>> set your dvr for 6:00 a.m. eastern so you never miss a minute of "fox & friends." happy birthday, steve. >> stay within yourself all day. >> president trump: joe biden is and always has been a corrupt politician. he always has been. and as far as i'm concerned, the biden family is a criminal enterprise. it really is. look at what's going on. >> more than 217,000 americans dead because of covid-19. the other night trump said at one of his rallies we've turned the corner. my grandfather would say this guy has gone around the bend if he thinks we've turned the corner. turned the corner, things are

getting worse. >> sandra: with election day two weeks out the two candidates hit two galgts grounds this weekend preparing to face off in their second and final debate on thursday. here we go. i'm sandra smith, hello, trace. >> trace: good morning everyone. i'm trace gallagher. today joe biden is off the campaign trail after a voter mobilization event in north carolina this weekend while president trump continues his western swing holding back-to-back rallies in arizona today. 11 electoral votes are up for grabs in that state. the president carried arizona back in 2016 but the real clear politics polling average this morning has biden ahead by nearly four points. >> sandra: fox team coverage as we begin a new week. byron york with analysis, peter doocy in delaware. with begin to john roberts live on the north lawn for us this morning. john, what's on the president's agenda today? >> he wakes up in the west this

morning. an event in prescott, arizona in the afternoon eastern time. this follows a weekend where he went to michigan, wisconsin, nevada and arizona. he is in pennsylvania tomorrow, north carolina on wednesday and then, of course, the last debates on thursday. so this will be a busy week for the president. on his western swing the president pushing the latest reports censored for a while by twitter and facebook about hunter biden's email and what joe biden knew what his son was doing in regard to international business deals. >> president trump: the biggest of them all is joe. he is corrupt and they found the laptop. you know what they call that? the laptop from hell. that is a laptop -- it's a laptop from hell. let's see what happens with it. let's see what happens with it. so a giant trove of emails show hunter biden making deals, setting up meetings with his

father, joe, and using the office of the vice president for a for-profit cash machine. >> democrats and big tech have suggested the reports about hunter biden are part of a russian disinformation campaign but certain of the emails not ones contained on the laptop have been independently verified by fox. white house chief of staff mark meadows said he spoke with the director of national intelligence over the weekend saying there is no evidence of a russian disinformation campaign in regard to those emails. >> i'm not aware of any russian disinformation campaign that would involve these emails or this laptop. no defensive briefing to my knowledge has been given and so all of this narrative that is out there that would suggest it is not real, that's the disinformation. >> the president also continuing his push to get america reopen and get the economy back on track despite a

scolding from the michigan governor grinch en with -- whitmer saying she is far too heavy handed on covid restrictions on people and businesses. >> with the unscientific lockdown. the lockdowns aren't working. europe is having this massive surge. they have been locked down. look at the locked down. now they are having a surge. michigan has a surge. who has been tougher than her? she ran it like a prison, a warden, right? they have a surge and then they say she is doing a wonderful job. i think she is doing a terrible job. >> she has complained the president's rhetoric is partially what led to the plot to kidnap her and overthrow the state government in michigan. the president continuing to press ahead. >> sandra: more on all that coming up. john roberts live at the white house. >> trace: more controversy

surrounding former vice president joe biden. the democratic candidate under renewed scrutiny after two executives from the social media giants join his transition team. peter doocy live for us in wilmington, delaware. what are you hearing from the biden camp today? >> trace, joe biden doesn't have any events on his public schedule until thursday and that debate in nashville. the campaign is hoping his comments on covid over the weekend stand until then. >> he told bob woodward in a taped interview that the disease was deadly. much worse than the flu. and here is what he did. according to the "new york times," three, four days ago his administration gave wall street investors a heads-up but he didn't tell us. just his friends on wall street. that's why they made so much money by quote selling short. who got sold short?

you all got sold short? >> that was at a drivein event in north carolina. while we don't expect to see him doing anything like that until after thursday's day bait. kamala harris is returning to the campaign trail. biden did not field any questions from the small pool of reporters traveling with him except to say which flavors of ice cream he ordered, vanilla and chocolate. no opinion on packing the supreme court and -- it will come after the amy coney barrett vote but before election day. >> he has spoken about this many times and talk about the fact he is not a fan of what's called packing. of course we have to talk about whoo kinds of reforms we're interested in. a long, complex discussion that is clearly not what's on the minds of the people we're trying to use it as a distraction.

>> so biden is here at home in wilmington. the campaign's big event in the first half of this week is going to be rally in philadelphia where barack obama will appear on behalf of the campaign and that's wednesday. trace. >> trace: bringing in the heavy hitters. peter thank you. >> sandra: with just over two weeks until election day more than 22 million americans have already cast ballots in the 2020 election. which represents 16% of all the votes cast in 2016. eight states have yet to report early voting totals. democrats are outvoting republicans so far by a 2-1 margin in states reporting. experts predict the record shattering 150 million ballots will be cast in this election. >> trace: coronavirus relief pressure mounting on capitol hill with house speaker nancy pelosi and treasury secretary

steve mnuchin scheduled to talk today ahead of pelosi's deadline of tomorrow. the senate expected to vote on a pair of $500 billion stimulus bills to extend the paycheck protection program and expand unemployment benefits. one goes for a vote tomorrow, the other on wednesday. >> sandra: for more on this and the race for the white house. byron york from "the washington examiner". good morning to you. a lot to take in here. two weeks out from election day you have people voting, biden sitting today out. apparently prepping for thursday night's debate. the president is holding a bunch of rallies. a couple in arizona today. what is the state of the race this morning? >> well, it's two weeks out. i think the president is going full tilt and he is going to go full tilt all the way through election day. that's not a surprise. a little bit of a surprise that joe biden is essentially going dark all week to prepare for

this debate on thursday. now i think in the big picture its debate week. this is a very, very big deal for the campaign. remember back in the summer and the early fall a lot of republicans said everything will come down to the debates. well, donald trump had a problematic first debate even his advisors say they thought he was overly aggressive against biden during that debate. then there wasn't a second debate. this is the big one now on thursday. so i'm not surprised that biden is doing a lot of preparing. but the president cannot stay off the campaign trail and that's where he is. >> sandra: i know this morning you are writing about the standard of proof for the hunter biden laptop story. this is what we saw from the president over the weekend. he continues to hammer joe biden over his son's dealings and that laptop story in the "new york post." the former vice president on the other hand joe biden continues to hit the president on his response to covid saying

that we turned a corner, mocking the president for suggesting that when we've got rising hot spots happening across the nation. which approach is better and whose strategy is working? >> well, the president feels like he is fighting an uphill battle on this whole hunter biden email story because a number of top media organizations do not appear to be trying to confirm the story. they seem to be trying to knock it down and some social media giants tried to actually kill it. they censored the story. what i wrote this morning is something i wrote in my book obsession. in january of 2017 when the dossier came out everybody was stunned. it was during the transition, the trump team was stunned. didn't know what was going on. they looked at a few things and said are these true or not? none of them believed the sex story from the moscow hotel room. trump denied it fully and they

fully believed him. they looked for things that might be proven or unproven. one was the allegation that michael cohen had gone to pra*ug and talked with the russians and organized a payment to the russians of the hacking of the dnc and john -- they went to cohen and they felt confident that the story was absolutely not true, which gave them something to go to the press and say look, this claims he waent the prague and he didn't. if the biden campaign took the same approach with the email story it might be completely different. >> sandra: here is miranda devine's headline on what you are talking about this morning. media avoiding the post hunter biden stories as much as joe. you just said this is debate week. what do you expect to see from

the president? you just mentioned joe biden apparently sitting this one out to prep for the debate. jason miller from the trump campaign over the weekend suggesting we might see a different tack from the president allowing joe biden to talk more on that debate stage. your thoughts on what we will see thursday night. >> well, they do remember that even in his best years joe biden was actually known as a gaffe machine. and a number of republicans feel that the president didn't give joe biden enough room to make some gaffes in this high wire performance in the debate. i think they want him to step back a little bit and allow for that. they want the president to stress his accomplishments. there are many to talk about. as far as the email story is concerned, of course that's not on the list of topics from the debate moderator, kristin welker but it is up to trump to bring it up and probably the only time joe biden is really confronted with it. >> sandra: great to have you

kick things off this monday morning. thank you. >> trace: shocking new viedio as a man throws a torch into a police car with an officer inside. >> seattle police, stop, dude. >> trace: what happened leading up to the attack. plus president trump and joe biden set to debate one last time before election day. will the president change up his strategy on thursday night? trump campaign press communications director erin perrine joins us with that next. >> president trump: sleepy joe biden has made a corrupt bargain in exchange for his party's nomination. we have the most energy in the history of politics. and he has got the least. look limu! someone out there needs help customizing their car insurance with liberty mutual, so they only pay for what they need. false alarm. only pay for what you need.

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>> trace: shocking video out of seattle. a suspect throws a burning torch into a police car with an officer inside. >> seattle police, stop, dude. >> trace: police officers approached suspect as he walked down an alley ordering him to stop. he charged at them throwing the torch into one of the cruisers. an officer can be seen firing his gun as a suspect runs away.

the man was taken into custody and the officer was treated for non-life threatening injuries. >> sandra: president trump and joe biden hit the debate stage again thursday night after an aggressive performance during the first debate. a trump campaign senior advisor says the president may take a different approach this time around. let's bring in erin perrine. welcome. what will we see from the president thursday night? >> good morning, sandra, thank you for having me. right. as jason indicated, you will likely see the president give joe biden some more time to respond. this is supposed to be a foreign policy focused debate. president trump clearly has an incredible record of accomplishment on foreign policy. multiple middle east peace deals. joe biden, he has been on the wrong side of every foreign policy and national security issue for the last 40 years. he has a huge record he has to try to defend whether endless

wars or spending millions of dollars in cash to iran. questions need to be asked and answered. plus the information we're seeing coming out of these "new york post" reporting that fox news has verified as well regarding emails and possibly being compromised by foreign entities and foreign governments on joe biden's side. these are serious questions that need to be asked and answered. >> sandra: to go back to your original point giving joe biden more time to respond, is that a change in strategy on the trump campaign and on the part of the president acknowledging perhaps that the president's strategy the first debate didn't work to interrupt joe biden so many times? >> well, i think that president trump was certainly interrupted by savannah guthrie 70-odd times during the town hall this weekend. this is a foreign policy-focused debate. you will see joe biden have to articulate why he has been a failure on foreign policy here in the united states and what that would look like. joe biden was against taking

outlawed laud and he was against taking out soleimani. he has been on the wrong side of things and will you have to hear him answer these questions. 47 years of failure on joe biden's foreign policy part versus president trump's 47 months of america first success and bringing our troops home. that's a stark contrast and one you'll see this week. >> sandra: more from jason miller on "fox news sunday" over the weekend talking about the president's strategy and what we might see when it comes to question on court packing for joe biden. listen. >> i do think that president trump will give joe biden more room to explain himself on some of these issues. whether it's are you the chairman and big guy in the emails? do you support packing the court? the president will want to hear joe biden's answer. >> sandra: tell us more about the strategy there. how will the president press joe biden to a place where he potentially has to answer that question before election day?

>> we certainly hope joe biden gets asked by the press. we know his traveling press corps when they ask a question regarding emails or anything joe biden yells at them. the only question he wants to answer is what kind of ice cream flavor he got. if you want to try to undermine an entire third of the federal government by court packing the same way the venezuela regime does joe biden should be pressed on that. we hope the debate moderator would be able to do that as well. they aren't impartial. we know the presidential debate commission is not impartial, either. you may see president trump have to push on this because if they won't ask, who will? >> sandra: here we are two weeks from tomorrow is election day and this is crunch time. you have the president, a couple of rallies in arizona today. you can put the results from the 2016 election up on the screen. the president beat hillary clinton by a couple of points. right now two weeks out joe biden is leading the president.

real clear politics average in arizona shows biden leading by 3.9%. is the president's strategy on the ground in arizona working? how does he win back those voters just a couple weeks out? >> well, this is atale of two different campaigns. president trump is crisscrossing the country, being in arizona, nevada, michigan, wisconsin, florida, pennsylvania. you see the president everywhere and joe biden because he is a bad candidate with bad policies has to try and stay home to get ready to defend 47 years of failure versus president trump's 47 months of success. listen, our ground game is extensive in arizona. we have made over 700,000 door knocks and every time we knock a door a voter is 17% more likely to show up. we have made 6 million phone calls in arizona alone. we are within the margin within most of the polling and recent polling where you have seen even oversample democrats and

under sample republicans you see that more than 2/3 of voters on the republican side are voting for president trump because they support him. while only a quarter of democrats are voting for joe biden because they support him. that's the clear contrast. every time we talk to a voter on phone or at their door they are more likely to show up. the enthusiasm for this president is still sky high. >> sandra: we'll hear the president from himself debating joe biden. a big moment for both candidates. erin perrine from the trump campaign. thank you. the final debate between president trump and joe biden is set for this thursday at belmont university, nashville, tennessee. bret baier and martha maccallum will have prime time coverage up to and after the debate which begins at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. a big moment in the 2020 race. >> trace: election day two weeks away.

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>> trace: bottom of the hour, time for top stories. president trump campaigning in arizona today while joe biden is off the trail after an event in north carolina yesterday. >> sandra: chinese officials sending a warning to the trump administration today saying u.s. citizens could be detained there if the justice department prosecute scholars with ties to china's military. >> trace: the search for a suspect who opened fire on a tennessee police officer ended overnight. police shot and killed a man in georgia after he fired on them. tennessee police officer terry prescott is recovering from gunshot wounds and listed in stable condition. >> sandra: now to capitol hill. pelosi and mnuchin are set to speak on the phone to advance a stimulus deal. president trump suggesting he could step in if republican senators don't support a second coronavirus relief package worth trillions of dollars saying i'll take care of that

problem in two minutes if i had something that would be good, i think i could quickly convince republicans to do it. they're ready to do it. nancy pelosi does not want to do it. maria bartiromo joining us more. a deadline is set. markets are watching this. the opening bell on wall street ringing right now looks like we're seeing a rally on the open, maria. what is expected now with this deadline set? will a deal get done before election day? >> it's interesting. the marketing of it is fascinating. nancy pelosi is saying she is setting this deadline. the g.o.p. and president have been wanting to do a deal for weeks and it has been nancy pelosi stopping it because she is putting in there lots of things that have nothing to do with covid. i think the two sides need to agree on whether or not we will see money go to the local cities and states and that is one of the issues that pelosi has been pushing.

as far as sending money to individuals, sending money to small businesses, even aid for the airlines, these are issues that the republicans have been pushing for weeks now. will we get a deal done? i don't know. there are too many politics involved with the new ultimatum that pelosi a trying to say she put the ultimatum out there as if she wanted to do the deal instead of the republicans. that's not the case. the republicans are pushing to get something done and the president says he will go beyond 1.8 trillion. that's going against his base. there are plenty of senators who say look hundreds of billions of dollars left unspent that could be used to right now to send money to people in need. so we'll see. it likely won't go above $2 trillion. i don't think the republicans would accept that and they have an eye on debt which is about the size of the overall economy, $22 trillion. >> sandra: as you know so many

americans still in pain as a result of this pandemic and the shutdowns. so many still out of work and they need another round of stimulus. they need more help from the federal government which makes the plans by these candidates on the economy and their tax plans ever so important. as far as what we would see from the joe biden presidency, the editorial board takes it on in a piece this morning. the cost of biden-on imickx it predicts 6,500 less in median household income by 2030, maria. the editorial board writes the risks from biden's policies is that they won't send the economy reeling right away. americans will pay the price in a lower standard of living than they otherwise would and that they deserve. so they took on joe biden's tax policy and made the case that

because we're hearing so much from biden and the campaign on coronavirus, fighting covid-19, we're not really hearing him lay out in detail his policies on the economy and raising taxes. >> no, he really has not gone through it in detail but we know that he has said he wants to raise 4.3 trillion dollars in new taxes. the journal does a good job laying that out and how people will be affected. so far we heard a lot of politicking about this where joe biden says he won't raise taxes on anybody making $400,000 or more. that's not what we see from these tax increases. point one, if you are going to completely turn around and reject the president's tax legislation enacted at the end of 2017, that in and of itself means that all income levels will see a tax increase. you will also see the cost of regulation, another major tool that this president used to move the needle on economic growth. if biden puts new regulations in place that is going to mean

new costs for american and new costs for businesses. small businesses unfortunately. you will see a real impact for the higher tax proposals from the biden campaign. you are also going to see a lot of expectation that the economy is going to slow down. we're just getting back on our feet in terms of the recovery and seeing pretty good numbers out of china overnight in terms of retail sales and gdp and good numbers on the economy in the u.s. we'll see where it goes. the journal lays it out clearly that under a biden presidency, you will see higher taxes, more regulation, which will mean more costs. we'll also see if the public cares about the hunter biden story. i want to point out that a little while ago i had the director of national intelligence on in an exclusive interview, john ratcliffe. he just told me that the hunter biden laptop story is not any part of russian disinformation. he made that very clear. my exclusive interview half an hour ago.

>> sandra: saw that. markets up 88 points. dow up 85 points to begin a new trading week. maria, thank you. trace. >> trace: 15 days until the election. more than 22 million americans have already voted as more states prepare to open early voting locations next week. the focus now turning to election fraud as lawmakers push for a bipartisan bill designed to secure the security of early voting systems and one state they are talking about ballot boxes. what can you tell us about this, exactly, eric? >> in california you can vote now in a republican-sponsored ballot box. the gop put out its own boxes on the street. state election official efs say it's illegal and they've struck a come proom ice. the boxes are intended to help voters cast ballots but not

official government sponsored boxes. last week the state issued a cease and desist order. now the state says they can stay if the gop follows safeguards. a volunteer has to man the box. a voter has to hand their vote over to a real life person not a steal box. the votes have to be turned in by law within three days. president trump has criticized ballot harvesting but supporters say the practice can make voting easier for some in states like florida where ballot harvesting is allowed in certain cases. experts say it has been a success. >> there has been no widespread fraud when we have our recounts they come in very close to the actual numbers. there hasn't been any disparity. it is crazy to say that florida is the gold standard for

election. >> the bill now in congress would ban ballot harvesting across the country. tulsi gabbard of hawaii and another senate have teamed up. >> states like california, there is a complete lack of transparency and a complete lack of chain of custody that would be followed for that ballot to go to a ballot broker that you don't even know. you don't know if they are putting that ballot into a box in their car or when they turn it in. it causes concern for me. >> as of this morning there is no word on how many people may have used the state republican ballot boxes that are now on the streets in california. trace. >> trace: we'll hear more on that. eric, thank you. >> sandra: a tense scene overnight in los angeles after a suspect barricaded himself in the paramount pictures studio parking lot. police were pursuing the man in connection with a sexual

assault. one officer got into a shoot-out after the suspect pulled out a knife. >> put the knife down. >> how many shots did you hear? >> do you know if they got anyone? >> i don't know. >> sandra: officers arrested him following the shooting. the suspect was taken to a hospital. in officer were hurt in that incident. >> trace: outrage over what critics are calling censorship of a story about joe biden's son hunter and his business dealings overseas. is big tech too cozy with the biden campaign? talk about rocking the vote. the prediction about an asteroid and when it could hit earth. ♪ ♪ hit me with your best shot ♪ hit me with your best shot s,.

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>> sandra: for another event that could rock your world this year as if you needed another,

nasa says an asteroid the size of a refrigerator could strike earth one day before election day. astrophysicist says the rock is heading to the planet at 25,000 miles per hour posting this. it may buzz cut earth on november 2, a day before the presidential election. but it is not big enough to cause harm. so if the world ends in 2020, it won't be the fault of the universe. >> trace: one fast refrigerator. house minority leader kevin mccarthy calling out social media giants for blocking a "new york post" report about hunter biden's business dealings overseas and new questions about the nominee's ties to big tech and his transition team hires two executives from twitter and facebook. let's bring in david avala the chairman of go pack and mary anne marsh. let's begin with you, david.

kevin mccarthy's biggest beef is that the social media companies are not censoring information uniformly, subjective. >> it wouldn't be an issue if the democrats didn't have a big tech problem of losing their laptops and their servers whether it be anthony wiener losing his laptop in 2016 or hillary clinton's server in 2016. now hunter biden's laptop here in 2020. all that said, every time trump voters believe the evidence is being stacked against them and/or the scale is being pushed down to help the biden campaign, it only motivates the trump base even more to turn out. let me just say one last thing. if big tech is favoring the democrats, i want to become a youtube sensation i will have to get a show with mary anne so

i get a chance being seen with a democrat. >> trace: i'll watch it. mary anne, the question i'll let you respond to that. the question is about fairness. that's what the house minority leader is saying, fairness. you have a biden campaign spokeman brown saying i think twitter's response to the actual article itself makes clear these purchase ported allegations are false and they're not true and glad to see social media companies like twitter taking responsibility to limit misinformation. and that's the problem. twitter and facebook are not the great arbiters of what is accurate and what is inaccurate but yet when they filter this stuff and they censor this stuff the world thinks it has to be inaccurate and why they pulled it out. it is not true and leads to falsehoods. your thoughts, mary anne. >> this isn't a matter of fairness, this is a matter of whether individuals or institutions once again will help russia interfere with the 2020 election like they did in 2016. there is a reason the f.b.i. is

investigating these emails as part of a russian propaganda operation. there is a reason robert o'brien went to donald trump twice and said- >> the administration came out today and said they debunked that. >> mark meadows and john ratcliffe did. chris wray investigating it. robert o'brien head of the national security agency went to trump twice and talked about rudy giuliani's involvement with a russian agent for the last 10 years who steve mnuchin's treasury department just sanctioned for those things. are all those people lying? are they wrong? haven't we learned anything from 2016 when the whole email hull ba loo* showed nothing. parade of people indicted, found guilty, in jail, or on their way. >> trace: quickly the idea of this, the "new york post" says

quoting saying it is fair game. indeed it's a good thing for public spirited watchdogs to look at the veracity. one cannot help but wonder where the watchdogs when, the democratic national committee bought and paid for steele dossier. the post is not a fringe outlet and no one seems to be denying the post reporting, not even hunter biden himself. david, quickly. >> you hear it in her voice, mary anne is like many democrats who are concerned that joe biden is not going to be able to bring a victory home. and as you look at state polls where it is still within the margin of error, there is such concern that now we're back to conspiracy theories about russia. and not on why joe biden won't talk about what he will do on the supreme court, or what he is going to do in the area of healthcare or tax increases he wants to bring on.

hence why these last two weeks will be very important particularly the debate this week. >> trace: lastly i want to put this on the screen. the two executives facebook and twitter executives that have joined camp biden. is this as we asked at the beginning of this segment? is this too cozy when you have the issues with big tech and now they jump on board with biden? your final thoughts. >> too cozy when facebook executives with brad pass kael or when mark zuckerberg has unpublished private dinners with trump at the white house. a lot to be said but i want to leave on one last note. helping a foreign government interfere with our elections is a felony. >> trace: mary anne marsh and david avella, thank you boefmgt >> sandra: a lot of people are still avoiding air travel

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>> trace: good news for a hiker missing for almost two weeks. search and rescue crews found california mom alive in zion national park 12 days after she vanished. a massive rescue effort involved many. she was found after teams got a tip from a park visitor who saw her. she was taken to a hospital and for evaluation has been he united with her family. >> sandra: the pandemic has devastateed the airline industry as americans remain wary. a new report may dispel some

fears. we're live at o'hare airport. >> i'm sorry you can't see me better. we need a mask at o'hare. they were studying the cabin air? how safe is it when you get on the aircraft? surprising results. take a look at the pictures of how they did this. they took 767 and 777 aircraft. put mannequins in there and put out fluorescent aerosols and how is it dispersed? they found -- they removed the systems removed the dangerous particulates 15 times better than if you were at your house. 5 to 6 times better if you were in an operating room. apparently 99.7% of the particulates were reduced by

the filtering system and rapid exchange rates of the air and by those overhead vents, the downward force of those. i fly all the time. i fly every week. i flew yesterday. a lot of times people when they get on the aircraft they turn off the vents because they don't want the air coming on them. guidance says you should turn them on. it tends to blow the air down and coming at you from the person next to you close to the ground and doesn't hit you. united is trumpeting this. folks at american as well. united said your chances of being exposed to covid really if you fly even if the flight is full is pretty negligible. hopefully it will lead to more people traveling. we have tsa numbers, i just got these from the tsa yesterday, sunday, over a million people flew for the first time on any

one day since the pandemic and the last week was the biggest week for travel since the pandemic as well. so maybe good news for the airlines. we'll see, though. >> sandra: great news. when people fly they say they feel safe. cleaner than ever you hear in some cases. >> i have felt safe. you just have to wear a mask. not pretty. >> trace: fascinating. fox news alert on the controversy surrounding hunter biden. how republican lawmakers are ramping up pressure on the f.b.i. to reveal details about a laptop reportedly belonging to joe biden's son. >> we're trying to get the f.b.i. what did they know and when did they know it? why did they sit on it? are they covering up? ♪

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find the nonpartisan facts behind the real stories at usafacts.org ♪ >> sandra: brand-new hour. here is what's happening inside "america's newsroom." >> trace: the gloves were coming up yesterday with both candidates in full attack mode. nevada, the president zeroed in on allegations from the hunter biden story. >> president trump: joe biden is and always has been a corrupt politician. >> joe biden ratcheted up his attack on the president. >> turn the corner? things are getting worse. he continues to lie to us about the circumstances. >> we have learned that joe biden lied when he said he had no knowledge of hunter biden's foreign business deals. >> big tech should be ashamed how they are so clearly trying to aid the joe biden campaign.

>> on friday the u.s. cases hit the highest since july 29th. more than 70,000 cases in a day. >> sandra: more on those stories in a moment. first back to our top story this morning. the senate homeland security committee demanding answer fres the f.b.i. about a laptop said to have belonged to joe biden's son, hunter biden. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom" monday morning. i'm sandra smith. hello, trace. >> trace: good morning everyone. i'm trace gallagher. ron johnson said the whistleblower claims he gave the laptop to the f.b.i. and they are asking the f.b.i. to confirm or deny the details of the laptop and any documents found on its hard drive. >> the f.b.i. has a duty to inform us if they believe this is maybe russian disinformation they should give us a defensive briefing. what did they know and when did they know it? the larger question is if they

had this information and these are genuine emails and it would probably reveal all kinds of things that would have been very relevant to the impeachment case, why did they sit on it? >> sandra: mike emanuel is live in washington what can you tell us where this investigation stands now? >> good morning. new developments this morning. challenge reporting the story has been trying to confirm the authenticity of these emails. the f.b.i. has not been saying anything about its handling of a purchase ported hunter biden laptop. today the director of national -- >> the fact that i know so little about those emails and what is apparently on hunter biden's laptop underscores the point i just made. not some russian disinformation campaign. the intelligence community has not been involved with hunter biden's laptop. >> schiff is blaming all this on the russians.

>> we know that this whole smear on joe biden comes from the kremlin. that's been clear for well over a year now that they've been pushing this false narrative about the vice president and his son. >> fox news obtained four alleged hunter biden emails. two of his business dealings in 2014 and 2015 and two with business dealings with china in 2017. one of those was verified to be authentic. joe biden was asked about his son's emails over the weekend. >> i know you would ask it. i have no response. that is another smear campaign. right up your alley. the questions you always ask. >> the democratic nominee for president better get used to answering questions. if the moderator doesn't ask at thursday's presidential debate you can expect president trump will press the issue.

>> sandra: thank you, mike emanuel. >> trace: turning to the campaign trail now with both candidates racking up the flight miles as the race enters the final stretch. president trump visiting nine states in the past week. none may be more important than florida. early voting begins today in the sunshine state. kamala harris will be campaigning there later today. all in all, 29 electoral votes are at stake. florida by the way backing every presidential election winner since 1996. real clear politics has joe biden in the lead over president trump in all-important swing state. let's get to phil keating live in miami. good morning. do you expect to see long lines for early voting today? >> we have seen some long lines up and down the state this morning between 7:00 when it opened up for early voting day one to 9:00 when people started going to work. behind me this is in action

live early voting happening now. the government center of miami-dade county. a steady stream of voters. there was a little line earlier this morning according to poll workers and people are voting early. that's great. the rule number one here is you must be wearing a mask. that is the law right now in miami-dade county. if you are out in public you have to be wearing a max. that certainly applies to early voting and people are complying. now in jacksonville there was also early morning long lines for voters. they were stretching around. rain has been an issue in multiple places in the state. up in palm beach gardens in palm beach county there was also rain but people had their umbrellas and standing in line and casting their ballots. people are enthusiastic about voting this year. keep in mind two years ago

florida had senatorial election and gubernatorial election. eight million people voted in both of those elections. that's what you can pretty much expect for this presidential election this year. there is a lot on the ballot. several constitutional amendments for the state as well as local and state elections. the orange county supervisor of elections, orlando, he spoke this morning and he had this advice for voters. >> we've seen lines at all of our sites which is an encouraging sign that voters are ready to cast their ballots. my message to people who want to early vote do it sooner rather than later. when we get to the end of the 14 days it will be much more crowded. >> interesting to note there -- this probably reflects how much enthusiasm there is in this election. mail-in voting began weeks ago and people who are mailing in

their ballots, this is mine which i haven't mailed in yet but 2.5 million voters have already voted by mail so this is out of 8 million voters that are anticipated for this election and usually republicans lead democrats with mail-in voting. not this year. democrats outvoted republicans with mail-in voting which probably has something to do with all of the doubt that president trump has been casting on mail-in voting. >> they want to deliver it in person. phil keating, thank you. >> sandra: a free speech rally turns violent in san francisco.

conservative activists protesting twitter are attacked and shouted down. someone punched the main organizer in the face knocking his front teeth out. no arrests were made. >> trace: portland, protestors tangled with federal agents over the weekend. both agencies being tear gassed outside the ice building on saturday. the rally was meant to honor the people who have died in the custody of federal immigration officials. agents detained several demonstrators. portland has been rocked by protests almost every night since the death of george floyd back in late may. >> sandra: the senate expected this week to consider extending the paycheck protect program or ppp as part of a $500 billion stimulus bill and pelosi and mutschin are talking on a pared

down version. pelosi setting a 48 hour deadline for the white house to agree on terms yesterday. >> 48 only relates to if we want to get it done before the election, which we do. we're saying we have to freeze the design on some of these things. are we going with it or not? what is the language? i'm optimistic because again we've been back and forth on all of this. >> sandra: congressional correspondent chad pergram has the latest. crunch time. can they get it done before election day? >> it's hard to see. part of the reason with a bill of this magnitude. they have to get an agreement first and have to agree to legislative text. congress and senate has to process it and understand what's in the piece of legislation. getting it done in two weeks is a heavy lift. you have a lot of democrats in the house of representatives pushing house speaker nancy pelosi to get a deal. listen. >> i'm hopeful. i think the speaker did exactly the right thing by giving a 48-hour deadline so we get something concrete. some of the requests are

reasonable. we need a national testing strategy. we need to fully fund national testing and contact tracing. >> steve mnuchin is traveling in the middle east but mnuchin and pelosi are expected to speak. she told house democrats over the weekend some of the administration's proposals are unacceptable when it comes to testing and tracing. she took issue with how the administration would contact trace in communities of color. sandra. >> sandra: where are we on the price tag of all this knowing we're talking about trillions? >> it's a really jumble, mixed bag especially because the president has sent some mixed signals. it wasn't that long ago where he indicated he didn't want any more negotiations and reversed course on that and now saying he wants to go big. listen to what he said over the weekend in reno, nevada. >> president trump: i think nancy pelosi maybe is coming along. we'll find out. we want to do it. i want to do it at a bigger number than she wants. that doesn't mean all the

republicans agree with me but i think they will in the end if she would go along, i think they would, too. on stimulus. >> it's unclear what number the president is embracing. pelosi wanted to spend $3.4 trillion and now she is in the 2.2 trillion range and senate republicans balked even at $1.8 million. mitch mcconnell is willing to put on the senate floor to reload the ppp. the bill costs $500 billion here. a bill similar to the piece of legislation that democrats fill bus terd back in september and they will try to dare democrats to vote against this as it comes to the floor about midweek probably wednesday. sandra. >> sandra: the clock is ticking. chad pergram, thank you. >> trace: a state the president trump carried in 2016 is a key battleground for 2020. the sharp divisions in arizona and where the campaigns are now looking for votes.

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>> trace: another bloody weekend in chicago with at least 35 people shot and six of them killed. several boys in their early teens are some of the victims. one was just 14 years old. last sunday more than 3300 people have been shot this year in chicago. nearly 600 more than in all of 2019. >> sandra: here we go. two weeks out president trump holding two rallies in the state of arizona today. a state he won in 2016 by 3 1/2 percentage points. want to bring in josh. you like to take a spin on the touch screen with us to tell our viewers what we're seeing in some of these key battleground states but counties when you look at what is happening in arizona, you look back at the 2016 election results in that state and while the president did prevail there 49 1/2% of the vote joe biden

now has a 3.9% lead in the real clear politics average in that state. you have the president touring around arizona, two maga rally there, prescott, arizona and head down to pima county in tucson, arizona. why is the president spending so much time in arizona? is it helping, josh? >> well, i want to first note how politically significant being in arizona is any time during a presidential campaign. democrats have lost arizona in every election since 1948 except for 1996 when ross perot helped stip tip the state to bill clinton. trump is behind in the polls because he is losing the suburban maricopa county population, the biggest county in the state. he won't be there today. he is going more to the rural parts of arizona and near

tucson but maricopa county voted for trump in 2016. it is suburban. always been republican and yet all the polling that we've seen including the fox arizona poll have shown joe biden polling ahead in the suburban parts of the state. and that's what is making arizona so competitive. what you are seeing president trump doing is trying to rally the maga conservative base out in the rural part of the state because he knows he is losing ground in the suburbs. >> sandra: let's take our viewers through this. you are talking about just north of pima county, maricopa county where just over half the registered voters in the state of arizona live. solidly republican for decades to your point. president trump did manage a narrow victory in 2016. but what makes this really interesting is it flipped blue in a special senate race. why are we watching maricopa so closely? and can the president do anything with two weeks to go to sway any voters or change

any minds? >> maricopa county in arizona 60% of the state's population is in maricopa. you can't lose maricopa by a big margin and expect to win the state of arizona. maricopa county has a lot of seniors. we've learned the key population, the key swing vote in this election and it also -- a lot of john mccain republicans in arizona. the state likes to vote republican but they get a little wary if the candidates are a little too extreme, a little too intem rat. a lot of john mccain republicans usually vote republican up and down the ballot but not trump voters. martha mcsally has lost 10 to 12% of republican voters. trump is risking losing some voters and he needs to get those voters back to his side

if he wants to win arizona. >> sandra: looking at the results in 2016 election in the places he will spend time today. the president had a solid win back in this county and flip it to another county we're watching pima county the president will be later on today. tucson, arizona, he will be on the ground there. hillary clinton won this county back in 2016. josh, finally, you end with maricopa county. look how close things were back in 2016. any predictions, josh? >> maricopa county is the ballgame. if trump can't hold down democratic people in maricopa, a biden lead of five points or more, this ballgame in arizona. but i think trump the big rally this afternoon is designed to rally the base. trump also needs -- a lot of

conservative voters in arizona as well and he has been having to thread this needle to rally the trump base but also not alienate the moderate john mccain republicans. >> sandra: karl rove was talking about the president on defense in arizona where joe biden is on offense there. finally in arizona as i mentioned with joe biden holding a 3.9% lead just over two weeks out from election day. josh, great to take a spin on the touch screen with you. thank you. >> thanks. >> trace: fox news alert. at least two dozen people rescued off the coast of florida by a carnival cruise ship after their boat started sinking. landlords fighting back over eviction bans taking state and local governments to court. why the landlords believe they're being taken advantage of is next. >> the last thing we want to do even before covid is to evict a tenant. our whole models of our business, we don't want to evict people. it is a last resort.

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>> trace: bottom of the hour. top stories. coronavirus cases rising in dozens of state. the seven day daily average across the u.s. now more than 55,000. >> sandra: a fast moving wildfire in north central colorado burning more than 14 square miles and forcing 3,000 people from their homes. authorities believe many homes were lost. >> trace: a carnival cruise ship rescued two dozen people from a sinking boat 40 miles off the florida coast. the passengers were transferred to the u.s. coast guard. the cruise ship had no guests on board at the time. it is unclear why the boat was in distress. >> sandra: landlords in several cities and states are suing to overturn eviction bans imposed by mayors and governors during the pandemic. property owners say some tenants are taking advantage of laws to avoid paying rent they can afford. renter advocates saying millions would be on the street without the ban. we have the latest on that. one of the lawsuits is in

washington state, correct? >> yeah, that's right. a lawsuit filed here in washington state but the lawsuits have been filed all over the country because the moratorium exists all over the country and a federal ban on evictions that takes place or take effect through the end of this year. and the reason for these moratoriums is obvious. government officials don't want mass evictions. more homeless people is more spread of the virus and it threw millions of people out of work. many are back and the unemployment is double the pre-pandemic figure. landlords say it is unfair and illegal for them to -- tenants who can't or won't pay rent. we spoke with a woman who just before the pandemic bought a house to rent out. she hasn't been paid rent the last four months even though the tenant still has a job. she can't pay the utilities and

is struggling with the mortgage. so she is now working a third job delivering newspapers. >> i can't work all day because i'm still breast feeding. i have to do something. we have bills to pay and can't -- we have no other options. >> a lawsuit filed in washington state claims the eviction ban in place since march and just extended through the end of the year amounts to a government taking of private property without compensation. similar legal challenges have been failed in recent study estimated up to 20 million renters could face eviction without the moratorium. advocates say more stimulus is needed. >> it is much better to have congress step in, pay the bills, stabilize the housing market and get back to business as usual. >> congress did pass the cares act which was supposed to help landlords with this but that extended over the summer and an estimated $16 billion is owed to landlords right now and with

this money expired it is anybody's guess how long they can hang onto these properties. >> sandra: thank you, dan springer. >> just as china is trying to influence our election we find twitter & facebook are doing the same and the american public is outraged about this. >> trace: kevin mccarthy going after social media giants facebook and twitter as conservatives have outrage over the blocks on sharing the hunter biden email story. carley shimkus joins us now. great to see you, the house minority leader is basically saying keeps pointing to section 230 of the communications decency act which is basically what? >> okay. so great question. section 230 was put in place to prevent platforms like facebook

and twitter from being sued for things that users post on their site because facebook and twitter and other social media platforms are supposed to be platforms. so they are supposed to be unbiased, not supposed to have any control really over what people say. they are just a platform. republicans now say they are acting in a biased fashion so let's hurt those social media companies. let's place a check on them by repealing that section. the only problem with that, trace, if you allow people to start suing facebook and twitter, those companies are going to limit speech even more. the natural reaction of things. it might not be the solution to this problem. it's a problem -- a solution is very difficult to find when we're talking about a private company. they're allowed to make their own rules. something needs to be done. not sure in section 230 is it. >> trace: to your point the "wall street journal" says the fix is worse than the problem. he says quoting here any fix

would open a can of worms of special interests maybe even a new digital dick shun department staffed by justice warriors deciding which phrases are no longer acceptable like master bedroom or preference. what he is saying is you will have everybody coming in saying this is what we need to do and it is going to mess up the whole thing. 230 is what gave these social media platforms such a robust debate forum. >> yeah -- no, you're absolutely right about that as is he. interesting thing here is that when you look at these social media companies and truly how left leaning the employees are. the "new york post" came out with an article on saturday detailing twitter executives, employees and what they had to say about president trump. some of those things go against the rules. their own rules like saying the president should die in a fire or saying that he should suffer from covid-19. so it is obvious that these

companies make decisions that are political. now we'll have to hear from jack dorsey and mark zuckerberg and i think a lot of people would want them to be honest during that hearing and say you caught us, we do act in a political way. we will at least try harder next time or something and see what comes. a solution to this problem will be tricky to find. >> trace: speaking of free speech on social media, christie alley has learned it is tough. she came out for the president and voted for him in 2016 and says she will vote again and got pushback. a filmmaker says shelly long was way funnier than you is his response. denny zucker says quitting is no longer the governor's decision made by a cheers actor. she said don't think i've ever seen so much name calling in my life. i guess i'm not allowed to have a viewpoint without being called nasty names by nasty people. can't she just have her own

opinion? >> i have to say because of the story i learned who shelly long was today. she was in cheers apparently before -- i have to say the post that she posted in support of president trump was the most non-controversial thing of all time saying she wants to vote for somebody who isn't a politician, a businessman who can bring the economy back and then all of these actors and high-powered people start attacking her. i know people say that about president trump that he doesn't behave properly on twitter. if you don't like that behavior from the president maybe don't emulate that behavior as well. >> trace: back in the day, diane and sam were quite a item. charlie shimkus, good to sigh. >> good to see you, too. >> sandra: president trump and joe biden prepping for their final campaign face-off. the second presidential debate

happening thursday night. the trump campaign now says the president will shake up his strategy this time around. what's behind the change next. >> i do think that president trump will give joe biden a little bit more room to explain himself are you the big guy as we've seen articulated in the emails? do you support packing the court? en lower. at newday, veterans can shortcut the refinance process and save $250 a month. $3000 dollars a year. with the va streamline refi at newday, there's no appraisal, no income verification, and no out of pocket costs. one call can save you $3000 a year.

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>> trace: a rapper was arrested for fraud after boasting about an unemployment scam in a music video. the 31-year-old is accused of applying fofor dozens of government debit cards with various aliases worth more than $1.2 million. his music video was posted on youtube last month. he is facing three felony charges and could end up in prison for 22 years. >> sandra: we're three days away from the second and final presidential debate. the first one taking place nearly three weeks ago, hard to believe. president trump very much on

the offensive. current and former campaign aides say it will be different this time around. >> let joe biden speak and let him defend the obama economy and isis and let him defend why he was the one guy that didn't want to go forward with the osama bin laden raid. let him defend the iran deal. the things that i think pivoting to the economy that those voters will be listening to. >> sandra: jenna arnold. national organizers of the women's march and matt gorman joins us. matt, why do you think the trump campaign, the president are going to change strategies this time around and perhaps let joe biden speak more on that debate stage? >> looking at it broadly this is one of the last chances to change the trajectory of the campaign. it might be too late. early voting has started in most states. florida started today. but i think trump looked back

at his last debate in 2016 with hillary and saw that he let her talk, let her hurt herself and chime in when appropriate and compared to this last debate i think jason was alluding to it. the interruptions were not only offputting but saved biden in a lot of aspects where he was losing his train of thought. being pressed by chris wallace say on court packing or antifa. trump would jump in and change the topic or change the tenor. trump saved him. i think they will adjust now when it comes on thursday night. >> sandra: why do you think the trump campaign decided it's a better idea if the president lets joe biden speak more on that stage? >> because it's the civil thing to do. because we need to watch two candidates who want to lead this country have diplomatic, political, mature conversation about disagreements, about things that they are aligned on and how we will bring the country back together after

this incredibly tense political season for most americans. we're eager to see maturity. >> sandra: the trump campaign has put out a media question for the day for joe biden. i'll put it up on the screen. it reads this. are you hiding most of this week because you are only willing to answer milk shake-related questions? that was prompted by this moment by a reporter asking joe biden this. listen. >> i got one vanilla and chocolate. i wanted a black and white. we'll split it. >> sandra: what's the response to that? joe biden only wants to answer questions regarding milk shakes and the reason why he is staying in until the debate. >> i think it's comical that we as a country are relating to joe biden's love of ice cream and milk shakes and in contrast to the fact there is such

little to relate to president trump on. >> sandra: that was a real question by a real reporter on the campaign trail. >> listen, i think that there is a tremendous amount of opportunity for both candidates to get up there and have very calm, cool and collected, disciplined and focused conversations about the issues facing americans. there was a tremendous amount of people that moved center and ultimately potentially moved toward the biden camp after the first debate and i don't think that's in the best interest for the trump campaign nor is it in the best interest of all of us to see this kind of discourse at the highest level of our government. >> sandra: all right. as far as what we can expect on the hunter biden, "new york post" story here is what jason miller suggested we might hear on that. >> if the moderator doesn't bring it up you are safe to assume the president will. these are real simple questions that joe biden needs to answer to the american public and keep in mind this is also supposed to be a debate on foreign

policy. if joe biden can't answer these real simple questions you know he is running from something. >> sandra: does it behoove the president to press joe biden on that on the debate stage? >> yeah. first of all i love talking about milk shakes but i'm not running for president. you are right. i think again the strategy needs to be a little more tailored than it was the last debate. he should not go after hunter biden's cocaine's habits or anything personal. he needs to keep focused on the issue, the "new york post" story and influence peddling. joe biden answers questions on milk shakes but neither he or his campaign have disputed the authenticity of what was in the "new york post." trump should press it ton debate stage if the traveling press and moderator won't. >> sandra: how does joe biden respond to that? >> he will lead into the truth

and focus on the issues that matter most to americans. the amount of americans impacted by covid. how we will rebuilt an economy and fix our reputation and how we will find ways back to each other and rebuild our communities. >> sandra: milk shake questions aside. why is it a good strategy for joe biden to call in and stay in debate prep but to call a lid on his campaign until he shows up debate night thursday night? this close to an election day. >> listen, joe biden's experience, pedigree, resume, the same thing with kamala harris speaks for itself. i don't think that the campaign needs to get out and fire hose the world with more talking points. the work speaks for itself. >> sandra: fire hose? at all. will we see joe biden at all

before the debate thursday night? >> i don't know. >> sandra: all right. matt, final thoughts on that. >> look, debate prep is very important and the need to commit to it. he could hold a mini rally, talk with you. i have meetings before and after. easy to do. not a matter of taking up the entire day with debate prep. that's insait. >> sandra: any final words? >> no. i think if there are still outstanding questions the american public has on how joe biden will lead this country back to values, i think they exist out there in the ether and excited to see how many people tune in for the debate. >> sandra: like court packing? how will he address that? >> the same way he has in the past. leaning hard what are the events will unfold and how can we find middle ground for all of us? >> sandra: we're out of time. love to have you back. thank you. we have you covered for this thursday night's big debate at

6:00 p.m. eastern time with special report and continuing post debate analysis at 1:00 a.m. late night for shannon. catch the last presidential debate of the 2020 campaign here on the fox news channel that begins at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. trace. >> trace: the holidays right around the corner. the pandemic is expected to keep many shoppers from spending during a crucial time for retailers. david asman joins us with that next and what would a joe biden presidency look like? the huge impact biden's economic plan could have is next. bertymutual.com to customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? really? i didn't-- aah! ok. i'm on vibrate. aaah! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ little things can become your big moment. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream.

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so i'm voting 'yes'. nineteen allows seniors and all homeowners 55 and older to transfer their home's low tax base to another home. it also protects the right to pass my family home to my son.

we've all worked hard for our house and we should be allowed to give it to our kids without a tax penalty. it's time to limit taxes. vote 'yes' on 19.

>> trace: the covid-19 pandemic has transformed american life. the holidays could be next. millions of americans facing a holiday season without crowded

shopping malls, cross-country travel or big celebrations. they're bracing for a rough shopping season. david asman joins us now. great to see you. when i read the "wall street journal" piece it is so unpredictable, nobody will make predictions about the holidays. my friend david asman will make a prediction. he thinks the "wall street journal" is wrong. >> i've worked at the "wall street journal" for 14 years and didn't always agree with what my colleagues had to say. in this case i really disagree partly because of the numbers that are coming out. we just this morning we had the home builder sentiment at an all-time high. never in the history of this particular sentiment number has the been higher. low cost for labor and lumber and low -- we had retail sales number last week through the

roof. we got almost 2% increase. what is happening is the american consumer has been held back because of this virus. you can't go to restaurants, you can't take long trips to europe or mexico or something. so people have been saving money. the savings rate of americans has increased double of what it was last year. and now they are beginning to spend that money. if they can't travel to europe, if they can't go to movies, if they can't go to restaurants they'll at least buy gifts for their families and loved ones and friends. that's what happening with retail. because interest rates are so low sales of cars and homes are through the roof as well. i think the jurn at has it wrong on this. i think we're in for a relatively good holiday season. >> trace: i hope you're right. the other problem becomes shipping. a lot of gifts that people are buying and the "wall street journal" says it's an issue. the capacity shortfall could

average as much as 7 million packages a day between thanksgiving and christmas. the prime reason is that carriers already have been operating near maximum capacity for months as consumers stay home. >> this wonderful free market of ours has ways of filling gaps and vacuums. this is when it's not a vacuum but we need more delivery services and i think we'll get them. >> trace: i laugh, you touched on it earlier. the whole thing is concerning. last question, jobs are hard to get now and if you don't have a job you don't have money and you aren't out there spending on the holidays. >> the jobs numbers are getting much better. people are opening up all over the country. some states like my new york or yours california that are having troubling opening but i think as the economy opens up even without the extra money coming from washington we'll have an increasing good jobs numbers throughout the year. it won't be as good as it was

before the pandemic but we are coming back. >> trace: david asman, always good to talk to you. >> good talking to you. >> sandra: get ready for baseball. trace, the los angeles dodgers complete a turnaround that has happened only 14 times in mlb history. with dodgers defeated the braves to win the nlcs after being down 3-1. they were trailing last night when bellinger hit the home run in the seventh inning. he celebrated a little too hard dislocating his shoulder with a forearm bump. trainers had to pop it back in before he took the field. they are face the raise in the world series. watch on the action on fox. game one is tomorrow night. that's a horrible story. >> he is a tough guy. cody bellinger is a tough guy.

it popped out. it pops back in and ready to play tuesday night. what a great game. i watched every minute of it. fantastic. >> sandra: maybe celebrate a little more gently next time. good to have some baseball. good to have some sports, right? >> trace: indeed it is. the clock is ticking after nancy pelosi sets a deadline for the white house to agree on a new stimulus bill before the election. alyssa farah the white house communications director joins us with new reaction in the next hour of "america's newsroom." newday's va streamline refi lets you refinance without having to verify your income, without getting your home appraised, and without spending one dollar out of pocket to get it done. it is the quickest and easiest refi they've ever offered.

>> sandra: heading into the homestretch in the race for the white house just 15 days left to election day. president trump hitting the campaign trail hard while joe biden prepares for the final presidential debate this thursday. welcome back to "america's newsroom." i'm sandra smith. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher. national polls show biden in the lead. we all know the numbers didn't matter much in 2016 as the president goes hard after his rival targeting his son's business dealings and calling the biden family a criminal enterprise on claims of questionable hunter biden emails. white house chief of staff mark meadows. >> not only are they not denying it but joe biden says he has never talked to hunter about his business. well, we now know based on emails that's not correct and

so it's time that he comes clean with the american people. it is time for twitter to make sure that they quit their censoring process to make sure that this story doesn't get out. >> sandra: just ahead we'll talk to white house communications director alyssa farah. peter doocy following the biden campaign. we kick things off with chief white house correspondent john roberts. >> good morning to you. the president covering a lot of ground both in terms of geography, policy and politics over the weekend. and continuing to hammer his rival joe biden for reports about hunter biden's emails and what joe biden might have known about hunter's international business dealings. in campaign rallies president trump likeened the bidens almost to a new york crime family. listen here. >> president trump: joe biden is and always has been a corrupt politician. he always has been.

and as far as i'm concerned, the biden family is a criminal enterprise. it really is. >> did biden campaign has not contested the authenticity of the emails. his handlers have said his schedule shows he did not have a meeting with the ukrainian energy executive who amrong with hunter biden was on the board of burisma. a new email, the authenticity of which was confirmed by fox news suggests joe biden was in for a 10% cut of a deal that hunter and his associates were putting together with chinese officials. democrats have dismissed all of this as russian disinformation. earlier today on fbn's mornings with maria the director of national intelligence saying there is no evidence to support that claim. listen here. >> let me be clear. the intelligence community doesn't believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that. and we have shared no intelligence with chairman schiff or any other member of

congress that hunter biden's laptop is part of a russian disinformation campaign. it is simply not true. this is exactly what i said i would stop when i became the director of national intelligence. >> as far as the campaign goes president trump lags behind biden in the polls and fundraising as well. the campaign is pointing to the size of the crowds at the president's rallies as proof the polls are wrong. here is what the president said about it in carson city, nevada last night. >> president trump: what a crowd. you see what's going on on the road. we have people all the way up. [cheering and applause] >> it was never like that for the last administration, they tell me. the guys what happen to be with me. >> a little personal observation. i follow the president across the country a number of times. fwhak 2016 the polls she he was losing to hillary clinton but there was an enthusiasm amongst the people who showed up and the size of the crowds that

seemed to belie the polls. there were a lot of stories that were written about these people are just there to see the spectacle or will they come out and vote? turns out they actually came out and voted. >> trace: we'll see what happens this time around. thank you. meantime former vice president joe biden is off the campaign trail today as polls show the democrat leading president trump in key swing states ahead of the second presidential debate thursday. peter doocy has the details live in wilmington, delaware. good morning to you. the former vice president is off the campaign trail. what is his agenda today? >> that's a good question, trace. nothing public on the schedule until thursday of this week and that debate down in nashville. until then he is expected to be home here in wilmington. but millions of people have already voted. so the biden transition effort is already ramping up including their hiring of officials from

facebook and twitter as twitter weather relentless criticism from trump all aisles for censoring stories that raise questions about joe biden but allow sources with president trump to remain online. they're trying to lock up a win and reach people who don't pay attention to the news running new tv ads during the pittsburgh steelers game yesterday and scheduling ads to run tonight in monday night football and rolling out an in-person event in philadelphia wednesday with their top surrogate barack obama. all while trying to stay on message and make this election all about covid-19. >> on friday we saw the highest number of new cases in one day since july. yet the other night trump said at one of his rallies we've turned the corner. my grandfather would say this guy has gone around the bend if he thinks we've turned the

corner. >> and the democratic nominee still has not answered specific questions regarding allegations about a possible conflict of interest that were raised when the documents came off of hunter biden's laptop allegedly. >> trace: they'll continue to be asked. peter, thank you. >> sandra: the president focusing on biden's son hunter reporting about his business dealings. some trump supporters think he should switch the message and zero in on policy consequences of a biden victory. "wall street journal" looking at the cost of biden's economic plan and a study finding that biden's proposals will translate to $6500 fewer dollars for the average american family. dan henninger and fox news contributor joins us. give us a little more color into the digging into the biden tax proposal and what it means

for the average american family per the "wall street journal" editorial board. >> well, the editorial today is based on a hoover institution study that was done by a former trump council economic advisor has et, mulligan and two other economists. they took a look at the probable economic cost overall of joe biden's policies on taxes, regulation, and administrative policy. and on taxes joe biden is proposing to raise the corporate income tax. he is also proposing to raise personal taxes on people back up to over 38%. and the fact is that a lot of small businesses as we point out in the editorial are run by people who do get taxed at the individual rate. and if those small business owners are paying a tax rate that goes over 50% when you are all in after state taxes and

payroll taxes, this will be a significant disincentive to hiring new employees. especially at a time when people are very uncertain about what their futures are. vis-a-vis the coronavirus next year. so while people may think they are making a leap of faith to vote for joe biden and hope for the future, the hoover institution study points out that joe biden's economic policies are probably going to create significant disincentives to hiring new employees. >> sandra: a bit more from that "wall street journal" piece that takes on the consequences of a biden tax policy. the risks from biden's policies isn't that they'll send the economy reeling right away but a long-term corrosive impact by raising the cost of capital. reducing the incentive to work and invest and reducing productivity across the economy. as you know the biden camp has responded with a statement basically saying this, that

donald trump tanked the strong economy. those are the exact words from the statement. he inherited from the obama/biden administration by his coronavirus response is what they're saying by not listening to the scientists. we are where we are with this economy because donald trump's response to the coronavirus led us here, dan. what's the response to that? >> well, you know, sandra, i have always thought that that is really one of the weakest arguments coming out of the biden camp. the idea is that we somehow inherited a strong growth and job production from the obama presidency, when most people are quite aware that unemployment was high and growth was below 2% during the obama years. and then somehow the biden campaign leads the whole thing right up to the coronavirus beginning in march of this year. doesn't that skip three years of the trump presidency? and the data that came out the

first three years of the trump presidency on job creation was quite extraordinary. the mainstream press routinely reported how unemployment for a black americans, hispanic americans fell to the lowest rate since the labor department recorded those rates back in the early 1970s. it was a tremendous jobs boom. and i think it was cut short indeed by the coronavirus. another subject to be sure. but the economic policies of those years did produce a lot of growth and job creation in the united states. i do think that's something the president needs to elaborate on. not simply point it out with these bullet points he uses but to hit joe biden hard on the creation of jobs in the first three years of his presidency. >> sandra: interesting to see how they take each other on on that topic thursday night on the debate stage. good to see you, dan. thank you.

>> trace: the clock is winding down as house speaker nancy pelosi sets a 48 hour deadline for the white house on stimulus talks. we'll get the latest straight from the source when allyssa farah joins us again. hanging chads. the enduring symbol of the 2000 election deadlock. what is the trump campaign doing to make sure the same thing doesn't happen again in florida? we're live in the unexpected battleground of arizona. biden now leading in the once reliable red state and the president now working hard there again today. another bundle in the books. got to hand it to you, jamie. your knowledge of victorian architecture really paid off this time. nah, just got lucky. so did the thompsons. that faulty wiring could've cost them a lot more than the mudroom. thankfully they bundled their motorcycle

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>> trace: swarms of lawyers are now descending on florida as early voting gets underway today. big concerns about a 2020 election sequel with the trump and biden campaigns bracing for a legal showdown in what looks like a razor thin presidential race. in miami-dade county alone 1500 election attorneys standing by in a country with half the number of precincts. both sides worried about the

repeat that left the bush/gore election in limbo years ago. >> sandra: president trump showing rallies in arizona today trailing joe biden by more than 3%. matt finn is live in prescott where the president will deliver the first of his speeches today. what are you seeing there this morning? >> before the sun came up here in central arizona this massive line started forming. the weather was in the 40s and in the 50s. relatively cool by arizona standards. we saw some people wrapped in the american flag and some blankets. a few people we talked to say they came from out of state. here are some of the president trump supporters we chatted with. >> he is for america and why we're here to support him. >> i've been here for three days waiting for this. i drove from california as soon as i saw it on his schedule. >> i'm a veteran. latina. >> this isn't politics anymore. this is traditional family

values. this is america that we are trying to save right here. >> here the president beat hillary clinton in 2016 with 65% of the vote. he is back this time around to reconnect with these arizona voters especially in rural counties. he will be relying on them in 2020. arizona voters historically have elected republican presidents but joe biden is ahead. the margins are tightening and arizona is being considered a contested battleground state. the president's rally here in prescott, arizona set to begin at 12 noon local. after this he will head south to tucson in pima county. a county that hillary clinton won in 2016, sandra. >> sandra: four hours out from the beginning of that rally. quite a line there. folks looking inized -- energyized to be there. >> trace: joe biden's lead is

giving democrats an uncomfortable feeling. four years ago clinton had a bigger lead than biden has this year. kevin walling is vice president of hg creative and joins us now. i first want to get your take i'm not sure if you heard we had matt finn at the president's rally in arizona. huge turnout there. john roberts top of the show was talking about the enthusiasm level for the president. appears to be every bit as robust now as it was in 2016. what do you make of that in contrast to the polls? >> trace, it's like yogi bear's quoek daij yeah view all over again. we see a lot of excitement on the ground for trump. he will crisscross the country this week in the lead-up to the debate and enthusiasm on the ground for them. i counter that with the enthusiasm we saw in 5.5 million americans that have fueled joe biden's campaign

smashing all records. the vice president outraised the incumbent president by only $100 million last month. a lot of enthusiasm we see in terms of the fundraising numbers which counter what you are seeing in terms of the in-person events with the president on the ground. >> trace: i think it's a fair point but you look at the whole think national polls the political analysts isn't a good roadmap to the electoral college, the 270 votes. the numbers on the screen. we showed them in the introto you. this is 2016 to 2020. michigan hillary clinton was up 8.8. the president won that state. joe biden is now 7.2, less than clinton. pennsylvania clinton up 5.7. president won that state. joe biden up less. in wisconsin clinton up 6.8, president won that state by less. does that concern you at all with what we've seen in the historical numbers? >> yeah, it certainly does.

you are seeing out of the biden campaign the campaign manager over the weekend we're taking nothing for granted in the key states. polling was so off the mark in 2016 that we can't take anything for granted. the old add acknowledge the only poll that matters is election day is key. you see joe biden in pennsylvania today. kamala and her husband in that today for the first day of early voting as you noted in florida. again taking nothing for granted in terms of this ground game that democrats have to put up against the president who is on the campaign trail today and this week. >> trace: i think a lot of political pundits have really put out the fact that all these polls that we look at and all of these predictive models that we look at, they were all based on normal election years and everybody seems to agree this is anything but a normal year and anything could happen. how do you account when you are in the biden and trump campaign how do you account for all the

variables? >> you are absolutely right. we have not seen an election like this. fox news's reporting in terms of the surge in early votes. nearly 28 million americans have already voted. that's 1/5 of the votes in 2016 alone. a lot of enthusiasm. for the former vice president and president trump. we see these lines in georgia, texas, ohio others places in republican and democratic precincts. the highest turnout election we've seen in modern american elections and again it is anyone's bet as to whether it is a turnout or persuasion election. more of a turnout election rallying the base as the president is doing in arizona and the vice president is doing in places like michigan on saturday. all about base engagement if you are a strategist with both campaigns. >> trace: let's say if joe

biden wins the race. the hill says biden and schumer face battles with left if democrats win big. what they're saying the progressives are not going to come across to that. when dianne feinstein hugged lindsey graham last week the far left went crazy. so there is not really a lot of wiggle room when it comes to cooperation from the far left to the gop and the progressive wing of the democratic party is making demands of joe biden. how do they handle it? >> we have to win first and deal with the consequences in terms of the fraction of the party. you see it on both sides. fiscally conservative republicans balking at the white house and mark meadows and mnuchin trying to get the deal with nancy pelosi. always infighting among caucuses. i hope we win big november 3 and democratic house and senate and white house. that has to play out if the

vice president is successful on election day. >> trace: difference between lashing out an 87-year-old senator who hugs one of her colleagues she has known for years. the response was surprising to me and really to a lot of democrats that you talk to. >> yeah. i harken back to the times when we could get things done and why joe biden was successful in the democratic primary. he talked about working across party lines. a beautiful ad that cut with cindy mccain and close friendship with john mccain. they would battle it out and get drinks afterwards. i think americans want to harken back to that time. the vast majority of americans saw that nice moment between dianne feinstein and lindsey graham as something to uphold as to something to tear down on the radical sides. lindsey graham didn't do any favors for his base in south carolina hugging dianne feinstein, either. i think the majority of americans are in the middle and saw it as a nice moment that we

can return to hopefully with joe biden as president. >> trace: kevin walling. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thanks, trace. >> sandra: fox news alert now we're looking at treasury secretary steve mnuchin. a live picture of him speaking in abu dhabi on a middle east trip. we're told he is talking about the deal with uae and israel and know that steve mnuchin and nancy pelosi speaker of the house are expected to be having a phone call at 3:00 p.m. eastern time about hashing out a deal for coronavirus relief before election day. mnuchin speaking in abu dhabi right now. we'll be monitoring this and bring it to you as it comes in. >> trace: a busy man. the nation's top infectious disease expert explains why we are seeing less of him and about the president's coronavirus diagnosis. a lot of people are trying to

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>> sandra: a doctor saying the next few weeks will be the darkest of the pandemic as new cases are at the highest number reported since july and 1,000 deaths friday alone. >> trace: president trump looking to close the polling gap with joe biden set to stump in arizona. biden has no public appearances plan using the day to prep for thursday's second and final debate. >> sandra: bloomberg is reporting that house speaker nancy pelosi has a 3:00 phone call with the white house for talks to reach a covid deal. speaker pelosi set tomorrow as

the deadline to reach an agreement before election day. both sides agree millions of americans urgently need help as the labor department reports job growth slowing and layoffs on the rise. no agreement yet on the specifics of what that new deal could look like. perhaps alyssa farah joining us from the white house, thank you for your time this morning. can you give us an update why the talks stand and what is happening at 3:00 today? >> yes, absolutely. sandra. thank you for having me. some progress on stimulus talks. the president has been very clear that getting direct aid and ppp to millions of americans and businesses is his top priority. i would say this. speaker pelosi has been reluctant to move toward the many offers we've put on the table but she may be moving toward where we have set the bar. the one thing i would note, though, the 48 hour deadline is an artificial deadline. the american people need help. we'll get it to them whether

it's 24 hours, 72 hours or longer. >> sandra: is that phone call happening at 3:00? can you confirm that mnuchin and speaker? >> that's my understanding. i believe they've spoken at the staff level over the weekend. so there have benon going conversations back and forth. the white house has been engaged with capitol hill as well. >> sandra: how far is the president willing to go to make the deal happen? >> he is willing to go pretty far. we'd come up on the amount given in direct payments to american families in looking at the ppp amounts. so that is more that we're going toward. what we have concerns with and where the fault lines continue to lie is overstate and local assistance. essentially asking for bail-outs of states that have been mismanaged for years, mostly democrat-run states unrelated to the covid crisis. that's something we can look at in legislation down the road. it is not part of this immediate package from the republicans' perspective. >> sandra: as you know,

democrats heading into election day have kept a serious focus on covid-19 and the rising cases that we're seeing in the united states. dr. fauci gave an interview on 60 minutes, made news on a lot of fronts but specifically this on the president's covid diagnosis. listen. >> i was worried that he was going to get sick when i saw him in a completely precarious situation of crowded, no separation between people and almost nobody wearing a mask. when i saw that on tv i said oh my goodness. nothing good can come out of that. that's got to be a problem. then sure enough it turned out to be a super swaeder -- super spreader event. >> sandra: has the white house tried to stop him from appearing on television as much as he was in the past or giving interviews. >> two things. first on that first point

nearly 7 million americans have contracted coronavirus. i don't think we should get into the business of blaming people for getting the virus. the other thing is the president has a responsibility to be on the road, top meeting with members of congress and doing the job. this is not a job where he can be hiding in his basement from the virus. he has to be out. he has assumed some risk in doing so. i don't think we should get into the he had it coming. 7 million plus americans have also got ten virus. the second point absolutely not. a more visible figure around coronavirus than dr. fauci. the fact that he was appearing on 60 minutes clearly we aren't limiting his television presence. there is also a number of doctors and experts on the task force and we want to make sure we put all of those experts out. secretary azar, for example, was on the sunday shows this weekend giving an update to the american public. dr. birx is in states where

cases are rising doing regional and local media and meeting with local officials. >> sandra: his exact response to whether or not the white house has been controlling his media appearance he said i would have to be honest and say yes. i certainly have not been able or allowed to go on many, many shows that have asked me. is he wrong? >> well, it's a little more complicated than that. with any administration figure whether it's a cabinet secretary or dr. fauci they will deconflict their segments with the white house so that the president's message is also leading the day. of course if the president is appearing live somewhere giving a speech we generally don't book guests around that. dr. fauci has been on an incredible amount of tv and hard to turn on the tv and not see him and we aren't trying to stifle him sharing important information with the public. >> sandra: as far as the importance of a vaccine this could be a game changer if we do see one. andrew cuomo the governor of new york went on "good morning

america" and said this on trusting a vaccine that gets approved under this president. listen. >> i'm not that confident. my opinion doesn't matter. you'll say to the american people now here is a vaccine. it was new, done quickly, but trust this federal administration and their health administration that it's safe? i think it will be a very skeptical american public about taking the vaccine. we'll put together our own group of doctors and medical experts to review the vaccine. >> sandra: how does the white house respond to him talking about a skeptical american public of a vaccine that could get approved under this presidency? >> those are highly irresponsible comments to make. we made the same point after senator harris also kind of alluded to some anti-vaccine comments in a debate with the vice president. the vaccine that comes to market will be both safe and effective and will go through an independent review board. these are not political appointees who are reviewing

this. these are career medical professionals and scientists. the head of operation warp speed who the president put at the helm of it has brought dozens of vaccines safely to market and one of the four-most experts around the world in the field. the american people should trust him and trust this process and playing politics with a vaccine is extremely dangerous. >> sandra: a few seconds left. debate thursday night and campaign stops. what does the next few days look like for the president? >> he will go two a day and three a day rallies, not stopping. we're surprised to see that vice president biden is down until thursday. the presidency is not a job where you can take any days off and you can take naps and be down for several days. the president will be out and about meeting with the american people, telling them about what he has accomplished for them and what he will do in the four years ahead. >> sandra: alyssa farah, thank you. >> trace: in california the

state republican party is allowed to keep its ballot boxes for people to vote after the state said they must go. the boxes have to comply with the state's ballot harvesting law which is also under fire in washington our senior correspondent eric shawn has the details in new york. >> good morning. california you can vote in a republican-sponsored ballot box after all. this is a situation where those boxes were intended to help voters cast their ballots but they are not official government sponsored boxes. last week the state issued a cease and desist order against using them but they said they're legal under the state's ballot harvesting law and now they can stay if a volunteer mans the box to collect the votes because under the ballot harvesting law a real live person has to accept a ballot. you can't put it in a steel box. president trump has criticized ballot harvesting where a third

party like a campaign or activist group is allowed to collect your ballot. supporters say the practice does make voting easier for people in states like florida where it's allowed in certain cases. it has been a success according to experts. >> it provides more access to voting. we want more people to vote, not less. we want them to vote legally. >> a bill in congress would ban it across the country. tulsi gabbard of hawaii and a republican have teamed up to sponsor the election fraud prevention act. >> argue if you had a $100 bill and somebody came to offer you a chance to take that $100 bill to the bank for you and you don't know who that person is, would you trust them with that money? i doubt it. but a ballot is worth a lot more than a $100 bill and why we have to make sure we protect the integrity of the process.

>> as for those california republican sponsored ballot boxes we have no word at the moment exactly how many people may have used them to vote. trace. >> trace: eric shawn live in new york. thank you. >> sandra: the u.s. postal service pulling the plug on daily police patrols. is that a threat to election security? mike pence holding a make america great generally in maine and president trump holds two rallies in arizona today. >> this is the most important election in the history of our country. the most important. i never thought i would say that after our last victory. this is the most important election we've ever had. (vo) businesses are always making choices.

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>> sandra: new york city police investigating another subway attack saying a man was shot in the neck in manhattan last night while waiting on a train platform. he is expected to be okay. police stats show crime is on

the rise city wide. september shootings increased 127% this year. meantime another bloody weekend in the city of chicago. a total of 36 people shot over the weekend with 7 victims dying. one of them a 14-year-old boy. three other teens were also injured but are expected to be okay. no word yet on arrests in any of the shootings. >> trace: police officers who protect the u.s. postal service are raising new concerns about mail-in ballots, the union representing those officers is suing after the postal service ended daily patrols to prevent mail robberies and protect carriers before the election. frank albergo is the president of the postal police officers association. good of you to join us. you said if i were going to undermine public trust in the mail first thing i would do was to pull the postal police and that's what they've done. your thoughts. >> well, obviously police

officers, unformed cops deter crime and if i were going to undermine the public trust in the mail that's one of the first things i would do. >> that's the thing. i'm wondering if you believe that postal crime is up. is mail theft up? there is conflicting numbers. nobody is quite sure if it's up or not up. can you kind of explain that to us, frank? >> it's absolutely up. from my personal experience you can google mail theft or assaults on carriers and you will learn that mail theft is soaring. there are numbers that suggest 600% and prosecutions for mail theft are down by at least half. >> trace: others say they aren't sure if the numbers are accurate and their point being there has been so much controversy about mail-in ballots and people are worried about mail-in ballots and they

say if they can't tell us how much mail theft has gone up how will they monitor any complaints or figure out to way to find out if there have been any problems with mail-in ballots >> that's a good point. that's a major problem with the inspection service they can't track mail theft? imagine that. >> trace: that's my question exactly. if they can't track mail theft what's the point? the whole thing is if i give a ballot how do i know somebody didn't steal it? you hear these stories and you were mentioning the articles and i read some of these things about gangs that lie in wait at these blue post office boxes and grab them and they are very good at this kind of stuff. what's to stop them from grabbing something else? something that i nut there that needs to get to the election commission? >> nothing. at this point they pulled posted police officers off the streets. in a sense, the postal service has essentially defunded their

own police force. it makes absolutely no sense. >> so what are you telling your members? as a union, what are you telling them? give me an idea if you can, frank, what precisely are these officers doing protecting the mail? >> well, we patrol all postal property until recently and we prevent mail theft. we protect postal property, postal employees, postal vehicles. we are professionals and the men and women of the postal police force are confused. they don't understand why this is happening. why has the postal service handcuffed postal police? it is remarkable. during a pandemic right before an election. i mean, i wish i could make sense of it. >> trace: yeah. well, we're looking for answers as well as you are. if we find them we'll get back to you.

thank you for coming on, sir, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> sandra: twitter facing increased backlash and why the company is getting heat for its decision to censor a "new york post" article bringing new revelations to light about hunter biden. a new report and update on that story next. there's no appraisal, no income verification and no out of pocket costs. let newday help you use your va benefits to save $250 a month, that's $3000 a year. one call is all it takes. joe biden was raised with middle class values. joe doesn't need to be the center of attention. or see himself on tv. he has always focused on getting the job done. joe led us out of the 2008 recession, and increased health coverage for millions.

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>> sandra: backlash against twitter under fire over its handling of the "new york post" story on hunter biden's business dealings. jackie joins us with more. >> big tech is in focus. their power and influence. twitter is the one currently in the hot seat. it censored the revelations for

hunter biden's emails. after the black lash dorsey apologized. straight blocking of urls was wrong he said in part of a tweet. what about twitter employees? senior executives have shown anti-trump hatred. one manager tweeted in january of 2017 trump should, quote, die in a fire. other tweets with expletives and name calling as well. jennifer christie, chief hr officer of twitter told fox business this in a statement. we do not hire based on political beliefs and support our employees' right to express themselves and support the causes that they care about. our employees are professionals and we require them to bring objectivity to their work regardless of their professional views. now the rnc has filed a federal elections complaint over twitter's ban on sharing that recent article about hunter biden claiming that the ban amounts to illegal corporate in kind contributions to vice

president biden. mark meadows, chief white house chief of staff weighed in on fox and friends this morning. >> if there is any interference in the election it's by twitter and facebook right now. they'll not only have a problem with the american people but a problem with congress as this will bring republicans and democrats together to make sure that they once and for all are held accountable for their actions. >> big tech's hot seat on capitol hill has been postponed because of covid-19. one of those to be continued stories. >> sandra: jackie, thank you. >> trace: president trump holding a rally in prescott, arizona just hours from now. a look at the president's campaign strategy as democrats try to turn the swing state blue. >> president trump: a vote for republicans is a vote for safe communities, great jobs, and a limitless future for all americans. it is a vote for the american dream. that's what we're doing.

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represents the highest weekly volume since the start of the covid-19 outbreak and that is good news. >> here we go into the holidays were a lot more folks will be traveling, 3:00 p.m. trump rally today. great to be with you. "outnumbered" starts right now. to be wanted is 15 days away and counting to election day, the biden campaign is renewed criticism over its ties to big tech companies after his transitions team hired a top facebook executive and reportedly brought in our twitter executive. this as social media giants are facing backlash for blocking a new york post report on -- >> joe biden is and always has been a corrupt politician. he always has been. and as far as i'm concerned, the biden family is