"the five," the president is going to have his press conference, bill hemmer, you're going to have to play that press conference. >> bill: he runs a pretty tight schedule. we will have it when it begins. you have an awesome weekend. thank you, dana. see you on monday. >> dana: i will. ♪ >> bill: good afternoon, everyone. i am bill hemmer, we are 46 days from the election, the president will be out any moment now. people are already voting in the state of minnesota. a surprising swing state, at this hour we are waiting to hear from joe biden in hermann town minnesota, about as far east as he will get. and for a long time, new yorkers voted democrat but republicans are making serious influence. a bit rate or come up president trump holds rally, he flipped it into thousand 16, can

he do it again? we also have analysis from fox news anchor chris wallace but we begin with john roberts. john, good afternoon. >> bill, let me first of all say, your lips to god's ears because we thought an hour ago president trump was going to come out here in the briefing room and we are still here but he only has 45 minutes before he supposed to head off to minnesota so he should be here sometime in the next few minutes. when he goes to minnesota he is going to find the state may be a little bit more difficult to get that look like it was in 2016. about one and a half points back then. now the real clear politics average, most of the recent polls have had biden up 8 of 9, "the washington post" had biden up by 16 so that may be a little bit of an outlier, we don't know about the president believes that if he spends enough time in minnesota you will be able to

flip the state. that would make in the first republic until win it since 1972, richard nixon even in his 49th state win in 1984, ronald reagan couldn't do it. we can expect the president will go after joe biden tonight in bemidji, a law and order issue, on outsourcing jobs, the president has charged the obama-biden administration did to china and other places, the president will pledge he is the one that can bring these back. the president looking to improve his margin in the hispanic communities, about 300,000 hispanics in the state of minnesota. earlier today, the white house and fema announced the single biggest emergency relief grant ever put out there to the island nation of puerto rico, $11.6 billion to rebuild the power, infrastructure as well as improvements to education on the third anniversary of hurricane maria slamming puerto rico.

winds literally destroying the island, certainly destroying the electrical grid there, politicians in puerto rico very happy to have this money but some question about the timing, what the president is doing when we are within 50 days of the election. >> the mask matches the tide. we are on standing from the briefing room, the state has not voted for a republican since going back to nixon in 1972. today trump and biden are a few counties apart, the 2016, you see the state of minnesota, razor tight here. hillary clinton won by about a point and a half. here's where the president will be in the county of beltrami later today. not a ton of votes in this part of minnesota, it's interesting, if you go back to a 2012, you see what barack obama did, he won that county by 11 points.

right now the trump team has started to go ahead and find its way, get more voters and more supporters, st. louis county, we are waiting for the iron range, write down about here, hillary clinton by about 13. here is what is important, if you go back to 2012, barack obama carried the state by 30 points plus. want to bring in fox news sunday anchor chris wallace, the election is here, people are voting and will continue to pick up speed in the coming weeks. >> it's interesting about minnesota. i can understand why the president is going there, it's got ten electoral votes, wisconsin is very close, if you win minnesota you've made up for that. i've got to think as john roberts pointed out, there hasn't been a republican that

has won minnesota since richard nixon in 1972. if he wins minnesota my guess is he's on his way to a landslide anyway, a little bit like the democrats talking about texas, one of those states, this is the time were going to be able to flip it. the only chance they're going to be able to flip minnesota for the republicans for taxes on the democrats as if it's a landslide anyway. but i'm not running the campaign, they are. >> bill: this is minnesota from 2012, you see everything just disappear and it goes red and you can find this, poke around here to the state of wisconsin, this is 2012. you see how well barack obama did against mitt romney, 2016, it all dries up and goes red as well and this plays out as well in michigan from 2016 compared

to 2012, detroit, grand rapids out here, you flip the switch. for viewers at home, why is this so important? these are your battleground states in 2020, minnesota, michigan, it's wisconsin and it's ohio, chris. >> and arizona and florida, a whole lot of states. i will say this about joe biden, the president has certainly got joe biden's attention and he doesn't want to make the same mistake that hillary clinton made it so he's going to go out there and, you know, plant the flag in minnesota and say this is still blue territory. we will see. >> bill: what you think about the mail-in voting? politico did end evaluation, 35,000 ballots were rejected. the state of florida was decided by 537 votes 19 years ago, this

is extraordinary stuff. >> i have always felt that the real concern about mail-in voting is not what the president says, it's that people are going to be disenfranchised, as you pointed out, ballots will be disqualified because they come into late or the signatures don't match up are there some irregularity, i think that's a much greater concern. not disenfranchised in the sense that someone has purposely tried to prevent groups of people from voting but just because we haven't done it. a lot of people will be doing mail-in voting for the first time, they will mess it up and their vote won't count. i think that's the biggest potential problem with mail-in voting. if you've got a narrow race, at least in some of these states where it will be to very narrow, the votes that are thrown out could be the ones that make the difference and that's one of the reasons why you see particularly the democrats talking about

voter education, web site as you can go to to find out how to cast your vote and make it count because i think it's a big issue. >> bill: in 2016, 9.5 million people voted. 28% by mail and that primary that i just mentioned, 60% of the votes were cast and you can see the dramatic difference. i know you've got a pack show on sunday, two-minute warning, chris. hang with me a moment here, how do you see this playing out in a way where, just a few counties away where these men will be separated tonight and then we're going to see them on stage in about a week and a half, how do you believe joe biden did last night during that town hall? >> i think he did fine, i think he had a much easier evening in terms of the questions posed on cnn than president trump had in

the questions that were posed to him on abc. i think the trump campaign has to be very concerned because the president even last night keeps talking about joe biden is shot. i know it's got some very important advisors next to him saying don't lower expectations, raise them. he's been in congress and the white house and all that 47 years, he's an expert, i am an amateur, play down your expectations and play them up for joe biden's always got a higher bar he's got to cross in the debate, the president isn't doing that. >> bill: you we will see how the strategy changes. you are exactly right about how they cast joe biden. i thought it was the first chance that a lot of people, frankly, had to listen to joe biden, he hasn't taken a lot of questions. has made a lot of appearances but usually he turns tail and turns away.

see how he is managing this campaign. >> i think this is literally the first time he's faced any group of voters, since the convention. then event that again is something, the style of biden campaigning in the question is whether he needs to kick it into a higher gear. >> bill: thank you, chris, we will see you on sunday. chris wallace, thanks. >> we have three great, great companies doing somewhat different variations, all nations have understood that the top priority would be develop a vaccine as quickly as possible. in the pandemic and get life

back to normal, the successful vaccine will not only save millions of lives, it will put an end to the restrictions and some of the things that go on and have to go on in the meantime. today i want to discuss the historic progress we are making to deliver a safe and effective vaccine in record time and there's never been anything like this ever. and history there's never been, and history, period, world history. since january, america's brilliant doctors and scientists have been working been working around the clock, the best medical minds in the world by far and the vaccines are going through the gold standard of clinical trials, very heavy emphasis placed on safety. three vaccines are already in the final stage. joe biden's anti-vaccine theories are putting lives at risk and they are only doing it for political reasons, it's very foolish.

it's part of their war to try to discredit the vaccine now that they know that we essentially have it, we will be announcing it soon. as part of operation warp speed, my administration has manufactured one of the most promising vaccines in advance and it will be fairly long in advance, as soon as a vaccine is approved, the administration will deliver it to the american people immediately. distribution will begin within 24 hours after notice, those of the word specifically, within 24 hours you are all set to go, massive amounts will be delivered through our great military, the general is one of our best and he's ready to go. we will have manufactured at least 100 million vaccine doses before the end of the year. likely much more than that. hundreds of millions of doses

will be available every month and we expect to have another vaccines for every american by april. and again, i will say that even at that later stage, delivery will go as fast as it comes, they can deliver it very good, probably the best in the world. the estimates i am providing today are based on the manufacturing that's in process and that's in process immediately right now, we've already exceeded our ambitious goals under the defense production act contracts that we've secured. we may even get far above these numbers that i'm telling you today, we've seen them very, very substantially and i think that also includes distribution and i think distribution will go furthequicker than most people , relying on our military. everything we've done with our military has worked out very well. in a short time we will have a

safe and effective vaccine and we will defeat the virus. interestingly as i was saying, just like what we did with our military with respect to isis, it went very well come along ahead of schedule, they've been incredible working with me. let's go to puerto rico because puerto rico has been hit very, very hard to buy a lot of different storms and they are great people, it's a great place, i know it well. today my administration is making the largest emergency relief award in history to rebuild puerto rico's electrical grid. we are warning $13 billion to permanently repair or replace transmission and distribution lines it should've been done many years ago, this was beyond even the storms come of was just age and a lot of the salt from that ocean is a killer for

electrical stations in power, generation systems but a on top of the salt we have those massive storms and hurricanes coming and maria in particular was a disaster. for many years they've been trying to get this done and haven't had the political willpower in washington to get it done. we are also going to be bringing back a very major amounts of medical work. pharmaceutical manufacturing at levels that few places had, a lot of it is left puerto rico and we are going to bring that back now since our emphasis is going to be making our product so were going to bring pharmaceutical manufacturing back to puerto rico. a lot of it left over the years over a long period of time leaving and going to china and other places so we are bringing all of it back, this was done in previous administrations, i'd like to point out, we've done

more for puerto rico than anybody, this is an example of a but we've done more for puerto rico by far than anybody. we will also be launching a major opportunity paragraph, back to schools across the island, following hurricane maria, my administration, the federal government to bring the electric grid back online. it was ripped to shreds but a lot of that was ripped to shreds long before even the storm came in for many, many years they've been trying to do it and we wanted to restore water supplies and we did make emergency repairs to critical infrastructure, we took karen saved how countless lives are treated. fema's response to puerto rico, the longest sustained air mission to supply food or water in american history, long after the hurricane was gone, the largest disaster commodity

distribution mission in u.s. history, the largest federal disaster aid operation in u.s. history. my administration also positioned mass quantities of relief supplies for the future disasters, unfortunately puerto rico is in the way of a lot of different storms, a lot of hurricanes in the island is now stocked with nearly eight times as much drinking water in 13 times as much food as it had before i took office, so they are ready to go if something should happen and they are in a good position. bring back medical distribution and manufacturing to puerto rico at a level far greater than it was before, it's been emptied out, largely left the island for many years. at one point it was the talk of the world and now it's the top

of the world in a different way, we're going to be bringing it back for various other parts of the world, it's going to puerto rico and i think that's going to be very exciting for people and we are undertaking the largest federal investment in puerto rico's history so you have a lot of friends in puerto rico, told them about it, ask them about it, conceptually, i just want to say by contrast, biden's devastated the island of puerto rico. joe biden, what he's done to puerto rico, meaning the past administration is devastating. in 1996, biden voted to eliminate a critical tax provision that allowed puerto rico to become dominant player in global pharmaceutical manufacturing, that's what happened. when biden voted to repeal this provision, all incentive to stay there was taken away and all the

jobs went to china and other places but mostly to china. that's what happened. this was even before the obama administration. this was early on but so sad. and then obama came in and it got worse. so for the people of puerto ri puerto rico, they were a disaster for you and i have no say in a very nice way, very respectful way, i'm the best thing that ever happened to puerto rico. nobody even close but as a result the island's economy under the previously mentioned names just absolutely cratered. left the united states, for essential medicines putting our national security and health risk, we had a tremendous industry potentially going to

puerto rico and they cut it short with a bad vote that took all the incentive away and it took all the places to faraway lands. in a sense they were voting to destroy puerto rico and bringing puerto rico back. the $13 billion, that's a tremendous amount of money. i think you're going to see something terrific and it's very exciting, to me, what's most exciting is bringing the pharmaceutical industry back, various companies are willing to go there, they want to have a little bit of help but they're willing to go to puerto rico and puerto rico's going to be very exciting, what's going to happen, they were on the verge of doing it and they took away all the incentives, they allowed it to happen and it was very bad for puerto rico and the people of puerto rico, that was done by democrats.

a republican is bringing it back. with that we can take a few questions and we are again very advanced on the vaccine, we think sometime in the very near future we will have it where i would say, i think i can say, years ahead of schedule what it would be in it administration other than this one. would've been years before we had anything approved by the fda. >> this huge age package to puerto rico, by 46 days? >> we've been working on it a long time, tough to get things passed, democrats don't want to see this happen and they probably certainly didn't want to see it happen at this point but it's a big package, it's a great package and i think the most epistemic exciting part of the package isn't necessarily the billions of dollars, it's going to be what we do with the

pharmaceutical industry. they like being there but they change the tax situation, they ripped it out so they really ripped apart the island. >> it may be simply coincidental but it does coincide with a big push for puerto rico and the biden-harris campaign. >> president trump: what they did there, i have gone through it and whether it was president obama, vice president biden, they were a disaster for puerto rico, a disaster. what we are doing is something that will be fantastic for many years in the future. bringing back the pharmaceutical industry, manufacturing and puerto rico is what they wanted for years and we are doing that in addition to the $13 billion. >> you said you expect to have enough vaccines for every american up in april.

we sit here in mid-september and there have been questions about the timeline. can you walk us through now and the beginning of april which every american can have a vaccine? >> president trump: i think we may exceed those numbers, even. scott, do you want to discuss that? >> we have all the people that are involved in the actual vaccine distribution but we were just going through this. as of the end of the year we will have over 100 million doses manufactured. the people who are prioritized including high risk, first responders, will have the ability to take the vaccine, no one's being mandated to be vaccinated, at the latest in january. as we said yesterday, there will be hundreds of millions of doses

delivered for people to take it during the first corner. by april, every single american who wants to be vaccinated will have the ability to be vaccinated. it's not a forced vaccination. >> dr. fauci said today, echoed dr. redfield's comments that q2, q3, sometime this summer of next year, is that the timeline? next summer? >> president trump: i think we can beat that number substantially. >> if you don't mind, the congress department essentially gave you our way to strike a deal after the election, do you expect the tiktok deal to be before the election or after the election? >> president trump: we've got great companies talking to us, oracle, microsoft has been involved, we will see whether or

not they are continuing to be involved and walmart is truly a great company, they are very much involved and want to do something. so we have some great options and we can keep a lot of people happy but we have to have the total security from china. we are not going to do anything to jeopardize security. at the same time it's an amazing company, very, very popular so if we can do a combination of both i'd be very happy doing that, could go very quickly, cocoa very, very fast. go ahead, please. >> reporter: on kuwait, the ambassador this week said that the kuwait government is very concerned over the constant reaching of the delay. in your discussion, have you discussed where they stand,

going to u.n., as the united states tried to extend sanctions on iran? >> president trump: we had a very good meeting and i think we understand each other very well, very excited about a lot of things that are happening. they are so excited that we saw the first two countries and i think it will end up fairly quickly being a part of it, seven or eight countries want to be a part of it without even working very easily, very quickly. nobody thought this would happ happen. it's happening rather easily, we discussed that briefly. it's an easy one. it is now a beautiful puzzle coming together. we are talking to them and others about various aspects. the middle east is straightening out with all of this, we brought a lot of our troops back, very

near future. we are out of syria, troops guarding the oil, other than that we are out of syria, we took them off the board between syria and turkey, a lot of troops, we got down to 50 and they are in great danger, 50 people here. who you are, in the u.s., 50 people. a lot of troops on the border, 200 years and a lot longer than that under different names. they can continue to do that, that's not for us. we are doing very well on our southern borders. we kept the oil and we will make a determination, probably dealing with the occurrence of the oil but we will be out and very importantly we are down to

very few soldiers in iraq. we are down very shortly over the next couple weeks to 4,000, less than 4,000 in afghanistan and then we will make that final determination. we are dealing very well with the tallow band, they are very tough, very smart, very sharp. it's been 19 years and they are tired of fighting. if we wanted to do what we had to do, would've fought a lot differently, they didn't fight it properly, they are not police, they are soldiers. there is a difference, police, nobody has more respect for police than i do but they have to do their own policing so some very good discussions with the taliban as you probably heard, it's been public. we will be down to very shortly less than 4,00 4,000 soldiers se

will be out of there. knowing that certain things have to happen, certain things have to be fulfilled, 19 years is a long time, 8,000 miles away, 19 years is a long time. the whole middle east equation, if you look at what's happened, if you look at the stupidity of decisions that are made. including the deal that was made and we look at what happened with iran, had that deal stated, you could have never done the deal, the countries are pouring in, i have two calls this morning with countries that want to know, when can we go into the deal. it's not that we are giving anything, they want security, they want peace and they are tired of fighting, it's incredible. they have been fighting for so many years. thank you very much.

>> first on puerto rico, i heard you many times over the past couple years saying puerto rico got too much money. you said it, puerto rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth, you said never again, you said congress gave too much money to puerto rico. why now? >> president trump: a great medical, pharmaceutical, manufacturing area where we are going to be taking back a lot of the business that we let go for years and we are going to bring it back, they did a fantastic job but they destroyed it with their tax policy, they made it impossible so people went to china, mostly, and other countries. puerto rico has been very corrupt in terms of its politicians. one after another it's been unbelievably corrupt. and we are studying that and working on that and we think we have a good group of people working very well with politicians right now.

but i think more exciting than the dollars and you have to do something with respect to their grid, their grade is a disaster, their generators are wiped out and they've been wiped out for years, long before maria came. so we can build puerto rico back into a pharmaceutical manufacturing area. we are going to designated as such, i think it will be unbelievable for the people of puerto rico. we can make a very successful. >> a larger question on the vaccine and on other issues regarding the experts in your government, last night you criticize christopher wray, told congress the cdc director was flat wrong on a couple things. how is it that you don't trust your own experts? >> president trump: i think in many cases, i think we have a bigger problem with china then

we have with russia, i think china is a far bigger problem. what about china, i think that's appropriate. i think the definition of antifa was absolutely an incorrect definition so i like to speak up. i have fantastic people, making these great trade deals, that's what you are doing today, the country has done so well, i do we not have the china play come in, the virus didn't come in, the plague, the plague from china didn't come in in, the numbers we had were not only record-setting, beyond anything anyone has ever seen in any country, frankly. now we closed it up and now we are opening it up, now the democrats are opening up their estates and opening it up fast, the faster the better.

a lot of damage done with these extended shutdowns but we saved millions of lives by doing it the way we did it and now we are opening it up and you've seen the numbers, the manufacturing numbers, the retail numbers, you look at the employment numbers, they are setting records. it's an incredible thing that's happening, had the plague not come and we would have been right now at a level that nobody's ever seen before. even before it was at the highest stock market, best unemployment numbers, 160 million people, just short of 150 million people, we were never close to a number like that and now we are doing it again and next year we will have a great economic era. >> reporter: the postal service has planned on sending 650 million face masks to americans back in april. that never happened, why not? >> president trump: as you know, that's run by a commission

and i think, frankly, if they would raise the price of packaging, you'd end up making a lot of money or breaking even or doing something, the post office has been a mess for many, many generations. certainly decades. it loses a lot of money. it's always lost a lot of money and one of the reasons it loses a lot of money now is that it's delivering all these packages and every time they deliver a package they lose $3 a package or whatever the number may be so i would suggest that they raise the price of packages and you make it something where it loses very little or maybe broke even or maybe even make some money, can you imagine nothing like that and whether it's amazon or any of the other internet delivery services, if you did that you have a whole different post office so hopefully they will be doing that.

i've known so many people in the postal system, they are incredible people and very secure, they're going to be very secure. the problem i have with the ballots is not the post office, is a people sending the ballots and the people counting the ballots. who are they sending them to, where they being sent, they will be tremendous corruption if they don't do anything about it. we are in front in nevada, pennsylvania, michigan, we have numerous court cases out there very well advanced and we will start seeing decisions just like we won the case on opening up pennsylvania, that was a great decision by a judge that came down to go days ago in them to my love is a very important decision. we have a lot of very important decisions coming down on this scam of unsolicited ballots

where they're sending out tens of millions of ballots to everybody, people that didn't expect them, people are getting inundated, everybody in this room knows it's a scam, okay? everybody in this room, even john. don't say it, john. sending ballots at a level they are never going to be able to count, let me ask you. >> reporter: people in the white house vote by mail. >> president trump: that's called solicited, absentee or solicited. when you go out and you request a ballot, i want to vote because i can't be in florida or i can't be someplace, you request. your sending something in, they send it back, it's a whole thing. it's much different than unsolicited when you get millions of ballots, numbers like 80 million ballots, just this week they had another one

of the disasters that took place in election. look at what happened in new jersey, they had another one in new jersey, very bad. different than patterson, look at what happened in new york. with caroline... congressman murphy. carolyn maloney. look at that race. carolyn maloney had a race. it was a disaster. these are small races, look at what happened in virginia. look at what happened in various other parts of the country even over the last short period, these are 80 million, 50 million, 20 million votes, these are small actions, congressional elections so what's going to happen on november 3rd when somebody is leading and they say, well, we haven't counted the ballots, we have millions of ballots to count, it's a disaster. everyone knows it's a disaster and i don't expect people in here to say, although some

people will say it, everyone knows. you don't even have to know politics to no end this has nothing to do with post office, by the way. where are these ballots going? who is sending them, who is signing them? in nevada you have a government governor who signed something, get a zero want verification of the signature so what does that mean? he doesn't even want verification of the signature so i think it's going to be a terrible time for this country and we are counting on federal judges to do a great constitutional job, they are right now analyzing it, federal judges, five or six but many federal judges, i can tell you in pennsylvania, big in nevada, very big, i believe it's in front of a judge in michigan, a lot of judges of not yet ruled in this but if it's ruled in a different manner, ruled where

these millions and millions of unsolicited, people that aren't even asking, there is such a difference. you write in, you ask, you sign it, you send it back, that's perfect, that's absentee. nothing like going to the voter booth, nothing where they check you as you go in, that's absentee and that's okay. this scam sending millions and millions of votes, you know who knows this better than i do? the democrats know it's going to be a mass, there is going to be millions of missing ballots, tremendous numbers of missing ballots, you could be talking about large percentages of these ballots are going to be missing, there's going to be fraud, it's a disaster and everybody, it will be a lot easier for me not to bring it up, everybody knows i'm right and you don't have to know a lot about elections, you don't have to know a lot about politics, this is going to be this scam of all time and hopefully the federal judges,

all highly respected, hopefully they will be able to see this clearly and stop it. thank you very much. i want to congratulate puerto rico and i think you're going to have a great period of time, i think you're going to see a rebuilding of puerto rico. thank you very much. >> bill: that you have it, the headlines really made the end about the election, let's get all of this now as we bring in democratic senator bob casey of pennsylvania. the decision was made in pennsylvania to allow votes to be received after three days after the election, so long as they are postmarked by election day but it's clear he drew a distinction between absentee ballots and unsolicited ballots where he stayed in this case, not pennsylvania but other states would send out ballots to everyone who lives in that state. he calls it a scam and said it could be a terrible time for the country. >> i think the reason we are

even instituting mail-in ballots about the country is mostly because of the virus. the public safety concerns. in pennsylvania, the general assembly, bipartisan vote of the general assembly by the governor changed the law of the vote, the earlier vote in pennsylvania without having to wait until election day so we are going to be a different, big change in voting anyway but i think it's just bizarre the way the president seems to lie about this. everyone knows mail-in ballots work and it's never more important now, you can do to throw things at once. keep people safe. make sure everybody gets count counted. >> bill: states have done it, you are right. oregon has been doing it for 20 years. and it really that criticism is not so much directed at the post office but is directed at the elections offices and

whether they have the personnel and the manpower to handle all of this. >> well, bill, on that, a pretty good job in the primary, the first time we've done it at this volume, this will be a bigger volume but one of the failures of the last couple of months in congress was after 400 million for election which isn't that much in a big country, democrats like me, i was helping other senators trying to get another $3.6 billion for elections, we haven't gotten that yet but it would help enormously with states with more resources. i think this is going to be an election where we can still get everybody's well. >> bill: one more point, you came on to talk about joe biden in pennsylvania, he did a town hall last night on cnn, sound bite number two, i when the issue of fracking came up,

there are hundreds of thousands of jobs in the state of pennsylvania tied to the industry of fracking, it seems to go back and forth over the past couple of months, here's what he said last night. >> fracking is to continue because we need a transition they where going to get to the net zero emissions by 2050 and we will get in at zero power admissions by 2035. >> bill: on top of all that, the green new deal came up last night and he said he doesn't think it's too much, how does that sell in pennsylvania? >> bill, there is no question, a significant industry and a lot of people are employed there and i think what joe biden has said, i think he's been very consistent from day one despite what the president's campaign has said, he's a very consiste consistent, though supporting our state for gas extraction and

number two, he's also going to make sure to protect the environment. the people of pennsylvania want to make sure the residents, the governor, any elected officials are making sure that you have clean water, drinking water, you're not compromising the environment. a constitutional mandate, also protecting the water supply so i think joe biden, his position as well, would be very consistent. >> bill: senator, we've got her around, thank you for your time, thanks for hanging out. bob casey hanging out with us today. we will talk to you very soon. we heard from the president moments ago, joe biden will speak in a moment in minnesota. also this week, a tale of two town halls. all voters and the media treated president trump and then joe biden into five separate events. ari fleischer reacts on that

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>> welcome home, mr. biden. >> do i call you joseph or joe? >> why did you throw vulnerable people like me under the bus? >> i married a philly girl. >> i'd like to ask regarding your recent comments about our united states soldiers, referring to them as "suckers." >> i'm looking at you. >> up tale two town halls, joe biden would seem to be an overly friendly territory, abc used a more aggressive approach earlier in the week. >> vice president penceari fleio

you. politico summarized it this way, talking about cnn's kid gloves town hall. on thursday they practically gave biden a hero's welcome in scranton p.a. >> absolutely. home game on cnn and away game on abc. i'm used to dealing with reporters, when george stephanopoulos and abc that is what everybody used to do in politics, give somebody running for president a hard time, to ask them tough, challenging questions. what cnn did, they had 16 questioners, 13 democrats, cnn picks them. they ask what party they are, they ask the question is going to be. this was terrible journalism by cnn.

>> bill: in the tank-ism, i had not heard that term before. i think in manhattan, it's largely democrat, if you come to the city you'll find out to be the case. i heard the president a moment ago, talk about mail-in ballots on the way some states are handling it. from my perspective, the strongest language yet, i had heard from him regarding the issue, 46-some odd days, dangerous or not, how do we handle this from your? >> two things, we know from history that mail-in voting is three times more likely, there is a lot of room for human error, always has been. there will be worse in 2020. new people will be engaged in mail-in voting. but this is what the president goes too far and uses hyperbolic language. it is not fraud it, it is not a

regular election and it is not a scam, it is human errors that are going to result in more than 1 million votes in 2020 being legitimately thrown out because voters didn't sign their absentee ballot, they sent it into late and this can lead to chaos. democrat lawyers in close election say count every vote, the ones that violated the rules but that is not a scam and that is not fraud. it is compounding of human errors that can result in our democracy. the president uses the wrong words buddies onto the right contention. >> bill: he draws the distinction between absentee ballots and unsolicited ballots, do you think that's a definition that can be understood? >> yeah, i think most people can relate to that, versus getting an actual live ballot in the mail, and the truth here, bell,

is there are states like washington state that have been doing this for more than a decade that a very good at mailing unsolicited ballots to everybody. their mail in lists are routinely maintained so they don't go to many people versus a new state like nevada who's going to try to do something they haven't done before, when they did it in the primary they sent ballots to all registered voters, they think they've got a process design now for the general election that's better but nobody knows. that's a distinction and that's where we can be in trouble. >> bill: thanks, hope you have a great weekend, thanks for hanging out with us today. ari fleischer. princeton university facing federal investigation after acknowledging its history of racism. what sparked the investigation into the ivy league school? next. ♪ not by me, mate. something's not right. they're calling all the shots. what do you want?

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investigating princeton university after the president of the ivy league school acknowledge the university's history of racism earlier this month. princeton is the third school that has been investigated on race related issues in the past 4 minutes. four months. >> bill, princeton university recently said that racism on campus is a problem, and it wants to eradicate it. the department of education called it "a shocking admission" and is now investigating if they violated antidiscrimination la laws. september 2nd open letter from princeton president to the campus community addressing what he calls "the long, painful, ongoing existence of antiblack racism in america," "racism and the damage that it does persist in princeton sometimes by conscious intention but more often through unexamined intentions, insensitivity and the systematic legacy of past

decisions and policies. the department of education notified princeton's president that by acknowledging racism at the school, the university might have broken the law, including the 1964 civil rights act of that prohibits racism. since 2013, princeton received more than $75 million from washington. a question in the email reads "nondiscrimination and equal opportunity insurances and agreement from 2013 to the present may have been false." princeton then issued a statement, reading in part "it is unfortunate that the department believes that grappling with the current effects of systemic racism runs afoul of the existing law." princeton recently removed the name of the former u.s. president and the school's past

president, woodrow wilson, from the school of public and international studies, citing his racist views. >> bill: more to come on that. thank you. it's almost the weekend. you've earned it, so enjoy it. see you monday. >> neil: all right, thank you bill. right now with 46 days to go to the election, minnesota is front and center today. we expect to hear very shortly from joe biden who is going to be delivering marks in minnesota appear later on, the president will be there as well. this could be a big pickup if donald trump were to somehow get the state. he narrowly lost a four years ago. depending on the poll, it's either close, or is not. again, the last republican to win minnesota was richard nixon back in 1972. it's been the long. so we are