jillian: it is wednesday october 7th and the big day in salt lake city going head the head with kamala harris. we are live in utah with what to expect. >> authorizing total declassification in the rush and clinton, revealing president obama knew about hillary clinton's plan to tie donald trump to russia. joe biden makes an announcement of the number 3 pick. >> "fox and friends first" continues right now.

♪ jillian: love the sun. carley: we have two people in america that will take on the vice presidential debate tonight, we will cover it all morning long. jillian: we will have coverage tonight and tomorrow morning. you are watching "fox and friends first". carley: let's get to it. it is debate day in salt lake city. mike pence and kamala harris will face off of the first and only time before next month's election. jillian: taking unheeded topics like healthcare and covid-19. griff jenkins has what we can expect. >> reporter: here we go. i am outside the perimeter because the secret service is sweeping in, the stadium behind me.

as far as the topics we don't have an official list from moderator susan baines but over 90 minutes, she will try to break it down into 9, 10 minute segments and you can bet the coronavirus, the administration's handling a the president's diagnosis will be front and center, 2020 communications director says pence will defend their handling of the pandemic and try to draw out senator harris on her record. >> kamala harris is to let this moment a cosponsor of bernie sanders's medicare for all bill which outlaws private health insurance for 180 million americans. he will bring that up and try to expose the radical agenda, talk about the fact that joe biden wants to raise taxes on all-americans, they are in the grips of the radical left and the vice president will make it clear. >> reporter: we expect harris to

be prepared. she has been here prepping with pete buttigieg who has been playing the role of mike pence in public appearances yesterday but joe biden on the campaign trail in gettysburg driving a message on covid-19 which we will likely here tonight. >> reporter: it is estimated another 210,000 americans could lose their lives by the end of the year. the end of politics and follow the science. wearing a mask, wearing a mask is not a political statement. >> reporter: things looking good tonight, the candidates will be separated by plexiglas for the first time, seated 12 feet apart, no handshake, no mask wearing, farther apart to provide a negative covid-19 tests, tune into special coverage with brett and martha. another note of the realities on

the campaign trail, every member in the perimeter will have to wear a green bracelet that proves you as well have tested negative for the coronavirus which will be an interesting night and much-anticipated vice presidential debate. jillian: you look great in that green, fabulous, it is your color. former florida attorney general pam bondi worked with kamala harris and says mike pence is in for a challenge but this will be able to handle it. >> the vice president does not need prepping. he has lived this on the job for 3 and a half years. he is a wealth of knowledge and experience and he is going to do great. the vice president is very prepared. an interesting dynamic. i know kamala harris, we were prosecutors, we were both

attorneys general together. she is smart, very driven and she is going to be a tough debater because she is a prosecutor and mike pence is going to hold his own. he will do a great job and he didn't even need debate prep. jillian: steve cortez will join us later with mike pence's prep and his predictions for the debate. now fox news alert, donald trump authorizes declassification of all russia collusion and hillary clinton probe documents. carley: new documents show top officials believe former president obama on clinton's alleged plan to tie candidate trump to russia as a distraction. marianne rafferty breaks it down.

>> reporter: donald trump is ready to reveal everything related to surveillance of the campaign in 2016, the president tweeting i am fully authorized total declassification of any and all documents pertaining to the single greatest political crime in american history, russia hoax. likewise the hillary clinton email scandal, no redactions. william barr, the authority to declassify those documents in may of 2019 also ordering the intelligence community to cooperate. new information on exactly what went down in 2016 is coming to light, notes written by former cia director john brennan after he agreed to then president obama's summarized part, quote, alleged proof by hillary clinton of a proposal for whatever foreign-policy advisors to vilify donald trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the russian security service. brennan calling the release of the documents a political move. >> it is appalling, selective

declassification of information that is designed to advance political interests of donald trump and republicans who are aligned with him. if in fact what the russians were alleging that hillary was trying to highlight connections between trump and the russians. if that was accurate and that is a big if, there is nothing at all illegal about that. >> reporter: another cia memo sent to james comey and former agent peter peter stzrok says clinton's plan was distracting the public from her use of a private email server. the trump camp wants to know what joe biden new and when he knew it. we will hear from former federal prosecutor brett tolman on what the applications might be of this massive document reveal. jillian: so many questions, appreciate it. cofounder of the federalist sean davis wrote about declassified

notes and laid out the ramifications for tucker carlson. >> the cia director knew it, the president of the united states was briefed on it in the oval office and the russians knew it and it is important because as the fbi was pretending to look into whether trump was colluding with the russians our own intelligence services knew that russia was aware of clinton's plans and able and perhaps likely to start injecting disinformation of their own into her entire process which is what happened, these people used it to cast doubt on our election. they talk about the integrity of our democracy and after trump was inaugurated they hijacked the presidency and if nobody is made to pay for this, if nobody goes to prison it will happen again. jillian: the ominous warning coming days after james comey

testified on operation crossfire hurricane. when confronted with the cia memo comey says it doesn't amount. the st. louis couple who defended their home during a protest speaking out after being indicted by a grand jury. they are facing charges of unlawful use of a weapon and evidence tampering for the june incident, the charges are politically motivated. >> if you have the audacity to try to protect your self, exercise your second amendment rights, that is an unforgivable crime to the left because you're supposed to have my disobedience, you're not supposed to challenge them. jillian: the indictment comes after the city chancellor dropped drug trafficking charges against 9 protesters, they are scheduled to appear in court next week. jillian: hurricane delta closing in in cancun. the category 3 storm is expected to make landfall bringing

life-threatening storm surge, thousands of tourists and residents evacuated the resort area. the gulf coast bracing for impact later this week putting residents in louisiana, mississippi and alabama on high alert. overnight, donald trump calling on congress to send a stand-alone bill for a new round of stimulus checks, the president tweeting he's ready to sign hours after ending talks on a new covid-19 relief bill. he blames the decision on house speaker nancy pelosi accusing her of not negotiating in good faith. talks will resume after the election promising to pass a major stimulus bill, quote, immediately after i win. 10 minutes after the hour, tonight's debate is the best opportunity for the american people to decide the vp candidates, ted harvey compares and contrasts records on faith, law and order and the second amendment. jillian: a shoeless trakstar with serious, we've got that coming up.

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jillian: before the vice presidential candidate take the debate stage we are taking a closer look at their positions on key issues. carley: ted harvey joins us to break down their records. we are both glad you are talking about it. mike pence is a very religious person, pro-life. let's talk about his faith. >> i'm a christian, conservative, and republican. people of faith have led us toward a more perfect union. >> kamala harris, i want to point out something she said to

brett kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing, since 1993 you've been a member of the knights of columbus, all-male society, composed primarily of catholic men. were you where the knights of columbus oppose a woman's right to choose when you joined that organization. when i was going to church as a kid, it was part of my church as well, how do they stand on the topic of religion? >> it is an important question because she did go after brett kavanaugh going through the nomination process. their membership to the knights of columbus and the democrats have a problem going into this for judge barrett because she is a very devout catholic, questioning her about her faith without saying catholics are bad and this is the party that jfk is the one that broke that barrier to say catholics should be allowed to be involved in government and democrats are

saying they shouldn't be because they are pro-life, the majority of americans are going to look, it is a horrible thing, pence is a devout christian and kamala harris has a questionable record when it comes to going after people of faith, specifically catholics because of their strong positions on abortion, people fight against that. jillian: since the death of george lloyd there's been a lot of conversation about police reform, where both parties and candidates stand on this. let's listen to what they have to say. >> we got to re-examine will be or do with american taxpayer dollars, creating healthy and safe communities.

>> we don't have to choose between supporting law enforcement and standing with our african-american neighbors, to improve the quality of their lives. >> what will we hear tonight? >> i hope mike pence calls out kamala harris because of her radical position on this. he does support defunding the police, she tweeted out a fundraising effort to bailout the looters and the rioters in california. before she was nominee for the vice presidency, she has a radical position when it comes to law and order and you compare that to the president's position this is one of the most important issues in the november election, do you support law and order or do you support these radical leftists that have taken over the inner cities of america

and kamala harris should be called out. jillian: what about the second amendment, if biden harris when what happens to gun rights? >> kamala harris has taken a radical position on gun rights, she says she is not going to require mandatory buyback, but she will require you to participate in a buyback, is it a mandatory buyback or voluntary buyback? she has radical positions on the second amendment and we know where the current administration is on the second amendment, they've been strong in defending a person's right to self defense. jillian: thanks for joining us, we appreciate it. carley: it is 18 after the hour. covid-19 a big concern ahead of tonight's big debate after donald trump tested positive. doctor manny alvarez on the pandemic precautions. designed to offer maximum

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>> mike pence's position, no symptoms of covid-19 that tonight's debate he will still be separated from kamala harris with plexiglas and 12 feet of space between the two. doctor manny alvarez joined me with more. >> good morning. same day. jillian: the debate will look different from any we've seen

before because of the big separation between them and plexiglas as well. do you think these precautions are necessary? >> i think in the face of all the outbreaks we have had it is prudent to take a little extra space and conduct the debate. it doesn't hurt, if you take an approach, more conservative distance, what will happen post debate, i got exposed and this argument comes forward, it is a logical step to take. carley: you can test negative ones and the next day test positive. should we still have that concern or has enough time past the we know he wasn't exposed?

>> it is safe to say he was not exposed, it is more intense, on a more frequent basis which is a strong definitive test and the absence of the fibrous. i'm sure his protocol was different than the routine protocol being used before. carley: doctors say he's not totally out of the woods yet but he posted a tweet saying he feels great. where does he stands right now? >> he is out of the road now from the point of view that if you look at the data and

symptoms and what i call the bomb that he got, which was magnificent and good choice by his medical team of the antiviral and antibody therapy and monitoring his viral loads, a fast recovery, on fox news, to me the next 72 hours it is very important and they turn out to be a good sign because they were able to leave the hospital, big step to him and not sure. carley: we are glad to hear that. he's looking forward to the debate on october 15th so he's ready to go. thank you for joining us.

jillian: a new poll shows the economy the number one issue. the far left tax agenda is the biggest threat to the financial well-being. the author of the liberal invasion joins us live next.

>> reporter: the economy will be a hot button issue of the presidential debate and with nearly 9 in 10 voters, the economy is very important to their vote, how can they expect candidates to drive home their message? young americans for liberty analyst, thanks for being here. what mrs. will they need to send particularly mike pence? >> mike pence need to hammer the we are in the middle of a pandemic and economic slump and biden and harris wants to raise taxes on working americans by $4 trillion, the radical left biden and harris want to stifle the energy economy that has created thousands of jobs, encouraged more devastating economic lockdowns, voiced support for $1 trillion green

new deal boondoggle, universal healthcare, government control of every aspect of the economy. mike pence needs to challenge harris on her economic plan, stifle the economy, heard jobs, kill american dreams, aspirations and entrepreneurial spirit, won't be easy for pence but he has got to at least try. kamala harris, not part of this, to appeal to bolstering her party. jillian: let's look at these numbers, the question is who would handle the economy better? as you can see, 49%, something else to show you, the state of the economy, 11.4 million jobs covered. how important do you think it is for the vice president to say

look at the economy, look at where we were, we will be able to rebound and get back on track. >> that is what pence needs to highlight. we don't have enough people to fill available jobs, record low unemployment for hispanic americans, black americans, records were being broken for women in the workplace, the trump administration has a lot to brag about and a lot of the economic slump is due to unending lockdowns in states run by democrat mayors so pence needs to highlight that as well. carley: a new poll so strong voter enthusiasm for the 2020 election ahead of levels from 2012-2016. if you look at this, and 8 million votes have been cast compared to the 75 million at this time in 2016, on one hand it shows people are excited to

make their vote count this year. on the other hand a lot of conversation has been surrounding should we have the debate earlier? the amount of people who already voted is incredible to see. >> the largest driver of this enthusiasm is donald trump, democrats are not turning out to vote for joe biden, they are turning out to vote against donald trump, trump supporters love him, there is something else going on, the two parties have never been more separated in modern political history than they are now. beliefs and values practically two tribes living on the plot of land called america. it is about more than trump or biden. it is about what it means to be an american with the future at a

crossroads, people are passionate about their ideas and wants to vote. jillian: passion is a way to put it. it has been interesting so far, thank you for joining us. carley: extreme weather, hurricane delta barreling towards mexico as a category 3 storm, meteorologist janice dean joins us with when delta could hit the gulf coast. what is the latest? >> janice: the storm is impacting the yucatán, mexico area, beautiful beaches come major hurricane. we think the storm will regain a little bit of strength in the gulf of mexico. there is the latest forecast as of the 5 am advisory, category 3 hurricane, 150 mile-per-hour sustained winds, we expect landfall across louisiana yet again, louisiana has been

battered by several storms, a lot of oil platforms, we will see even accusations but preparations have to be completed today because we expect impact thursday night, friday and into saturday. the rainfall forecast, storm surge, threat from hurricane force windss along the coast, not only louisiana, and into the florida panhandle as well. look at all the landfalling tropical systems we have had this year, nine named storms, four hurricanes and many of them hitting louisiana. this is a very vulnerable coastline. worst-case scenario for the state of louisiana. back to you, carly and jillian. jillian: donald from slams mail

in voting as major ballots and registration issues arise in several states, the president tweeting 11,000 north carolina residents get incorrect voter registration forms, voters receive faulty ballots with no way to vote for the president and many others. this will be the most in american history. alex trebek taking a break from hosting jeopardy to help out his favorite hockey team. watch this. >> the third pick in the 2020 nhl draft, the senators choose this player. who is tim starkville? carley: he announced the pick the jeopardy set. he graduated from the university of ottawa, longtime senators fan. the time is 36 after the hour. the president calling off

coronavirus relief talks but reviving new stimulus checks. foxbusiness's cheryl casone, and an incredibly difficult seat. next.

jillian: donald trump calling on congress to center the stand-alone bill of a new round of stimulus checks hours after pausing relief talks. cheryl casone has more on the similar showdown. >> reporter: a tweet from the president ending stocks down in the afternoon, the doubt, the s&p and the nasdaq posting losses after he ended talks with another round of stimulus. overnight, the president tweeted this.

if it is a stand-alone bill for stimulus checks, 1200 they will go out to our great people immediately. i'm ready to sign right now, are you listening, nancy? congress to approve $25 billion for the airline industry and $135 million to help small businesses. right now looking at futures, up by 175 in the premarket, the s&p up 18, nasdaq by 59 and those stocks trending higher in the premarket. it will be another interesting day. jillian: good news on the stock front, bad news for some businesses in new york city. >> reporter: protests erupted after governor andrew cuomo unveiled across the cluster initiative that will shutdown businesses, schools and houses of worship in covid-19 hotspots. >> this is about saving a life. that is what this is.

no large gatherings in synagogues, look at what the infection rate is, those clusters, people will die in those clusters. >> cuomo's plan replaces this plan that bill diblasio initially proposed, a lot of confusion around here, assemblyman doug highcan react that. >> what happened to enforcement? those not obeying the rules, find them. arrest them. why penalize everyone when most people are doing the right thing? >> these red areas will get fully locked down again similar to the spring, this is queens, this is brooklyn. a lot of anger out there. jillian: i don't know how you spot that without another round of ppp coming. >> reporter: go to the next neighborhood. that was the criticism.

you are in another zip code. jillian: a member of the zac brown band turning his talents toward fighting covid-19. inventing a lightweight face shield after the tour was canceled. he wanted the audience members to see his face when performing and hopes he can get hands back on stage. carley: a college trakstar lighting up social media with his video showing him leaping over massive hurdles. emmanuel wells junior, clearing a 5 foot hurdle, posting the training video with the caption 61 inches as promised. jillian: 17 after the top of the hour. former federal prosecutor brett tolman on the the classified russia probe and hillary clinton

email documents but first let's check with steve doocy for what is coming up on "fox and friends". >> how many hurdles could they get up? 0. >> those were the days. i would need five and phil. good morning. coming up on wednesday telecast the latest on the president's health from chief of staff mark meadows who has been at his time the entire time. donald trump junior and a preview of tonight's vice presidential debate, how will mike pence fair against kamala harris. scott walker helped mister pence prepare in 2016, pretty good idea. also on deck, senator tom cotten asking about newly declassified documents and florida lieutenant governor jeanette nunez and the

show of support for law enforcement in new york, thousands turning out for back the blue rally. we talked to one of the event organizers why they need sports now more than ever. we will kick off "fox and friends" in 15 minutes and hope you will be with us.

jillian: donald trump authorizing declassification of all russia collusion related document as new notes show former president obama was briefed on the alleged plan for the president to tie donald trump to russia. attorney and former federalist prosecutor brett tolman, we know that john brennan briefed

president obama about the plan to tie donald trump to russia. what should we be taking from that and how the russia investigation got started? >> this is the chapter we didn't see coming, the fact that the opposing candidate in the election was orchestrating an attempt to bring down a soon to be sitting president of the united states through an effort that the intelligence committee knew about and that we needed to know as a public but only know now because someone is willing to release classified documents. jillian: john brennan spoke yesterday on tv and said this is a political move. let's take a listen. >> it is appalling, selective declassification of information designed to advance the political interests of donald

trump and republicans who are aligned with him. jillian: do you agree? ratcliff is a friend of yours and this should have been done all along, what do you say to him? >> they are afraid of the declassification effort by john ratcliff. john is a good friend and an honorable man. i know having worked with him, having observed is decision-making over the years, someone who is not going to mess around, doesn't care politically. what he cares about is the american people getting to the bottom of what happened. the argument that this is elective political releasing of documents, this is the releasing of documents that show what was behind a massive effort to take down a sitting president, that the opposition didn't like. that should concern all of us. it is tremendous, i hope he continues to do so. jillian: a bunch of documents

will be declassified on hillary clinton's email scandal. what else could be in them that could get folks into trouble or clear people's names? >> we will see as a public people in positions of power hire up in the executive branch, in the intelligence community, selectively attempting to orchestrate an effort to bring down donald trump and his white house and this is why jim comey, in congress, whether or not he recalls a referral from the intelligence community about

hillary clinton and the team, indicating it doesn't ring a bell. it tells us where we were, at the executive branch and the president is doing everything he can to expose it. jillian: it like with a lot of people, thank you for your insights, appreciate you joining us. the time is 52 after the hour. tonight is the first and only vice presidential debate. senior strategy advisor steve cortez joins us next. - [narrator] the shark vacmop combines powerful suction ♪ walk this way ris ris and absorb wet messes, all in one disposable pad. just vacuum, spray mop, and toss. the shark vacmop, a complete clean all in one disposable pad.

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♪ carley: everyone is talking about the vice presidential showdown now just hours away. so what can we expect from senator kamala harris and vice president mike pence. jillian: trump campaign senior adviser steve cortes very familiar with debate prep and he joins us now. good to see you. i don't think anyone has said he isn't ready for this but what has he been doing to prep? what can you tell us? >> right. obviously i'm not at liberty to divulge any of the tactics that he might be deploying. jillian: oh, come on, you can. >> just between us? is it just between us? listen, of course he is very well prepared for this debate. by the way the main preparation of course is being vice president of a united states. being a governor and legislator

on capitol hill. his life has been largely preparation for this. this will be a fascinating debate and i say this even if i can for a moment take off my campaign hat just as an american as somebody who is interested in policy. you are going to have in mike pence from for instance his ledges layive career he earned 99% american union score out of 100. meaning he is one of the most conservative members of congress when he was on the hill. on the other hand, kamala harris, according to gov track which is an independent organization that does statistical modeling of legislators according to them 2019 she was the most liberal member of the united states senate. she was to the left of elizabeth warren and even bernie sanders. so you have a stark contrast here. you have a wide catch ideologically between these two folks and i think that will make for a compelling policy debate and hopefully great tv on top of it. >> yeah. no doubt that's going to come up during the debate. something for sure to come up, kamala harris is going to try to say that the trump administration did a bad job in handling the coronavirus with

over 200,000 people dead. how is the vice president going to respond to that criticism as the leader of the coronavirus task force? >> sure. well, and because of that leadership role, of course, she has incredible commands of the actual facts regarding how the administration handled coronavirus. i believe what he will primarily focus on is the fact that the government took thing trump administration took this virus incredibly early before other people did. instituting the travel ban first against china and later against europe. both of which were extremely unpopular at the time they were attacked by biden as xenophobia. they were the right moves to makes a verified by health officials including dr. fauci. he will also talk about in detail, vice president pence will, about the program of the federal government that the largest government mandate you had manufacturing campaign since world war ii. and what i mean by that specifically is the production on a mass scale with incredible swiftness of ppe, therapeutics,

testing capability as well as overflow hospital capacity. so the federal government responded massively and skillfully to manage this virus. now, obviously there is far too much death in this country and in this world but that is not remotely the fault of vice president pence or any american for that matter. it's only the fault of the chinese communist party. jillian: two part question here how is the president doing this morning and also does his messaging change about coronavirus as we go forward in these debates and as we approach the election now that he has experienced it firsthand? >> >> well, i think in terms of messaging, first of all he is doing great and that was evidenced by his tweets if you noticed he is back to being his same old pugnaciousself fighting for the american people he showed his spirit in overcoming his virus not overcoming but recouping as strong as he had. as far as his messaging a new thawntd when he speaks to essential workers out there.

i know what you are going to the president is an essential worker. he knew he had to take risks he did. he couldn't be the leader of the american people without being with the people. jillian: steve cortes thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. carley: fox and friends starts right now. ♪ ♪ cannon ball ♪ steve: welcome aboard, everybody. it's october 27th, 27 days before the election. you are listening to eddie van halen singing one of their biggest songs panama. they sold 80 million albums. it was announced yesterday that eddie van halen died of cancer at the age of 65. you know, once upon a time, i think a couple of years ago he told tmz he thought he developed mouth cancer after keeping a metal guitar pick in his mou