>> the concludes the fastest three hours in morning television. we'll be back at the same time and same virtual couch tomorrow. >> trace: chaos in los angeles as protests grip cities across the country. officers firing tear gas and rubber bullets at protestors demonstrating after the shooting death of a black man by police last week. violent protests in seattle. salem, oregon, and rochester new york. all this minutes from now. but president trump back on the campaign trail for 56 days to

go until election day heading to florida and north carolina. the two battlegrounds showing a tight race between him and joe biden. good morning, everyone, i'm trace gallagher. julie, good morning. >> julie: i'm julie banderas. sandra smith is off. the polling average has joe biden leading the president by less than 2 points in florida and less than 1 point in north carolina. florida meantime is worth 29 electoral votes, north carolina has 15. president trump talking up the economy at a labor day news conference and warning a biden/harris administration would be a win for china and destroy our country. biden firing back saying president trump is on track to end his first term with fewer american jobs than in january of 2017. >> president trump: biden and his very liberal running mate the most liberal person in congress, by the way, not a competent person in my opinion, would destroy this country and would destroy this economy.

if joe biden becomes president china will own the united states and every other country will be smiling. >> we know it has been great for his rich friends but hasn't been so great for the rest of us. this president is on track to be the only president in modern history to end up with fewer jobs at the end of his term than existed in america when he began his term. >> julie: chief white house correspondent john roberts starts off the hour for us. live on the north lawn. will the back and forth of the economy continue today as the president goes to north carolina and florida. >> absolutely. the reason why is joe biden is trying to hit the president on his strongest turf. the president still leads on the issue of the economy. one of the issues he continues to lead. the way joebld is attacking him on the economy by wrapping it around coronavirus. joe biden continues to try to sew doubt among america how

president trump responded to coronavirus and the economic impact what biden calls the president failures. the president is blaming democratic leaders for lag in recovery. new york city must stop the shutdown now. governor and mayor are destroying the place. in a news conference outside of the north portico, the president said the economy in roaring back. >> president trump: the u.s. economy added 1.4 million jobs last month. we've added a record-setting 10.6 million jobs since may. 10.6 million jobs since may. that's a record that is not even close. second place is a long ways away. >> the president trying to keep the focus on law and order. an issue on which he thinks he can make inroads on joe biden. tweeting this morning blm protestors horribly harass

elderly pittsburgh diners scaring them and taking food off their plate. these an arc consists are biden voters. he has no control and nothing to say. disgraceful. thugs. because of weak and pathetic leadership -- must shut them down fast. biden and kamala won't even talk about it. they won't utter the words law and order. that's a message that the president is going to take to jupiter island, florida. the polls in the states in florida and north carolina are close. the president is narrowing the gap substantially in florida and neck-and-neck in florida. a lot can change between now and november. >> julie: thank you so much. trace. >> trace: let's bring in fox news political editor chris style walt. great to see you. i want to start where john

roberts left off. the polls are tightening. you have now trump 46 to -- july you have 42 to 48, down by six points. now 46-47. very close. now to north carolina and you have now very close 47.2 to 47.8. in july a three-point lead for joe biden. it has to be encouraging for the trump administration. >> yeah, certainly in florida. one word of caution. these state averages, there is not enough good polling down there to get -- to be talking about points of points of points. a lot of those averages will end up more gristle than meat. but florida we have a quinnipiac poll in florida trump closing nine points coming up substantially.

so what we've seen across the country and we would expect to see in florida is that the base is coming home for donald trump. here i don't mean his traditional base, white working class and older voters. the traditional republican base. suburbanites, men, people who prefer lower taxes, we have seen that gathering together since before the convention and that's why we know -- we knew all along florida would be close but what we have to remember is donald trump can't win reelection without florida. it will be for all of the marbles. >> trace: why was the base away and why is the base now coming back specifically? >> well, i'm sure the president would say it's about talking about crime and all of that stuff and it does -- when he goes to north carolina we had our halftime report list come out, the counties that we'll

watch very closely over this time and places like some places of north carolina where a lot of poor people. people hit hard by the coronavirus but a place where donald trump did better than previous republicans have. there you have a test. on the one side you've got lingering concerns about the coronavirus and the economy, a big meat packing plant and stuff like that. on the other hand you have a lot of white voters very concerned about lawlessness and unrest. so those are the kind of places i think where trump is really trying to reach out to where he is talking to those working class folks in places in north carolina to say i'm the law and order president. culture wars work. >> trace: i want to move on to this "new york times" reporting that there is a bit of a cash crunch with the trump campaign right now saying the campaign has spent $800 million of the dl* 1.1 billion war chest. the biden campaign spent 35.9

million and trump spending 4.8 million and this quote from ed rollins who says if you spend $800 million and 10 points behind i think you have to answer the question what was the game plan? a lot of money was spent when voters were not paying attention. what do you make of all this, chris? >> not even jeb bush could have wasted this much money. i believe the phrase is enough money to burn a wet elephant and it's been amazing to see. they spent money they never should have. they paid all these salaries. they do all this stuff and like a woot chipper where you have -- donald trump revolutionized republican fundraising. he gets so many small dollar donations but puts them into the wood chipper. he was. brad parscale used to be the campaign manager.

now his new one is following more traditional guidelines. the hundreds of millions of dollars they burned through from the small dollar donors is jaw dropping. >> trace: amazing. you talk about brad parscale and step yen. parscale said we had to spend this money in the spring and early summer to counteract what was happening with the pandemic. this was necessary, he says, chris, to keep the president very competitive during that time. final thoughts. >> one concern i have had all along for trump this cycle is that he did well in 2016 without a campaign basically. they were caddie. they tried to keep up with him and doing what he was tweeting and he just ran it himself by the seat of his pants. this time they've built this huge, gigantic billion dollar campaign and so far i can't see how it is helping him do that much better than he did when he was just freelancing.

>> trace: chris stirewalt, great stuff. thank you, appreciate it. >> you bet. [shouting] >> julie: hundreds of demonstrators on the streets of rochester, new york. prude died of asphyxiation in march after police put they call a spit hood over his head and took him into custody while naked in the street. last night's demonstration was largely peaceful, however. despite a few tense moments between protestors and officers in riot gear. >> trace: sheriffs deputies firing tear gas and rubber bullets near the sheriff's station in south los angeles. a black man was shot and killed by deputies last week.

we don't know if any arrests were made. some people complained the l.a. county sheriff's department has been using harsh tactics against black lives matter protestors. [shouting] >> julie: the scene in seattle molotov cocktails thrown at police who formed a human barricade outside their headquarters. salem, oregon, there was a confrontation between the pro-trump crowd and group of protestors where we have dan springer joining us live in seattle. hi, dan. >> there was no break if you were wearing a badge this holiday weekend. police in the pacific northwest had to work hard. in seattle yesterday as you mentioned cops were protecting their union office telling protestors who were all dressed in black, many of them carrying umbrellas to back up when this happened.

someone threw a molotov cocktail at officers' feet on bikes approaching the crowd. no one was hurt. it shows the escalation in the violence directed at the police. we saw a protestor in portland, over the weekend mistakenly light his clothes on fire with a molotov cocktail. protestors surrounded an officer last night and pushed him to the ground. police made 22 arrests. earlier in the day a different group of protestors held a rally demanding that the city council override the veto of the legislation that cuts the police budget by several million and 100 police officers. in salem, oregon, police arrested two people but they were supporters of president trump who had gathered for a rally at the state capitol. among the trump backers were armed members of the proud boys, a right wing group that clashed in antifa in portland. some charged counter protestors knocking some to the ground and assaulting at least one person. in portland on saturday night police made the most arrests

since the protests began more than 100 days ago, 59 people were arrested during a night that saw fires set, police assaulted, and tier gas fired. over the weekend the paper of record in the state finally said in its editorial the nightly protests should stop. this as one city council member in portland refused to sign a letter that said that they were condemning the violence that is happening almost every night in portland. >> julie: trace. >> trace: a massive rescue effort underway now to save dozens trapped by the creek fire in northern california. the national guard sent a military helicopter in last night but it had to turn around because of heavy smoke. more than 200 campers were airlifted to safety by a helicopter over the weekend. officials calling the creek fire an unprecedented disaster. it has grown to more than 135,000 acres since it began

friday and has zero containment. >> julie: a deadly holiday weekend in chicago. >> i seen the little girl on the ground and to people on the other side of the car. >> julie: an 8-year-old girl shot and killed last night while she was sitting in a car at a stoplight. what police are saying about the investigation. plus just three weeks until president trump and joe biden's first debate. we're all waiting. will a strong performance by either candidate, though, change the shape of this race? marc thiessen joins me next. d do you see me? though hidden, i am here waiting for the rest of my life to unfold. soon i will arrive. (music) or will i? it's really not up to me.

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>> trace: senators are returning to capitol hill today with stimulus relief topping their agenda. the president says nothing will get done because democrats won't agree on a package that will boost his chances in november. >> president trump: they don't want the make a deal because they know it's good for the economy. if they make a deal that's good for the economy and good for me for the election on november 3. therefore, they aren't going to make a deal. >> trace: house lawmakers come back next week giving them two weeks to reach an agreement before they leave town again to focus on the election. >> julie: it is just about

three weeks away from the first presidential debate. we can't wait to watch that. a lot of speculation as to who can win. a new poll 47% believe trump will win the debate with 41% for joe biden. pew research center have come up with numbers that say that most voters may have already made up their minds in this race before the debates. marc thiessen is a former speech writer for president george w. bush and fox news contributor. thank you for coming on this morning. we all look forward to these debates but a lot of people question do they make that much of a difference. according to polls most people already have their minds made up. few make their minds up after the debates. the question then remains will a strong performance by the president at the debates be enough do you think to sway undecided voters at this point? >> i think you're right.

a small number of people who make up their minds in the debates but they're critical. as chris stirewalt pointed out earlier the base is coming home for donald trump. biden's base is less energized about him than they are about beating trump. there are 10% of the electorate that is undecided or persuadeable. the debates will be decisive in persuading those people one way or another. they take out an outside importance in this election because joe biden is the oldest person ever to carry his party's nomination into the november election. he is 77 years old. if he elected he will be older on the day he takes office than reagan was on the day he left office. voters will see if he can string sentences together and perform well and means the vice presidential debates will take

on an outsized importance. a rasmussen poll say that 59% of americans believe that joe biden if elected won't finish his first term in office, 49% of democrats. that means kamala harris has a big burden on her shoulders in the vice presidential debate. a lot of americans think that she may be president before joe biden's first term would be over. >> julie: when you talk about this debate and the gaffes you are referring to with joe biden. he has been doing pre-recorded video calls and a lot of people that would love for him to come and visit them but hasn't been there and they're sick of video calls. they want live and ask question and to be unrehearsed and unscripted. how much is that going to hurt biden? his campaigning right now is sort of paleing in comparison to the president's. >> julie: he will have to withstand an hour of half of unscripted president from the president and tough questions

hopefully from moderators that haven't been pre-written or pre-scripted or selectively chosen by his campaign. now the problem -- both an opportunity and a problem for trump because trump always talks about his mental capacity and makes fun of him. that lowers the bar for biden. biden doesn't have to have a knock-out performance. if he strings a couple of sentences together he wins. the president should not be lowering the bar for joe biden by questioning his mental capacity. what he should be saying is joe biden has been a politician for 47 years, been through tons of debates, experienced debating and raising the bar. >> julie: chris wallace won't let either of these guys off easily. maybe live appearances might be a nice warm-up. the percentage of undecided voters who said the debates played a pivotal roll in 2016 is 10%. if only 10% of those who voted

in 2016 said the debates helped them make up their minds during or just after gives you some perspective how much weight falls on these upcoming debates. who do you think has more to lose? >> the president does because he is behind right now. joe biden, he has the danger of having some catastrophic slip-up that makes it clear to americans that he is not capable of handling the job of president. but president trump has a job to do as well, as we mentioned. the debate -- [inaudible] win over those persuadeable voters tuning in and deciding whether to vote for him. polls show there are 10 to 15% of voters who support donald trump's economic policies but don't approve of him. those are gettable voters. they know it's in their self-interest to reelect the president but need permission to cast that vote in their own self-interest. donald trump has to do that in the debates. >> julie: 47% of voters believe that donald trump will win the

debates compared to 41% who believe that joe biden will be winning the debates. 11% are undecided and 1% refused. i don't know why i had to read that. i thought it was a funny number. the debate calendar. september 29th you have cleveland. then you have the vice presidential debate on october 7 in salt lake city. then in october as well on the 15th in miami, october 22nd in nashville. when you think about these debates i think everybody is looking forward to the mudslinging between the president and joe biden. that is going to be interesting to watch. after they do the handshake at the top. but pence and kamala harris. how do you think that will go down? we've seen her on the debate stage and we know she can debate. >> she can debate and she is very eloquent but she is also a

very fierce partisan and she just stepped in it this weekend when she did an interview on cnn where she three times refused to say that a vaccine if it came out before the election would be safe. that she would take it. she was offered three times. she said what if the public health experts say it is okay and she said they will probably be manipulated. it is shameful to call into question the efficacy of a vaccine. everyone of us are praying for a vaccine to end the crisis and a politician to undermine public confidence in a vaccine for political gain is shameful. i think that mike pence is a very experienced debater. he is careful, he is measured but he will call her out for those kinds of things. >> julie: the democrats say the republicans have turned the whole mask wearing thing into a political thing. we're looking forward to that vaccine. the masks are political but then at the same time they're

saying we don't want a vaccine because the president happens to be republican. kind of -- >> they don't want to give him credit. we should all be praying for an october surprise we get this vaccine. every day -- the southeastern -- sooner it comes out. every day that goes by we don't have the vaccine more lives are lost. we should all be for it. >> julie: thank you for coming on. >> trace: the world's top tennis player getting hit where it hurts after a meltdown at the u.s. open. why djokovic's disqualification isn't the only punishment he faces. plus president trump promises the fastest economic recovery in u.s. history even as the number of americans out of work remains historically high. maria bartiromo joins us with more on that next. >> president trump: joe biden,

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>> julie: bottom of the hour. top stories. president trump heading the florida and north carolina today as the latest poll show joe biden holding a very slim lead in both of those battleground states. >> trace: police in los angeles

firing tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds overnight. demonstrators were in front of the sheriff's station to protest a shooting of a black man last week. >> julie: the utility company shutting off power to thousands of customer, they want to prevent power lines from sparking more wildfires across the state. >> president trump: we're in the midst of the fastest economic recovery in u.s. history. the united states experienced the smallest contraction of any major western nation. you probably know that. you look around and see how we're doing compared to every other nation and our rise is spectacular. and we're rebounding much more quickly from the pandemic. >> trace: president trump on the economy after a better than expected august jobs report sent the unemployment rate down

to 8.4%. let's bring in maria bartiromo anchor of mornings with maria and sunday morning futures on fox news channel. i just wanted to put up these unemployment numbers so everybody gets an idea where we were, where we are, kind of the setup here in february you had the 50 year low 3.5%. april 14.7% because of the pandemic. now 8.4%. the president thinks he can add 10 million jobs next year alone. the fed chair jerome powell disagrees quoting here the economy is now recovering but it will be a long time. we think that the economy is going to need low interest rates, which support economic activity, for an extended period of time. it will be measured in years. do you think he is right, maria? >> well, i think both are right on a number of fronts. on the fed chair powell's comments, yes, i believe that

interest rates will be lower for longer. the federal reserve has made no secret of that. they'll keep rates where they are until at least 2024. that's powerful for an economy and the stock market. the economy, this is one of the best times to refinance or take out a mortgage. you are pretty much getting free money here because rates are so low. on the stock market, it creates very few alternatives. for anybody out there who wants yield, any kind of a return, you certainly don't want to go in treasuries where you are getting 0% interest rate. that is shifting money to the stock market. so it's very impactful what we're seeing in terms of the record low interest rates. markets are down today for a number of reasons. first of all technology stocks have been the fuel and power for this market for a long time and there is a sense that has gotten overvalued and why they're driving the market lower this morning. we don't have another stimulus

plan and there is disappointment. i spoke with mark meadows this morning and he says he thinks they will come together and that we will get a stimulus package before the election. we're not sure. there is a lot of debate about that. i spoke with nancy lazar at cornerstone macro research who had a great report this morning. her colleagues don't think we'll get another stimulus plan by the election. that's one of the things going on in the market this morning where you have the dow industrials opening up the low down 400 points. i'll point out what the president said about the economy is certainly living -- is what we're seeing actually living proof of an economy that is coming back. productivity has moved up. that's a very powerful element of this recovery and the jobs numbers better than expected. >> trace: you look at the numbers for the third day in a row the dow down significantly there. i want to play you what steve

mnuchin said. he is encouraging. watch this? >> you'll see a phenomenal third quarter gdp. some people think it will be in the neighborhood of 30, 35%. >> 30, 35%, pretty bold prediction. your thoughts. >> that's true, trace. we saw a sharp contraction in the second quarter. just because we're opening a little you'll see a bounceback from that. we could see a gdp of 30 plus% in the third quarter. in the fourth quarter people are expecting things to normalize this bit. 5% growth is what many are expecting. a stimulus package would move those numbers up or down. certainly a stimulus package would help accelerate growth even further. >> trace: i have to go, maria. the study from pew 52% of 18 to 29 year olds living with their parents. quickly, last thoughts.

>> a couple of things. the pandemic people are scared. they are losing jobs. they are moving back at home and they are saving money. this is interesting that it's up to 52%. i'm not surprised, trace. >> trace: interesting. maria bartiromo, great to see you. thank you. >> julie: an 8-year-old girl is dead and three others in critical condition this morning after a shooting yesterday in chicago. police say the child was in a car with three adults when another vehicle pulled up behind them and opened fire. mike tobin is live in chicago. how is the city reacting to yet another violent weekend like this? >> even in a city that expects violence, particularly on a holiday weekend that had nice weather losing a little girl so suddenly and tragically shocks people here. it was just before 6:00 p.m. on the south side of the city. part of the see that has seen its share of violence. a dodge charger pulled up

behind a subaru suv. the occupants of the charger opened fire. a 31-year-old man in the s.u.v. was the target. he is shot and expected to survive. 31-year-old woman, the little girl's mother was injured when the s.u.v. crashed. 8-year-old girl was shot in the back. efforts to revive her on the scene were futile. the dodge charger drove off and shot some more. >> i seen the red tape. i seen the little girl on the ground. i seen two people on the other side of the car because it hit the tree coming around the corner. down 47th on union. then i seen them reviving her and then the charger turned left, went down 48 and shot more shots. >> 32-year-old mother of two was stabbed to death working at walgreens. a man walked in at 9:30 in the morning and stabbed her. they don't think robbery was

the motive. the killer didn't take anything. one person is in custody. no one has been arrested. overall the city saw some 38 different shooting incidents, 51 people were shot. 10 people killed. a police-involved shooting as well when an individual with a butcher knife stabbed a police officer in the protective vests and other officers opened fire and killed the man with the knife. >> julie: just unreal. it's awful. mike tobin, thank you. >> trace: djokovic could face more fines from the u.s. tennis association after being disqualified from the u.s. open for hitting a line judge with the ball. he lost $250,000 in prize money he had already won along with missing out on the tournament's top prize of $3 million. his skipping out on press commitments after the incident could lead to more fines and

pleaded with fans to stop tweeting death threats. she has done nothing wrong at all. stay especially supportive and caring to her during this time. >> julie: president trump hits the campaign trail in two big swing states today while joe biden stays in delaware. is the former vice president taking some battleground states for granted because he is leading in the polls? also emergency crews scrambling to rescue dozens of people trapped by a massive wildfire. why time could be running out. >> this has been a nightmare. just to watch our family's ranch go up in flames. it is horrible. i moved by 103-year-old two days ago because i knew this would be hard on her.

>> julie: the white house race is tight in florida and north carolina. president trump making stops in

both of those states today while joe biden is back in delaware blasting the president in an email this morning. biden saying, quote, it is clear that floridians have been hurt by president trump's ability to stop the spread of coronavirus. we won't hear from him the plan to overcome a pandemic or a strategy to put people in florida back to work. let's bring in lily adams, spokesperson for the dnc. the race is tightening in both of these states. two battleground states with 29 electoral votes up for grab in florida. 15 in north carolina and we don't see joe biden in either of them. why? >> well, i think you saw him and senator harris this weekend both campaigning in wisconsin and in pennsylvania. i know senator harris will be down in florida later this week. joe biden will head to michigan. we're past labor day. people will be traveling all over the place and not taking anything for granted. i think what you are also

seeing is as donald trump is going to north carolina today, there are republican officials there begging him to wear a mask and show leadership on the coronavirus which as the vice president pointed out we have not seen. he has not listened to experts and has a plan. the company is suffering for it. >> julie: the most recent visits that joe biden has paid to two particular states when i talk about florida and north carolina, he was last in florida in october of 2019. february 2020 he was last in north carolina. there are some people in north carolina democrats, life long democrats that said that these recorded messages just aren't going to cut it anymore. they want to see him in person. do a round table or something where he is actually doing live non-rehearsed questions for voters. is he planning on doing anything like that? >> well yeah, that's what you saw him do yesterday in

pennsylvania. it's what you'll probably see him do tomorrow in michigan when he travels there. look, what joe biden has done from the get go is listen to experts, be safe. not endanger communities like donald trump has done. when he went to tulsa cased skyrocketed and that is reflected in his policy. never listened to experts about the coronavirus and never had a plan. i think that what voters will reward is leadership and responsibility and making sure you aren't going into a community and endangering folks. >> julie: what about florida and north carolina? how seriously does he think those two states? he has been talking about coronavirus in florida. and jobs. is he planning on going to florida and when is that scheduled? >> i'm sure he absolutely will go to florida and his running mate, senator harris, will be there later this week with her husband. we take florida seriously. there is a lot to talk about in

florida, how harmful the impacts of coronavirus and recession has been with 100,000 businesses across the country closing. 29 million americans on unemployment insurance. a lot to talk about and their plans to build back the country better. >> julie: what do you think the biden campaign strategy is moving forward when you look at some of the leads tightening up in battleground states such as the state of florida, for example? biden is now leading at 47.8% to the president's 46. just under two percentage points. his lead has shrunk a bit there. how does he plan on making up for that? is he worried? should he be? >> i don't think we're worried. we always expected a close race. the democratic national committee prepared for that as well as the biden campaign. what biden and harris will do in each state is paint the contrast for voters. you have donald trump who has provided chaotic, erratic leadership that punched us into

a recession. 200,000 coronavirus deaths i'm sure this month. it's tragic. compare that to the steady leadership, the experienced leadership that you get with joe biden who not only got us out of the last recession but has a plan to get us out of this one. >> >> julie: lily adams. thank you very much. >> trace: president trump says the coronavirus vaccine could be approved by october but kamala harris is wary. >> i pray we have a vaccine as quickly as possible. that is approved by the scientists and the public health professionals. >> would you trust one under president trump? >> i would trust a vaccine if the public health professionals and scientists told us we could trust it. >> trace: will people take vaccine when it is approved? dr. marc siegel is with us in the next hour. a huge party in the big apple this weekend has new york

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>> trace: new york governor andrew cuomo says the states' coronavirus infection rate has dropped. there was a huge party on saturday night and nyu is now threatening disciplinary action. jonathan serrie is live in atlanta with the latest. administrators say a lot of these students were not wearing masks. >> not wearing masks or social distancing. administrators are reminding students that safety protocols reply not only on campus but off campus as well. northeastern university is boston has suspended 11

students for gathering in a hotel room in violation of school safety policies. the school says it will not reimburse their tuition payments for the semester. a similar situation in wisconsin. carroll university has suspended three students after they hosted a party at their off-campus residence. >> the rules and code of conduct they say they won't give us our tuition back. so we have to make up those $10,000 plus dollars we lost in the suspension. >> university of new hampshire suspended a fraternity for hosting a party with more than 100 people. 11 of them tested positive. the university president calls the party reprehensible and in some breaking news this morning the ceos of nine pharmaceutical companies have signed a pledge that in developing a potential vaccine for coronavirus, they will adhere to the strictest safety and ethical guidelines. trace, back to you. >> trace: jonathan serrie live

in atlanta home to the cdc. >> julie: with the presidential election 56 days away both campaigns are zeroing in on key swing states. president trump hitting north carolina and florida today while the biden team turns its attention to the midwest. who has the upper hand here? that's our top story next hour. what do you think? i don't see it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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more than 50 people trapped by the fire in california. the national guard flying helicopters into the disaster zone overnight but smoke was too heavy. >> the fire an unprecedented disaster. more evacuation orders are expected in the state this week. >> protestors demanding justice for six straight nights in rochester, new york, following the death of daniel prude. his brother joined the protestors and want the police chief and mayor to resign. a 12-year-old boy in colorado got a five day suspension after a teacher says he flashed a toy gun during an online art class. >> more on all those stories throughout the hour. we begin on the campaign trail. the race for the white house entering the final stretch. both campaigns are focusing on key swing states. president trump heading to florida and north carolina today while former v.p. joe biden is holding several

virtual events with targeted messages to voters in the midwest. welcome back to a brand-new hour inside "america's newsroom." i'm trace gallagher. julie, good morning. >> let's go. >> julie: sandra smith is off. i'm julie banderas. president trump hitting two crucial battleground states today where the race appears to be tightening. the biden team has been focused on pennsylvania and wisconsin for the past few days doing its first major campaign travel since the pandemic started. >> this is an important city on many levels. certainly it is the path to the white house runs through wisconsin and certainly runs through milwaukee. >> peter doocy is following the biden campaign live from chicago. dr. jill biden is holding a virtual event in wisconsin this afternoon. what do we expect to hear? >> it's all about getting swing state voters to be on the lookout for ballots in their

mailboxes this month just like kamala harris was doing on her way out of milwaukee last night. >> everybody votes early, right? by september 17th you will get your ballot. october 20 early voting starts. >> harris and her husband will also appear in person in florida this week. joe biden will appear in person in michigan and in pennsylvania again during his labor day visit there. he revealed if the covid-19 vaccine is released and guarantees it wasn't rushed by political appointees and scientists sign off on it, he would roll up his sleeve. >> pray to god we have it. if i could get a vaccine tomorrow i would do it. if it would cost me the election i would do it. we need a vaccine and we need it now. we have to listen to the

scientists. >> as riots and violence have consumed some big cities lately biden and trump are trying to accuse each other of looking the other way for political reasons. last night biden was asked by a local news reporter in pennsylvania do you condemn antifa? and he said yes, he does. he condemns violence no matter who does it. harris will attend a virtual fundraiser. joe biden isn't planning to leave the house, either. the press pool assigned to stake out his house in delaware reports they've been told to stand down for the rest of today already. trace. >> trace: peter doocy live in chicago. thank you. >> julie: crews in california are trying again this morning to rescue more than 60 people trapped by the creek fire in the northern part of the state. the california national guard sending helicopters into the disaster zone overnight but heavy smoke forced the crew to turn around. fire officials calling it a

quote unprecedented disaster. as flames claim dozens of homes and continue to spread to more than 135,000 acres now. jeff paul is live in los angeles. what are you hearing about rescue efforts this morning? >> we're just learning moments ago that the national guard has rescued 35 people from the creek fire who were trapped by those flames overnight. all of this happening as temperatures start to decrease but they're being replaced by increasing winds which will only cause those flames to likely spread even farther. now, at the moment there are more than 20 major wildfires burning throughout the state. one of the biggest is the creek fire which has burned more than 135,000 acres just northeast of fresno in the sierra nevada mountains. this fire is in a class by itself. further south in san bernardino the eldorado fire has grown to nearly 10,000 acres. fire officials saying the

flames originated from a smoke-generating pyrotechnic device used at a gender reveal party. many forced to evacuate and others worry about the future of their homes. >> the whole time i was calm and then i just broke down because i saw the flames, how big they were and how close to the road they were getting to all of us. this house has taken us a long time to build. our dream home. we didn't feel our lives were in danger. >> more than 170,000 people have experienced power outages and there could be more temporary shutoffs to decrease the dangers of even more fires. they've also closed several national parks throughout the state here in southern california and in central california. more than two million acres burned this fire season alone. that's a record. we're only just getting into peak fire season. >> julie: wow.

all right. thank you very much. >> trace: silent labor day at the jersey shore. a fight broke out yesterday after at pleasant beach. lifeguards and police officers rushed to the scene. two suspects were taken into custody. nobody else hurt. investigation is ongoing. >> julie: the owner of the san francisco hair salon where house speaker nancy pelosi was caught on camera not wearing a mask, now she is getting overwhelming support from strangers online donating, in fact, more than $300,000 on her crowd funding page in just five days. erika kious says she is overwhelmed with gratitude. i wish i would thank every person who sent prayers, word of encouragement and support especially at a time when so many are struggling to make

ends meet this their own lives. protestors are gathering outside pelosi's home hanging curling irons and rollers in a nearby tree. >> trace: the race to develop a covid-19 vaccine. there is a synthetic antibody fragment before it takes hold and can be used as an antiviral treatment until a vaccine becomes available. let's get claudia cowan live in san francisco. what can you tell us about this property ention breakthrough? >> the fascinating work happening here at ucsf. researchers have developed a biological ppe like a facemask at the cellular level to prevent the coronavirus from taking hold. it is a synthetic antibody that they call an aero nab and puts

the coronavirus in a chemical straight jacket by attaching to those unique protein spikes that attack human lung spells. it blocks away neutralizing the virus before it has a chance to spread. >> if we can prevent that initial step of the virus even getting into the cell it is a very potent way to prevent infections in the first place and prevent infections from getting worse. >> the idea is to put them into a nasal spray for inhaler so people can easily take it on a daily basis during the early stages of infection. medical experts say it could be a bridge to provide protection until a vaccine is developed. >> this is not science fiction. they're real and showing a strong effect against the virus that has caused this pandemic. will they work in humans as a bridge to a vaccine? we don't know yet but it is hopeful. put this together with the synthetic antibodies that are

already close to fda approval and you have reason to hope. >> the solution is made of readily available materials that bring down the cost. researchers say it could be tweaked should the virus mutate. researchers are hoping to start clinical trials in the next few months. if all goes well aeronabs could be a game changer. >> trace: claudia, thank you. >> julie: the house oversight committee announcing an investigation into postmaster general louis dejoy for breaking campaign finance laws. former employees accuse him of pressuring them to donate to republican candidates and then reimbursing them. the president said he doesn't know much about the claims but it is open to investigation. >> president trump: i don't know too much about it. let the investigations go. but he is a very respected man.

again, it was a bipartisan commission. postmaster general is appointed by a bipartisan commission. we'll see how that goes. i think he is a very honest guy. >> julie: he hasn't made any public statement about it yet. a spokesperson has reportedly denied any wrongdoing. house oversight committee chairwoman carolyn maloney gave a statement to fox news this morning and i'm quoting. if these allegations are true mr. dejoy could face criminal exposure not only for his actions in north carolina, but also for lying to our committee under oath. >> trace: violent stand-off yesterday between police and protestors in seattle. the angry crowd advancing on police building. what police recovered at the scene. plus president trump honing his message of law and order. could the growing unrest push

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>> trace: outrage in hong kong after police tackle a 12-year-old girl to the ground during a pro-democracy protest on sunday. the girl's mother said she was out buying art supplies with her brother when she got caught up in the protests and group of police in body armor. it is defending the officer's actions saying they use i had minimum force after she ran away in a suspicious manner. >> julie: police protecting their union office in seattle last night telling protestors to back up when this happened. [shouting] >> julie: someone in this crowd throwing a monthly -- molotov

cocktails. police arrested 22 people. it's a disgrace. just to see the disorderly conduct against police officers day in and day out is disgusting. >> trace: it goes back to police chief carmen best saying this is part of the reason i'm resigning. these police officers are out on the street every single day. we have the violent protests going on and they don't believe they can go in and knock these things down because they don't believe the political people in those cities will support them. >> julie: i know nypd here they're retiring early and taking pensions and running because there is no backing. >> trace: president trump has shifted the focus of his campaign to public safety as demonstrations against police violence and racial injustice continue across the country. the president is using images of looting and riots to draw suburban voters back to him pointing the finger at joe biden and democrats for the lack of law and order.

but a fox news poll shows wisconsin voters trust biden to do a better job on policing and criminal justice than president trump. let's bring in donna brazile, fox news contributor and former dnc chair. great to see you. we look at the wisconsin poll numbers here, joe biden 47, donald trump 42 to do a better job but interesting because i want to read this to you. this is the secretary of the democratic party outside milwaukee, wisconsin. he says there is that little sort of unsettling feeling in people because we can't tell -- we can tell that trump's messaging is grabbing hold and it is working and then you have another democratic party leader who goes on to say trump will be able to be the strong man only i can save you leader. that's playing out just as i had feared. clearly there is concern, donna, among some democratic leaders in these very important states that the president's

message is resonating. >> as you well know we have democratic leaders all over the country in all 50 states. like all americans, we need to end the type of violence that we're seeing across america but we also must address some of the issues that is at the root cause of what is causing people to march in the streets. so we can do both at the same time. i think most americans would like to have a president that can bring us together with those unique values that we share as citizens. whether we live in urban or rural or suburban centers we need to have the same message for all americans. that is we should be treated as respectful citizens and we should all abide by the law. >> trace: it's interesting, donna, because for the past we talked about the dnc convention there was no mention of the violence across and then people said he needs to come out. joe biden needs to come out and talk about the violence and condemn the violence.

then he condemned violence saying all violence is ong wrong and both sides ashamed of it but wouldn't talk about far left groups. that changed today. joe biden told a local affiliate in north carolina, he says the question is do you condemn antifa? and the answer is didn't name antifa. he said yes, i do, absolutely. violence no matter who it is going on to say yes, he condemns antifa. that's a first that we know of, donna, that he has condemned antifa. >> i also believe the president of the united states should condemn the proud boys, the boog a loo* boys. i don't care whoever it is, the militia, all violence is wrong. at the democratic party convention we addressed violence. not all violence is that as a result of looting, which is bad. that's criminal. we know that's bad.

but also gun violence. gabby gifford led an entire array of speakers who talked about violence and we can cherry pick what kind of violence but we as leaders of our great country should condemn all forms of violence, rape, assault, murder, looting, all of it. i have in my family police officers. when they take off their uniform they're black men and women. violence against anyone is bad. if we continue to pick ourselves apart we'll never get to this stage in our country where you can come together as one people. >> trace: but you have some of these republican critics, donna, who will say yeah, you say yeah, we condemn violence of all sorts but nobody is condemning the specific violence on the south side of chicago or in west baltimore and these other cities around the country where the young children are dying. it is troubling. you look at some of the

left-leaning media outlets and they don't cover the stories. we cover it. >> mayor light foot has been out there. mayor bowser, and others. the mayors have been out there and clergy and city council out there. you know what it is like to live in urban cities where there is violence? it is not something that we all live with. my aunt before she passed away, she led the patrol down in her community. no one talks about the people fighting this every day because there is lack of jobs and lack of opportunities. we know we have to do more to keep our city streets safe. this is something that we all must do. this is not a republican or democratic. it doesn't have a name. we need to end this violence in america right now. >> trace: donna brazile. always good to talk to you. thank you so much.

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>> julie: the extreme heat in california is fueling the massive wildfires that have broken out all over the state filling the skies with smoke and flames. janice dean with more. the heat is brutal. the fires are relentless. >> absolutely, julie. it has been like that for weeks now. we've got dry conditions and hospital temperatures along the coast. this area of low pressure bringing snow to the rockies isn't helping the matter with gusty winds. the forecast highs along the coast warmer than average. you can see where we've got the trough digging into the rockies bringing wintery conditions but a lot of the wind gusts are not favorable for wildfires that are currently burning across the west. another day of wildfires for

the northwest down through california and the southwest and the great basin. things are going to relax a little bit. temperatures will come down as we go through wednesday and thursday. we have to get through today and the winds will be quite impressive across california and the west. current temperatures i want to talk about the snowstorm that is happening over the rockies. it is quite incredible. they had temperatures into the 90s to 100s. dropping 60 degrees in 48 hours. you can see the snow that's flying over parts of colorado as well as wyoming and montana and there is your taste of winter for september here with temperatures well below freezing in some of these spots. things will start to moderate as we get into tomorrow and thursday. but man, we have winter storm warnings in place for a lot of the big cities in colorado including denver, where they could get several inches of snow on the ground in the

foothills and then up in the mountains the highest peaks could receive a foot to two feet of snow. so very impressive. the west has a lot of weather to deal with today. there is your temperatures for denver. i know you like to ski, my friend. >> julie: i love snow but it's a little early. i'm still working off this tan. not ready to ski. >> you look marvelous. in denver you snap your fingers and it changes in an instant. we'll get more seasonable averages. >> julie: what a range. thank you so much, janice dean. >> i would not trust donald trump and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he is talking about.

>> julie: vice presidential kamala harris suggesting she would not get a coronavirus vaccine. she cited a lack of trust in president trump. my next guest talks about the importance of everyone taking the vaccine when it comes out. his "wall street journal" op-ed is titled dad, please get a covid shot, you, too, senator harris. this isn't a swine flu it is a genuine pandemic. dr. marc siegel is with us. so marc, you write in the "wall street journal" once we have a vaccine the next challenge will be getting people to take it. i will try to convince my patients to overcome their fear and help them to recognize the dangerous virus should be scarier than the vaccine. that's the only way to beat covid-19. how close are we to a vaccine and why is it so important to get it? >> we may be closer than we thought because the ceo of pfizer said this morning on the "today" show, julie, he is

going to have answers, pfizer will have answers by the end of october. there are three companies in phase three trials of covid-19 vaccines in the united states for operation warp speed. one is pfizer and one is astrazeneca and another. those three are coming towards the finish line. he said the end of october. it is quite possible we'll have answers by then especially with the data safety monitoring board that looks over all of these vaccines making sure that safety throughout to all the volunteers and they look for efficacy. whether people that have had the vaccine are resistant to getting infections from covid: >> julie: what do you make of the maker pledge. astrazeneca said they won't release it until everyone is on

board and ready to go. >> i've been thinking about this question for hours this morning and gone back and forth. first of thought they're doing it to resist the politics. all of this politics. you talked about senator harris saying i wouldn't take a president trump vaccine. we have vaccine fear in the united states. that's not warranted enough given how dangerous the virus is. first i thought politics. then i thought something more positive. maybe the nine companies want to say to the american public this. we've never made a vaccine this fast before. we've never done it this way and never taken out all the manufacturing stops, all the bureaucracy. we want to reassure you we aren't going to take scientific shortcuts. i think that's what the message is and i'm all for it. >> julie: you are a big proponent of a flu vaccine. you remind me every fall to get the vaccine and harass me about it yearly. i agree 100%.

flu vaccine, everybody has to get it. this flu season won't be like any we've ever seen and the reason why people are concerned. the novel coronavirus. it is a new virus. we've never dealt with it before. the flu and swine flu we've been down the road. what do you say to those concerned about such a new vaccine and the dangers associated with it? >> so first of all i would say to everyone out there we have to protect the highest groups. everything we're doing with masking and social distancing and washing our hands helps. nothing helps better than a vaccine to create immune blockers around the community. that's how you get the herd immunity by using an effective vaccine throughout the united states. we do it for so many diseases. we want to protect people most at risk. we want to protect people in poor communities and protect our elderly, people in nursing homes and people with obesity and diabetes and other pre-existing conditions. the only way to do that is to create a ring of immunity

around them and that's what a vaccine does. >> julie: looking forward to it sometime maybe in the fall. dr. siegel. thank you very much. >> if it's out. >> trace: northwestern university illinois deciding to reverse course and keep first and second year students off campus after the school reported its highest weekly number of confirmed covid-19 cases as classes begin. officials there saying the need to maintain more space for quarantine areas. grady trimble is live at the university in edmonton, illinois. >> freshmen and sophomores taking all on-line classes will get a break in tuition. northwestern is reducing it by 10% for the fall quarter which amounts to only a couple thousand dollars but more than many other universities are doing. many are charging full tuition for a virtual education.

northwestern made the decision to keep freshman and sophomore offcampus and sorority and fraternity houses closed to have more space to quarantine students if needed. the decision comes as administrators are watching cases rise on other campuses across the kun tree. at the university of wisconsin they're restricting what students can do on campus, going to class and getting food to go. the university of wisconsin saying in a statement we've reached the point where we need to quickly flatten the curve of infection or we'll lose the opportunity to have campus open to students this semester. what northwestern and many other campuses are trying to do is avoid having to switch entirely online. as we've seen at universities across the country it often leads to lawsuits if they don't reduce tuition like northwestern has done here. >> trace: true, grady trimble

live for us in illinois. >> julie: overnight shooting in oakland leaves a 6-year-old boy with a shattered bone in his leg during a pre-dawn street celebration for the caribbean holiday early monday. the child's mother said she and her son were shot getting out of a cab. three other people were injured. police arrested a teenager and 21-year-old man who were both armed. no word whether they fired the shots. the "new york post" summing it up with one word, madness. >> trace: a manhunt now intensifying in the state of georgia as police search for a suspect in the shooting of a sheriff's deputy where they are looking and warning to the community coming up. president trump raising eyebrows with some strong criticism for the top brass of the pentagon. k.t. mcfarland is here with her reaction next. >> president trump: there is nobody that has more respect for -- not only our military

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>> julie: a massive manhunt in georgia for a 29-year-old texas fugitive wanted in the shooting of a sheriff's deputy yesterday. it happened when deputy daryl hack knee pulled over a man allegedly driving a stolen trailer early monday morning. investigators say the driver, dalton potter, fired several rounds at the officer and sped away later crashing the truck and taking off on foot into the woods. police were able to catch another suspect identified as jonathan hosmer. is gunman on the loose is armed and dangerous. >> deep your doors locked. he is not afraid to fire a weapon. so do not approach the individual on your own. contact the sheriff's office. >> daryl hakney was not

seriously injured but was wearing a bullet proof vest. police are urging anyone with information to come forward. >> president trump: i'm not saying the military is in love with me. the soldiers are. the top people in the pentagon probably aren't because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy. but we are getting out of the endless wars. you know how we're doing. >> trace: president trump going after the top brass of the pentagon accusing military leaders of waging wars to boost defense contractors's profits. could trouble be brewing between the pentagon and the president? kt mcfarland, what do you make of the president going after the top brass of the pentagon? >> you know, look, donald trump says a lot of stuff. he tweets a lot of stuff.

and he even sometimes admits in private oh, maybe i shouldn't have gone that far and said it. but he has a point here. you know, the military -- it wasn't their fault, it was the fault of the republican and democrat presidents and leaders in the united states for 20 years we have fought hopeless wars in the middle east propping up leaders who didn't like us in places that didn't matter and cost america trillions of dollars, thousands of american lives were sacrificed in these if ever wars. trump has a point about that and about senior leadership in the pentagon retiring and then joining the defense contractors. it is not a new point. reagan talked about it, general eisenhower talked about it to. the military and defense contractors shouldn't get in the way of us having a strong defense but we should keep an eye on it.

>> trace: molly hemingway said you are free to dislike and hysterically respond to any and all criticism of the military industrial complex. you are not free to claim it's unprecedented for a president to critique it. greenwald made your point. eisenhower did this saying he had 16 minutes on tv to warn americans who they most needed to know and used it primarily to emphasize the dangers of pentagon growth, weapons spending and the threats of endless war. it's unprecedented, no, it's not at all. >> no. the other thing is the ability to drive a wedge between donald trump and the american military. let's look at the reality. he has made american military great again. he rebuilt it which at trough eid after 20 years of wars. he defeated isis. he let them do their job.

he didn't get them reengaged in hopeless foreign wars. i look at donald trump and the military and i'm saying i don't see what the fight is all about. is it maybe those anonymous sources which is another word formal i shallous gossip in an election year? i think it's more of that. >> trace: there is an effort to paint the president as someone who doesn't appreciate the military, right? i want to play you what secretary of the treasury steve mnuchin said and get your response on the other side. >> i think this president has enormous respect for the military and the generals. i've been at the tank at the pentagon with him. i've been at 9/11 at the pentagon with him. this president respects and supports the u.s. military. >> trace: but the problem here is kt when you talk about anonymous sources, whatever source you talk about, it doesn't appear to be going away. >> no, but let me tell you i was with president trump when we lost our first american

serviceman in a military action at the beginning of the trump administration and he was shaken. he was profoundly moved by that. anybody who says donald trump doesn't care about the military they don't get it or they don't want to get it. the great tragedy of all this. here is america. we're in the middle of a pandemic. we're in the middle of a global recession and a middle of a lockdown. we don't know if kids are going to school this week. what's happening in our political conversation? anonymous sources are coming out once again trying to complain about donald trump did something two years ago. people in the room said nothing like that ever happened. i think that's the great tragedy. stop trying to tear us apart anonymous sources and anti-trump media and political forces in america. it is not doing us any good. >> trace: kt mcfarland. great to see you. >> julie: a 12-year-old boy is suspended after his teacher

says he waved a toy gun, not at school but in his virtual class. there it is on the left. that boy's mother joins us next.

>> julie: a school in colorado suspends a 12-year-old boy after his teacher says he waved a toy gun not in class. he was home on screen during a virtual art class. the toy in question on your screen. a neon green and black handgun with an orange tip. the words zombie hunter are printed on the side. the school suspended him after this ordeal for five days and even called the sheriff's office to his home without talking to his parents first. his mother danielle elliott joins us this morning.

danielle, thank you for talking to me. let's go through what you went through here. the school calls the sheriffs office which then responds to your home for a welfare check without parental consent. first off, tell me how the police showed up without notifying you. >> yes, ma'am. i think it is important to state the original email from the art teacher was sent to me at 10:17. according to the police report they were dispatched to the school at 12:06 where they went to the school first prior to reporting to my home and then at 1:41 i received a call from the vice principal notifying me the cops were en route to my house and the police didn't show up until 2:41 almost five hours later to my home. when they got there there were two sheriffs deputies. they sat my son down and talked to him about the severity of his actions and said had this

happened on school grounds, had he brought a toy gun on school grounds he could be facing charges and that technically if they wanted to they could still pursue the charges but they would take it as a lesson learned for him. they then stressed the importance of what he did and they told him if anything like this were to happen in the future again that he would be facing criminal charges. and again he was just playing with a toy in the privacy of his own home. >> julie: you say that apparently he was told to put it away and he waved it and so that's when they saw the gun sort of wave across the screen, right? he was putting it away? >> yes, ma'am. >> julie: the teacher knew it was a toy gun? >> yes, ma'am. >> julie: did you know that your son took out the toy gun during his virtual art class? what was his reason for pulling it out in the first place? >> i was not aware until the school notified me that he had taken this toy gun out. it is important to mention my

son has adhd and gets distracted very easily. anything in the room or around the house he can easily be distracted by it. i believe that's why he was fidgeting with it. kids with adhd -- >> julie: i can echo. that i was a homeschool teacher for three months. the distractions and toys and it's a myriad of reasons whatever your son adhd or just a young child that is sitting in front of a computer for hours on end. the school district put out a statement reading in part we take the safety of all of our students and staff very seriously. safety is always our number one priority. did they feel that at any point your son's actions i guess made the students or even let's say the teacher feel unsafe? >> i would have to disagree that if they felt at any point

my son or anyone in my home were in immediate danger, why not call the parents first? nine times out of 10 i'm standing right outside the room and could have rushed out there had it been a real event and alleviated the situation. the fact that the initial email came in at approximately 10:17 but the police didn't arrive until 2:41 tells me my son's safety was never at the forefront of anybody's mind. >> julie: what message does your family want to get out after all of this perhaps to other families? this could easily happen to them as well. >> i would just like parents to just be aware. spread awareness and with the pandemic and the e-learning environment and everybody trying to adapt to that. it is already hard enough on us as parents. but for, you know, this is something that i never thought i would have to even come across. it is insane. kids do have toys in their home.

they are more distracted in their homes than in school environment. you know, and the fact that the school administrator was illegally recording my child in the privacy of my home was an overreach of their jurisdiction, invasion of privacy and want parents to be more aware. >> julie: thank you for sharing your story. appreciate having you on. thanks. >> absolutely. thank you. >> trace: president trump set to leave the white house soon. the president heading to florida before making a stop in north carolina as polls show a tightening race between him and joe biden in those key states.

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carolina. right now polls in both of those states tightening where he and rival joe biden are running neck-and-neck. now the president's team is talking up the economy trying to gain an edge there. white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany. >> the one thing for joe wants to talk about simple facts. i have a few simple facts for him. the fact that obama-biden oversaw the slowest economic recovery since world war ii. we were supposed to have double digit unemployment until the end of the year. we're in single digits right now. we're on track with the jobs president. the pathetic record of obama-biden is very clear and those are simple facts. >> julie: larry kudlow is standing by to join us in a moment. first we head to chief white house correspondent john roberts joins us live from the white house. hi, john. >> good morning. the president in florida is now within two points of joe biden.

that is the narrowest it has been in a long time. in fact, there was one poll in the last few days that shows the president up and that would be the first time since early march. in north carolina the race is basically neck-and-neck. president has two events, the event in jupiter, florida will be a white house event on conservation and environmental protection. the president's fiscal year budget he is proposing $250 million in spending for new everglades infrastructure in part to address the blue/green algae blooms and deadly red tides we see in the sunshine state. his 11th visit to florida this year. winston-salem will be another airport hangar rally. economy and law and order. on the economy the president will hammer on advancing china's interests and accuse biden of supporting rioters.

the president tweeted a few minutes ago suburban voters are pouring into the republican party because of the violence in democrat-run cities and states. if biden gets in the violence is coming to the suburbs and fast. you can say goodbye to your american dream. the president giving a preview of all of this in that rare north portico press conference yesterday. listen here. >> president trump: biden wants to surrender our country to the virus. he wants to surrender our families to the violent left wing mom -- mob and surrender to china. no other president has done what i've done with china. >> the president's third trip to north carolina. joe biden has yet to campaign there but if history is any guide he may be going soon after the president goes there. one other thing, julie, housekeeping here. if we hear from the president it will likely be from the

so-called under the wing shot not going out to the helicopter. the president is motorcadeing from the white house to joint base andrews. when he exits the limousine may talk to the pool. >> julie: i'm hedging the bet he will. i like to pay attention to history. john roberts, thank you so much. >> trace: more on this now bring in larry kudlow the white house economic advisor. larry always great to see you. i want to play part of this trump campaign ad focusing on the economy and get your take afterwards. watch this. >> why would we ever let biden kill countless american businesses, jobs and our economic future when president trump's great american comeback is now underway. >> trace: no secrets the democrats are trying to wrap up the economy in coronavirus and the republicans separating it. there appears to be a new focus

on the economy. is that a fair assessment? >> it's always been a key focus, trace. the economy for the three years before the pandemic was spectacular with a 3 1/2% unemployment wait and there is a lie to the charge it is the only 1%. the pandemic contraction was brutal and still a lot of hardship but because of the rescue mission the president has led. it was bipartisan but he led it although the talks have stalled for the second round, we have had a terrific recovery. you have a great jobs report on friday. 8.4% unemployment. nobody really expected that even until early next year. you got 10 million jobs, almost 11 million jobs on the payrolls and 13 million jobs on the small business households.

today the small business optimism index from the nfib came in much stronger than expected. so yeah, look, policies have been -- i just want -- this is the point that i will always make and i hope the president keeps on making it. it is inconceivable to me putting partisan politics aside, honestly. whether you are a democrat or demandsideer or trump supply sider. who would raise taxes coming out of the contraction? you should be cutting taxes to put more money in people's pockets and more money in business's. why would people want to raise taxes now and pick the pocket of taxpayers who are returning to work in droves? >> trace: you mentioned the stimulus talks and we'll get to that in a second. i want to get your take on the president saying he thinks 10 million jobs, economy with

create 10 million jobs next year if he is the president. the fed chair jerome powell saying this will take a lot longer. this recovery is going to take a lot longer. what do you make of those? how do you square those? >> the fed chair has his own views. he has done a great job getting interest rates to zero and making loans to key areas and getting money into the economy. i have no quarrel with his actions. we're a little more optimistic. i think the idea of a million jobs a month for the next 10 months is very reasonable. we have exceeded that for the last four months as you know. we've picked up almost 11 million jobs. again, the household number. i emphasize that. that's small businesses is up 14 million. i want to make one other point. i keep hearing this view that it's only the top end that is benefiting from this rebound, the v-shaped recovery from the pandemic. i went through the numbers from

the jobs reports. leisure and hospitality are up 4.2 million of the of the 11 million they're up 4.2 million and retail trade which tends to be lower trade. 1.7 million. if i add healthcare which has both high and low end but a lot of low end folks lost their jobs, that number is up to 7 million. on the payroll side we have created 7 million low wage jobs. more than we created overall. i don't understand people. these are the same people who argued that president's tax cuts in 2017 would only help the high-end. that proved to be completely incorrect. it was the middle and low end that was helped the most. >> trace: there are number of studies back up what you are saying. the wide swath of the economy was helped by this and coronavirus notwithstanding. i want to move on if i can to stimulus. on friday you indicated. you said that you believe that we can survive without another

round of stimulus. you said quoting here look, we can live with it. we can absolutely live with it. would you amend that statement at all? >> no, look. as i say we're in a self-sustaining recovery. besides the jobs, we are in a housing boom, autos boom, a consumer spending boom. inventories are rock bottom. they will be rebuilt. small businesses have greater confidence. no, the economy is rebounding. it is v-shape, at least 20% in q3 and probably q4. but, but, but. >> trace: the president wants the stimulus and he wants and he says the democrats are trying to keep it away from him because they believe it will help him get reelected. >> i think targeted areas, secretary mnuchin said. tar g*eted areas could be helpful. the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is coming out with a package today that will

be targeting healthcare, education, and the economy. i think small business ppp loans will be extended. we have always wanted to help the kids and always wanted to help reopen the schools to help the kids and get more jobs. if they want to add targeted checks, that's fine, too. i'm not saying the recovery is dependent on it but i am saying it would help. it could make things even better. so why don't we just take the four or five areas, do it narrowly in a targeted way and let's get this thing done for heaven's sake. i don't see what's wrong with that. >> trace: by the way just for the record chuck schumer says the republicans' proposal is not just skinny, it is emaciated and mitch mcconnell says the democrats want everything and extra in this packageened it is not going to happen. larry kudlow, always good to see you. thank you very much. >> julie: developing now protests overnight in

rochester, new york unlike any we've seen so far. some demonstrators were naked in the rain wearing nothing but spit hoods. the same thing daniel prude was forced to wear as police restrained him. he died days later. marchers demanding accountability for his death. new york's attorney general says a grand jury will conduct an exhaustive investigation. meantime on the other side of the country. los angeles county sheriffs deputies firing tear gas and rubber bullets at protestors near the sheriff's station in south l.a. demonstrators crowded the streets after a black man was killed by deputies last week. we don't know if any arrest have been made. >> trace: seattle cops were dodging molotov cocktails. rioters chucked firebombs at

police who formed a human barricade to push their crowds outside police headquarters and in salem, oregon faced off with a pro-trump crowd. are we seeing more arrests? >> yeah, it does appear over the last week or so police in both portland and seattle are making more arrests. one leader of the black lives matter movement calls for more violence. police tried to protect the union office. they ordered the crowd of 200 people to back up when someone launched a fireball to police on bikes. no one was hurt. later one officer was assaulted as he made an arrest. the crowd surrounded him and knocked him to the ground. police made 22 arrests. earlier another group demanded

the city council override the mayor's veto of legislation that cut the police budget from $3 million and many officers. sean scott who ran for city council seems to be calling for more aggressive tactics telling the seattle times the rate of legislative change was moving much quicker when they were cop cars on fire in the city. in salem, oregon there was a quick physical battle between some supporters of president trump and counter demonstrators. it happened at the state capitol after hundreds of people took part in a car caravan for trump. some are members of the proud boys rushed antifa. one guy swung a baseball bat and they were arrested. police in portland made 59 arrests. the most in a single night since the daily protests began more than three months ago. it took until this past weekend for the paper of record in portland and the whole state of

oregon to come out and say the nightly protests have to end. the paper argueing in that editorial that they have lost all their meaning and been hijacked by antifa and the agitators. trace. >> trace: it is influential. dan, thank you. >> julie: president trump about to hit the campaign trail. we're live at the white house as the president is about to leave and he very well could be speaking with reporters before heading off to florida. if he does we'll bring you those comments coming up. the first presidential debate is just three weeks away. so who do voters think will win that live face-off we all look forward to and why some analysts say the new poll's loser to come out ahead. >> i think they believe the president will win because president trump has a strong record of accomplishment for the american people. you try to stay ahead of the mess

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>> julie: a live look at the white house as the president is set to depart any moment to campaign in the must-win state of florida. there is always a good chance he will stop to chat with reporters so we'll bring you those comments if they happen live. >> trace: the president's democratic rival joe biden has campaigning of his own today set to hold a virtual town hall

next hour as the former v.p. starts a new phase of in-person campaigning. it follows a low-key stop in pennsylvania yesterday. griff jenkins live for us in washington with more. griff. >> trace, good morning to you. the president is hoping that the polls are tightening and suggesting in a twitter that as biden hits the campaign trail in person it is doing just that. he tweeted great, biden is finally being forced out of his basement. now you will be able to see what is going on up there. he may do some limited campaigning. biden is no longer playing well in the polls. nationally speaking if you look at the real clear politics average over the last three months biden lead hasn't dropped below six points since the middle of the summer. in july he led by 9 points dropping to just under 6 1/2 last month. now in september back up to over 7 points with some two months ago. but when you look at the race

in battleground states there are clear signs of a tightening. in pennsylvania where biden campaigned yesterday, a recent monmouth poll puts the race in the margin of error ahead by three by biden. in florida in the latest -- in wisconsin biden leads by eight as -- >> under this president i promise you we will have law and order in every city in this country for every american. we are going to keep fighting for tax relief for working americans everywhere. >> we see the benefit to the entire country to invest in our small businesses and our small business leaders. we see you, we understand the significance of what you are in terms of the health and well-being of communities. >> wisconsin is sizing up to be a key swing state.

trump nearly won there by some 27,000 votes in 2016 and clinton wrote it off by not visiting. biden is not taing it for granted and tomorrow he is heading to michigan. >> julie: presidential debates can make or break and this election season there is one candidate people think has a better shot of flopping on stage. a new usa today suffolk university poll, they think president trump will win the debates compared to 41% who think that biden will win. what can joe biden do to prepare to debate the president who has a proven history of dominating opponents on the debate stage? >> well, i don't know that i would agree with that characterization of trump. i think hillary did pretty well against him in her debates. remember that joe biden has

been debating quite a lot recently. he debated something like 10 times during the primaries including that incredibly one-on-one debate with bernie sanders right at the end. and he performed pretty well, as he did in the debates as vice president against sarah palin and paul ryan. so while he isn't silver tongued. nobody would mistake joe biden for, you know, a brilliant orator, he has performed pretty well in these debates. the fact that people expect him to do poorly as you just noted, trump is expected to win by a majority of the people in that poll, that helps. it is all about whether you meet or exceed expectations in these debates. >> julie: i want to clarify. when i say basically demanding a lot of the attention on the stage, that is something that trump has done in the past. when i say dominating, a debate, he is a dominating figure and his personality is loud and in your face and joe biden is very quiet with a

softer approach. and that translates on television. conversely, though, is it to biden's advantage that he enters the debates with expectations set so low? >> absolutely is. i think he generally is able to exceed expectations because he isn't, you know, the greatest of orators. often people expect him to do poorly in debates and he comes out and does pretty well. he exceeded expectations at the convention for his speech thursday night by quite a bit and got incredibly good coverage and a great bounce out of that because he did so much better than people thought he would. >> julie: these candidates will get a great bounce out of the polls depending where they are before the first debate three weeks away. the latest real clear politics average is showing very tight in these extremely important states like florida and north carolina. just .6 percentage points apart

in north carolina. 15 electoral votes up for grabs there. the president tweeting about polling and says this. if biden's polling wasn't going down and fast he wouldn't be going to pittsburgh. what do the polls tell you 56 days out from the election? >> first of all it's a ridiculous thing for trump to say. it's the middle of the general election campaign. of course he will go to pittsburgh. that's what you do when you campaign for president. he believes now it is safer and figured out ways for him to campaign effectively during covid and why he is going there. what you need to remember about the polls. trump has only one path to victory through the swing states. he must win the states that he won last time which means he must win florida, north carolina, he must win ga, but he also has to win some combination of wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania. and right now in all of the states i just mentioned even if

it's narrow biden has maintained a lead. there are a lot more paths to victory for joe biden than donald trump. >> julie: you are talking about pennsylvania. he needs that blue collar vote for sure and he will go to pennsylvania. those other states here florida and north carolina he hasn't been to one of them in over a year, the other within early in 2020. the presidential race is narrowing in north carolina, voters are saying they want face time with biden. one person said he needs to come and address people in north carolina, a small conference or round table. the rehearsed speeches in front of no one are not cutting it. is biden's reluctance to leave home very much maybe hurting him with voters in swing states? >> i think you set that aside and maybe with a few like the gentleman you just quoted. remember in north carolina the president trom -- promised to

go there and promised it into the middle of covid when they had to pull the plug. both have disappointed people in north carolina so far. both of them will get into the state. joe biden is almost certain to go there. there is a tight senate race there as well. i have no doubt biden will be in north carolina. whether it will satisfy everyone to do these socially distanced events with a small number of people is tough to say but he will get local media coverage which is why he wants to do these trips. >> julie: thank you for talking to us. >> trace: and developing now in one of the hardest-hit states in the coronavirus crisis is celebrating a milestone. new york's infection rate has stayed below 1% for 30 straight days. small businesses there are still reeling from the long shutdown. a new study warns up to 64% of new york's restaurants could close this year. indoor dining is still banned in new york city and governor

cuomo hasn't said when it might return. the leaders of nine drug makers signed a pledge saying they will not seek government approval for a vaccine until it is proven safe and effective. it comes after concerns the process is being driven by politics rather than science. >> julie: with the presidential election now just 56 days away in a middle of a pandemic could the election be decided by a supreme court ruling? we have that next. >> i stand before you sad and angry that another child has lost their life to senseless gun violence in the city of chicago. >> julie: another shooting, another child killed. why another shooting spree in chicago is starting to feel like just another day in the windy city.

>> trace: top headlines bottom of the hour. gun violence gripping american cities hitting some of the most vulnerable young children. in chicago an 8-year-old girl was killed. one of 53 people shot over the holiday weekend. new york a bullet shredding the leg of a 6-year-old boy during an annual caribbean parade. >> >> julie: wildfires in california burning over a million acres. the national guard is working to rescue dozens of people trapped near one of the fires

in fresno county. the flames making it impossible to get out on their own. record high hit, wind and smoke making it impossible for choppers to reach them. >> trace: president trump set to take off to florida any minute. if he speaks we'll bring it to you. >> julie: a 6-year-old boy is hurt in a brooklyn shooting. the bullet went through both her son's legs shattering one of his femur bones. the mother was also shot in the foot. gunfire broke out early yesterday morning during an overnight celebration leading up to the city's west indian day parade. two suspects were arrested. a crime wave rocking chicago. now leaving an 8-year-old girl dead. she was sitting in a car when she was shot on the city's south side but she was far from the only victim of violence over the holiday weekend. mike tobin has been following it day after day after day and

joins us live in chicago. mike. >> the gun violence doesn't show any signs of letting up in chicago. bystanders are caught in the crossfire. now an innocent 8-year-old girl was caught in the crossfire. just after 6:00 p.m. local time on the south side, an area no stranger to violence. a dodge charger pulled up behind the subaru suv. occupants of the charger opened fire. a 31-year-old man was the target of the shooting. the mother of the little girl was injured possibly when the s.u.v. crashed. witnesses say the charger continued firing. >> i seen them reviving her and then the charger turned left, went down 48 and shot more shots. >> a little further east a white s.u.v. opened fire on a group of people in the south shore neighborhood. four people shot in the leg expected to survive. a police involved fatal

shooting in chicago as well. there was a stabbing. the suspect was hiding in the bushes and he lunged at the police. a 32-year-old mother of two was stabbed to death in a walgreens just north and west of the business district in chicago. 9:30 in the morning. no warning. the man with the knife did not steal anything. police have a person of interest taken into custody. when the shooting incidents are totaled up for the holiday weekend. 38 shooting incidents. 51 people shot and 10 people killed in the city of chicago. >> julie: mike tobin, thank you. trace. >> trace: people living in denver what to wear. on sunday it was 90 degrees. a day later there was a winter

weather advisory and temperatures around the mid 30s. forecasters say a powerful storm system and large dip in the jetstream caused the extreme turnaround. a shot of arctic air will be in the rockies throughout the day. a new report shows the f.b.i. has made many errors in applying for so-called fisa applications. in some cases gaining access to americans' private information. judge napolitano, always great to see you. i'm baffled. you can clear it up. the report goes on to say the top u.s. court that oversees national security found the f.b.i. regularly does not follow rules meant to protect the privacy of americans and yet the warrantless surveillance gets renewed. how is that possible? >> well, good morning, trace.

always a pleasure to be with you, my dear friend. remember, there are 17 governmental agencies that make applications before the fisa court for warrantless surveillance. the f.b.i. is only one of them. but the f.b.i. has been in the court's crosshairs so to speak because of its catastrophic blunders probably motivated by politics. although the f.b.i. denies it. in its efforts to use the fisa court to get surveillance over the trump campaign and over the trump administration. from and after that time point we're talking about november -- the fall of november 16 and into the trump presidency in 2017 the fisa court reviews the procedures of those who make applications before it. this most recent review said the procedures are fine on paper, but you guys are still not complying with those procedures. example, in one instance the

f.b.i. hacked into -- hacked into the e mailings of 16 thousand americans and found actionable intelligence in only seven of them. the court blasted the f.b.i. for that but still lets them do it. so of what value is this court if it knows that the applications before it are defective and the people coming before it are breaking the laws they've sworn to uphold and it lets them continue to do so? >> trace: frustrating for a lot of people. i want to move on to subject number two. it is one of the things that will go on and on. "wall street journal" talking about the election. if it comes down to it, if the presidential election is decided by the whisker with donald trump or joe biden leading by a few thousand votes. it will be flooded with republican and democratic lawyers and resulting chaos

could resemble the 2000 presidential election. we could still be here in december wondering who the president will be. >> it's a valid point. remember, there is no one election for president. 52 elections counting puerto rico and the district of columbia. each run their own elections. some let you mail in a ballot are you ready for this, as late at november 2, monday, the day before election day. it is supposed to arrive before election day. the constitution says there is only one day for an election. you can't vote after the election. so that is going to be the dispute. when was this mailed and when did it arrive? when the states wrote these laws they gave the voters way too much time in which to cast those ballots. that's the essence of the "wall

street journal"'s complaint. >> trace: to your point and maybe even one better here, this is for 2020, the primaries, 558,000 absentee ballots rejected. in the 2016 general election 300,000 ballots rejected. your final thoughts on this, judge? >> my final thoughts are in 2016, 40 million people voted by mail. in 2020, 80 million people will vote by mail. so take those problems and multiply them at least by two. >> trace: and very quickly they give me time to put this up here. just so for context of our audience voters in 10 states can request absentee ballots on november 2, one day before the election, and a little point of note here at the bottom. april through june 1.6 million

pieces of election mail were delivered late. judge, one final thought. >> we have to be wary about this. if the states are interested in secure elections they'll change their rules, get ballots into people's hands and tell them ballots have to be in 10 days before election day or otherwise we won't be able to count them. >> great to see you. thank you, sir. >> of course, trace. >> julie: fires burn out of control over california. fire official s are wore ried the worse of the season is yet to come. a couple whose fire was scorched in one wildfire finds something very appreciateous to them. -- precious to them. keep coming back,

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>> trace: breaking news, the president has just arrived. the motorcade joint base andrews. the under the wing shot. the president gets out of the limousine and comes under the wing of air force one and we find out whether or not he will speak to reporters there. for record and context most times the president does stop and speak with reporters. sometimes he stays in the car for a while and then he comes out and he talks but then he will go up the stairs. he likes to walk around the back end. we were accepting earlier that this would happen on his way to marine one, that he would go from the white house to marine one and take marine one to joint base andrews, and this time they decided to throw us a curveball and decided to take the motorcade from the white house to joint base andrews. the president is still in the back of the car waiting for him to come out of that. we should note the president will be going to florida and north carolina. a couple of campaign stops.

those states in the past 60 days have tightened significantly. the president was down by four, three in north carolina about 60 days ago. then in florida 60 days ago he was down by as much as six. this is the real clear politics average we are talking about as the president has left. here he goes up to the media and let's see what we can hear. watch. >> julie: we don't have the audio there. he is talking to reporters. we'll turn the tape around since there isn't a live pool camera that we would typically go to. it wasn't planned. let's wait and see if the president speaks and most likely he is probably talking about the economy. that is something he will talk about heading the florida and north carolina shoot down joe biden because joe biden happens to be staying in the state of delaware where he has been spending a lot of time.

not necessarily campaigning as of yet in north carolina or flashings the two battleground states you just mentioned where they are incredibly tight. joe biden's margin and his lead in florida is dwindling. same in north carolina. the same in pennsylvania where he is going to be heading. he is going to pittsburgh. watching these two candidates crisscross across the battleground states for the 56 days before the election will get more exciting three weeks away from the first debate that everybody will be anticipating as well. >> trace: i was saying the whole idea they were supposed to take marine one and we take the tape and run it to a truck and play it back. well, there is no pool because this was set to be tape play back and so they are kind of sitting there at the airport taking questions from the president and there is not a pool thing to put this up on the satellite and send it back live to us. like the old fashioned days we have to run the tape back, stick it in the machine and

play it out. it is interesting, the president has been talking about all morning law the interesting part is the campaign seems to be focusing a little bit differently -- a lot of it has been on law and order and that is still one of their prime things in the campaign but there seems to be more focus on the economy. democrats have tried to wrap the economy into coronavirus and the president and his team trying to break it out saying look, the economy is doing exceptionally well and if not for coronavirus, if you go back before, we were at 50 year unemployment lows and the president saying yesterday in that press conference that look, he thinks 10 million jobs could be created by this economy in the next year if he is given the chance to do so, julie. >> julie: so if you're watching now the president is speaking to reporters there. when we get the sound of whatever it is he is speaking about we'll turn around and give it to you. he is on his way to florida and traveling to north carolina to

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>> julie: out of the ashes there is a glimmer of hope. families whose homes were bred down to the ground, and one of the california wildfires last month. they came upon one personal item that somehow survived again for now. both of their wedding rings found together and still intact. chloe carol joins us now. first of all, i am so sorry about the loss. you had two properties, or one property in two homes, and he lost everything. the most precious memories of your children's' lives. but you did find something in the rubble, which is remarkable. tell us about it. >> yes, so, i had found my

wedding ring, because i knew where i had taken them off. we were able to sift through and find them. >> julie: where did you find them? >> i put them in a wear cabinet in my bathroom, so i went wherei thought they would be. my aunt and my sister-in-law both found them. >> julie: i mean, amongst all the stuff you lost, what was the hardest? >> definitely, like, my kids' mementos. foot stems from when they are first born, their paintings. >> julie: the memories, though, will obviously be with you forever. how significant was it defined the wedding rings for you? >> it was amazing. it was something that gives you a little bit of hope, to restart. >> julie: how are you restarting? i understand you're living in a trailer right now and your friend's yard. >> i am, i'm staying in a

trailer with my kids and my dog, my whole family. we are trying to get started. i tried calling around to see how to get everything redone and cleaned off. >> julie: chloe, thank you so much for talking to us. i wish you had more time. this just shows how resilient moms are. you're incredible. good luck to you, will be thinking of you. we'll be right back.

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the president, president trump, about to take off from joint base andrews in maryland, off to florida where he'll be campaigning today, then to north carolina. a busy day. we expect to hear from joe biden from 20 minutes from now on a webcast. >> trace: a lot of that coming up the next 54 days. julie, great to see you. "outnumbered" starts now. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. president trump on his way to battleground florida as the presidential campaign enters what feels like the final sprint. this, as the president and joe biden are spending labor day -- or did -- attacking each other over the economy ahead of the election. the president with a warning. should biden-harris, the ticket, win in november. >> biden and his very liberal running mate, the most liberal person in congress, by the way. he is not a competent person, in my opinion. they would destroy this country, destroy this