don't know that senator graham worked as hard. he didn't think he would have the same race. >> dana: thanks, bruce. lots to think about over the weekend. thanks everyone for joining us. i'm dana perino. i'll see you on "the five" on friday. >> bill: you're going to live in my head all weekend, dana. >> dana: i'll try to be quiet. >> bill: right on. thanks, dana. have a great time. a good friday afternoon, everyone. you almost made it. i'm bill hemmer. good day to you. our reporting begins in the great american west where joe biden is making a push for nevada. he's campaigning in las vegas. wrapping up a speech a moment ago. president trump lost that race two points four years ago. his team thinks it's possible again this time around. up employment is above 15% there due to covid. the clock is ticking on a recovery. the president says he's recovering from covid. he spoke directly to his base in a wide-ranging radio town hall

today with rush limbaugh. here's a sample of that. >> i feel better now than two weeks ago. i recovered immediately. i might not have recovered at all. i'm just saying that we so something that will cure this now. a cure. without us, without trump administration, this wouldn't have happened. we poured money into these cures and into the vaccines. >> bill: there's a lot in that interview. we'll get to that. he wants to hit the campaign trail this weekend. reaction from the white house coms director. first, live in sin city with peter doocy. good afternoon, peter. >> good afternoon, bill. you can see the biden motorcade parked behind me where he just walked in. he was greeted by a a few cheering supporters and a mariachi band.

at headquarters, staffers do not seem eager to revive that second debate that president trump doesn't want to do if it's virtual. >> clearly doesn't want to have to face voters, he doesn't want to answer questions about his handling of covid or the economy so he's trying to rewrite the rules. we're not going to allow that. we agreed to three debates. joe biden is eager to talk to voters. >> the head of the commission for presidential debates which decided to force the second dewait into a virtual format told brian kilmeade today that camera men and lighting people were very unset. they're concerned about their family's health since they could have been exposed to covid-19. the president might pass on virtual debates. he said that virtual rallies are a-okay. he ran one with rush limbaugh that ran two hours from here. biden will go in for a drive-in

rally. we think he will exit here and we'll try to get a question if we get it. >> bill: thanks, peter. we can hold for that. looking. i don't see it. let's have a look. there's outs moving around. they're at the suburbans. let's see. bill, do you have anything you'd like me to get on the board with? >> bill: no. just want to know -- perhaps we can find out about what happens with the fate of the u.s. supreme court if he's president third week in january. >> yeah, we can try to do that. again, he did something else very uncommon today for the covid campaign trail. he did a photo line behind closed doors. we don't flow what that looked like. he stayed in the hotel last night in arizona just to make it a shorter trip back out here.

it did look like they were about done, bill, so. >> bill: i'll give you some relief. where does he go next, peter? >> so he's going to go to another community center or technical training facility here in las vegas and then fly back home. he will stay in his bed this evening in delaware. tomorrow he'll have an event in erie, pennsylvania. we don't know what the format is of that yet. it is, again, his trip out west, first one in awhile for arizona and nevada. he's going back to pennsylvania by far the state that he's spent the most time in other than delaware since the pandemic lockdown began. bill? >> bill: you think he's watching us? >> you know, somebody might be. again, they got places to be. can't be that much longer. >> bill: thank you, peter. we gave it a shot. thanks. back to that in a moment.

to the white house. thanks for your time. i was listening to the president a moment ago. he sounded good. give us the state of his health at this hour. >> yeah, absolutely. thanks for having me on, bill. the president is doing great. your viewers know, he conducted a nearly two-hour interview with rush limbaugh answering tough questions for the millions listening. he's feeling great. he's eager to get back out on the road safely once he's cleared by doctors. i mean, i can't think of a starter contrast of two candidates that even while sick with covid, the president has boundless energy and taking questions and being as transparent as possible. the fact that we don't have basic answers on policy from the joe biden campaign. >> bill: talk about transparency. will you tell the american people about positive and negative testing? >> we're being forward-looking. we'll give an update when the

president tests negative and cleared by his presidential team to go back out and interact with constituents. for medical reasons, we're not revealing specifics of his medical treatment prior. we'll let the public know when he's been cleared. >> bill: i'm not a doctor. is he negative now, can you say? >> i don't have that information. i'll get you an update when i do. >> bill: is it possible or not? >> he's close to the period that he could be done shutting virus. he has high energy, he's going, mentally sharp. he has more energy than i do and i'm significantly younger than he is. he's doing great. whether he's still shedding virus is a question to the doctors. >> bill: will he have a rally this weekend? >> no updates at this time. what i can tell you is the american people will be continue to be hearing from him. whether it's through earned media like his phone interview with rush limbaugh. he's sitting down with one of

your fox correspondents shortly. he will be answering questions and visible to the public. >> bill: so pennsylvania and florida on saturday is -- that's not confirmed now then. >> nothing is confirmed at this time. >> bill: what about the concern the campaign has for the possibility of only getting back on stage one time before the american people vote? >> well, just speaking from the white house perspective, we think it's incredibly important that we draw out the true policies distinction between what this president has accomplished in four years and what his opponent has failed to accomplish in 47 years. the best way to do that is to have both of them live on stage together. it's not the same. you know this, to do a zoom interview where you can pass notes be i staff, read off of the script. it is what the the american people and our democratic republic deserve, to have them both on stage answering tough questions. >> bill: joe biden will be on stage thursday. he's going to do a town hall on abc. is there a possibility of counter programming that same

night? >> i think you can anticipate counter programming. >> bill: more than a rally? >> nothing to announce at this time. >> bill: thanks, alissa. appreciate it. we have breaking news on this big storm. hurricane delta buries down on the louisiana southwest coast. could have life threatening storm surge. an area still recovering from hurricane laura. it whipped up buildings and flooded roads. people getting ready for what could be another round of destruction. phil keating is on the ground there in jennings, louisiana. a city in the cross hairs. how does it look now, phil? >> it's been heavy rain the last couple hours. it's been raining all day. really picked up. you can see down the streets the wind blowing all the rain around. you know, a lot of the businesses here in downtown, which is a ghost town, mandatory evacuation in effort for

jefferson davis parrish. they've boarded up. a lot of damage in this town from six weeks ago from hurricane laura, which was a category four. that really raised lake charles. the federal and state government says they are prepared. fema released these photos today. a couple of things on standby. big convoys of 18 wheelers as well as a bunch of boats. in total, they have 1.6 million meals ready to eat, ready to distribute. they also have 1.5 million liters of water available to distribute as well as 40,000 of those big blue tarps to cover a roof when it gets ripped off. a bunch of high profile vehicles. 115 of them so that, you know,

they can get through flood waters. that is what is expected right now. it's going to be a lot of heavy wind increasing by the hour tonight, hurricane force. a huge age that will be tropical force winds. remember, even though hurricane delta is now 110 miles an hour from the peak of 120 miles an hour to now technically it's a category two. well, that's one mile an hour shy of being a category three. this is the kind of storm that will and can cause extensive damage. a lot of people evacuated this town. so if you didn't evacuate by now because the wind and rain has been steadily increasing all day, basically hunkering down at your house. that's the latest. everybody is waiting. >> bill: a remarkable thing. three storms in the same spot in six weeks.

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>> bill: a few moments ago peter doocy in las vegas got a chance to shout a question at the former vice president. here's how that went. >> mr. vice president, is the second debate totally dead?

>> bill: can't hear through a mask. can't read sign language. looked to me like it was up in the air. second debate was supposed to be thursday. that's not going to happen. there's another debate following that october 22 scheduled for nashville, tennessee. we'll see how the negotiating goes between the commission that runs the debates and the two candidates themselves. that's peter doocy. want to deliver that to you. here's the house speaker a few hours ago on the hill. >> the 25th amendment creates a path for preserving stability if a president suffers a crippling physical or mental problem and is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office and trapsfers his powers. >> bill: that's nancy pelosi for that announcement, a bill that would create a commission to

strip the president of powers if they're not fit to serve. andy mccarthy, you wrote a piece today. speaker pelosi revs up the 25th amendment. the president is covid positive. we believe as we speak now he's still positive. we have not been told he's negative just yet. is this move necessary today, andy? >> it was unnecessary, bill and i think it was really unwise. because i think it was done for political purposes. legally it's a nonstarter because the president has an illness. he doesn't have a disability in the sense of the 25th amendment, which is narrowly tailored for medical incapacity of the kind that woodrow wilson had in 1919 when he suffered a stroke. that's what this is addressed to. so the situation doesn't apply.

no chance of enacting what he's talking about. you would need the vice president committee to join. the senate would entertain the legislation. the president would never sign it. it doesn't apply to this situation. >> bill: so why do you do it today, andy? >> i think what she wanted to do is take a jab at president trump. you know, underscore -- she's been very loud about his, as she has it, his recklessness and irresponsibility. i think the foolishness here is she didn't do this for four years and now she jumps in at a point that arguably joe biden is favored to win the presidency. the way it's now being spun and i don't think she anticipated this is that she's laying the ground work to remove biden so that kamala harris could become president. i don't think that was her intention but that's the way the

narrative bounces. >> bill: another topic here. bill barr says the durham report wouldn't be out before the election. does that surprise you, andy? >> that's the reporting from axios, bill. doesn't surprise me because i really have thought all along that if they weren't able to get something out by the latest mid summer, that this starts to look political. i think they put in a lot of hard work on this. they don't want it to be dismissed as a political stunt rather than a good faith investigation. >> bill: does the -- andy, does the law take this long to work? >> it can in a very complicated case, bill, particularly where there's no obvious crime. i think durham got unlucky. when covid hit, the grand jury shut down. you couldn't travel to see witnesses. interviewing a witnesses if you're a prosecutor you can't do over zoom. you have to get in the room,

look them in the eye, show them documents. he just got unlucky with what happened here. >> bill: thanks, andy, for your input. we'll speak soon. want to follow up on the peter doocy report. i got the transcript through the mask. he asked the vice president is the second debate totally dead. he said i think so and then went to inaudible. keeping an eye on delta. we're in the greek alphabet in the storm season. a cot 2 closing in on louisiana. expected to make landfall. i'm speak with peter gaynor coming up. another economic blow from covid. more from the now darkened lights on broadway. we're at the movies and we need to silence our phone. who knows where that button is? i don't have silent. everyone does -- right up here. it happens to all of us. we buy a new home, and we turn into our parents.

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>> i would ask everyone to continue to pray for the best outcome as we prepare for the worst. the weather event is impacting our communities and our people as we speak. >> bill: louisiana governor edwards bracing for another storm. delta is expected to make landfall soon. hundreds are standing by for him. pet peter gaynor is here with us. how does delta look for you so far? let's start there. >> right now drop force winds, hurricane force winds coming ashore. probably make landfall in a couple hours. the time for preparation is done. what we ask is to make sure that people tune in to the local officials, heed the direction and warnings that they gave. wait for the all clear before

coming out. you don't want yourself at risk and you don't want first responders at risk unnecessarily. >> bill: no doubt about it. three storms in the same spot in six weeks. how do you manage that? >> this is a historic year in many ways to include hurricane season. the positive side is fema has been in louisiana for almost two months now to include the pandemic with sally. so we have plenty of assets, people, material, supplies. i have 1,500 fema employees in the local area. we're ready to go as soon as it's clear and all over again. >> bill: wow. anything you need? do you have what you're looking for right now? >> i think we have everything we need. i talked to the president today, talked to secretary wolf about what we were doing to make sure we had everything we need. i have great partners out there. had a meeting with the chef of the u.s. army corps of

engineers, general spellman. we are ready to go. >> bill: how did the president sound today? >> he sounded good. >> bill: what did he tell you? >> he wanted to know about the storm, the forecast, if with were ready and said you guys have had plenty of practice this year. go get it. >> bill: no doubt about it. indeed you have. sir, as you wait for this thing to come on land and pushes inshore, are you looking at baton rouge, lafayette, arkansas, tennessee? where do you see the storm going next after making landfall? >> yeah, it's going to plow through louisiana. you'll get tropical force winds in baton rouge. trees down, power outages. it will go there arkansas and northwest mississippi and then we'll turn it into a depression after that. just because you're not on the coast, you're going to take the storm seriously.

if you're inland, there's wind and flooding. so just stay tuned. make sure you listen to what your local officials are telling you. >> bill: no do you live about that. refresh my memory. the last time we went to the greek alphabet for hurricane names. >> 2005. we need two more hurricanes to break the record. i'm okay at delta if you want to know. >> bill: i hope we can stop there as well. thanks, peter. best to your men and women. >> thank you. >> bill: good luck. in a moment, hear the moderators for the next presidential debate. steve skully says his twitter feed has been hacked. this is biden and trump debate over the next debate. chris wallace is here on that. the battle over the control of the u.s. senate. the latest on lindsey graham's fight to keep his seat. these are real people, not actors, who've got their eczema under control.

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the hour headlines. the world continues to grapple with covid. new cases in a single day since august. johns hopkins university reported 56,000 testing positive yesterday and the total deaths reach 213,000. in spain, there's a state of emergency in madrid. the order lasts about two weeks. madrid is one of europe's coronavirus hotspots at the moment. the lights will stay dark on broadway until at least may of 2021. the broadway league said they're suspending ticket sales and performances till may. more questions today about widespread mail-in voting after 50,000 voters in ohio received incorrect ballots in the mail congress the franklin county elections board. that is columbus now. franklin county, ohio. a key battleground state.

a lot of votes there. officials say new ballots will now go out. the president tweeting about it calling it a rigged election. want to bring in chris wallace. he moderated debate number one. good afternoon to you. these stories pop up every day in a different part of the country. what are we to make as we follow this ping-pong and this bouncing ball on? new ballots and bad bottle lots in various states. >> well, look, obviously the system is going to be stressed. there were about 33 million mail-in votes, absentee and mail-in votes in the 2016 election. we'll get double that. 60 to 70 million. the only thing i say about this particular case, they found it and they fixed it. so you know -- it's like king -- i remember as a kid reading ant

king kanut that would tell the waves to stop rolling in. they won't stop rolling in. we'll get tens of millions of ballots and we have to do everything to make sure they're accurate and that they're counted and we get a fair and legitimate election. >> bill: meantime, we're going to the board. >> that's my lesson about king kanut today. >> bill: i like it. share it can your kids. we'll show you how many people are voting early here. there's this dust-up a that happened again today among the man who is supposed to moderate debate number 2, steve skully. he sent out this tweet. i went to anthony scarramuci. it's since been deleted. he said he's been hacked. moments ago the reports that back in 2012 and 2013, that skully reported he had been

hacked in both of those years. i don't know, was it a hack? are they direct messages? was it filed incorrectly? what do you believe the state of the play right now for the debate commission that is on some level fighting for credibility? >> well, all i know is what i'm told. i can't go in and -- i'm not even on twitter. so i don't even fully understand it. i have the say, one more good reason not to be on twitter, what happened today. steve skully is an honorable man, a fair reporter. he says and the commission says that he was hacked, that -- by hacked, i don't mean like john podesta where he was hacked and they dredged out e-mails that he sent. skully says he never sent this e-mail. somebody else using his

accounting getting into his account sent it for him or sent it using his name. and until it's contradicted, i'm going to believe steve skully. he has a very good reputation in this business. i find it hard to believe that he would be lying about this. in addition to which, i should say, skully in addition says he has no relationship with scarramuci. >> bill: did you see the clip with peter doocy earlier? he was asking about the second debate. joe biden said he doesn't think it will happen. clearly it's not going to happen right now. there still could be a third debate. move the second debate, whether you can get this in the next three weeks. how do you believe it playing out? bowden is doing a town hall on abc. we thought we would be watching the two men in miami on the same

night. >> well, i think the debate on the 15th is dead. and there's not going to be a debate on the 29th. we're talking five days before an election. there's not a chance in the world the biden camp will agree to that. the biden camp has been straightforward in this whole thing. they said there's three debates that were set forward for the president and he to be together. mine on september 29th, the 15th and the 22nd. the president made a big mistake when he pulled out of the second debate when it was made a virtual debate. you know, the man that wrote the art of the deal should understand, you can only negotiate when you have leverage. he has no leverage because he's behind in the polls right now. yes, i understand why he would prefer an in-person debate but a virtual debate is better than no debate. that's what he's going to end up

with on the 15th. there probably will be one more on the 22nd as the commission said. >> bill: and more than 20 million americans watched wednesday's debate and more people were getting more about the bernie-biden agenda for the first time. what she's going after there, whether or not mike pence fired a few shots at kamala harris and the agenda. how did you see this debate while you watched from the comfort of your home this time around? >> yes. well, the studio. yes. i thought pence did a good job. that's one of the other problems with the president so narrowly on thursday morning pulling out of the debate. a lot of republicans that would have been happy to have the story line of what mike pence did thursday night play out a few days. questions about the -- what they call radical left wing agenda of the biden-harris team.

the question that harris refused to answer as biden has refused to answer about whether or not they would pack the court. those are all good questions. >> bill: still are questions. >> and would normally have come out of that debate. they didn't because of the fact that the president said he was president going to hold his debate if it was virtual. >> bill: the thing about the supreme court question, it's not been answered yet. you know from your own experience, chris, the longer you go without answering the question, the bigger the story it becomes. this is a story about the biden campaign. would you not agree? >> absolutely. and i don't think -- what do we have? a little more than three weeks. 25 days until the election. i don't think that biden and harris are going to hold on. look at the answer that biden gave yesterday. he said if i give you my answer, it's going to be the headline. so what is it he's going to say?

i assume -- who would be the headline? you'd think -- if he's says i'm not going to pack the court, it would be a big headline than i'm going to pack the court. it's impossible and frankly i think it would be foolish for biden to try to hold out and refuse to talk about this for 25 days. i understand why he's doing it. if he says he's going to pack the court, that turns off moderate voters. if he says he's not going to pack the court, that turns off people on the left wing. i don't think you can walk this tight rope for three weeks and get away with it. >> bill: thanks, chris. see you sunday. chris wallace there. big interviews sunday. ben sasse from the senate judiciary committee and chris coons also on that committee. check your local listings on fox for chris wallace. judge barrett's confirmation hearings happen monday. we'll have live coverage. i mentioned this. i want to show people how many in-person and absentee ballots

have been cast as of october 8. in 2016, there were 57 million cast. many people expected this number to go way up. could be 80 million or plus. it's anybody's guess. early voting right now is a real thing. i show you the general election here. give you one state right now where we see this becoming prominent. you go to -- let's take the state of wisconsin from 2016. you know how close this race was. the president winning it less than a point. hillary clinton and donald trump, 1.7 million votes cast four years ago. here's the advanced vote in the state of wisconsin to date as of october 9. ballots requested 2.5 million. ballots rounds, 614,000. early voting doesn't start for another week or so in wisconsin. you're at 10% of the total

advanced turnout in wisconsin. for comparison's sake, we'll go back to 2016 and watch how it changes now. up 13, almost 14% from four years ago. so this number and this percentage this year is already at that point. so in wisconsin, this is a real thing and people are voting early and by absentee. so we're watching that. meantime, president trump to host first in-person event since his diagnosis at the white house. the white house will have an event on the lawn tomorrow at the white house. and this is brand new information. so when we were speaking with the communications director this hour, this may have been what she was alluded to. this is important because the president has said he wanted to be in florida and pennsylvania. that does not look like like now. instead those events will be at the white house. stay tuned for me. the president telling congress go big on covid relief, raising his office to $1.8 trillion.

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>> bill: a lot of people are being hurt by china. i would like to see a bigger stimulus package than the democrats or the republicans are offering. >> bill: that's the president with rush limbaugh calling for a bigger stimulus than republicans or democrats. nancy pelosi and treasury secretary steve mnuchin talking over the phone. steve moore is here with us. adviser of president trump in 2016. austan goolsbee is also here. good day to both of you. you're in your respective

corners. steve, are we going to get this thing or do we need this thing? >> depends who hour you ask me. it keeps going back and forth. >> bill: let me ask you this, steve. for the sake of the audience, you study this stuff. do we need more covid relief? if we do, where should it go? >> we don't need another relief pack kiage right now. we have 33% growth. manufacturing is good, consumer confidence. i had a piece in the "wall street journal" pointing out for the $2 trillion that the congress wants to spend, we could eliminate the entire income tax for every corporation in america for a year and it will be cheaper and about five times better for the economy. a waste of money. >> bill: what about the airlines? they say they're going lay off -- >> i'm not in favor of bail it

yos. i hate bail-outs. >> bill: all right. you're on record. austin, what would you do? >> look, the economy does need it. it's dangerously out of touch to have the view when there's 11 million people out of work, we're going to have the worst year gdp growth and millions of families to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of people that have died to be saying no, we don't need it. the economy is good. that just -- that's a different planet. you know, there's life on venus now they say. >> bill: put a number on it. what do you think is the right number? >> well, look, i said from the beginning, if this was between secretary mnuchin and nancy pelosi, i thought the two of them could reach a deal. they're close. the two problems are that there's still mitch mcconnell in the senate who is trying to blow up everything and the president

of the united states is on mind-altering medications and nobody took away his twitter phone. so he has somewhat of a death bed conversion that now he wants the big stimulus. >> bill: let's push that aside. steve, if things don't go your way in early november -- a comment put out about joe biden and his policies he would have with kamala harris. it's putting a stake in the ground that joe biden could be a new deal 2.0 president. 2.0 means what for the american people and their programs? >> what the -- by the way, i'm not minimizing the economic damage that has been done. my point, austin, is the way you get the economy running is get the economy up and running. get the businesses open. we have 12 states around the country like georgia and florida and tennessee and texas that utah and idaho that are open for business. the drains on the economy are the blue states that won't open up. in answer to your question, bill, on the 2.0, they're

talking about a second new deal. people will remember back in the 1930s we had a new deal under franklin roosevelt. there's a methology that was a raging success. the fact is that the unemployment rate was in double digits eight years in the new deal. we don't want one of those episodes. >> bill: austin, what do you get under a biden administration? what does he push for with kamala harris? what if the senate is run by democrats? what comes of that? >> well, i think you saw vice president outline his plan on his website. i think what you get is an investment in public health and in medical care so that when we go through an episode like this where 20 million people lose a job in a month and millions of people lose their healthcare, that that doesn't happen in the middle of a pandemic. i think you get investments in infrastructure and in college afford ability and reducing college debt so you can --

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>> bill: we're celebrating hispanic heritage month. for five decades, geraldo has been blazing a trail for hispanic journalists.

bryan llenas has more. good afternoon. >> geraldo paved the way for hispanics to do news on national tv. he was the first hispanic-america to break through on the national stage to becoming a legendary broadcaster. >> i'm going to tell it like i see it. you may not like it. it may be offensive to your ears or your frame of mind. but that's me. >> for five decades, geraldo rivera has captivated viewers with his controversive-style. >> my dad was a proud man. >> geraldo started in television in 1970. >> at that time local news was all white men. >> two years later, geraldo exposed abuse inside the willow

brook state school for mentally disabled children. >> it's not a school. it's a dark corner that we throw children that are not pretty to look at. >> geraldo's career soared. he anchored abc's "good night america" and broke records with the al capone special. he landed his own talk show and had interviews with mohammed ali, fidel castro and charles manson. after that, he wanted something different. he left cnbc and became fox news channel's correspondent. he made 11 trips to afghanistan. >> i'm humbled by the fact that i've had this longevity. generations followed me and i'm proud of that. >> the man leads with his heart. we love him for that. thank you, geraldo rivera. >> bill: a good report there. love geraldo. just been great to get to know

him. thank you, bryan. listen, folks, you made it to friday. who knows what happened tomorrow. we're here monday through friday at 3:00 eastern. judge barrett's hearings begin 9:00 a.m. monday. sandra and i will see you for that. see you then. >> neil: on a day of political storms, do not blame folks in the gulf of mexico area if they're focused on a real one called hurricane delta. right now churning up winds in excess of 110 miles an hour. a category three storm. no way of telling how it will end up. what we do know, later tonight it will likely hit the louisiana coast. for some of the people hit there, the third time, by the way, in as many months, this is only five weeks after hurricane laura. thousands evacuated for that one. by the way, they still have not been able to get back to their homes. thousands more are told right now that they have to consider that as