let's bring in daniel, washington bureau chief for the new york post and james homen, political correspondent for the washington post and post daily, 202 news letter. james, to you first, what are you expecting tonight? >> i think, john had exactly right. this is a moment for the resurrection of the trump campaign. he has a very tough road to hoe. he's going to have to pivot back to the message that works for him, the antiestablishment message. i'm not sure he's going to try to do that. he's going to bring barack obama's cousin or half brother to the debate, you know, continue to talk about the election being rigged instead of making the arguments that politically would actually work for him. so a lot of republicans are just hoping that, you know, maybe he doesn't take clinton's time and

stay positive. >> i watched part of an appearance he made, i believe in colorado, the more moderated donald trump. he pretty much stuck to the prompter. he, you know, talked about big issues and didn't get into the petty stuff. daniel, is that what we can expect from him tonight? >> no, i don't think that's what we can expect. i think it will be bloody, dirty, messy. this is a man fighting for his political life and i think a lot is on the line for donald trump. i think his future, i think his -- you know, he's really risked a lot and his company has taken hits for him to run and i think he understands that and he's not going to go down without a fight and obviously as fox news polls show and other polls show and james said he needs a resurrection to come back and this is a man who needs to be as dirty as possible or as -- maybe dirty is not the right word as confrontational as possible to

try to win this back. i'm not sure it's the right strategy, i'm not sure that there's enough time left. i think as your poll shows u he needs to focus on jobs, economy, bright message. it's not just, you know, taking out your opponent, it's about making the positive case for your own campaign and we haven't seen that from him in one of the debates and i don't think we will see it to want. john: i'm not much of a boxing expert but i wonder about the rope technique for hillary clinton. she has stayed out of the light and been laying low on the campaign trail. trump has mocked that, but as long as she's leading, she doesn't need to do a lot tonight to coast into the election, does she? >> you use the boxing analogy. there's four minutes in the fourth quarter, hillary is up a touchdown according to fox poll and she's trying to run down the clock, play clock, she's not making many appearances, this

wants this election and will easily win if becomes referendum on donald trump. she's knot particularly well liked. her unfavorable rating is high, a lot of people don't trust her but if this election is do you want donald trump to be president yes or no, that's an election that's much easier to win. that's what her people are trying to do, that's why barack obama, michelle obama are way more out there and up front than the candidate herself is. john: daniel, one of the polls we didn't get to the wrong track, right track in this country. if you ask people if the country are on the right track, 70-75% say no. doesn't hillary clinton sort of represent a continuation of the obama administration? >> but if you look at the obama's favorable ratings are over 50%. so some people think that we are not on the right track but obama and hillary clinton are putting us on the wrong track. that number alone can be misleading and not necessarily how the election is going to

turn out. hillary clinton needs to play defense, she needs to prevent the hail mary from being thrown. she needs not to engage with donald trump. i think wisely in the second debate donald trump accusations about her and her husband and she didn't get down with him and didn't have to spend days explaining them. they really think about the things quite thoroughly and they really have done a pretty good job in the debates in not engaging in moment that is they don't need to engage and therefore not have to spend weeks or days cleaning up after the debate, something that donald trump really should learn a lesson from. john: i've had a number of people ask me, could the polls be wrong? >> probably not. there's the margin of error and, i think, certainly there's some variance but the fox news polls almost is identical to the

washington post that we ran, that we released two days ago. i think there's a lot of polls showing something consistent which is hillary has the lead in the mid to high single digits and at the state level, the electoral college is a different story. there's the new arizona poll that shows hillary with a slight lead. the map is sort of expanding beyond those traditional battlegrounds. is the election over, no, of course not. but the reality is most people have sort of decided who they're going to vote for. there's a relatively small number of undecided voters and it's, you know, it's sort of -- that's why this debate is so important where those people are going to go. this is the last time that both candidates are going to have this level the size of an audience to make their closing argument to and remember early voting has begun too. in a lot of states the millions of ballots in total nationally have been cast. john: daniel, his campaign says they are underrepresented by the polls because there are people

who want to vote for him who just won't admit it publicly. >> right. it's possible, right, we will test the theory in a couple of weeks or we are testing it right now as early voting goes on. it's not something that you want to hinge your campaign on that all the polls are wrong, but that's all you have, i guess you have to make an argument and hopes that there's a silent majority that comes through. i would point to primary polls and the primary polls were pretty accurate most of the time in most of the states and really suggest and showed who ended up winning, there was a lot of disbelief in those poll that is those are going to be real support for donald trump and that, of course, turned out to be not true. john: it's going to be a fascinating evening and it's less than ten hours away. thank you both very much. >> thanks, john. john: first time ever a fox news anchor will be moderating a presidential debate, widely regarded as the best interviewer in the business.

he will moderate the all-important final debate between donald trump and hillary clinton, make or break event, less than three weeks before historic election of 2016 to be held tonight in las vegas and, of course, the best place to watch the fox moderated debate, right here fox news channel. heather: grab your popcorn. no doubt a top nick the debate. new warning of increase in cyber activity targeting critical segments of the american economy as depositions mount between the u.s. and russia. doug live for us in washington on that. hi, doug. >> hi, heather, most people are aware of this, but russia and others are engaged in a cyber war with the united states and other countries right now. the ongoing wikileaks releases are just the latest evidence of that, those releases have many public officials really worried, take senator marco rubio's advice from this morning, i want to warn my fellow republican who is may want to capitalize on the los angeles, today it is the democrats, tomorrow it could be

us. but the cyber-attacks with much greater threat than public exposure of embarrassing personal and political revelations. >> the russians will escalate cyber activities to go beyond cyber intrusion and cyber espionage to advancing their information warfare sciems to impossibly leveraging the attacks on the financial sector. >> we've already seen how destructive such attacks can be against the private sector. companies such as sony films, it was hacked by north korea in apparent retaliation for the film the interview in which a north korean leader kim jong un was assassinated. sony spent $15 million to halt that intrusion but the fiscal damage was already done. >> systems stop working.

>> russia has already shut down the air traffic control system and the energy sector in ukraine last january. he say it is u.s. needs to retaliate proportionately, the u.s. has threatened to do just that but where and when, we do not yet know. heather, back to you. heather: saying that they will do that at a time of our choosing. doug joining us today, thank you. >> my pleasure. john: jury enters third day of deliberations in the murder trial of gabel. what has jurors stumped next. will handicap foreign policy ideas layed out by hillary clinton and donald trump next. also we want to hear from you who do you think is going to win

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hoffy accused of murder of diana who fell from 14th floor apartment in august 2014. heather: foreign policy will be topic in tonight's third and final presidential debate and u.s. military involvement in several conflicts around the world, iraq, afghanistan and syria and libya navigating the issues will be a complicated process. and here to take us through it michael who is the former senior director of affairs at the national security council and managing director of the washington institute. thank you so much for joining us. >> hi, heather. heather: first of all, let's begin with the debate tonight. is there one question in particular that you would like discussed or these two candidates to have to tackle this evening? >> well, heather, one thing that we see going on around the world is you see countries like russia, countries like china increasingly challenging the united states and challenging

the rules base order which we have led for decades and we haven't seen an effective response whether it's in ukraine, south china sea and i would like to see a little bit more focus on that. there's a tendency of focus on terrorism in the middle east but aren't necessarily the only challenge that is we face or even the hardest one. heather: it's interesting that you bring that up. with hillary clinton, of course, having served as secretary of state one of the things that she writes about on her website and talks about it in terms of her achievement is restoring america's leadership in the world after it was badly eroded and lots of donald trump's fans and his people that are going to vote for him would definitely argue that the opposite has occurred. well, i think that's right. americans have a perception that american prestige and power is not what it used to be.

they felt this way for a long time. the question is what do we do about it. i don't think there's any going back to the 1950's and 1980's because countries like china are more powerful now. the question is can we retreat and the heck with the world's problems or can we sort of reestablish some kind of leadership in places like europe and asia preserving the order that we built over the past decades in a way that sort of makes life better for americans and advances our interests. heather: does it surprise you that people are looking forward donald trump, his supporters in terms of foreign policy? >> well, it's surprising to a degree. i would say, look, the essence of republican little r government is you basically trust them to come up with solutions on issues like foreign policy which are complicated.

that trust in washington is at allow point and people tend to rely more on these days on the gut instincts and donald trump has appealed to those gut instincts on issues like immigration or trade and so forth. i think the real problem, heather is that gut instincts on these issues are often wrong. people seem to look at local evidence, factories are close, influx of immigrants into a community when the benefits of say trade and immigration tend to be at the macro level, national level and are harder to see, that's why politicians, leaders have to champagne and make the case for those issues which obviously donald trump is not doing. heather: let's go back to russia. how do you think that would impact him moving into tonight's debate. no doubt it would be addressed from hillary clinton with allegations that, you know, russia is behind the cyber-attacks and the cyber war that's going on and they are supporting donald trump? >> i think donald trump will make a couple of argumentses.

wewe have heard that russia is doing these things because they don't respect or fear the united states under president obama and secretary clinton's leadership. i do think that that's in a sense a misreading, but it will appeal to quite a few people because there is this sense that the u.s. is less respected in the world stage than it was before and i think that will also imply or say why does the united states care about what happens in ukraine, far away in marginal to american interests, but the key is for other republican lead toaster make the case that what happens in europe is important to american interests. what's that? heather: it does impact ut -- us here at home. joining us with insight prior to tonight's debate. thank you very much.

>> thank you, heather. john: just hours to go until the final presidential debate. why our next guest says hillary clinton and donald trump each face a big decision on how to mi campaign pu. [ beep ] out of 'em. i want to be unpredictable. i love war. the thought of donald trump with nuclear weapons scares me to death. it should scare everyone. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message.

heather: car fires, recalls and now samsung could face class action lawsuit, customers threatening legal action or the galaxy note 7 but has nothing to do with physical injuries, instead economic injuries since they had to pay their bills even after the phones were recalled. no word so far on the pending litigation. john: as both candidates gear up for tonight's third and final debate a piece on the wall street journal caught our attention. it's called each presidential nominee faces a big decision about how to close out an exceptional ugly campaign and in it one big remains marking perhaps the last occasion when something dramatic could attar contour of the debate. it's not unusual for a debate to take on such meaning, what is unusual is the start contrast in the strategic choices and

motivations facing the two candidates in the same event. gary joins us now washington bureau chief for the wall street journal. so boil down choices for viewers. how do you see the options for hillary clinton and donald trump? >> well, i think donald trump has to make a decision of what has become a scorched campaign to focus on crooked hillary, she's bad and corrupt and the system is rig today motivate his base or pivot going back to the core economic message that actually helped generate trumpism to begin with, your jobs are going overseas to méxico and china, i'm going to fix that and the system is rigged against you economically. hillary clinton has to decide if she wants to engage with donald trump in round three which is kind of what the first two debates were or whether she wants to separate from that and go sort of a positive place not just for the debate but last three weeks of the campaign and

try to give people a reason to vote for her and not just to vote against donald trump. john: you suggest that hers is the most complicated task, why? >> if you're on a debate stage with donald trump, trust me 16 republicans figured this out as well, it's hard not to answer the charges or the -- the attacks if they come from him. i think a lot of republicans discover that letting him sit there is a dangerous strategy as well, so i think that is a complicated calculation for her. i think she and her people are struggling a little bit with how do you do that, do you have the liberty to separate yourself from that kind of debate if that's what it turns out to be tonight. john: you suggest that had he could appeal to his base, go for core supporters and energize them, talk about rigged election and media bias and so forth or he can talk about jobs and the economy and trade deals that are bad, he actually could do both of those things in the same debate, couldn't he? >> he could. the first debate interestingly started out in the latter

direction. it seemed to be for 20 minutes or so a place where he did bore on the messages and kind of evolved and got away from him, one of the questions is whether he frankly has the discipline to stay on that kind of a message or whether you can mix and max those two things together. yeah, that's possible. a lot of it depends on the tenure of the debate and depends on how chris wallace handles it. >> you suggest that she could go upbeat tonight and i love a line that you wrote, voters would love to find something moderately uplift to go take away from this dumpster fire of a campaign. pretty good line. if she -- i can almost hear her, you know, channeling ronald reagan, there you go again in one of her lines tonight. >> yeah, i sort of thought she might actually recycle that line sometime in the first two debates. maybe we will all see it tonight. as i said, part of the donald trump strategy is to give people lots of reasons to vote against hillary clinton.

maybe for some of those wavering voters who would like to vote for her but aren't there yet, she needs to give them a reason to vote for her and that's, i think, the way that the clinton campaign would like to end the campaign overall, will they do that tonight is the question. >> the supreme court is obviously the next president going to be making a bunch of appointments to the supreme court in all likelihood. we have one waiting already. do you expect to be -- that to be a big topic of discussion tonight? >> i would not be surprised to see donald trump to raise that. a lot of people in evangelical community are hanging in there in spite of articles of abusive women and attitudes towards women and other problems are hanging in there because that's the paramount issue. i wouldn't be surprised if he finds a way to remind voters that while they may be shaky on other things, that's the magnet that held him with him so long and maybe that'll be true for the next three weeks as well.

john: you're going to get a nap in? >> no, this is not a campaign stretch for sleeping. november 9th, i will get a nap in, how about that? john: we will let you do that. good to talk to you. >> likewise, thanks. heather: what the islamic state may be prepared to do and why it's raising real concern? we will have live report from the war zone in iraq. we are live in las vegas just hours before the final faceoff between donald trump and hillary clinton. what each candidate needs to do tonight and how this election could also impact the balance of power in congress. whether he go in-depth you can run an errand.

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an islamic state, they're using car bombs and motor rounds as residents share horrifying details about the terror group tactics as using civilians as human shields. benjamin live for us. >> john, we were on the front lines today and what we saw a battle that only just started but already going very slowly. initially they are trying toen w bombardments to do that. the last two days there have seen fierce fighting as occurred ish attempted to clear villages leading up to mosul. the fact that mosul is only 2 or 3-miles away from the front the attempt is clearly going to last a lot longer. >> the next isis-held village is

a mile. this is going to take longer than thought. isis held the town for two years. it's going to take longer than anyone hoped. >> today some of the 25,000 odd soldiers involved in the operation gathered for the next push. that's expected early tomorrow morning to liberate the christian town but what's clear is how heavily reliant are on u.s. backed air support and the hundred plus u.s. special forces on the ground. meanwhile the humanitarian crisis grows, reports suggest that isis are using the million plus civilians as human shields not letting them leave the city, food also said to be running dangerously low. what's clear already that by trying to take the first few villages which have only five or six fighters in them that was harder enough, imagine when they hit the city of mosul itself, 4,000 battle ideological

fighters. this is going to be a long drawnout war battle at least and there will be civilians caught in the cross fire. back to you. john: lots of trouble ahead. benjamin live, thank you, benjamin. heather: count down to the final showdown, tonight's debate in las vegas moderated by our own chris wallace and three weeks before election day. so there's a lot at stake for both candidates and joining us now simon rosengurg. thank you for joining us. >> good to be here. >> tony, i will start with you. final showdown. what does donald trump need to bring to the table? >> i think donald trump adjusted very well from the first debate which was considered to be a winner for hillary clinton to

the second one which he was much more aggressive on the issues that mattered. he knew how to counterpunch better. tonight the essential question for him to answer and confirm to those independents who don't want to vote for her and aren't sure they want to vote for him does she have the temperament to be commander in chief. the two other things that present him with is a real opportunity to focus on the economy. we know from the polling even those that show him down by 6% that on issues of the economy he gets very high points. he talks to americans who feel economic distress very well and the second big piece of the issue tonight that will be discussed is the supreme court. this is what's going to be the call for a lot of republicans and maybe independent leaning republicans to come to the trump campaign side. >> simón, i will let you comment

on donald trump. you were consulting bill clinton. if you were consulting hillary clinton, what do you think she needs to do? >> she needs to stay positive and lay out to the country what she will do when she's president. the negative case against donald trump has been well made. i think it's important for her not to engage in a back and forth and nasty back and forth with him as he's tried to do in the previous two debates. what people are looking for, you know, there's a very high likelihood she's going to be the president now and looking for upbeat optimistic vision of what she wants to take the country. heather: tony, what do you think about all of the scandals that have surrounded this campaign from the very beginning, should either one of the candidates this evening go there? >> donald trump did an effective job containing the fallout from the nbc tape. 65% of americans don't even think it matters. that's a very good number for him. clearly he moves forward and he

has to focus on a much more positive vision the way he sighs it and what i really think trump does extremely well when he's there and ready to do it is connect with the average american voters. hillary clinton's biggest issue and i do agree with simon, by the way, prescription of what she should do, the biggest issue is she doesn't have a rationale for candidacy other than she wants to be the president of the united states. donald trump has a much better message and rationale which is to put america first, make america great again. when he focuses on that he does extraordinarily well. he gets dye extracted by side issues that undermines the strong case he has to make. heather: simon, you think hillary clinton should not offer any explanations for wikileaks emails and the youtube videos, undercover videos of dnc? >> no, i'm assuming that that would come up.

i didn't say that. what she has to emphasize is the optimistic vision for the country. it'll be interest if the wikileaks emails come up tonight. i sort of agree with marco rubio in what he said last night that i don't think it's appropriate for journalists and for republican politicians to be raising wikileaks because we don't know which those are real and which ones are russian manufactured emails and i think it's been very dangerous for the republican party to have cooperated so closely with a foreign power in trying to intervene in the american election. so look, we feel good about things, all early indication that is turnout is going to be very high, we are seeing very strong early vote numbers. hillary just had to continue to present a positive vision for the country. she will have a good night and well on our way to winning this election in a few weeks. heather: i don't think you can say the republican party has coordinated with russia in those emails being released. >> then why can't ryan denounce it then? heather: you could ask the same

question to hillary clinton and her campaign advisers why don't just flat out say that none of them are true. >> the coordination what the fbi and the on -- obama white house. now, look -- >> of course, there is. the continued use of the emails -- the continued use of emails by the rnc is an active invitation for the russians to continue to release them through wikileaks. they are using the materials that have been planted by a foreign power in the election. this is an unprecedented event in american history and it's a shameful moment for the republican party and re initiation ce priebus and the dnc. heather: one really quick question for both of you. in terms of the dawn -- down ballot.

do you think that donald trump is putting the different races in danger, on the -- tony? >> i see it in a lot of the polling where trump falling in polls does tend to hurt a little bit. that's mostly isolate today certain districts, suburban, i don't see it being a macro factor like it was for barack obama pulling 21 congressional seats with him in his win in 2008 and that's also largely because hillary clinton is not going to get the same turnout and enthusiasm that barack obama was able to get that other dawn ballots received. although senate in the race there's a possibility that it hurts a couple. heather: very quickly right now hillary clinton's lead is 7 points, is that enough to change any of the down ballot races? >> listen, we are going to find out in election day. it's almost, you know, the

physics the house and senate almost flip. if it's 5 points it probably won't be enough for the democrats to win the house. the senate looks like it's trending in the democratic direction right now but i think it's a question of whether or not democrats have enough candidates in those race that is make the difference for us to win that can get over the finish line. certainly we have a shot. >> a gain of five seats in the senate to have an all-out majority. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. john: a manhunt under way for four suspects after a school shooting that left four teenagers injured. details on that just ahead. a live look at the stage in las vegas. we are hours away from a third and presidential debate. whether he take a look at the strategies from both candidates as our coverage continues

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>> i don't believe that secretary clinton is nervous, i think she's prepared and certainly does the work that it takes to get ready, she's always been tested and always comes through. i think she's going to be ready to talk to the american people to get things done. she has a big plan to put americans back to work. she has a plan to make sure we are fixing roads, bridges, rebuilding our schools. she wants to make sure that college debt doesn't keep young man or woman away from dreams. john: she is up donald trump about 6 points nationally, but, you know, sometimes things can happen in the final debates that change the race a couple of points here or there. what does she need to do to -- to try to avoid stepping in something or saying something that you know, that might throw

support to the other side? >> just stay focus. talk about the issues that america needs to know about so they can make an informed vote. don't worry about the noise surrounding you. run like an underdog. as much as you might be at, run like a underdog. you need to cross the finish line. i think she's going to work hard to show people that she earned this victory and it's nothing about a rigged election. that stuff is just kind of dangerous to talk about and i think what we will find is that at the end of the day on november 8th we will have a clear víctor for president on the united states and hillary clinton will be ready to lead the country forward. john: let's get to that trump question. what do you think donald trump needs to do if he wants to win? >> i really he should focus on the issues. get past all the noise affecting his campaign. he's the one that continues to bring up all of these past indiscretions.

he talks about rigged election and voter base that may think that this election won't be fair and i think she should focus on the issues because he got to be the nominee for republicans for a reason. this is the part of trump, he should show people why the party of trump should deserve to have the president be president of the united states. john: obviously president obama got a lot of young voters excited, minority excited, hillary clinton's theme is capitalizing or trying to capitalize on bringing those same voters to the polls but they have had difficulty generating that same amount of excitement, does that concern you, could that affect the race? >> actually i think just the opposite, john. i see a lot of excitement brewing. i think you're going to see a record turnout of latino voters. i think women are breaking towards hillary clinton in big numbers. i think you're going to find that african americans will support hillary clinton at the same level that is they supported barack obama. i think what you're finding is that people are taking this election very personally. i know i am. i know a lot of poll incomes the latino community are.

i know children who are voters, children of immigrants are taking this very seriously because so much of the conversation principally coming from the mouth of donald trump has focused on us and we understand what it means when someone attacks us and i think people will take this election very personally. john: congressman becerra and hillary clinton supporter, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. john: we will speak to the trump campaign senior communications adviser jason miller. that's coming up 1:00 o'clock eastern time. heather: supreme court just one of the major topics for tonight's final presidential debate. what hillary clinton and donald trump need to say about the future of the high court in the next term and beyond, plus the final approach to the red planet, what managers are saying about the rough ride and what we could learn from the mission to mars?

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both hillary clinton and donald trump bringing plenty of scandal baggage along with it. will all of that overshadow the real issues? melissa: as the candidates duke it out on stage another battle playing in gop stronghold, can hillary clinton really flip the script in the reddest of red states, we are going to talk about that? harris: bill clinton, president's half brother and all the mind games they appear to be playing with one another and the tbes list. melissa: all that with #lucky guy. join us. john: that's going to be fascinating. we will see you then. heather: listen to this. we are waiting from word from the european space agency as mars makes long awaited final approach to the red planet. mission managers say that the probe is right now diving into the hot dusty martian atmosphere

at 13,000 miles per hour. pretty fast. the real mission they say begins studying the planet's atmosphere and hunting for any signs of life, john. john: cool. [laughter] john: the outcome on november 8th could have a lasting impact on the nation for decades because one of the new president's first tasks will be nominating a replacement for supreme court justice scalia. that could tip and impact key legal disputes set to reach the highest court in the land. shannon live in washington. what do we know where the candidate stand on the kind of nominees they would put forward for the court? >> let's start with donald trump. here is what he said in the last debate. >> people that will respect the constitution of the united

states and i think that this is so important. also the second amendment which is totally under siege by people like hillary clinton, they will respect the second amendment and what it stands for and what it represents, so important to me. >> rather than mentioning the constitution, hillary clinton we wanted to focus on the view she wants her nominees to have empathy. >> this is one of the most important issues in this election. i want to appoint supreme court justices who understand the way the world really works, who have real-life experiences, who have not just been in a big law firm and maybe clerk for a judge and gotten on the bench, maybe they tried some more cases, they actually understand what people are up against. >> you know, trump has released two list of names. coming will be all kinds of

issues, second amendment, free speech. john: thank you. and we are back in just a moment

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>> one of the interesting questions pertaining to supreme court, if hillary clinton wins election do republicans decide to hold confirmations for merit garland, the president obama's nominee for the antonin scalia seat. it is widely believed she would want to nominate someone younger, on the court longer and more liberal than merit garland who is 63. >> one of the reason a lot of people are still supporting trump, still saying they will vote for him even though they disagree with his policies. >> fascinating to watch. >> the supreme court. we'll see. we want everyone to keep it right here, because chris wallace, our very own will be the moderator for this evening's debate as the candidates finally face off.

jon first time ever a fox news anchor will moderate the general election debate. that is 9:00 eastern tonight on fox news channel. obviously the best place to watch it. see you back here in one hour. "outnumbered" starts right now. melissa: fox news alert. tonight is the night. we're just hours away now from hillary clinton and donald trump, facing off on the debate stage for the third and final time. before a prime time audience before tens of millions. i'm sandra smith. this is "outnumbered." we have co-host of "after the bell." melissa francis. ebb gone any williams is here today, and today owes #oneluckyguy, former ambassador to the united nations, ambassador john bolton and with