new york. paul: all right, thank you. that's it for this week's show. thanks to my panel and thanks to all of you for watching. i'm paul gigot. we hope to see you right here next week. ♪ eric: well, president trump is set to leave for nevada any moment now. he is going west with just 52 days to go until election day. you know, he's going to hold a rally tonight. it'll be held at the airport just south of reno and, of course, he could speak before he steps onto air forest one. we see there the live shot of joint base andrews as we wait for the president to arrive, and if i he does speak when he walks up to that gleaming airplane, we will, of course, bring it to you live. hello, everyone, welcome to "america's news headquarters." i'm eric shawn.hey hi, eric, i'm laura ingle in for arthel neville today. the trump campaign had to scrap

its original plan for a bigger rally at an airport in reno when state officials said it would violate coronavirus guidelines on large gatherings. now, nevada has not supported a republican presidential caught since 2004, but the latest political report shows, cook political report shows that the race could be tightening in the silver state. mark meredith live in nevada with this one. hi, mark. [cheers and applause] >> reporter: laura, good afternoon to you. you can hear the president's supporter, they have been lining all day long for a chance to hear from the president himself, but the campaign has had to scramble to figure out a place where they can put people. that's because the campaign faced restrictions about where they were going to go, facing restrictions about how many people could go into an event because of the state limits on

coronavirus. we asked the campaign today how they were able to do an event like this. they say if you can join tens of thousands of people protesting in the streets, gamble at a casino or burn down businesses in riots, you can gather to hear from the president of the united states. that's a campaign spokesperson. you may be wondering why the president's coming out here to nevada, that's because republicans feel they have a chance to flip this state. the president lost nevada in 2016 but some 27,000 votes. they do feel a little bit more confident this time, and the rnc says that's because of the latino vote. >> i'm very bullish on nevada. the president is going out there today, we've seen a lot of energy already for this event. we've seen a lot of support from hispanic voters. hispanic voters who recognize that president trump is good for the economy, they believe in the american dream. >> reporter: but democrats are keep accusing the president of ignoring public health practices. former vice president joe biden

criticized the president in a statement today saying local democrats on the ground also weighing in saying donald trump's ine sis tense on holding in-person events is just the latest example of his putting politics ahead of public health. now, the campaign tells me the folks that are going in here, they're going to have their temperatures checked, and they'll be encouraged to wear masks, but obviously you see a rot of people out here even -- a lot of people out here even those this event has changed times and locations, the president will be making his way here a little later on this evening. laura: mark meredith reporting in nevada, you've got a busy afternoon ahead of you. thank you so much. eric? ♪ ♪ eric: start cheering when mark starts giving his report. meanwhile, democratic joe biden's campaigning is also targeting the southwest this weekend, though the former vice president himself has no travel plans today. his running mate, kamala harris, well, she's making a virtual appearance at a small business round table in arizona.

all this as now a conservative political group raises what it calls serious concerns about a democratic funding raising platform. hillary vaughn is live in wilmington, delaware, covering the biden campaign. headquarters, of course, in that state. hi, hillary. >> reporter: there's been a lot of talk this cycle about how democrats had a big fundraising advantage, but new data obtained exclusively by foxnews.com shows that some of those donors that are coming into democratic fundraising platforms are untraceable and unemployed donors. an analysis from the conservative group take back action fund shows the democratic fundraising platform got 4.7 million people who don't list any employer. action fund's president tells fox news that donors listing themselves as unemployed is a loophole that could be exploited by foreign governments to funnel cash to benefit a political party through fake donor names telling fox news they're working

to, quote, identify whether or not these donors of record exist, whether or not they are potential straw donors making the contributions after being given the money and direction by someone else. a spokesperson tells fox news they used third party sites to validate each transaction, and they report all appropriate information to the federal elections commission, but while the biden campaign continues to rake in cash, they're also ramping up their in-person campaigning on the ground. biden will be visiting florida for the first time since the pandemic started, one of the largest swing states in the general, to court latino voters after a new report says senator bernie sanders is worried about biden's campaign, worried that he could come up short in november but not catering enough to progressives and hispanic voters. sanders' former campaign manager telling "the washington post," quote: senator sanders is confident that joe biden is in a very strong positions to win this election, but nevertheless feels there are certain areas the campaign can continue to

improve upon, also thinks that a stronger outreach to young people, the latino community and the progressive movement will be of real help to the campaign. the biden campaign has already started courting latino voters in florida, they're out with three brand new ads today that will hit tvs all in spanish, and harris will be meeting virtually with latino voters out of arizona. eric? eric: hillary, thanks. laura? laura: and we have an update now on u.s. attorney john durham's investigation into the origins of the trump-russia probe. fox news confirming a top aide to durham has just resigned from the department of justice. but why? irish that ofny is live with the latest on this developing story. what have you got? >> reporter: huh, laura. so durham's office is not commenting about this just yet, but the hartford current in connecticut where durham serves as u.s. attorney, they are

citing rah danahy's colleagues who believe she resigned, quote, at least partly out of concern that the investigative team is being pressed for political reasons to produce a report before its work is done. now, democrats are taking this and pointing back to their concerns about a.g. barr. listen. >> it is a consistent pattern we see of bill barr not acting as attorney general protecting our whole cunninger he's acting -- whole country, he's acting as an agent for donald trump. >> reporter: u.s. attorney john durham was appointed by attorney general william barr to look into the origins of that fbi probe into president trump. of course, special counsel robert mueller reported, his report concluded there was no collusion between the trump campaign and russia to influence the 2016 presidential election. and the president believed that there was wrongdoing within the

fbi when that agency launched that probe. in fact, he's been tweeting quite a bit about the latest revelation that members of the mueller team perhaps wiped their phones during that probe, perhaps on purpose. durham's investigation is believed to be in its final stages. >> if you can't manage your own phone, why should we trust you to investigate a crime? you think you're mad about the phones being wiped? stay tuned. we'll talk in about 10 or 12 days, and we'll see if there's something else you could get mad about. >> reporter: now, this less ugh nation also comes amid other gop-related less ig nations. -- resignations. finish the administration of justice claiming its intent was, quote, providing cover for a from determined agenda, and deputy assistant general david morrell also left the doj on friday, it was reported. laura? laura: thank you so much for the very latest on that developing

story. eric. eric: laura, the death toll, sadly, now rising to more than two dozen victims so far as those wildfires rage up and down the west coast. you know, they're just devastating parts of california, oregon and washington state. finish slower winds and higher humidity though are helping firefighters, we're told, battle the flames today. they've so far destroyed hundreds of homes, scorched millions of acres and have turned the skies a martian shade of orange. the devastating fires are expected, sadly, to rage for some time. we have team fox news coverage with the latest on this. meteorologist adam cloths has the forecast, but first christina coleman is live in monoya just east of los angeles. the hill above you has been awe blades, you can just -- ablaze, you can just see the choking smoke that you're right in the middle of this. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, eric, i'm at the bobcat

fire that's burning in the angeles forest right now in the mountains just behind me, you see these firefighters positioned outside of these houses. they want to be able to protect them just in case this fire spreads. there has been so much devastation from these wildfires as they just continue to ravage the west coast. and the death toll growing. at least 19 people is have died here in california where some 3 million acres have burned, that's 26 times higher than the acres burned last year in 2019, and it's the size of the entire state of connecticut. thousands have been forced to leave their homes often with little time to get out. >> the wind was blowing so hard, it wasn't -- still should have been daylight but it was dark, and the ashes were everywhere. the wind was blowing outray juicily bad -- outareasly bad. >> reporter: oregon's emergency management director

says they are preparing for a mass fatality event with dozens of people still listed as missing and thousands of homes and structures destroyed. at least one million acres have burned there. many got out with just the clothes on their back. >> trying to figure out why people are giving us so many, keep offering us clothes, and then my husband reminded me, because our clothes just got burned. [laughter] trust just so surreal. >> reporter: and the smoke pollution here on the west coast from all of these wildfires is awful. it's hard to see, you can almost taste it, you can only imagine what it's like we have so many kids out here in this neighborhood with this smoke just blanketing the area. right now the west coast has the worst air quality in the world. everything? eric: it really is unhealthy. it's so sad. christina, thank you. laura? laura: we've got more for you now on the forecast out west and the latest happenings in the drop you cans.

let's bring in meteorologist adam klotz. so many people looking for some relief, what do you see? >> yeah, that's certainly the case, laura. the humidity's a little higher. the winds have backed down, but it's got to be enough to put those fires down, we're still going to be dealing with air quality issues. we're seeing alerts from northern california all the way up the coast getting into the pacific northwest, and even if you're not in that area, that smoke is being caught but some upper-level winds and spreading across the country, so in the days to come you're going to be seeing some areas where particularly at sunset that haze is in the air. the thing that would really help would be some rain. all the rain on the eastern half of the country, so it is completely dry for folks occupant west. if i run out far enough, this is our forecasted precipitation, you do see rain middle of next week in some areas that need it, but there's still plenty of really dry areas out there.

i do want to talk about the tropics. just in the last couple of hours we had a tropical depression that's become a tropical storm moving across portions of florida, this is going to run up the gulf of mexico and really intensify. the water there is warm. we're looking at a landfall perhaps on tuesday as a category one storm, winds up to 75 miles an hour. that's the current forecast track, somewhere between louisiana and the florida gulf coast, getting into the panhandle. this is a slow moving storm, so with those winds we're also going to be talking about rain. we're thinking anywhere from 10-12 inches of total precip ration, is so a lot to pay attention to next couple of days. laura: absolutely. meteorologist adam klotz, we'll be checking a back in with you. thank you. eric: democrats are looking to flip the senate this november with colorado shaping up as a must-win for them. you know, the former governor is channeling the republican incumbent -- challenging the

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♪ ♪ eric: the senate race in colorado is shaping up as one to watch. you know, neither incumbent senator cory gardner nor his democratic challenger, former governor john hickenlooper has ever lost a race in that astronaut. alicia awe kind that live in denver with more on that. -- alicia acuna. i guess one of them will be disappointed. >> reporter: yeah, exactly. and so is one party because incumbent senator republican cory gardner is doing everything he can to help his party hold on to that senate majority, and he's using a familiar taunt against his rival, former colorado governor john hickenlooper. of. >> john hickenlooper won't leave the basement. he's refusing to go to rural colorado, the first senate candidate in history to turn down the famed grand junction club 20 debate because he doesn't care about western colorado. >> reporter: hickenlooper's communications director said in an e-mail the hiding claim is absolutely false. however, his campaign declined

multiple interview requests by us. democrats hope voters' feelings about the president will translate to a win. >> the trump impacts in colorado are significant. finish i mean, it is, cory has had a new kind of election accessory, and that's an ankle bracelet called trump. >> reporter: unaffiliated voters outnumber are republicans and democrats in this state. the question is for which candidate will they break? >> the question for gard, in the er, whether there is enough biden voters out there. at a certain point, if he doesn't close the gap in the polls, there may not be enough of those voters to make a difference. >> reporter: today colorado's secretary of state announced a lawsuit against the u.s. postal service after it announced it is sending information mailers nationwide regarding ballots. jenna griswold saying, quote:

the mail incorrectly asks voters request a mail ballot 15 days before the election and return their ballots at least 7 days before the election. in colorado every registered voter is sent a ballot without making a request, and voters are urged to return ballots by mail sooner than 7 days before the election. and, eric, colorado has securely used maul-in ballots -- mail-in balloting for years now. it's considered kind of a nonissue until today. eric? eric: yeah. one of a handful of states that do that completely. alicia -- a lot of people getting that mailing from the post office so, folks, you'll probably get it too. thanks, alicia shah. >> reporter: sure. >> this is not the crowd of a person who comes in second place, you do know that. [cheers and applause] in all those polls where we were down last time we won, so maybe we're were better off being dowa little bit.

laura: president trump at a campaign stop this week predicting victory in battleground michigan. both sides see the state as crucial to the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the presidency. the latest real clear politics average shows joe biden leading there by just over 4 points. that margin has tightened in recent weeks, and biden backers reportedly fear a lack of enthusiasm could open the door to another narrow trump win like in 2016. dave boucher is a government and politics reporter with the detroit free press on the ground reporting on this here, so tell us, dave, i want to talk to you about your reporting on some of the key demographics that both president trump and former vice president joe biden need to win over this crucial state. >> yeah. so we've done a lot of research on where each candidate needs to do well, and really in order to retain michigan, president trump

needs to hang on to the areas where he managed to win especially around detroit. one key county is mccolm county. president obama won it by 4 percentage pointses in 2012, but president trump won it back in 2016 by 11 percentage points. this is the county that vice president biden was campaigning in this week. he was campaigning in warren, and we see biden stressed auto manufacturing. he focused on it. in 2016 during the campaign, president trump, then-candidate trump calm to and said if you elect me, i promise not one plant will close. well, in 2019 gm closed its plant in warren. so candidate biden pointed that out, he introduced a plan he says would bring manufacturing jobs back into michigan. meanwhile, as you noted, the president was in sag gnaw, in the saginaw area, about 100 miles northwest of detroit, and that's an area he did well in. i talked to a couple of voters

who attended the event, they said they were voting for the president for the first time ever, and the thing that made them encouraged was the feeling of safety and security. so he needs to get voters in the suburbs to agree with that and come out in droves for hum to win michigan. laura: we're keeping an eye on him right now, as a matter of fact. we've been watching the president, we just showed some tape there where he is getting ready to board air force one heading west. we're watching that event happen right now. we do want to take a look at how things went in 2016 in michigan. we've got the 2016 results there. and as we put this up on the screen showing hillary clinton with 47.2% of the vote and trump with 47.5, that is tight. so what kind of points are you hearing from the people you've interviewed about how they are feeling right now between the trump and biden campaigns? you mentioned that some of the people you spoke to said that they feel safe right now, that's the ticket that they're going

for, but i know that you talked to a wide swath of different kinds of voters, people who are first-time, people who are worried, you know? what kind of points do they need to make? >> yeah, that's exactly right. so, obviously, a key part, the biggest part that either candidate needs is detroit. detroit and wayne county. that is a huge voting bloc, the biggest in the state. joe biden needs many, many, many more people to come out in this presidential election than came out in 2016. hillary clinton had 70 some fewer votes -- 70 some thousand fewer votes. so we've been talking to voters in wayne county. this should be no surprise, but black americans in detroit and throughout the country overwhelmingly oppose the president and his rhetoric. the question is whether or not they're going to come out in droves in support of vp biden. we've talked to several who were very excited about senator harris being added to the ticket. some people said they were a little nervous that perhaps

there are some voters concerned about her. but overall, it seems like the addition of senator harris was a a source of excitement for democratic voters in detroit. and, again, democrats need a huge turnout in detroit to help insure they can win the state. laura: yeah, detroit is key. and real quick, or michigan setting a record for the number of absentee ballot requests. what does that tell you as we head closer to november? >> yeah, that's exactly right, more than 2.1 million requests, the most ever continue to request these ballots up to and through election day. we'll see. both parties are indicating it's not something that favors one over the other. we're not going to know who wins michigan on election night. you can't start counting until election day. right now state law says you can't open the ballots until the day after. there's a really good chance we won't know who won the election

until a day after, two days after, however long it takes. laura: great point. government and politics reporter with "the detroit free press." thanks for being with us today. >> thank you. laura: eric? eric: president trump right now is heading out west. let's take a look live, air force one at the joint base andrews there. there's that beautiful plane. i guess the door is closed, the engines are warming up. they get the spool up to the part from the washington area airport, flying off to informed. we'll have -- to nevada. we'll have that rally tonight and continuing coverage of the president's trip straight ahead. we're told that foreign actors are at it again, a increasing their attacks on the campaigns. coming up, how russia is targeting the upcoming election and what u.s. authorities can do about it. >> just over a year ago, i was drowning in credit card debt.

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♪ ♪ laura: it's the bottom of the hour, time for a look at your fox news headlines. historic wildfires are burning millions of acres and destroying dozens of homes up and down the west coast. fires in california, oregon and washington have killed at least 20 people with dozens more missing. officials in oregon are warning of a potential mass fatality event. the pharmaceutical company astrazeneca and oxford university will resume stage three clinical trials for their coronavirus vaccine in the u.k. they paused testing this week after one participant suffered neurological side effects. an independent review found it safe to continue the trial. iran's state media reports a popular wrestling star has been executed despite pleas from president trump and human rights groups to spare his life. he was reportedly hanged over charges he stabbed a man during

anti-government protests in 2018. iran televised his confession last week but analysts suspect it was coerced. eric: russia is still trying to hack our presidential election, and guess what? they're joined by china and iran. that at least according to microsoft. the company says in a statement, quote: the activity we are announcing today makes clear that foreign activity groups have stepped up their efforts targeting the 2020 election as had been anticipated. what we've seen is consistent with previous attack patterns that not only target candidates and campaign staffers, but also those they consult on key issues. ben hoffmans is a former cnn station chief in moscow and a fox news contributor with great experience in the netherworld of the dark arts, i guess you could say. dan, we're told they're hacking political advisers, public relations firms. it seems this is only expanding

this election. you know, what's going on? >> well, this is an opportunity for our adversaries. they see that as the election date approaches there's a significant increase in communications within the campaign and then between the campaign and donors and strategists and think tanks. that's all really important for our adversaries to collect. they want to vacuum up all of that intelligence and then later decide how they might use, seek to use it against us. eric: russia and vladimir putin has been blamed and was blamed in the past. we've been told that they have increased their activity. from your experience having lived there, been there, speaking russian fluently, what are they doing now that we really should be worried about? >> well, first and foremost, our campaigns are under siege.

and it's both the trump campaign and the biden campaign. russia, and for that matter, china and iran targeting them mercilessly to steal whatever protectedded information this. the difference is how they seek to weaponize that information, and what the russians are doing, look, they have a very sophisticated espionage capability, and they're going to seek to use the information that they steal as we know they did in 2016 to mount influence operations to soil our democracy. that's really their strategic goal, first and foremost. what scares kgb operatives in the kremlin and vladimir putin is democracy, everything that's enshrined in our constitution and the bill of rights. he knows if that would make its way to russia, he'd be out of office, in jail or worse. eric: foreign affairs talks about russia and china saying, quote: russia is actively working to interfere in the election in an effort to support

president trump over biden last month u.s. intelligence officials said that russia is employing a range of methods to hurt biden's campaign to help get trump reelected, mirroring efforts in 2016 to push trump past former secretary of state hillary clinton. of china is considering its own influence campaign and preferred to see trump lose. so what is china doing to try and hurt president trump's chances? i mean, the president has been really tough on china lately. i mean, he's been blaming china for the virus, talking about the way they rip us off in trade, so you would think that china would really want to start going after the president and his campaign, and one way they can do that is by maybe -- are they trying to help joe biden? >> frankly, i think that china and russia and iran, and you can add north korea as well, they hate all of us, democrats and republicans. but speaking about russia, the so-called assistance that they provided to president trump, that was all discoverable.

you don't buy ads with rubles on facebook if you don't expect some bread crumbs to lead all the way back to the kremlin. i know this is a bit of a nuance, but they've wanted democrats and president trump and then-candidate trump's opponents to believe russia was assisting them and then to have the trump campaign deny that or be angeredded about it and then just cause more animosity or, more strife between our two parties. that's what these nations are after. they know we're in a hyper-politicized atmosphere in our country and our elected officials, sadly, are turning their rhetorical fire on one another rather than towards the kremlin. i do think we have a bipartisan consensus more so on china and for sure on north korean and iran, but russia has been a real sticking point for us. eric: you know, finally, at least we really recognize it now, and authorities apparently are on top of it. the social media companies say they are taking action. do you have some confidence and some sense that even if they try

and they are trying that we can at least somewhat beat them back and recognize when they are trying to interfere with our elections system? >> i think we're doing better. i think what we received these reports from microsoft, that's what we know. the question i would have is how much is out there that we don't know about. but for sure, our citizens are far more educated about these threats. i think that we do a better job with technology at detecting the threats at the point of attack. and remember, the trump administration mounted, reportedly, an attack on the russian troll factory that internet research agency back in 2018. and that was a good preemptive attack to make the russians understand that we were prepared to counter them in the event that they targeted us in the midterms. so it's a combination of things. think we're better at defending ourselves right now, but look, our enemies are ruthlessly focused, continue to be, on targeting us.

eric: yeah. that move was a message by the administration to tell them lay off. dan hoffman, former cia station chief in moscow. dan, always good to see you, thank you. >> you too. laura: well, the cdc is sounding the alarm as more states let restaurants and bars reopen. why the agency is urging americans to think twice before dining out. ish gut. miralax is different. it works naturally with the water in your body to unblock your gut. free your gut, and your mood will follow.

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according to a new study from the cdc. research ors found participants who tested positives and negative had reported visits to gyms, stores and in-home gatherings. however, those who tested positive were twice as likely to report dining at a restaurant two weeks before symptoms started popping up. in a new study from harvard university, it suggests young people maw be more at risk from the virus than previously thought. researchers studied more than 3200 cases where people between the ages of 18 and 34 were hospital used after contracting the virus. data shows that one in five of those young patients were admitted to the icu, 10% needed a ventilator, and just under 3% died. finish and the department of health and human services is authorizing pharmacists to give children covid-19 vaccines once one becomes available. the guidance under the public readiness and emergency preparedness act authorizes

licensed pharmacists to order and m.d. r vaccinations -- administer vaccinations for children 3 years and older allowing easier access for americans to get vaccinate though they'll need the confidence of the american people for any of those measures to be effective. >> let's look at the data. when i look at those polls that say less than half of americans at the present time would take a vaccine if we had it, that's deeply troubling. if we don't end up with a large proportion of the population vaccinated, this is going to go on a long, long time. >> reporter: and the director says we're likely to have a vaccine by the end of 2020, but he says anything that comes before that would, quote, be startling. eric? eric: all right, charles. in atlanta, thanks so much. laura? laura: well, eric, still no movement in congress on the next coronavirus relief package, and thursday's failed procedural vote in the senate could mean

that nothing until after the election or even next year. lucas tomlinson has the story. >> reporter: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell accused the democrats of playing games with the coronavirus relief bill. the republican measure was defeated late this week. >> should we move forward with a floor process to deliver hundreds of billions of dollars more for cuds, for jobs and for -- for kids, for jobs and for health care or do our democratic colleagues prefer to refuse to help families? >> reporter: apparently $300 billion in federal aid and $300 extra per week in unemployment benefits as well as hundreds of billions of dollars to small businesses and schools wasn't enough as the democrats demanded trillions more. rand paul was the lone no vote for the gop who joined the democrats in defeating the bill. 60 votes are required to clear a procedural hurdle. president trump responded, quote: pelosi and schumerer want

trillions for blue states doing badly both economically and in terms of high crime as a condition to making a deal on stimulus, but the usa is coming back strong. protesters showed up at mcconnell's gnome washington, d.c. demanding $600. they also shouted black lives matter. vermont's democratic senator also weighed in. >> senator mcconnell says he's prepared a so-called skinny covid bill to put before the senate. this proposal isn't skinny, it's anemic. why are they afraid to vote? let's have the members vote them up or down. >> reporter: mitch mcconnell said he's 50/50 whether republicans will keep the majority in the senate. lucas tomlinson, fox news. eric: from the ballot on capitol hill to the gridiron. the nfl is back for a season unlike any other. coming up, a preview of

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♪ ♪ laura: well, you're waiting for it, right? the nfl season officially kicked off thursday, and week one continues tomorrow with a ballot of two of the best quarter backs ever, tom brady in tampa bay facing drew brees and the new orleans saints. oh, what's going to happen? let's bring in kendall baker, sports editor at axios on what promises to be a strange season amid the coronavirus pandemic. i mean, that's putting it mildly, right, kendall? [laughter] so, first, fans are just excited to get sports back period. we have football back finally, and just to remind everyone, we had the chiefs beating the 49ers in the super bowl, and right after that the u.s. declared the coronavirus a public health emergency, and the world changed. let's start with your predictions about how football starts back up. >> look, i think it's, like you said b very excited. we've had the nba, nhl, but

there's something about football in this country, totally different animal. of there's something about the weekly cadence, the sunday games, everybody hoveredded around the tv, tailgating not as much this year, but the nfl season, there's a ton of excitement. there's obviously some questions particularly with the nfl not being in a, quote-unquote, bubble. so it's going to be a week to week, month to month thing, but i think everybody's excited. and you mentioned storylines like tom brady and tampa bay, a lot of new coaches, a lot of players shuffling around. there's a ton of storylines. i think everybody's excited for football to be back, for sure. laura: absolutely. you can certainly feel it. everything has been different about the season from the nfl's first-ever virtual draft to the new protocols, you know, electronic whistles for refs, crowd noises being piped into these big stadiums. there will be some teams allowing fans in the stands the, we want to show our viewers. we're talking about the browns

at 10% capacity, chiefs at 22%, the colts, we're waiting to hear from the cowboys, dolphins at 20%. what do you make about that? that's going to be kind of, you know, just the differences that we're going to see this season, big ones. >> certainly. yeah, i mean, like you said, six teams to start at least are saying fans, none above 25% capacity. as we saw on thursday night, there are fans, it's very few fans. whether that adds an element to the broadcast remains to be seen. we'll see if broadcasters tinker with virtual fans or anything like that. i think college football, quite honestly are, is more of a support where the spectators and the fans add that huge element to the broadcast. i don't think it's going to be missed as much in the nfl, like on thursday night, you know, i don't think it was that weird with having months of watching fanless sports by now. it'll definitely be an element particularly with home field advantage. you're seeing some coaches

saying if this team has 20,000 fans, we're not allowed fans, that's an unfair advantage. again, it's a week to week, month to month thing. i'm sure some policies will change, so right now it's six teams, next week who knows? we'll have to watch and see. laura: has there been any talk of the cardboard cutouts? i appreciated the mets behind home plate the other day. i don't know if we're going to see anything like that. >> we will. i'm sure the card ambassador cutout industry -- cardboard cutout industry is booming. laura: how do you think having no preseason games will impact the season, you know, getting together before the season is obviously so important for that bonding. how's that going to play into this? >> well, you know, that's definitely in terms of, you know, sloppiness of play. i think logically it would make sense that, you know, teams have been practicing, right, with each other. they've had some padded practices. they haven't lined up against

other teams. so we should definitely see sloppiness being a factor. i don't think there was a ton of it on thursday. that was a good game, i think, overall. but, you know, we'll see i think the type of player who's probably most impacted is a rookie, right? just because you usually have some games to get some activity, maybe some more accomplished on the stats. joe burrows starts week one, so we'll see how he does, but rookies are most impacted by not having that preseason warmup and that ability to kind of get that confidence. laura: all right. i've got to ask you about tom brady. so many people talking about him. the answer has to be quick, i'm sorry, but can he really make tampa bay a contender? how do you think the new england patriots, on the other hand, are going to do without him? >> so for the bucs, first of all, the offense is obviously loaded. that's e what everybody's excited about. rob's back, but they have a ton of talent at receiver, so there's a ton of excitement

around tampa bay, i talked to them the other day, and they're getting the second most amount of money to bet on the title. there's a ton of confidence around tom brady. and i think that the patriots, you know, they'll have a good team this year. their defense is coming back strong -- laura: gotta leave it there. [laughter] all right. so sorry, i've got to cut you off, kendall baker, sports editor at axios, thank you so much for being here. we can't wait for sunday, and we'll be catching up with you again as we get into the season. be sure to catch your favorite match-ups tomorrow on your local fox station with games starting at 1 p.m. eastern and that highly anticipated matchup of tom brady versus drew brees kicks off at 4:25 eastern on fox. ♪ our agents helped make saving on insurance easy usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa

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to stir that fire, university of phoenix is awarding up to one million dollars in scholarships through this month. see what scholarship you qualify for at phoenix.edu. eric: thankfully the weather is helping firefighters battle some of those deadly wildfires out west. after flames carved a destructive path through at least 30 states and astounding swath of damage through dozens of people remained missing at this hour in oregon where wildfires have destroyed thousands of homes and we are told right now there is no end in sight. welcome to "america's news headquarters." i'm eric shawn. lauren: i'm laura ingle and four arthel neville. the wildfires killing at least 26 people with 19 deaths coming from california alone.

president trump is planning to visit the state monday and see the damage first-hand. meanwhile we are watching topical storm sally forming off the coast of florida. the storm is expected to strengthen and possibly become a hurricane by monday. we have live fox team coverage meter out of saddam klotz is tracking the weather conditions and topical storm sally but we begin with christina coleman live in monrovia california where things are very a. hi rich deny. >> hi loretta. you might be a lake or some those helicopters flying above us doing water drops nearby but where some of these flames are burning. they are some of the 740 firefighters working the bobcat fire right now. you can see some of them behind me protecting homes just in case this fire spreads. this fire is one of 30 major fires burning in california right now and a record-breaking

year in the golden state. so far this fire season more than 6000 homes and structures have been damaged or destroyed and at least 19 people killed in california alone. yesterday california governor gavin newsom toured some of the damage in hard-hit northern california. he said climate change is taking a toll. >> over 7700 wildfires. this contrast to last year where we had 4900 wildfires, 26 times more acreage burned this year in the state of california banned in 2019. >> washington and oregon seeing record fires and destruction but oregon's emergency management director says they are preparing for a mask fatality events with dozens of people still listed as missing and thousands of homes and structures destroyed. at least 1 million acres have burned there and while the smoke pollution from these fires are bad all up and down the west

coast one good thing has come out of it according to fire officials. they sale of the smoke is blocking the sun which is making a cooler providing better weather conditions to fight the raging wildfires. laura: christina coleman in monrovia, california walking that footage. thank you so much for that report. eric: rain that could help stop the damage and destruction in the path of the topical storm. meteorologist adam klotz is standing by with that. they need the rain and they need it now. >> eric they need the rain. we are seeing a little bit higher humidity and lower wins and that's positive. that will help firefighters but the rain you really need not a lot of it or it i will get to bed and just a minute. here's what we are looking at right now with the air quality alerts from california to those in the pacific northwest. even if you aren't in that area

you aren't getting the intense air quality reports with the pollution still there will be smoke stretching across the country. upper-level winds was smoke across portions of canada stretching across the entire united states. that smoke in california will be spreading out. where's the rain? most families the countries of the west is completely clear produces a forecast model that will run us through the middle of next week. by and large it's mostly dry. we get fairly heavy rains from a portion of california off to the pacific northwest. that's going to be good news but it's not very widespread. that's a little bit of help to the dry areas out there. moving to the tropics were in the last several hours we have seen a tropical depression turn in the topical storm sally working its way to south florida with winds of 40 miles an hour but it's heading to the gulf of mexico under the water is warm. that will allow it to pick up some steam and talking about this climbing up to category 1 hurricane with winds around 75 miles an hour.

we are looking at landfall probably in tuesday somewhere between louisiana and to the florida panhandle that it's a slow-moving storm but even though the winds will be up at 75 miles an hour because it's slow moving that allows more rainfall and looking at 10 to 12 inches of rain and where it do rainfalls obviously could move as the path moves. we will be very busy in the weather center of the next couple of days. eric: it's a really tough situation out there. adam thank you. laura. laura: president trump heading to nevada for a campaign out west which will include stops in reno, las vegas and phoenix. polls show the president trailing biden and the silver state which hillary clinton carried by over two points in 2016. mark meredith is live and manned and, nevada. president trump is hoping he can turn the odds in his favor. there's a lot going on there.

>> he wants to change the outs from 2016. his supporters are then after all that long. you see the crowds up behind me. it's in the mid-80s and smoky conditions that they are eager to hear from the president or he will be making multiple stops in nevada. the campaign has had to scramble a little bit this week to figure out the best way to hold such an event. the original ones to hold it at the reno tahoe airport a commercial airport in the area. instead they settled to do it here on the smaller airfield. instead the campaign is chosen this location. i asked the campaign how they were able to do it here as opposed to reno and the trump campaign said quote if you can join tens of thousands of people protesting in the streets burned down small businesses for the rights you can gather people under the first amendment to hear the president of united states. people are having their temperatures checked as they are going in and they are encouraged to wear masks. a lot of people are wearing mask is the moment you will see it

that changes once they get into the venue itself or joe biden coming out swinging in nevada or the biden campaign blasting the president and this is what they had to say quote nevadans don't need more bluster from a the present and the wreck was rallies that ignore the reality is that covid-19 and endanger public health. trump campaign as as many critics in nevada is a possibility of flipping from where was four years ago when the president lost nevada by 27,000 votes. third rnc says they are seeing a surge in support from latino voters but the big question is will that last as we get closer to election day? it is hot for those people that are coming out here. it's warm and hopefully there will be shade for the folks out there. laura: we will check back in with you in nevada. thanks so much for that live report. eric: you see that maga dress? it should be a new fashion.

vice president nominee kamala harris is turning her attention to latino voters on the battleground of arizona. is a virtual small-business roundtable held today. recent polls show president trump's big enough support among the latino community. hillary vaughn is following the biden/harris ticket. what's going on with the biden campaign and are they slipping with latino voters? >> eric they are coming out today with three new spanish-language ads that will be hitting tvs in the key swing state of florida or this is part of the biden campaign's effort to woo back some of those latino voters that they may have lost and instead to president trump. they also have the vice president nominee kamala harris in arizona virtually today holding an event with latino small-business owners.

>> arizonians deserve a president of the united states to this going to put you first. the biden/harris ticket is proving we can build the broad and diverse coalition we need to make sure sure that donald trump is a one-term president. >> today in a report in the "washington post" says senator bernie sanders though is worried about joe biden's presidential campaign reportedly calling them close allies take biden could come up short in november if he continues to run a vague and centrist campaign. his former campaign manager telling the "washington post" this, senator sanders is competent joe biden is in a firm decision to win this election but nevertheless feels there are areas the campaign can continue to improve upon. he also thinks a stronger outreach to young people, the latino community and the progressive movement will be of help to the campaign. he tries to steer the biden campaign into a new direction.

there is new data out saying that some of the donors that have contributed to the democratic party have been mostly unemployed. new data obtained exclusively by foxnews.com show a donation to the democratic fund-raising platform act blue, 4.7 million of them were from people who don't list any employer. the data shows last year almost half of the donors of the biden campaign were listed as unemployed. by comparison for the trump campaign only 2% of donors last year claimed no employer. act blue spokesperson tells "fox news" they use third-party sites to validate this and they report appropriate information to the federal elections commission. the question being raised by this conservative group that did the data analysis eric is this some employment loophole could be used by foreign governments to funnel cash and either using fake donor names or straw

donors. eric. eric: hillary in wilmington, delaware thank you. laura. laura: we are following developing news on u.s. attorney john durham's investigation into the origins of the trump russia probe. a top aide to durham norah dennehy resigning from the department of justice. reports say she did so partly out of concern over political pressure surrounding the investigation. aishia hug me -- aishah hasnie has more. >> neither are commenting about this but the hartford courant in connecticut word durham serves believe dennehy resigning quote at heartedly out of concern as they are being pressed for political reasons to produce a report before the work is done. that investigation is believed to be in its final stages. the president believes there was

wrongdoing when the agency launched an investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. of course you remember special counsel robert mueller his report concluded there was no collusion between the trump campaign and russia. now the president and republicans are questioning a new revelation that members of the mueller team -- their phones during that probe. >> you and i both know there were consequences for someone smashing with a hammer cell phones deleting e-mails. i hope the attorney general will turn this over to investigators that want to dig into this and get to the bottom of this evidence. >> now this latest comes amid reports of other doj related resignations for example last week prosecutor john toy -- john joy and the administration of justice. he was claiming its intent"

providing cover for predetermined agenda also deputy assistant attorney david gorell also left the doj recently. >> aishah hasnie on that developing story, thank you so much. eric: election boards are preparing for a record surge of mail-in ballots in november. they say they are ready but are they? ballot counting could go on for weeks. up next, that's what happened in counsel dana in the recent primary. are the states really prepared? ♪ limu emu & doug

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eric: election officials in pennsylvania expecting a flood of mail-in ballots averting several lawsuits over the state voting laws. they predict the western could end up in court like we saw in florida during the 2000 election. "wall street journal" calls the quote mail vote medicine pennsylvania good it could draw the entire country into a legal brawl. associate editor of "the wall street journal" and the fox journal editorial joins us now. the city commissioner in

philadelphia has been under voter fraud investigations for a long time. here the report in 2012 and found there was double voting and more votes than voters in the district in he just had two cases were a judge pled guilty to stuffing the ballot box in philadelphia in stealing the election. the former congressman was indicted. what's going to happen? >> while it's not just pennsylvania eric. it's a lot of states that have deadlines that are very close to election day for applying for your ballot. they have agreed to count your ballot even if it arrives, if it's postmarked i election day in some states and in other states no postmarked don't worry about that so long as it arrives a day or so after election day. a lot of states are at this point in the situation that pennsylvania might find itself

and which is its deadlines are particularly early and a lot is going to be happening close to election day. i think there is a reality check that we should do. the reality check is in a pandemic a lot of people don't want to go to the polls. they want to mail-in. a lot of states have sort of relaxed the rules on mail-in so people can stay safe and mail-in their votes from home. so it's very possible that with the elections in the united states unless it's a blowout for trump or for biden and they when really handily on november 3 it's entirely possible we will have to be patient and we will have to wait a few days for the election returns to all be counted trader member what happened in 2020? we had to wait for several days before the election was defined. eric: in 2000. it was in 2000, exactly.

all these states have different laws. several of the major states, wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania by law they are not allowed to start counting mail-in until election day itself. there's an effort in pennsylvania to move that up. let me. what the journal says about that for some analysts are so alarmed that they are calling to delay the date of the electorate college vote but on eight close presidential race we are calling -- in a close presidential race we are headed toward a vote counting mess. what a president trump comes up in the red states vote for him and he says i wonder that's not the case in job biden says he didn't when they are joe biden says i won but they still have to count the votes. >> welcome to 2020. that's exactly right. that's entirely possible. that was an editorial on the

editorial page. i'm in the news department and i can't speak for the editorial page and what their views are but they are pointing out that a lot of states have very late deadlines and what you are describing is entirely possible. more voters, our own poll shows more people who are going to vote for biden want to do so by mail then those individuals who are going to vote for trump. they preferred to go to the polling booth. by a large percentage, 47% to 11% in our polls that's a big disparity so what you just pointed out, that's the republicans going to the polls or trump supporter's going to the polls and democrats biden supporters mailing in their votes could result in what you are describing, it looks like the popular vote is for trump but is for trombitas the votes trickle in and are finally counted. look people are going to have to

be patient this year but they should also understand voting by mail and absentee ballots is not new. several states do it every year and virtually all the voting happens by mail and in 201,633,000,000 ballots were either mailed in or voted absentee essentially the same thing. 33 million, 24% of all of the votes cast were by mail-in or absentee. so the country is not new to this predator. the problem is here because so many states are doing at and they haven't altered their deadline. eric: the president has pointed out that he's not against absentee voting. he in fact as voting absentee. he calls it the universal mail where they just send out ballots to all registered voters. that has happened in several of the states in those states who have never done it before are

doing that because of coronavirus. quickly what happens if this goes on for a week where i mean what is your advice to the nation? >> to make a cup of coffee and get ready to have to wait. it's a very good likelihood eric because so many of these states are really close. biden is ahead in the polls in a number of the battleground states. we know the polls don't always get up bright and you will probably just have to wait for it on the fraud issue, fraud wasn't found in 2016. there's an episodic event of somebody's stuffing of ballot box in place by the widespread fraud has not happened in the united states with mail-in voting so people should feel confident that they will are going to have to be patient on election day most likely. eric: i think we will need something stronger than a cup of coffee. >> maybe so. >> john from the wall street journal, always good to see you.

laura: are good point on the coffee. georgia congressman tom graves resigning from congress. he's stepping aside next month before his term is up for the gop lawmaker making the announcement now because he says it just doesn't seem right to quote kill time on the taxpayers dime. graves is one of 33 house republicans not seeking re-election. 12 incumbent democrats are also calling it quits. well with students returning to school one college is taking a proactive approach against the coronavirus. how scientists at the university of arizona are searching the sewers to stop an outbreak before it even begins, next. are you preaching to muslims? well, i was invited. not by me, mate. my husband was kidnapped. this is terrorism! no! we're not afraid to die. that's why we're gonna win.

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tropical storm sally moving into the gulf of mexico after drenching south florida yesterday. forecasters say the the storm will likely gain strength and could hit the gulf coast as a hurricane late monday. sally is the 18th atlantic storm this year and the earliest named storm on record. a florida appeals court upholding state law saying x. felons cannot vote to fail any fees or fines related to their conviction. this ruling will have broad implications impacting an estimated 774,000 felons in the critical battleground state. charlottesville virginia take down the more than century-old confederate monument. the statue of a confederate soldier was built at the county courthouse in 1909. the county board of supervisors voted to remove it earlier this summer in that county. eric. eric: more states are working on plans to reopen indoor dining.

florida doing that now for some but this is raising some concern among health experts on the potential second wave they have warned about of coronavirus as we head into the fall and winter months when everyone is inside. charles watson is an atlanta headquarters from the cdc with more concerns about dining inside. >> dr. fauci says in 2021 when the vaccine is expected to be widely available is the target point and his cases begin to stabilize across the country the infectious disease expert is voicing his concerns about state allowing activities like indoor dining in the transmission risk in the fall and winter seasons approaching. >> by the time you mobilize the distribution of the vaccinations and you get the majority were more of the population is vaccinated and protected that is likely not going to happen until

the mid-toward the end of 2021. >> in florida state officials are allowing bars to reopen at fit the present capacity. the emergency order was made at the request of florida governor ron desantis this week. according to a new york times database daily cases in florida are down 24% compared to the week prior to those numbers have consistently decreased in the state since they were at their highest in july however the state reporting their highest total of new deaths in more than three weeks with 213 on thursday. >> obviously you can get infected in a restaurant just like you can get infected anywhere but the idea that the restaurants are some big driver has just not been borne out by the evidence. >> bars will not reopen in the three largest counties. officials in palm beach county, broward county and miami-dade counties say they will keep

their bars close for the time being eric. eric: are right charles thanks so much. laura: an interesting story here the university of arizona is studying their super lines to catch a coronavirus outbreak before it even begins. the "washington post" writes this quote the university is regularly screening the sewage from each dorm, searching for traces of the virus. when a wastewater sample from one door and came back positive this week this tool quickly -- the school tested three and 11 people who live and work there and found two asymptomatic students who tested positive. joining me now to discuss his doctor robert robinson the president of the university of arizona and the former president and ceo of the texas medical center. thank you for being here doctor. i'm not sure if i've ever heard of this method of testing wastewater in terms of covid but when you think about it the

covid-19 can be detected through wastewater and it could help trace an outbreak. how is it working so far? >> so far, so good lawyer. thanks for having me in your program this afternoon. it's been used fairly extensively in public health for a couple of decades for other diseases but dr. ian pepper lays out efforts at the university of arizona renowned wastewater epidemiologist and he has worked with polio and he thought he could convert our system to detect covid-19 and the sewage of the buildings on campus. it allows us to identify cases you for they are symptomatic up to a week before they have symptoms so we can then go in and test the residents in the building and moved them out of the general population before they can infect others.

it's tremendous work that we are doing here. laura: we have heard about this method being used in places like singapore, china and spain and the u.s. there are reported 170 wastewater facilities across 37 states going through some testi. they aren't experiments that they are testing like this and with colleges being at the epicenter of many outbreaks it sounds like you could really help it when i think about what's happening on your campus i'm just curious who is doing the work? who is taking those tests in doing that job? >> it is a job no doubt about it but dr. ian pepper's lab for the last four years the university of arizona's water program has been ranked number one in the entire world so we are very proud of the work we do in many facets of water conservation and this has worked with dr. pepper

and his research team does. they go out and raise manhole covers and literally take like a long poll that you clean the pool with and they have a plastic wattle at the end. they simply stick it in the sewage line and bring out a sample drive it over to their lab and run the pcr test on it. in a few hours we know whether that building has a significant amount of covid-19 coming from the sewage. laura: that's amazing like checking the oil in your car. let's take a look at the university affairs on the positive cases as of friday. 133 cases, 1512 test. that's a .8% positivity rates on wednesday september 9 we showed the university of arizona reported the highest single day increase since july 31. this sounds significant when you take a look at what's going on

compared to in the past census began. where are you at? >> since august 1 we have done almost 25,000 test with about 1100 tests positive so that's a positivity rate of 4.6% rate but 877 of those cases have been in the last 10 days. so we would love to see that number under 5% total. there's no question about it as soon as they come back to campus the number of cases have increased despite the fact that we have tested every student when they arrive from their homes before they went into our dorms and they were all negative. the one thing we didn't do is test all of our students living in off-campus housing and so i've learned from that. next term we are going to do

that before we let students come back to campus. there has been a tremendous increase in the number of cases as i said, 877 of the 1100 cases have been in the last 10 days. laura: a tremendous learning curve and d but you got it at the forefront of trying it. it's not new but the new but the first time a lot of us are hearing about this. dr. robert robbins resident of the university of arizona thank you so much and thanks for your team for doing that work. let us know how it works. >> thanks laura. eric: is being called a major breakthrough president trump's bahrain is real deal that will be signed in the white house is coming week that it could come at the catch. the stealth fighters to the united arab emirates. should we allow the arab gulf nation to fly the most advanced warplane we have ever built?

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>> america will never be a socialist country eric: we can expect and has start day at the white house is coming week. president trump will be joined by israeli -- benjamin netanyahu. the new aen by rain is signing a declaration of peace. the two arab gulf nations joining egypt and jordan and recognizing israel. plus this landmark deal with the

uae could come with an additional caveat. administration proposes the sale of our nations most advanced fighter jet the f-35 stealth fighter to the uae. the pushback and controversy over having that warplane has started. former deputy assistant secretary of state in the obama administration and president of the washington strategy group joins us now. it's an amazing accomplishment. they have these two gulf states and others are expected finally after all these decades established ties to recognize israel and start trade exchanges in the sort of thing. but is selling the f-35, the most advanced warplane ever built, selling that plane do you think does it make sense and is it a good idea to sell it to the uae? >> well it's great to be with you eric and i agree with you that it's a wonderful day when we exceed two arab governments coming out in public from behind their private relationship with

israel over the recent years and now publicly embracing israeli peace. that's a wonderful moment and we should celebrate it at your question the f-35 the joint strike fighter is really the crown jewel right now of our ability to have airpower and air superiority. we have too delivered to allies in a very careful manner and the concern in washington and jerusalem as well is that it isn't carefully vetted and willfully hand over the tech knowledge he of the f-35 to the uae as is reported is going to happen that could open up some serious folder abilities for our forces in the region for israel and other allies as well. lots of open questions and i don't think you have to have that deal to have peace and that's the key thing here. why does the uae have to have this weapon system to make peace with israel on that question hasn't been answered yet. eric: the uae says they have

been flying older jets that we have sold them for 15 years. jared kushner says the quantitative edge that israel has won't be a rugged with this but let me. you something that debbie wasserman schultz has said in an op-ed in the "miami herald." she said quote the biggest areas of concern related to israel's security and the possibility that a future is uae government could be hostile to israel. the uae is the locus of tauzin's of regular iranian travelers including intelligence operatives who will seek sensitive information about the f-35. clearly a more militarized region is not safe for israel or the u.s. interest. the fear of iran -- does she have a point in terms of this getting into the wrong hands? >> she really does and this is why we have a rocksolid agreement with their military partners.

when i started at the state department has occur officer many years ago in the whoosh of administration i oversaw the qualitative military part of our military trade account with the chips. in syria we don't want our weapon either threatening our allies or to get in the wrong hands into the point of iran the uae has significant trade with iran and has significant defense relationship with china. that is very concerning for the knowledge of the f-35 at the nato level and the technology bears at the highest level possible to allow that to potentially forever serious look into it could be compromising for national security our jets our fighters and our forces in the region and certainly for israel making it more difficult. benjamin netanyahu is facing blowback in the area for essentially green to this part of the agreement. eric: you just raised a great

point. let's say the uae does trade with a ram and you just mentioned china. why are you so concerned about china when it comes to the f-35? >> the big danger when we transfer sophisticated weapons systems is that they get reverse engineered by others and we saw this debate with turkey about the same program recently on the f-35 where turkey had a relationship with russia wanted to purchase the f4 hundred antiaircraft and we shut down our f-35 transfer pro granted turkey because of that out of concern that russia would be able to look into our f-35 reverse engineered and understand what to do to defend itself from that. we don't want that situation with china right now certainly and so this is a lot more, there's a lot more complex

features and there needs to be rigorous oversight by congress. he can't just be a gift handed to the uae to make peace. there's much more stake than just the deal and my question the uae should -- the up 35 should not necessarily be part of that should be a separate discussion to make sure we are getting the security issues right. eric: meanwhile the former prime minister is of israel's defending this potential agreements and quote i will say this outright the u.s. uae arms deal is a legitimate reason old logical move the poses no threat to israel security. this country is a few f-35 and they could be quite effective in the event of friction with iran. what are security be compromised and finally benjamin netanyahu didn't say this but it's been

inferred israel flew the two f-35's they had them over iran and iran never even knew. iran's radar to even pick it up. that's what the whole thing is supposed to do. supposed to be a secret attack machine and that's why it's so sophisticated. iran got caught with their pants down not even knowing the f-35 apparently was over their territory. as you point out can we still go ahead and withhold the f-35? >> i think we have to have a real it's emanation of the f-35 part of the deal. the deal should go ahead produce good for israel good for the uae and good for the united states. it's good for bahrain as well. wonderful agreement to have that we have security issues. we have invested illanes upon billions of dollars of american taxpayers f-35 program. it's not just to give up out. we have to make sure we are getting it right and to the point of the former tri-minister

with all due respect he can make that argument but this is about american national security at the end of the day in ensuring we are checking all the right fox is before we transfer these weapons. eric: we will probably hear more from democratic lawmakers on this. it's quite an amazing day with the ceremony by the president but there are new concerns about the f-35. good to see you, thank you. laura: a new round of peace talks get underway in qatar as the afghan government looks to reach a deal with the taliban to end nearly two decades of war. the latest on that story, next. safe drivers save 40%!!! guys! guys! check it out. safe drivers save 40%!!! safe drivers save 40%! safe drivers save 40%!!! that's safe drivers save 40%. it is, that's safe drivers save 40%. - he's right there. - it's him! he's here. he's right here.

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laura: the first-ever peace talks between afghanistan and the taliban kicking off ending decades of war. >> these were the first-ever talks between the taliban and the government of afghanistan who signed along with the united states at war for nearly 20 years. this was quite the photo op with the two sides in the same room talking peace saying they are committed to working towards peace but also acknowledging it's also acknowledging it's going to be a long and difficult road. keep in mind they are still fighting on the ground in

afghanistan but afghanistan is still seeing extraordinary levels of violence that secretary of state mike pompeo was also there. he met on the sidelines with the taliban emphasizing the u.s. is future relationship with afghanistan is going to depend in large part on how the taliban behaves in these talks things like financial assistance for afghanistan going forward depends on these two sites building a better rest in the span for the future. the u.s. has about 8000 troops on the ground in afghanistan. the trump administration would like to have that to 4000 by november. they would like to get that number down to is close to zero as possible by april. technically speaking in order for the united states to withdraw its troops according to the peace deal the peace deal with the taliban come the taliban doesn't need to stop fighting the afghan government. simply needs to prove that afghanistan is no longer going to be a launching pad for

attacks against united states. that said, of course the u.s. would like to see some kind of peace between these two warring sides. the united states does not want to pull out of afghanistan with a war still raging there. lots of american diplomacy going on right now in the middle east. just yesterday say -- just yesterday bahrain a country the gulf will recognize the state of israel, huge move and something the united arab emirate's did a month ago. the trump administration brokered both of those deals. this government intent on demonstrating a flurry of diplomatic it to be as we move toward those elections in november. in london "fox news." eric: why though week coming up on the diplomatic front. of credit card debt. they helped me consolidate all of that into one low monthly payment.

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>> president trump getting ready to speak to supporters in nevada. get another stop in a jam-packed schedule with just 61 days until the election. good evening i'm jon scott and this is the "fox report." president trump on his way to nevada a state hipght won in 2016 and show joe biden leading this and race could be getting tighter. it is all part of the president's western campaign swing with stops in reno, las vegas, and phoenix. we have fox team coverage hillary vaughn is covering biden campaign from wilmington, delaware but we again with