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migrant caravan is growing as it pushes north through méxico toward the united states, president trump now warning full efforts are being made to stop this group which is now about 7,000 strong. jillian: griff jenkins live at u.s.-méxico border in mcalan texas where agents say they need a wall, griff. griff: jillian, rob, good morning, in this area alone the rio grande valley sector they've had more than 12,700 arrests of illegal aliens in the past 3 weeks, it's fair to say they are overwhelmed even before the caravan gets anywhere near this border but that caravan obviously reforming into some 7,000 strong and making their way north, officials here certainly worrying about that keeping close eye on that and manuel padilla says one of the things he needs now is a wall to stop it, listen. >> if we had this combination of personal technology

infrastructure throughout my border, we would truly transform the area, it's a win-win situation for everybody. this area right here, we do not see ms-13, we do not see criminal aliens coming into this area because of the capability that we have through the combination of personal, technology and infrastructure. griff: he only has the combination of the wall, cameras and manpower in about 55 of the nearly 300 miles of the area, padilla also worries about the laws on the books because they don't have any place to put people, their jails, detention centers are full with respect to that and the president tweeting about that yesterday saying, quote, the caravans are a disgrace to democrat party, change immigration laws now, the president by the way will make a visit later today to houston and that is in rio grande valley sector, rob, jillian. jillian: thank you for the hard work down there too. rob: migrants or a mob, thousands in the caravan

clashing with police as they marched toward our border. jillian: former speaker of the house newt gringrich says this isn't human rights mission, this is an attack on the united states. >> i don't think there are human rights issue when 4 or 5,000 people decide to attack the united states. that's what they are doing. if a mob came down the street and occupied your home, you have a nicer home that they do, you wouldn't say oh gosh, i feel sorry for you, you would be pretty angry that they were occupying the home. the average person, look, gallup did survey, 179 million people in latin america would like to come to the united states, at what point do we draw a number and when you draw the number, i don't care how big it is, nancy pelosi can say i will takes 2 million, will she then control the border? jillian: millions of aid planned for fiscal year is now in question. rob: desperate hand hunt intensifying after a police officer is shot and killed in

georgia, fallen offer's older sister says he was one of the good guys. >> antjuan had cop cars all over the house, i'm talking 4 to 5 year's old, he knew that's what he wanted to do. i had calls with him, i know the job that i signed up for, i know that i can go to work today and not come home. rob: all right, police are still searching desperately searching for 18-year-old tefany wanted for murder, a second suspect in custody. the problem keeps getting worse. a top u.s. general recovering after being shot in an insider attack in afghanistan. the pentagon now revealing army general jeffrey smiley was wounded by taliban terrorists in an assault that left 2 afghany officials dead last week,

general smiley is a 30-year military veteran who oversees the nato training and advisory mission in southern afghanistan. jillian: calls for action growing amid a world of skepticism over what really happened to columnist jamal khashoggi and now the saudi government is offering new version of events, doug lizader with details. >> the saudis now have explanation to what happened to jamal khashoggi but is it really passing muster here in washington? the official explanation from the saudis is that jamal khashoggi got into a fistfight in the saudi consulate, that is part of the saudi investigation into his death, the saudi foreign minister called mistake and terrible tragedy promise to go move forward with the investigation. >> this threatened to be the first step of long journey, we are determine today uncover every stone, we are determined to uncover all of the facts and punish those who are are

responsible. >> here in washington there's a great deal of skepticism over the saudi explanation with many saying that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salaman was behind it. >> we should not continue to have relations with him, i think he would have to be replaced frankly. >> this ought to be a relationship altering event for the u.s. and saudi arabia that we ought to suspend military sales, we ought to suspend certain security assistance and we ought to impose sanction. >> president trump call it is saudi explanation credible but says this is just a first step back to you guys. jillian: all right, thank you very much, doug. national security adviser john bolton is in moscow for two days of high-tension talks, the meetings coming right after president trump announced to the u.s. will pull out out of decade's old treaty with russia.

>> russia has violated the agreement. they've been violating it for many years. we are going terminate the agreement, we will pull out. jillian: former president ronald reagan and soviet president gorbachev signed treaty banning countries from building and testing cruise missiles. rob: president trump and president obama to set dueling rallies, the president stomping for ted cruz who is currently up 7 polls against democrat beto o'rourke in a race that's probably closer than it should be, supporters lining up overnight with more than 100,000 people expected to show up, that would be incredible. meanwhile barack obama is rallying democrats in las vegas, former president joe biden, 2020 hopeful kamala harris and bernie sanders also hitting hitting thd today.

jillian: go to football field now kansas city chief, beatdown of the cincinnati bengals behind touchdown. rob: drew brees throwing 500th career touchdown helping new orleans saints. i think it was missed extra point there or something. jillian: chicago bears almost pulling last-second miracle but the hail mary falls one yard short, look at that. patriots hanging on for 38-31 win. rob: caught it and it wasn't end zone. dallas cowboys also falling just short on last-second missed field goal and lose to redskins. jillian: carolina panthers rallying for 21 points beating philadelphia eagles. that was rough. rob: eric reed and malcolm jenkins, check it out.

jillian: words there. rob: they didn't fight but both players -- protestors at one point, both of the players are. reed calling jenkins a sellout after the game, jenkins stopped protest after the nfl announced it would donate $100 million to causes important to the player's coalition that he cofounded. >> reed left the group last year and former quarterback colin kaepernick left out of the meeting, a lot of details. eric reed, enough said, #i'm with reed. rob: efforts appear to be fizzling out, reed one of four players protesting this weekend. jillian: yeah. rob: tax cuts are, well, potentially coming again, that from president trump just ahead of the midterm elections. >> we are looking at putting in a very major tax cut for middle income people, sometime around the first of november maybe a

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that. rob: nobody saw this coming, the question is can the president even realistically get this done in the next couple of weeks? jillian: peter morici joins us now, thank you for your time. got a couple of weeks to go here, do you think is something that can get done? >> well, if he had a bill, this is what i want, written up bill he could call back the house and senate and ask them to vote on it. the house is out campaigning. it's a very risky strategy because how do you get 60 votes in the senate and if he comes up empty, think about it. the house members are pulling a come from behind victory at least that's their attempt. they are doing very, very well on swing districts now. you bring them back to washington they're not campaigning, their opponents are if they don't deliver where does that lead them? rob: big complain about the initial tax cut bill was that the middle class claimed they didn't feel much, it was a corporate gift and it was a rich gift, what do you think about that? r well, ask any journalist that

is writes that, ask them if take home pay is greater today than a year ago and if they have any ounce of honesty in them, they have to say well, yes, are you middle class or rich. the reality if i give you 10 pairs of doctors general practitioners and receptionists in the room and said who gets a tax cut, you know, 10 out of 10 nurses would raise their hand or receptionists but what about the doctors, well, the good many of them got tax increases, if you eastern $250,000 a year and work in city of new york, you got tax increase. in reality this was a middle-class and working-class tax cut. fake news, this is the genuine fake news. if you want news that's fake news, put on cnbc and watch tax cut piece. or read "the new york times", i

mean, "the new york times" really ought to be printed in pink ink. jillian: let's look at fox news poll, opinions of tax reform law and 44% veit as favorable, 35% view it as unfavorable and look, i have conversations with people in the community, family, friends, you know, i think a lot of this people are still a little bit skeptical of what this is going to mean come tax time, we've got a little bit of time until we see outcome of that and that's why people are not sure in. >> well, i think you to ask what your reference work is, you said your community, i don't know where you live in new york, likely in manhattan. >> i don't, actually. your friends are making 250 and on up a year. jillian: they are not. >> they got tax increase in new york because removal or limits on state and local tax deductions. that's where the vulnerability point is in the election, it bite it is most in well off

suburban in new york, california and new york which are the remaining strongholds of gop congressmen, you know, in what are otherwise liberal states, that is why they are vulnerable in this election more than anything else when it comes to losing their base. rob: and they certainly are. we have seen that. let's talk about the deficit, sir, it's ballooning even out of control under obama years, is a tax cut really something that we should be talking about? and also is the booming economy going to cover that deficit the way that the administration said it would? >> the answer is should we be talking about tax cut, we should do something about the salt, i don't know if it's a red-hot idea physicians making $250,000 a year pay more taxes, i think that needs attention. but overall, the tax cuts never

pay for themselves with more growth, they give you more growth, so you get some more revenue but if you say cut taxes by a billion dollars, you get back $300 million in revenue. mr. mnuchin and his chief economist in the administration kevin hasset, especially kevin hasset she should be defrocked for claiming that the tax cut to pay for itself, no economist liberal or conservative, that is akin -- rob: we have to cut spending? entitlements and defense. all right. >> the minimum wage would increase employment of low-wage workers, that was absolute you know -- rob: we have to go. jillian: got to run. 19 minutes after the hour, horrifying homecoming disaster, dozens of party goers hospitalized after a floor collapses, the answers investigators were looking for

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there goes the floor. 30 people taken to hospital after floor caved. no life-threatening injuries were reported. good news. jillian: 3,000 body cameras over deprinces after one explodes in police station. officer was wearing camera when he noticed smoke coming from it after removing it that's when it exploded in staten island precinct. that's scary. rob: strange. gearing up for more rain after getting hit with historic and deadly flooding, some areas receiving up to 3 months worth of rain in a week. jillian: storm system expect today move to florida gulf coast pounding areas still recovering from hurricane michael, janice dean is tracking it all and joins us live in the studio now,

janice. janice: not good news for texas and folks across the south. taking a look at hurricane willa, why are we looking at this because hurricane willa will bring more warm moisture to texas and southwest, category 4 storm, almost category 5 and will move into méxico over the next couple of days and then it's going to move into south texas, west texas, areas that have been drenched by days and weeks of rainfall, unfortunately they are going to get more in the forecast as willa makes landfall and brings prescription not only the pacific but also the gulf of mexico, there's a forecast prescription for texas as well as the southwest and that's going to stream into portions of the southern plains as well as as parts of florida, so the past 24 hours, you can't see willa just yet but we will start to see show up on the radar in the next couple of dais and certainly the flooding will

be potentially disastrous in the areas because they have seen so much rain over the last couple of weeks, forecast highs today, 70's, willa just exploded in the pacific, tropical storm and now category 4. rob: what's interesting the migrant caravan and you have a category 4 hurricane coming right into central méxico. janice: oh, my goodness. rob: i just realized that. jillian: 26 minutes after the hour, president trump rallying voters in new york. >> i know that you're working hard and honestly on the merits you should win. rob: democrats chris tine gillibrand finally agreeing to debate republican candidate, she calls transparency hypocrisy at its finest, we will tell you why

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jillian: good morning, welcome back, fox news alert, police and fbi holding news conference today one week after jamie closs disappeared, 13-year-old hasn't been since since parents were found murdered with door kicked in. someone called 911 from denise's phone, police have gotten more than 1200 tips none of them leading to jamie. rob: rod rosenstein sitting down for closed-door interview with house lawic mears on wednesday, they will grill him on the russia probe and report that claims that he we wanted to wiretap the president, house judiciary committee chair bob goodlatte says they need to get to the bottom. >> we want to know in particular about the new developments that we have been made aware of about

mr. rosenstein meeting with a group of other doj and fbi employees and talking about the possibility of wearing a wire when he meets with the president of the united states. rob: rosenstein was joking about that, he denies that wiretap report. jillian: elizabeth warren doubling down on defense for taking dna test, the massachusetts senator says she we wanted to proof heritage to rebuild trust in government because she thinks it is at a, quote, all-time low. she also said she wanted her full family history online so, quote, anybody can take a look, warren making comments in second debate over representative yesterday. rob: debate between new york democratic senator kristin gillibrand and farly finally happening after gillibrand ducked multiple invites. jillian: joining us republican

candidate. this has been scheduled and canceled many times. we are taking it on thursday, it's live streamed and would also be shown thursday at 11:00 a.m. which is great but interestingly i just discovered this that actually senator gillibrand reached out to spectrum new york one to schedule debate in the summer. we weren't invited until it had been all arranged back in september, so i was very surprised that she would back out of that sponsor when she was the one who actually chose the sponsor. rob: she has pretty healthy lead right now and you're aware of that, some would say that in her position she has nothing except something to lose by debating you because when you are that far ahead, why do it? >> she wants to keep talking about she wants finance reform and it's important here in new york city if you take public dollars, public matching money you're required to do debates and i think she should be required to do as well. we are doing one debate and i

challenge her, let's do another debate here on fox, let's do another, she refused one in long island, let's do that as well. i will do many debates as possible because it's important for that the people of new york can hear directly from her and lack of accomplishments in the 10 years she's been a senator, only one bill pass today rename a post office. jillian: we did reach out to her by the way, we did not get a response, just we wanted to let everybody know that. what do you look to get out of the debate, what do you want people to know? >> i want people to know that there's a real opportunity for somebody who is not running for president who is focused on the people of new york and wants to represent them, we all know that new york is a donor state, incredibly high taxes, i want to bring back the 48 billion we lose and lower our taxes and improve infrastructure, i also think we should be spending and sending less money down to washington and one way of doing that is i propose a federal tax deduction for renters, why is it that only homeowners can deduct interest on mortgage, we should allow renters to deduct rent up

to $3,000 a month. $36,000 a year, off the top, less paid to uncle sam, it would go a long way to helping new york who are hurt in latest tax bill. rob: i assume with the -- i bet that the salt deduction losing that deduction was something that you're trying to make your way to figure out how to approach because you were protax cuts but that losing that deduction here in new york has got to make it tough to get this election for you? >> rob, you're absolutely right, the tax cut was good for so many americans but it was tough for a lot of new yorkers. rob: yeah. >> one of the ways we can change is increase the cap, $10,000 is too low when the average property tax bill is $19,000 a year. we need to double that and we need to give renters a tax deduction. jillian: thank you for being here, we will certainly be watching debate as it happens later this week, we appreciate it. rob: thank you. all right, 34 minutes after the hour, is bernie sanders throwing his hat in the presidential ring yet again? the biggest hint that he just

dropped. >> you honor request from donald trump's ice agency if they provided detainer request, would you honor it as governor? would you work with donald trump? >> you can proceed with your time. >> jake, that's important. that's what happens -- jillian: sparks flying in florida as ron desantis and andrew gillum face off in battle to become next governor and president trump just weighed in, todd piro is here with the sunshine state showdown, don't go anywhere. million flu shots and counting,

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democratic advantage seems to be shrinking at this point. >> the gloves were off with immigration front and center. >> would you honor request from donald trump's ice agency if they provided detainer request, would you provide as governor? would you work with donald trump? >> you can proceed with your time. >> jake, that's important because andrew will not answer the question. he would be release back in the community -- >> of course, i just think that the show-boating is unnecessary. >> that's just one of testy moments between desantis, former congressman and gillum democratic mayor of tallahassee in addition to immigration the candidate battled over health care, gun control and crime with gillum tieing desantis to president trump and desantis painting gillum as bad for the economy and soft on criminals. most polling shows this race as dead-heat with early voting set to begin today, so in an attempt to sway voters president trump

weighing in tweeting ron desantis had a great debate victory tonight, meaning last night against andrew gillum a mayor who presides over one to have worst-run and most corrupt cities in florida. ron will build on the great job done by rick scott, gillum will make florida the next venezuela. the president's comments coming on the heels of a new nbc wall street journal poll just released showing gop closing the gap on which party the nation wants control in congress, down to 7% advantage for the dems, the same poll showing president trump's approval ratings at their highest yet, 47%, two weeks to go, guys. jillian: all right, todd, thank you. diners coming to mitch mcconnell defense after he's heckled at in restaurant in kentucky after eating dinner with his wife. the video obtained by tmz showed

man screaming at the senator. [shouting] [inaudible conversations] jillian: never ending, democratic robin byro and kimberly. >> unfortunately we live in a society where we don't know between the difference between a political activist and someone with a mental condition. >> i really think that the public has gone weary and tired of this, two weeks after the midterm i don't think it's doing us any favors. jillian: witnesses say that the heckler's even tossed his food out of the restaurant. rob: former hillary clinton aide is justifying the harassment of the senate majority leader. >> i think he's sitting there and he's thinking a couple of things, merrick garland versus

leftovers, he's getting away with murder. this is such a made-up problem. rob: mcconnell spear-headed the fight to keep the empty supreme court open in 2016 following the death of justice antonin scalia. jillian: president trump and former vice president joe biden trading blows on the campaign trail. >> obama came along and took them off of the ship. >> shredded by a president -- rob: could you imagine debates. former president obama set for dueling rallies. is he the heavy hitter, we debate that coming up in the case. jillian: before we get to that let's check in with steve doocy, good morning, steve. >> welcome back to work. jillian: thank you.

steve: rob as well. 17 minutes, candace owens will be joining us. ambassador to the great country of germany and senator tim scott and listen here i've got good news, if you've had not had your flu shot, ladies and gentlemen, watching tv, stop by fox square because in our 8:00 o'clock avenue we will roll up our at least and get a flu shot, jillian, i think you will be rolling up your sleeves. jillian: i don't have sleeves to roll up. fill out paperwork, i will be getting flu shot. rob: steve, you're losing your glow, i can tell it's fall. you don't have the steve look. jillian: we lost him. [laughter] rob: he will go to florida to get a tan. we will be right back. you're headed down the highway when the guy in front slams on his brakes out of nowhere. you do, too, but not in time. hey, no big deal.

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jillian: hope you're having a good monday so far. bernie sanders to rally in milwaukee stomping for democratic candidates in a state thanked for boosting progressive agenda. >> we started off in iowa and showed the american people that the ideas that we were talking about were not radical ideas or extremist ideas or ideas -- [cheers and applause] >> thank you, iowa. jillian: rumors of possible 2020 presidential run have been swirling around sanders and he continues to deny it, we will see. the battle to become the top law enforcement officer in minnesota gets tense, republican doug

calling congressman keith ellison out for lack of moral character in a head to head debate. >> there are serious and troubling allegations of domestic against ellison, we can't trust keith ellison, look at atrocious record, keith ellison has regularly stood up for rally and raised money for people who have murdered police officers, she's a cheerleader for cop killers, mr. ellison has been associated with terrible antisemite for quite some time. he compared jews to termites, that's just -- jillian: denounces the views and denies allegations against him, rob. rob: all right, could the democrats hope for a blue wave, possibly be over exaggerated or even a bust, new polls showing that the party is losing ground nationwide as the president's approval rating is on the rise.

so what does this mean come november, joining me to debate that commentary writer philip and democratic political analyst wendy, thank you for coming coming up this morning. poll, nbc wall street journal poll, president's approval rating at 47%, 49% disapprove. look at that the polls in november month ago, 44% approved, 52 disapprove. the president moving in the right direction, wendy, a lot of people surprised by this considering the president's style and some of the comments that he makes. it might mean that what the president does and the action it is administration are more important than the words, what do you think? >> well, his approval numbers are moving but we also have to realize that democrats don't hold 9-point lead and we see that when it comes to registered voters we see that voters are 50% more likely to want democrats to lead congress as opposed to 41% who wants republicans, yes, he is ahead in

the polls so to speak and he's above his average but that doesn't mean that democrats are waiting in the polls at all because we are leading amongst key demographics, so i have a feeling we are going to go ahead and take this. rob: okay. let's look at some of those numbers as you just said, more from nbc and wall street journal on who should control congress, 50% say the democrats should run the show, 41% say republicans and it gets analyzed across, likely voters, registered voters, philip, over to you, it's highly unlikely that the republicans can keep both houses here in november. what do you think the house race is going to look like? >> i think that we need to expect a blue wave but we don't need to automatically assume that it's going to be a blue tsunami especially if you look at the nbc and the wall street journal poll shows the president's approval ratings are

at highest right now and i think the reason why is that those voters regular i will say that their number one concern is the economy and right now the economy is doing incredibly well, it is booming and what we are going to see is when president trump is running on his record my thought is that that economic increase is going to be able to bowy republicans that were dead for dead. the blue wave may be coming but not as bad as republicans fear. rob: the president having big rally in texas and former president in nevada, they have the dueling rallies today, wendy, over to you, is the former president the best man to really rally up the troops here for the midterms? >> absolutely. the dems love obama, obama is a rock star in the party so to speak, when it comes to approval ratings, obama had approval rating of 48% and trump has approval rating of 39%, if you look at the numbers here, democrats love when obama comes

out, he has the ability to rally the troops so to speak and energize his base and right now it's where turning the corner with only 11 days it's all hands on deck and we need everybody to be able to come and energize it. rob: worth noting that our current president's approval rating is higher than obama. who is running the show with democratic party, they say joe joe biden has best shot? i can't believe joe biden is the number one guy that has got a chance? >> when you look at what happens with obama and trump hitting campaign trail you see that both of the guys are campaigners in chief, they were born for this sort of thing and excellent at what they do. obama is going to be absolute recking ball for rosen in nevada and we will see trump is going to pound in some of the nails in the coffin of beto o'rourke down in texas, the difference,

though, is that president obama, he's running on presidential nostalgia where you will have president trump who is going to be pointing to his record over the last 2 years and the inscainl -- inescapable fact life has gotten better for average voter. rob: let's move to migrant caravan, the president, wendy, has said that the democrats are funding this movement toward the united states but i would say that this is probably one of the biggest gift it is republicans could ask for, this thing is going to come to a head right as the midterms come around and i just can't imagine there are many people that think that we should have an open southern border for this type of a movement to just move right in. what do you think about this and how it'll impact midterms? >> well, i will push back a little bit. what we know that 56% of americans do not like when the

child separation -- family separation was happening, so depends on what the narrative is being spun here. if he goes ahead and he says individuals do not deserve and this would not look good for -- rob: this isn't family separation. >> no, it does not. depends on what the narrative is. trump has to be careful how he's attacking this and the words he's using because this is really not about immigration and this is a humanitarian crisis and needs to look at it in that matter. rob: is this humanitarian crisis or people demanding access to a country they don't live in. if the people we wanted to claim asylum they didn't want to live in méxico. >> the narrative is one that plays to president trump's advantage and to your point a second ago there are a lot of migrants who actually are working with the mexican government right now to claim asylum, asylum doesn't allow you to pick whichever country you want to go to and decide as soon as you arrive that you need to

declare asylum, you actually are required to go to first port of entry where you can get in. my thought generally with the type of caravans is that they underscore the argument that president trump has been making, he wants more border security, he wants the wall on the southern border, the awkward fact here is that democrats aren't necessarily the only one to blame. the republicans who trump is out campaigning for right now they can drol the house and the senate and they haven't been able to deliver on that front. so it's going to be a tricky situation for him to spin this, again, this is to the president's favor. rob: certainly will be, guys, thank you very much for your time, we have to go. we will be right back. >> thank you. >> thank you. yourself and your sister-in-law's tennis partner's chatty coworker's youngest daughter's entire judo class. one shot can make a world of difference. walgreens' specially trained pharmacists, know exactly

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