steve: the book is called green light, and, matthew mcconaughey, thank you for joining us at 8:30 in the morning and not 8:30 at night although tucker carlson's going to miss you. >> i was tardy! ainsley: all right, all right, all right

>> president obama heading to philadelphia today to stump for his former vice president. >> sandra: the candidate's final debate is tomorrow night in tennessee. in pennsylvania the latest real clear politics average there showing joe biden with a lead of less than four points where 20 electoral votes are up for grabs. senator ted cruz will join us in moments with his reaction to the latest developments in the hunter biden email story and more but first live fox team coverage for you. we begin with jackie heinrich in philadelphia. why are both campaigns hitting

pennsylvania so hard right now? >> good morning. both republican and democratic strategists view pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes critical to winning. one of six states with the most electoral votes. if state has gone through voting lawsuits and ballot disputes. former president barack obama will encourage people to vote early and in person. it's happening at the ballpark behind me less than two weeks before the election. a portion of obama's remarks will be directed toward black men highlighting the importance of african-american turnout in philadelphia that caused hillary clinton's loss of pennsylvania in 2016. she won the philadelphia area she didn't win by as much as she needed to and won by far less of a share than obama did to romney in 2012. when president trump learned the biden campaign was pulling

out their biggest weapon he played it down. >> sir, we have bad news. obama will start campaigning for sleepy joe. and i said is that good or bad? why is that bad? he campaigned harder or hillary than she did, you know? he was very ineffective as a campaigner to me. i think that's good news. >> the president's focus last night was holding onto support in one of three counties he flipped in 2016. in erie he hit biden hard over fracking claiming biden will ban it and using videos of biden and harris support for ending fracking to prove his argument. biden's method aims to move away from fracking by not issuing new permits of federal land. his plan does not affect fracking on private land. critics maintain biden would kill the fracking industry by

rolling back president trump's deregulation efforts. it is causing the biden campaign to flood the airwaves. the second most ads of any swing state in this election. >> sandra: trace. >> trace: sources telling fox news the f.b.i. is now in possession of the laptop purportedly belonging to hunter biden and the emails found on it are not linked to russia. foreign interference hasn't been ruled out. gillian turner is live in washington what is the intelligence community saying about this reporting specifically, is the dni or f.b.i. commenting at all this morning? >> so trace, a couple of things to pull out here. threads to pull on. sources confirmed to fox news the f.b.i. is in possession of that laptop that's alleged to have belonged to hunter biden at some point. the intelligence community is staying very, very tight lipped about a separate aspect of the story which is whether or not

there is an investigation into the possibility of some kind of foreign election interference. super important context to keep in mind throughout the day on this story. we'll update you as it comes. last night fox news obtained a letter from the f.b.i. to senator ron johnson about the laptop that says if actionable intelligence is found we'll evaluate the need to provide meetings with you. vice president biden, asked by a local outlet yesterday whether he thinks the senate's inquiry led by chairman ron johnson is legitimate pushed back hard. he said this is the same garbage. it is rudy giuliani. last ditch effort to smear me and my family. there is no basis to this and you know and all in the vast majority of the intelligence people have come out and said there is no basis at all.

now, republican lawmakers, some republican lawmakers are seizing on these developments to call for a special counsel investigation into the matter. gohmert moving ahead despite neither the hill or intelligence community have produced findings. take a listen. >> it's one of the problems with not punishing corruption is you don't get to the deterrent effect which is why you have the bidens apparently just using the vice president's position, maybe back when he was senator, just for pure corruption. >> this morning we're left with a lot of allegations, a lot of insinuations, a lot of squeaky wheels on capitol hill. the intelligence community itself staying mum. we'll continue to track this with the d.n.i. and f.b.i. and bring it to you if anything happens. >> sandra: for more on this let's bring in texas senator

ted cruz, a member of the judiciary committee. good morning and welcome. thank you for being here this morning. there seems to be a lot we know, a lot we're learning about this story. now the f.b.i. has this laptop. the f.b.i. and d.o.j. seem to be in agreement with d.n.i. ratcliffe this is not some part of a russian disinformation campaign. there is a lot the american people don't understand about this story. what do they need to know? >> well, one of the most striking things is what joe biden isn't saying. so joe biden has not denied that this is, in fact, his son, hunter biden's laptops. he has not denied that these emails are real. joe biden has not denied that he personally met with the ukrainian oligarch he had sworn up and done he never met with. joe biden has not denied to communist china offered him millions of dollars to do business with them. right now the biden strategy is count on the press and count on

big tech to protect him from answering even basic questions. and i will tell you last week when it came to big tech we saw a major transformation. for years we've seen a growing problem of big tech censoring citizens from speaking online. last week big tech took another step, a huge step and they're now censoring the press and media, in particular they blocked the "new york post," which has the fourth highest circulation of any newspaper in america, they blocked the "new york post" from circulating or any american from posting two blockbuster stories alleging evidence of corruption by joe biden. that is a serious, serious abuse of power by big tech trying to silence the press. >> sandra: the "wall street journal" editorial board takes it up in a piece this morning pointing out the media ignoring the email found on the hunter biden laptop. the bidens and china business. the story won't go away without

explanation even if the v.p. wins. while it is being ignored it will make the case there will be big questions that have to be answered by a potential president biden if he does win this election. the editorial board writes this. joe biden ought to clear the air on this china business in his own political interest. is he the big guy in the email? what happened with the deal? china will be one of mr. biden's toughest foreign policy challenges and the unexplained documents won't go away once he is elected. if republicans hold the senate you bet there will be more digging. so senator, tell us about that. if joe biden wins the presidency, how would a republican-led senate if it stays that way, how would it proceed? >> well look, all of those questions need to be asked. i'm glad the journal is asking them. the traveling press corps with joe biden are not asking them. to be honest it's hard to ask it of someone who is hiding in

their basement and doesn't take questions from the press. and look, we know let's take the china piece of it. if the emails are true -- by the way, if the emails aren't true which the biden campaign has not alleged they're fake. let someone put out the evidence. we want to know if there is fake. no allegation they're fake. if they're true fox news has reported from sources that the big guy referred to in the emails is joe biden himself and that -- this is an important point. this whole issue is not about hunter biden. hunter biden by all appearances has led a very troubled life and a challenging life. this whole inquiry is about joe biden who wants to be president of the united states and about whether joe biden was personally corrupt. the china emails are offering to pay over a million dollars to the big guy, to joe biden himself, cash in his bank account. the questions the journal asked

did the deal go through? did he take the money? how much money did joe biden take from communist china? what did he do for it? those questions haven't even be asked much less answered. you know, abc had joe biden on for a town hall the day after these stories broke. they didn't ask a single question. whether he had received millions from communist china and what he had done in exchange for that. apparently it couldn't get in the way of their political effort to try to defeat trump and elect a democrat president. >> sandra: meanwhile to the suppression of this story and others as you and other republican senators are making the case, you now want to subpoena these technology executives. you have big questions for them. but senator, you know these companies are worth billions of dollars in market capital. you look at google, a trillion dollars. what kind of fight are you up for knowing that they've got big guns behind anything that you and other senators bring?

>> well, this is the fight i've been in for a long time. i think big tech poses the single largest threat to free speech and democracy in america. their power keeps growing and growing and growing. i'm very glad to see the department of justice moving this week to bring an antitrust lawsuit against google. it is worth over a trillion dollars. they have 120 billion sitting around in cash and they use and abuse their monopoly position, number one, to enrich themselves as everyone else's expense but two, when it comes to politics, to silence american citizens and now to censor the media. if you look at what twitter did, if you or i or anybody tried to tweet either of these "new york post" stories laying out evidence of joe biden's corruption, your tweet would be blocked. you would get a warning sign that says this is potentially harmful. they went even further than that and blocked the "new york

post" itself from posting their own stories. sandra, i've got a brand-new book that came out three weeks ago called one vote away, how a single supreme court seat can change history and there is an entire chapter in the book one vote away about free speech and about the efforts of the left of today's democrats to go after free speech, to prohibit you speaking on politics. did you know that every single senate democrat voted to amend the constitution to restrict the free speech protections of american citizens? that's what their agenda is and big tech is their willing henchman. and whether or not you agree with big tech's politics, who in their right mind would want a handful of silicon valley billionaires, american oligarchs, having total monopoly control over who is allowed to speak, what media is allowed to report, what stories

you are allowed to write? it's dangerous and a threat to our freedom. >> sandra: amy coney barrett expected to arrive on capitol hill. confirmation vote. do democrats have anything left to stop this? >> they don't. the judiciary committee will confirm her tomorrow and then the full senate will confirm her on monday. i will say having been part of the hearings last week you saw the first day or so the democrats try to take some shots at her and she was calm, cool, collected. and the american people i think she impressed the american people and by day two you saw democrats running for the hills. they didn't want to be anywhere near that hearing room. they recognized their attacks on her and more fundamentally their attacks on our constitutional liberties and the bill of rights weren't resonating with the voters. judge barrett will be confirmed and by monday night she will be justice barrett. >> sandra: senator ted cruz, appreciate your time this

morning. >> trace: a big day on capitol hill with the senate panel set to vote on amy coney barrett's confirmation. a poll looks at what america feels about that. joe biden out pacing president trump in fundraising. how is the trump campaign handling a cash crunch? trump 2020 national press secretary hogan gidley will join us with more on that coming up. >> president trump: he is a servant of the globalist, lobby wealthy donors and washington vultures. i could be the king of all fundraisers.

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>> sandra: a south carolina sheriff's deputy was killed in a traffic stop after an altercation of someone in the car that accelerated and collided with a trailer and the deputy was hit. another deputy collided with the car. the sheriff was pronounced dead at the hospital. four other people were hurt in the incident which is now under investigation. >> trace: the senate judiciary committee set to vote tomorrow on the nomination of judge amy coney barrett for the supreme court. most americans support her confirmation according to a poll. let's bring in guy benson host of the guy benson show.

i want to point to the poll. 51% favor confirming judge barrett. 46% not in favor. that 46% number is interesting because it is the highest against number in the history of gallup's supreme court polling that goes back to 1987. is that kind of the fuel for the fire that democrats are using to try to block this to give them motivation, guy? >> yeah, and i would point out you're right. the negative numbers are high but the positive number in favor of confirmation is a majority higher than we saw with kavanaugh, higher than we saw with gorsuch or kagan. that's a strong number for judge barrett. not the only poll that has barrett at 51% in favor of her confirmation. there is a new poll out this morning that has been tracking this now for weeks and what's interesting to me, trace, about that particular survey is when barrett was announced back in late september, she was at plus

3, right? so above water but barely. she is now in the new poll up in the plus 23 zone with independents favoring her confirmation by 20 points t. more the american people have seen of judge barrett, heard from judge barrett, the more they like her and persuaded she ought to be on the court. per your last guest ted cruz i think it will happen very soon. >> trace: i want to bring up the poll for independents and what caught my eye. in favor independents 52%. that, by the way, was only, you know, was only beaten by john roberts and sonia sotomayor. that's a huge number of independents in support of amy coney barrett. what does that tell you about this confirmation process, guy? >> that persuadeable people have been persuaded. she is a suburb choice, eminently qualified. performed splendidly at the

hearings. whether the gallup poll or other polls, independents and the american people have shifted in favor of her confirmation and even movement among some democrats tugging in that direction as well. i would also note, trace, this is a lot of polling to be talking about. "the new york times" had a poll out just yesterday on a bunch of subjects including this one and asked the american people should this confirmation vote happen before the election or only after the election? democrats have been arguing now for weeks and weeks that this ought to happen after the election. now by an eight-point margin the american people disagree and think the confirmation vote should happen before the election, which is it is going to. it strikes me if you look at the arc of this confirmation process the democrats have tried to argue it is not constitutional. that's joe biden's term. it's false. it is clearly constitutional what's going on. the historical norms here are right on target with what the republicans are doing with this filling of the seat. and the last vestige of the

democrats in terms of a compelling argument the american people don't want this, they are against her. the american people feel like this vote is too soon. now you have polling that shows even that final argument that they are trying to make no longer applies. they are left with nothing. >> trace: i want to get this in there. "the new york times" poll shows in that poll talking about court packing 58% oppose to packing the court. only 31% in favor. it appears to be a losing issue. why won't joe biden just come out and declare his position? >> great question. he should. it's a 2-1 margin in the "new york times" poll. the american people against court packing. independents against it by 40 points. 40-point margin in that poll. i have now seen three major surveys nationwide ask on this question. and probe the american people on court packing and guess what? the number in support, the percentage in support of court packing across all three polls

has 31, 31 and 32%. it's a loser. the american people clearly don't want it. >> trace: that's a big number in this day and age. always great to see you. >> sandra: the houston police department is dealing with the killing of an officer and ice says an illegal immigrant is the suspect. plus president trump traveling to north carolina today where polls show a virtual tie between the two candidates. hogan gidley joining us live from the trump campaign to discuss the state of the race 13 days out.

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>> sandra: fox news alert. amy coney barrett the supreme court nominee is now on capitol hill. she is meeting with a list of senators today ahead of her confirmation vote. right now senator from missouri, senator blunt. and this is a live pool camera inside the office there as she makes her rounds.

she will head on to senator alexander of tennessee, senator barrasso and portman and several after lunch. we spoke with senator ted cruz a few moments ago. called her confirmation vote certain and it will be happening and she will soon be justice amy coney barrett. we'll have more. president trump campaigning today in north carolina where the latest average shows a close race with joe biden up about two points. the tar heel state has 15 electoral votes. hogan gidley is the trump national press secretary. good morning to you. why is the president spending time and campaign spending time in north carolina in particular as well as a lot of time in pennsylvania? >> well, the president of the united states, , donald trump, fundamentally changed the electoral map in 2016 winning

states that republicans had difficulty winning in states. it is important to defend the states we won the first time around securing another four years in office and maybe picking off minnesota, new hampshire, other places that go blue. north carolina is a very important state in this election. it is my home state. i was born in the very town that donald trump is visiting this evening. gastonia. i have a lot of relatives there and excited about the president. the folks i talk to on the ground are enthusiastic about getting out and voting for four more years of peace and prosperity that they can have with donald trump. >> sandra: a lot can be pointed to in the days leading up to election day 13 days out. polling is one indication that we do use to get some sense of where the two candidates stand. fundraising is another, hogan. i'll put this on the screen. a "new york times" article on the fundraising gap happening now. trump's campaign $63 million. dwarfed by bidens $177 million. the extent of the president's

cash troubles as he is now badly outmatched by joe biden. what should be taken away from that, hogan, as we look for some sort of metric how the president is doing other than anecdotal which your campaign uses so much about enthusiasm and crowd size? >> well look, i think the biden campaign strategy is clear. one that will be led from the basement with a barrage of television advertisements. you can't parachute in in the last minute and get to go out and vote. no one likes joe biden. the media don't really care for him. they just hate donald trump. they're skewing all the coverage against this president. that's nothing new. 95% of the coverage is antagonistic to donald trump. we have a massive ground game organization that is the envy of the political universe. we had more than 130 million voter contact engagements year-to-date. that's extremely impressive. no one has ever seen anything like it.

barack obama didn't have the massive volunteer army that we have. we have enough money to be up on tv in all the states needed to win and pick off even more states. the fact is get people out to vote. >> sandra: the biden campaign is challenging that notion. remember what trump said he would fund his own campaign if he needed? he needs to. he doesn't have the money. two weeks. how do you respond to that? >> i don't know what that means. it's exactly what i just pointed out. the fact that joe biden thinks he can win this thing with television ads. we know he has a 47-year career of failure. he can't point to anything he did do. everything he accomplished crushed the american worker, -- he can't put to anything he will do because it's green new deals and open borders and abolishing ice.

this president has a 47-month in politics of record-setting success, joe biden has half of a century of failure. >> sandra: i want to ask you where the president will focus his messaging not only when it comes to campaign rallies and the debate stage thursday night. mike huckabee made an interesting comment suggested the president is making a mistake by leading with joe biden and this hunter biden story. the question on fox and friends this morning. >> he is leading with hunter biden. is that a mistake? >> yeah, it is a mistake because the average person doesn't understand it. it is too complicated. they care about their healthcare costs, their taxes, they care about safety in their neighborhood on their block and in their yard. focus on that, he wins the election by a landslide. >> sandra: is that a message that's getting to president trump? you heard that. you heard ted cruz saying this is about joe biden, not hunter biden. is the president taking that in?

what will we see as far as messaging on that story? >> i love mike huckabee and where i got my start in politics and friends with his family for 20 years and consider him a second father to me. i think he is a little off here. the president isn't talking about hunter biden. he is talking about joe biden and what the emails now reveal is that joe biden is flat out corrupt. this is one of the big problems with hillary clinton back in 2016. the american people knew about clinton cash. they knew about the clinton foundation and how sketchy all of that information coming out was. >> sandra: that's not the point. he is not suggesting it doesn't need to be looked into or discussed just suggesting 13 days out when it comes to the trump campaign and the messaging from the president talk about the economy and the pocketbook issues. >> he is doing that at every single rally driving that home. that's what matters to the american people. this president's policies have improved the lives of all americans regardless of race,

religion, color or creed. i remember in the mid-terms how the media kept saying why isn't the president talking about the economy? 80% of the speeches in the mid-terms about the economy. they didn't want to cover that. the only time they mentioned the word economy was we don't talk about it enough. >> sandra: will he bring it up on the debate stage. >> he will talk about what he will do for the future for all americans as well. that's what matters. the successes that allow them to put food on the table and clothes on their back is what donald trump brings to the table and what joe biden can't talk about. >> sandra: that's what voters care about. i have to go a few seconds. the debate stage. if it is not a question does president trump bring it up and make the point himself? >> i don't want to get ahead of what the president will or won't do. corruption is a major issue for the american people. they see what washington has been doing. how they've been lying. joe biden is one of the chief, you know, problems in this city and in this country.

and the corruption now is flowing into his family and you see that. i think the american people absolutely care about their politicians using taxpayer funded jobs to try and benefit their family. that's exactly what joe biden has been doing and it is a serious issue in this campaign. >> sandra: we'll see what they turn up on that. the f.b.i. now has that laptop. appreciate your time. thank you. fox news. we'll have complete coverage of the final presidential debate as we just mentioned. bret baier and martha maccallum will kick things off tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m. eastern time and the debate in its entirety at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. >> trace: louisville police officer involved in the raid on breonna taylor's is speaking about it the first time. it sparked month's long demonstration. the officer says this incident should not be grouped with the deaths of other

african-americans at the hands of police. >> it is not a race thing like people want to try to make it to be. it's not. we were doing our job. we returned fire. this is not us going hunting somebody down and kneeling on the neck. nothing like that. >> trace: mike tobin live in chicago with more. what do we know about this? >> i can tell you that sergeant jonathan manningly spoke to abc news. he said the raid and shooting on her apartment had nothing to do with race. he said police officers did knock and announced their presence before entering that apartment on march 13. misinformation he says such as police were at the wrong apartment or taylor was asleep in her bed fueled public outrage and city leaders did nothing to correct it. >> this is not relatable to george floyd, nothing like it. it is nothing like it. these are two totally different types incidences. it is not a race thing.

it is not hunting us somebody down or kneeling on a neck. nothing like that. >> meantime a grand juror explains why officers who fired shots were not charged directly for taylor's death. following a judges ruling one grand juror released an statement the grand jury was not presented any charges other than the three wanton endangerment charge. the grand jury did not have homicide offenses explained to them. >> a lot of evidence that was provided to the grand jury. however, once that evidence is provided, the assessment has to be made how it applies to the law. the only opportunity that they were given that we can now ascertain from our clients' statement, the recordings and the files were the one endangerment. no other laws were discussed whether it be particular to a certain offense or a defense to

a certain offense. >> mattingly said taylor did not deserve to die. >> sandra: joe biden is bringing out his closer, president obama, campaigns for his former v.p. in a critical battleground state today. plus president trump and joe biden preparing for their final face-off tomorrow night in nashville. what they both need to do to attract those undecided voters.

>> joe biden needs your vote. i know joe better than almost anybody. i trust him to be a great president. he is different. he is on the right side of the issues. >> trace: former president obama campaigning for joe biden stumping today in philadelphia for his former v.p. after

president trump's rally in pennsylvania. will obama give the biden campaign a boost in a state both candidates need to win. lisa boothe and richard fowler joining us to discuss. the president talking about the former president campaigning for the former vice president. watch. >> president trump: they came up to me sir, i have bad news. what? president obama is going to start campaigning for sleepy joe. i said is that good or bad news? don't forget, he campaigned for hillary harder than hillary, right? he said he will not get the nomination. i got the nomination. he will not be your president. i became the president. [cheering] >> do you think the former president is effective for joe biden? >> this is obama's debut on the campaign trail which speaks to a lack of confidence in joe biden as a candidate, which is consistent with reports that obama pushed joe biden out of

the race in 2016, tried to do that again in 2020. has reportedly said don't underestimate joe's ability to f things up. his own campaign doesn't have confidence in joe biden because he has called a lid on this entire week when president trump has been in arizona, pennsylvania, north carolina. and as president trump says he has done more in 47 months that joe biden has done in 47 years. the only redeeming thing joe biden had was somehow he was the good guy in the race. that imploded. we know he allowed his son to leverage the office of the presidency and lied about it. >> trace: we're running short on time. a fair point. it is done. we're back to lisa now. i was going to ask richard. fair point. the thing here is it's crunch time, right? the vice president has got this lid for a week straight. what's going on? is he that confident, is the campaign that confident they'll win they don't need to be on

the road? >> no, i think you've seen both the vice president as well as kamala harris and the campaign surrogates on the road for the past couple of weeks. i do think this will be a close election. donald trump has a chance to win. here lies the problem. in 2016 donald trump was running against an unpopular hillary clinton and a clear closing argument. build the wall, drain the swamp. he was going to fix american trade policy. here we are 13 days away from this next election and donald trump doesn't have a closing argument. he hasn't convinced millennial that will help fix student loan issues or convinced suburban families he would be the president to curb the coronavirus. >> trace: why is biden not campaigning and calling the lid? >> biden is preparing for the debate. he takes the debate very seriously. unlike the president. >> trace: is it more about the debate or not wanting to answer

questions? this hunter biden email things is not calming down. >> i get that. >> no, no, richard time. he doesn't want to answer a question. he asked me, richard. joe biden doesn't want to answer questions because they haven't denied the authenticity of the emails. the one person that richard didn't mention is joe biden the actual candidate in the race not being on the campaign trail. president trump is running a country and had covid and been in arizona, north carolina, pennsylvania, he is also preparing for the debate. joe biden doesn't have the stamina to be president of the united states. he doesn't have the record to be president of the united states. not only has he been ineffective in 47 years but also flip-flopped on every issue or gotten the rest wrong. >> trace: last word, richard. >> look, i will say this. if this is what managing the country looks like making the white house the coronavirus hot spot yes, that's what the

american people are voting on. who can better manage the country and what we know is this. every state has an up tick in covid-19 and the president doesn't have a national strategy. the forefront issue in this election, period. >> trace: good to see you both, thank you. >> sandra: whether you mail in your ballot or vote in person how do you really know that your vote gets counted? we'll have a live report on the safeguards that are now in place. and, in more and more cities, the unprecedented performance of ultra wideband. the fastest 5g in the world. it will change your phone and how businesses do everything. i'm proud, because we didn't build it the easy way, we built it right. this is the 5g america's been waiting for. only from verizon.

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>> sandra: millions of americans are mailing ballots and voting early due to the pandemic. now another key state gets an extension for counting votes that may come in after election day. analysts say it is all part of making this election the most protected ever. senior correspondent eric shawn

is live in new york city on that for us. what is this new ruling? >> good morning. seen as another way to protect the vote. a federal appeals court letting ballots in north carolina be counted up to nine days after november 3 as long as they are postmarked by election day. the trump campaign says extending county deadline violates north carolina state law. the court disagreed citing the concerns over the crush of mail in voting we've been seeing saying north carolina voters deserve clarity whether they must rely on overburdened post office to deliver their ballots within three days after election day. the change is simply an extension for a timely ballot to be received and counted. that is all. the decision happens to be the latest in protecting the election. experts say despite the warnings and worries it could turn out to be the safest presidential election yet. authorities and voters are on high alert for any problems and

have taken many steps to strengthen the system. the center for justice credits election officials across the country for instituting new measures to safeguard the integrity of the process. >> the only time you ever hear about an election official is when something gets screwed up. but there are literally thousands of them who have been working around the clock since march, since covid hit to make sure we could have functioning elections this fall and knock on wood, so far things aren't perfect but things seem to be working pretty well. >> north carolina so far more than 1,800,000 voters have cast ballots. 40%, all of them are by mail. >> sandra: a huge part of this election. eric shawn, thank you for that. >> trace: game one of the world

series is in the books. the dodgers trounced the rays last night. a scoreless tie until los angeles scored runs in three consecutive innings. the rays looking to bounce back in game two set for tonight at 8:00 p.m. on big fox. >> sandra: thank you, trace. sources confirming to fox news the f.b.i. is now in possession of that laptop purportedly belonging to hunter biden. what is the intel community saying about foreign interference. is there a response yet from the biden campaign?

>> sandra: fox news alert. a live look on capitol hill where amy coney barrett arrived a short time ago meeting with senators there. right now senator alexander from tennessee. photo op in front of the fireplace as she will meet with senators ahead of her confirmation vote. we'll continue to have these live pictures throughout the morning. a brand-new hour. here is what's happening inside "america's newsroom." >> just 13 days to go, the candidates on the campaign trail. president trump and senator harris in north carolina and former president obama will be at a drivein car rally in philadelphia. >> mr. president accusing cbs of being fake and biased and

lesley stahl not wearing a mask in the white house. >> they continue with a larger package. >> to put the political stunt on floor a second time is cruel. >> sandra: we'll have more on those stories throughout the hour. back to our top story this morning. president trump and former president joe biden are getting ready for tomorrow's big presidential debate sharing the stage three weeks after their first debate as the race for the white house enters the final stretch. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." here we go. 13 days out, trace. i'm sandra smith. >> trace: good morning to you, good morning. i'm trace gallagher. final preparations are underway in nashville ahead of the final presidential debate. with election day less than two weeks away president trump and kamala harris are both in north carolina today. vice president pence making stops in ohio and new hampshire. while joe biden remains out of sight holing up with the

advisors for debate prep former president obama will be stumping for him today in philadelphia. president trump was in pennsylvania yesterday. >> president trump: it is a choice between our plan to kill the virus or biden's plan to kill the american dream. that's what he would be doing. if you want depression, doom, and despair vote for sleepy joe biden. and boredom. >> sandra: griff jenkins live in nashville, tennessee. a lot of folks are wondering if these changes by the debate commission to now be able to mute the candidates if they choose will result in a different debate this time around. >> good morning. that's the question everyone here is talking about. it is on the cover of the tennessee newspaper bracing for a brawl in belmont debate. the whole front page goes into explaining these new changes and they are being dubbed the mute button. what it is, after the candidate

is asked a question for the first two minutes the other candidate's mic will be down but then in what will be six 15-minute segments there will be some 13 minutes of open discussion so there is very little remaining that would stop him to going back to the chaos that erupted in cleveland except for the fact the candidates agreed on the rules. now biden who is off the trail coming into this interview had this view of it telling a local wisconsin station, quote, i think it's a good idea. i think there should be more limitations on us, not interrupting one another but president trump was less optimistic accusing the commission of muting him back in 2016. listen. >> president trump: well, i think the whole thing is crazy. this commission, i had problems with them four years ago where they stifled my mic during my conversation with crooked hillary. >> the last and only other time they had a debate on the campus of belmont, university, mccain

versus obama in 2008. this time it will be more feisty. >> sandra: on the campaign trail very different approaches coming down to the wire. >> well, that is just an understatement. we've never seen this before. never seen a candidate who holds so many rallies, president trump crisscrossing the country in battleground states and another candidate that stays off the trail so close to election day. biden leaving that task yesterday to his running mate harris and former president obama. >> we can come out of this moment stronger than before. in times of polarized as these your vote doesn't just matter, it matters more than ever before. >> as joe biden always says, the thing that is at -- >> now we will see harris and trump in north carolina. of course, president -- former president obama in philadelphia

at that drive-in car rally. folks are getting excited in music city for tomorrow's debate. >> sandra: we'll be watching all of it. >> trace: two senior administration sources confirming to fox news the f.b.i. is in possession of the laptop purportedly belonging to hunter biden and d.o.j. officials say it's not part of a russian disinformation campaign. republicans are accusing the media of running interference on the story. here is senator ted cruz. >> biden has not denied this is his son hunter biden's laptop. he hasn't denied that the emails are real. he has not denied that he personally met with the ukrainian oligarch he had sworn up and down he never met with. right now the biden strategy is count on the press and count on big tech to protect him. >> trace: david spunt live at the white house. the president is pushing for an

investigation. >> not only does the president want an investigation but supporters do, too. i covered his rallies one in nevada and arizona. brought up the subject both times and supporters are happy to hear about that. he will talk about it at least through the election. the f.b.i. is in possession of that laptop which allegedly contains emails about the younger biden's business dealings in ukraine and china. whether hunter biden profited off his father's name. late last night fox news obtained a letter from the f.b.i. to intelligence committee chairman ron johnson of wisconsin about the laptop reading in part. if actionable intelligence is developed, the f.b.i. in consultation with the intelligence community will evaluate the need to provide defensive briefings to you and the committee pursuant to the established notification framework. former vice president joe biden asked about this laptop controversy yesterday. listen here. >> this is the same garbage

rudy giuliani, trump's henchman, last-ditch effort in the desperate campaign to smear me and my family. the vast majority of the intelligence people have said there is no basis at all. >> the director of national intelligence said there is basis for this. he speaks for the intelligence community. back to your wisconsin about the investigation. president trump said earlier this week he wants attorney general bill barr to appoint someone to look into it. i asked white house chief of staff mark meadows this morning here on the north lawn of the white house if not only is that realistic a couple of weeks before the election. how can it remain apolitical? here is chief of staff mark meadows. >> i don't know it has anything to do with the election. more to do with transparency and making sure the american people have the full story. >> meadows did go on to say any type of investigation yielding results is simply not going to happen before the election. we're under two weeks away, trace. >> trace: down to the wire. the president now threatening, david, to post a 60 minutes

interview he did before it airs. >> this is set to air sunday. president trump sat down with lesley stahl. he has done it before. this was done yesterday here at the white house. and president trump says he wants to release the video. he is calling it biased and unfair. there are reports he walked out of the interview after 45 minutes with veteran journalist lesley stahl. he criticized her for not wearing a mask. cbs said not only did she wear a mask into the complex and when she greeted the president but she was covid tested. the white house also taped a version of this interview and while it is set to air sunday on 60 minutes at 7:00 p.m. white house chief of staff mark meadows said there is a strong possibility they may release some of it before. trace. >> trace: if they release it we'll show it. david, thank you. >> sandra: some potentially good news for republicans on voter registration data. the party signing up for more new voters than democrats in

some key battleground states. we'll see what happens. this is over the past year. the republican advantage ballooning to nearly 150,000 in florida. roughly 100,000 in pennsylvania. and 30,000 in arizona. party operatives crediting voter enthusiasm for president trump. >> trace: there is a possible breakthrough on extending a nuclear deal between the united states and russia under the framework both countries would freeze the number of nuclear war heads in their arsenals and extend the existing start agreement by one year. last week the u.s. threatened to allow the deal to expire early next year. moscow has been unwilling to agree to a process for verifying that neither side is breaking its promise. >> sandra: there is also a big push for a coronavirus relief deal on capitol hill. house speaker nancy pelosi and treasury secretary steve mnuchin were unable to reach an agreement yesterday. white house and democratic negotiators are still trying. chad pergram is on the hill for

us live this morning where there are signs of progress. this after months of talks, chad. so what happened to pelosi's deadline that expired yesterday? >> as you say yesterday was the deadline she self-impolesed to get a deal if they were going to put this on the house and senate floor before the election. that did not happen. yet they continue to talk yesterday afternoon and the speaker and secretary of the treasury will talk at some point again today. i did talk to a couple of aides, republicans and democrats. both sides of the building who were skeptical but mark meadows says things are looking up. >> i can tell you that the negotiations have entered a new phase, which is more on the technical side of trying to get the language right if we can agree on the numbers. we're still a part. still a number of issues to work on. but the last 24 hours have moved the ball down the field. >> that's unresolved are the big issues, money for state and local governments and a gop

demand for liability protections from the pandemic. some republicans are willing to spend more if it's targeted. pelosi says she needs to have this frozen in form legislation by friday to put on the house floor before the election. a couple source i can talked to this morning said they didn't think it would take that long because they've been exchanging paper for so long. mitch mcconnell said he would be willing to take a look at whatever the house of representatives sends across the building but he would not commit to putting it on the floor before the election. sandra. >> sandra: a great question, chad. there has been questions over republican support for this. are republicans willing to go along with mnuchin on it? >> that's pretty unclear. just a couple of weeks ago senate republicans nuked a proposal by mnuchin 1.8 trillion for a coronavirus relief bill. kevin cramer from north dakota says he is confident in mnuchin.

>> he has a working relationship with the speaker, that's all good and that's important and valuable. i don't know that -- it doesn't mean that every republican would support the positions he ends up with. >> you have to have bipartisan buy-in to pass something through the house and senate. if pelosi signs off on it you can move it through the house. the question is the senate. you have to get a combination of democrats and republicans to get to 60 votes to cut off the filibuster. several key republicans are skeptical. among them richard shelby, the chair of the appropriations committee. >> sandra: chad pergram, thank you. >> trace: a dead heat in north carolina as president trump campaigns today in the tar heel state. why voters are split and who has a slight edge? plus a big night in the election battle when president trump and joe biden go face-to-face in their final debate. a look at each side's strategy when katie pavlich joins us

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>> president trump: this is the most important election in the history of our country. we are going to win so big. i think we're going to win -- you know the lines -- [cheering and applause]

>> i hope he will come prepared to talk about what he is for but i think it will be about personal attacks. i'll try hard to focus on the issues that affect the american people and talk to them. >> sandra: president trump and joe biden speaking out ahead of tomorrow's big second presidential debate. the face-off in nashville will look different than the first debate perhaps with different rules in place. the president's campaign manager saying president trump is committed to debating joe biden regardless of last-minute rule changes from the biased commission and their latest attempt to provide advantage to their favored candidate. katie pavlich is political editor for town hall.com and fox news contributor. the debate commission says they aren't partisan, katie and that these rules are in place to make sure that each candidate gets the time that the campaigns originally agreed to. how does this result in a different debate perhaps thursday night? >> well, as we've been

reporting the trump campaign has been frustrated with the idea that this debate was supposed to be focused on foreign policy and now focused on a number of important issues to the american people but issues that were discussed in the first debate we had. that's the first thing. the second thing is the mute button they'll have for candidates for two minutes opening the segments. interesting to watch how that plays out and the moderator doesn't also have a mute button but the screen will be split. i think there will be a lot of reading into what each candidate is saying without speaking, what kind of reactions they're having in terms of listening to the other candidate but that is a new thing that the presidential debate commission did not negotiate with either campaign. just put into place. of course, the trump campaign has said they are willing to move forward with the debate but not happy about the mute button being instituted for the sake of stifling debate in the first two minutes. >> sandra: they forced the debate commission to defend the

change. one of the co-commissioners went on brian kilmeade's radio show yesterday. >> not a new rule. the campaigns agreed early on going back to june of this year when we announced what the formats were going to be for the campaigns. for the debates. they both agreed to live with it. it provides very clearly that the first four minutes on each of the six segments, each candidate gets to speak for two minutes without interruption. so that's the rule. that's been the rule. >> sandra: making the point this wasn't a new rule. it was the rule and the candidates didn't abide by it so they put a measure in place to enforce the rule. make what you will of that. katie, you are talking about the debate topics. foreign policy was what president trump and his team wanted to see. there is also big questions this morning over how president trump will approach the hunter biden story. ted cruz was on earlier. this is after we just talked

about governor huckabee suggested focus on the economy, pocketbook issues. ted cruz was saying don't make this about hunter biden. make it about joe biden earlier on our program. listen. >> this whole issue is not about hunter biden. hunter biden by all appearances has led a very challenged life. this is about joe biden who wants to be president of the united states and whether joe biden was personally corrupt. >> sandra: how do you expect president trump to approach this story on the debate stage, katie? >> we've seen in a number of rallies the president has done this week and last he will approach this issue by calling joe biden a corrupt politician who has been in washington, d.c. for far too long. ted cruz is right. this isn't necessarily just about hunter biden. this is about hunter biden working with his father allegedly while he was vice

president selling influence unqualified for positions he was being paid for. if joe biden was willing to do these things while he was vice president, what's to say he wouldn't do it while he was president, the most powerful man in the world? the theme really goes with what the president has been trying to paint joe biden as for months now on the campaign trail which is someone who has been in washington for 47 years, done less than he has done during his administration. that's something he will put forward and use against the president but it is true it is about joe biden. hunter biden is not running for reelection or for election for the presidency but what we saw in 2016 in terms of hillary clinton and the clinton foundation and the outsider/insider -- >> sandra: it shows joe biden with a narrow margin of 1.6 leading the president in florida right now.

"politico" headline takes on the money that michael bloomberg is putting into that state for the biden campaign. bloomberg knocks trump back on his heels in florida. essentially this piece by the bloomberg senior political advise ho*r is talking about it being impossible for president trump to win the presidency without that state, florida. and that's why mike bloomberg is investing $100 million into the race there. we just talked to the trump campaign about the big gap in fundraising between donald trump and joe biden. joe biden is fundraising way ahead of the president right now. what impact does it have on that key state, katie? >> well, it allows michael bloomberg to buy a number of advertisements they can put on the air in the last two weeks in the push for the election. that can be very helpful. both campaigns have different strategies when it comes to getting media. the trump campaign is campaigning and doing events, not just president trump but his surrogates for months now. that might not be a tangible or

physical dollars that are being dumped in but they just have a different approach when it comes to how they are going to win those votes. they have been registering voters in places like florida and other swing states as well. it is something to compete with. michael bloomberg coming in at the end is something the trump campaign is paying attention to and having to counter with money they would rather be spending in other states. >> sandra: katie pavlich you're in nashville. the presidential debate covered for you from every angle. pre-debate coverage kicks off at 6:00 p.m. eastern time and catch the debate when it begins at 9:00 eastern. that is this thursday, tomorrow night, right here on the fox news channel. >> trace: co-founder of facebook reportedly bank rolling an anti-trump add campaign in the final weeks of the election. what it says about the role of big tech in politics. some people living in the epicenter of the defund the police movement now taking

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meet with senator portman from ohio in a few moments before a lunch break and four more senators this afternoon ahead of her supreme court confirmation vote. she is on capitol hill. we'll continue to watch the meetings as they happen throughout the hour. meantime it is the bottom of the hour now. time for your top stories. u.s. coronavirus cases surging to their highest level since august. the country is seeing nearly 60,000 new infections per day. more than a dozen states have reported record highs in hospitalizations. >> trace: kentucky judge ruled the grand jury can speak about the case. police officers shot and killed the 26-year-old in march while serving a no-knock warrant at taylor's home. >> sandra: defending the decision to mute the candidate's micks during their two minute opening answers. he insisted the rule isn't new and that both campaigns agreed in june that each candidate would get to speak for two

minutes uninterrupted. >> trace: facebook co-founder is one of a group of major contributors to a pro-biden super pac buying up tv ads in a push to defeat president trump. it comes amid the fallout from facebook suppressing the "new york post" story. we want to put the numbers on the screen and you can talk about them. we talked about the donations. this is from october 1 to september -- september 1 to october 15th. moscovitch has donated at least $22 million to a pro-biden pac. jeff lawson $6 million. eric schmidt $750,000 but apparently it's $2.5 million that he donated. that's a bunch of cash to defeat the president, carley.

>> sure is. what would my wardrobe look like if i had that cash? viewers are being inundated with campaign ads now. fox news has confirmed that those numbers that you just saw on your screen and they also say that these big silicon valley donors are unleashing a torrent of television spending in the final weeks of the presidential campaign in an effort to boot trump out of the white house. one of those donors facebook co-founder dustin months could vits giving $22 million to a super pac called future forward. they have a lot of campaign ads out right now because they believe that they want to grab those viewers right before they head to the polls. they believe that's the most effective strategy. $22 million is a lot of money. he donated $20 million to hillary clinton in 2016. these guys have the cash and it

is no secret that they cannot stand president trump. they're feeling spendy and joe biden is definitely benefiting from it. >> trace: there is nothing wrong with donating money to your favorite candidate. that's politics, right? it brings up the whole question about the whole suppressing information, the whole censoring conservatives versus liberals and it seems to be a one-sided debate. >> whether you like big donors influencing elections, it happens on both sides of the aisle. what is troublesome is the shady stuff. you know, google in 2016 trying to increase latino voter turnout. it sounds like a great idea, making it clear because they want hillary clinton to win. or this hacked materials policy that popped up that makes people think are these tech companies even trying to hide their bias anymore? and that's what republicans really are up against right now.

it's that unlimited cash from silicon valley mega donors and unlimited resources to try and possibly tweak the election in their favor. >> trace: i have to go, carley. this whole president trump walks out on 60 minutes and lesley stahl interview and threatening to play the video. they taped it as well. threatening to play it ahead of the 60 minutes interview. any word on that? >> cbs says that the white house promised that they were only recording that interview for archival purposes. so we will have to wait and see if the president actually posts tweets with that footage. but clearly a heated exchange between president trump and lesley stahl that people may be able to see on 60 minutes on sunday. >> trace: both biden and trump same program. we'll see it. good of you to join us. thank you. >> sandra: france and much of europe still reeling from a brutal attack last friday. a french history teacher was

beheaded outside of his school in a paris suburb after showing his students pictures of the prophet mohammed. thousands of people have rallied in honor of the teacher as authorities crack down on radical islam. greg palkot is in london with more on this. other suspects have been taken into custody? >> absolutely. others have been taken into custody and looks like a shocked french government isn't done yet. it is all about that brutal decapitation of a teacher in an otherwise quiet neighborhood outside paris last week. the alleged and killed attacker 18-year-old russian born chechen with extreme associates. the victim was teaching a lesson on freedom of speech using two pictures that showed controversial cartoons of mohammed. he showed other pictures as well. some students and parents didn't like it. went viral on social media with

it. after a bit the deed was done. france is no stranger to islamist terrorism. we were there in 2015 and 2016 when hundreds were killed and injured in attacks in paris and elsewhere. this incident may be due to its blood thirsty nature has struck a cord. the rallies sunday across france were in defiance of the killing. police have detained dozens and considering the deportation of hundreds and shutting down muslim organizations and a mosque. we spoke with top french analyst christian mallard. >> we have jihadist speeches asking them to revolt against western values. in the country people today came to the point they say we are fed up. fed up with the lacksism of the authorities dating back so many years.

>> analyst mallard noted that this should be a wake-up call not just for france but for the u.s. and the west, despite the degradation of al qaeda and isis, islamic terrorism remains a threat. later today french president macron will given the highest honor to the late teacher, to his family at a ceremony in paris. back to you. >> sandra: thank you for your reporting on that. trace. >> trace: a federal judge in atlanta is considering a challenge to a cdc order that stops landlords from evicting some renters. the plaintiffs argue the inability to remove tenants who aren't paying is causing them harm. halting evictions helps slow the spread of coronavirus. president trump issued a similar executive order in august. >> sandra: the final countdown to election day. former president barack obama is hitting the campaign for joe

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>> i'm betting that america will reject a politics of resentment and a politics of blame and choose a politics that says we are stronger together. [cheering and applause] i'm betting that the wisdom and decency and generosity of the american people will once genuine the day. and that is a bet that i've

never, ever lost. >> sandra: former president barack obama stumping for hillary clinton in philadelphia back in 2016, four years ago. he is hitting the campaign trail for joe biden today. let's bring in kristin soltis anderson. good morning. great to see you. let me take you into the state, pennsylvania where the former president will be spending time stumping for joe biden after he spent time there back in 2016 as we all remember you look at the state itself, president trump pulled off a small narrow victory in the state. obviously crucial to his election. for the reelection you look what president obama is doing, heading to philadelphia county holding the drive-in rally in south philly. what's the goal and can he have an impact on joe biden winning this state? >> the goal is clearly to increase turnout among black voters who are a huge piece of the democratic coalition and who really didn't turn out in the numbers that hillary

clinton needed them to in 2016. in 2016 you had donald trump's margin in the state of pennsylvania was not huge but there was a drop-off in turn-off within philadelphia alone of 35,000 votes and precincts in predominantly black neighborhoods. the hope is that biden's strength with black voters in the democratic primary will make him positioned to boost the turnout and hoping obama can get more turnout than he did in 2016. >> sandra: this is the 2016 election results with the president's victory there. go back to 2012 and you remember how crucial it was for president barack obama polling 52% of the vote in pennsylvania to romney's 46.7%. as we look at the biden campaign and their strategy on the ground when it comes to north carolina, senator harris we should be seeing a short time from now as we do know she

is on the ground there. but what would be the goal with them campaigning on the ground in north carolina, joe biden is still home. what is the strategy on the part of the biden campaign there? >> i think the hope on the part of the biden campaign is one, if they can really put north carolina in play anywhere they can put the trump campaign on greater defense is beneficial to them because right now the biden campaign has more money, more cash on hand that they can spend. they want the trump campaign to have to spread out and play defense in as many places as possible. the other reason is there is a really crucial senate race in the state where incumbent senator thom tillis is up for reelection. if not reelected it gives the potential president biden the chance of having a democratic senate. it's the two-fer for democrat if they can pick it up at the presidential and senate level. >> sandra: former president obama carried back by a razor thin margin back in 2012. take a look where senator

harris will be holding her first event. hillary clinton did win this county back in 2016. 57% of the vote there. we'll see senator harris holding an early vote mobilization event there and on to mek len berg county north carolina where hillary clinton pulled off victory in 2016. why spend so much time in these counties that are so clearly blue in 2016 this time around? >> what they may be trying to do is not necessarily persuade voters. we have so few undecided voters at this point but try to encourage greater turnout. charlotte is exactly the kind of place that democrats have had their eyes on over the last few years because they are very suburban, lots of folks with college degrees, lots of young professionals. the types of folks democrats have tried to bring into their coalition in recent years. so it is ripe not necessarily to persuade more voters to come to the democratic side but to

remind some of those young professionals to be turning out to vote. >> sandra: okay. and as we see the president also campaigning in the state, what do the next few days look like. some of the real clear politics average as we finish off here, kristin. get into the stack so you can see the numbers. here is pennsylvania, 48.7%, joe biden continues to poll ahead of the president in that state. flip it to where we see them spending time on the ground. north carolina, a lot of the candidates spending time campaigning there. joe biden leading by just over 2 percentage points to president trump. i'll finish with this, kristin. such a big part of the conversation heading into the debate tomorrow night. when asked who do you trust more to handle these issues, on the economy president trump still polls ahead of joe biden. you heard mike huckabee earlier today said focus on this on that debate stage. it is what the american people want to hear when it comes to handling the coronavirus joe biden polling ahead on that.

final thoughts. >> every moment the president spends talking about anything but the economy is a wasted minute. when you have less than two weeks to election daytime is your most precious resource. spend every single second on the campaign trail focused on the economy. >> sandra: thank you so much. >> trace: the full senate set to vote on amy coney barrett next week. polls show a majority of americans support her confirmation. will democrats make any last-minute efforts to delay the vote? trey gowdy joins us next.

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american people. by day two you saw democrats running for the hills. >> trace: texas senator ted cruz sounding confident on the confirmation process for amy coney barrett. will the democrats retaliate by packing the supreme court. trey gowdy joins us now and the author of doesn't hurt to ask, using the power of questions to connect and persuade. i'm not trying to persuade you but i'll ask away anyway. i was looking at the gallup poll. it says that 51% of voters want amy coney barrett to be confirmed. 87% or 84% of democrats oppose that. i look back to kavanaugh only 67% of democrats opposed the confirmation of bret kavanaugh. that was about the most ugh leconfirmation we've ever seen. what do you think we'll see in the coming days? >> well, the democrat base is

irrationally upset and whether it's the process or whether or not they believe this mindless trope that she is coming to take away all of their rights, she may be the best witness, trace, that i have ever seen in a courtroom, congressional hearing. she was amazing and that's why you see the public opinion changing. those numbers are higher today than they were when the confirmation process started. she was unflappable. if they try to pull a kavanaugh, trace, what is your guess? what is the worst thing amy coney barrett has ever done? be late with a library book? what would you guess is the worst thing she has ever done? that's my bet. >> trace: i think you're right. very good point. senators ted cruz we heard at the top of the segment saying if you have a 4-4 court after election day, we risk having a constitutional crisis. do you buy that? >> i buy that an odd number is better than an even number. i really hope that the supreme

court has nothing to do with the election. conservatives don't want a super legislature doubling as the supreme court. i don't want a super electoral college doubling as the supreme court. i want the election result to be really clear tuesday night and i don't want the supreme court involved at all. yes, he is right. 9 is better than 8. that's true every day, not just the day after the election. >> trace: "the new york times" poll shows 58% oppose court packing. 31% favor court packing. seems to be a losing issue. why doesn't joe biden come out and declare what he wants to do? >> because a non-answer is better than answering. if he says yes, he will do it, 58% of the people think he is nuts. if he says no he is not his irrational base will go nuts. we've had nine justices for 150 years. most of us like that number.

it is odd, it's an odd number, therefore you get 5-4 decisions instead of ties. i think the democrats are being held hostage by an irrational base including some senators that ask dumb questions like asking her if she is a white supremacist and whether she is guilty of criminal sexual conduct. two of the dumbest questions i've ever heard in a supreme court confirmation. >> trace: good to see you. thank you. >> sandra: 13 days an counting until election day. we are live on the campaign trail next. lars. three thousand dollars!! that's how much veteran homeowners can save every year by using their va benefits to refinance at newday. record low rates have dropped to new all time lows. with the va streamline refi there's no appraisal, no income verification, and no money out of pocket. one call can save you $3000 a year.

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>> trace: once reliably red state is very much in play. iowa, where we just got new poll results. >> sandra: fox team coverage for you, election 2020. mike emanuel live in washington first to garrett tenney live in dave en port, iowa. >> the reason iowa has been tight for months and it continues to be but according to a new poll that was just released by monmouth university joe biden is making some progress and has a bit of momentum going into the final two weeks before the election. president trump still holds a 1-point lead among registered voters which is the slimest lead he has held in months in the past few months in this particular poll. but for the first time in this poll joe biden is predicted to win the state if polls high likely turnout model holds true. that boost for biden is largely coming from a gain in support among seniors who overwhelmingly said they are worried about the coronavirus.

the top issue overall is the potential breakdown of law and order, though. the president leads among every other age group in the hawkeye state. the economy another big issue for voters here which is what the president addressed last night during a rally in pennsylvania. >> president trump: this is an election between the trump super recovery, which is happening right now, and a biden depression. if he gets elected, you will have a depression the likes of which you have never seen. you know he is going to double, triple and now quadruple your taxes. >> kamala harris will hold a rally in north carolina this afternoon. joe biden is home preparing for tomorrow night's debate while barack obama will hit the

campaign trail with a drive-in rally in philadelphia tonight. with the new poll on the race in iowa joe biden hasn't visited the state since january when he came in third in the iowa caucuses. trace and sandra. >> sandra: thank you, garrett. >> trace: fox news has learned the f.b.i. is in possession of a laptop purportedly belonging to hunter biden. sources tell fox there is no evidence this is part of a russian disinformation campaign to discredit biden but have not yet ruled out foreign interference. our chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live in washington what else are we hearing? >> the f.b.i. officials are breaking their silence on the hunter biden laptop matter. ron johnson has been demanding answers from the f.b.i. wanting a background briefing. now the f.b.i. is responding echoing what john ratcliffe said on fox this week. the intelligence community don't believe it is part of a

russian disinformation campaign. it quotes if actionable intelligence is developed the f.b.i. in consultation with the intelligence community will evaluate the need to provide information to you and the committee. fox news has confirmed the f.b.i. is in possession of the laptop. fox news obtained a drop-off slip at the computer repair shop in delaware that appeared to show hunter biden's signature and paperwork from the f.b.i. showing a receipt for property. joe biden was asked about the laptop story last night. >> this is the same garbage rudy giuliani, trump's henchman, last ditch effort in the desperate campaign to smear me and my family. the vast majority of the intelligence people have come out and said there is no basis at all. >> ted cruz says biden needs to answer many more questions. >> the whole inquiry is about joe biden who wants to be president of the united states. and about whether joe biden was

personally corrupt. the china emails are offering to pay over a million dollars to the big guy, to joe biden himself, cash in his bank account. and the questions the journal, did the deal go through? did he take the money? >> senior intelligence community officials say the f.b.i. learned its lesson from the 2016 election. it would rather not be a central part of this election, too. >> mike he man wall live in d.c. >> sandra: the bigger story may be china. especially after an email independently confirmed by fox points to a planned deal between bidens and the chinese energy company with ties to the chinese company and that's leading the wall street editorial board to say americans deserve answers. the bidens and china business, the story won't go away without explanation, even if the veep

wins. james freeman, fox news contributor and from the "wall street journal" joins us now. what does joe biden need to answer about china? >> well, he needs to explain. we saw in the clip there he is still not saying the emails are fake. fox has done a lot to confirm the particulars and especially your source saying that the big guy in these emails is joe biden. so what we have here are documents showing the influence business being run by hunter biden with a chinese company. the u.s. charged it with money laundering. it no longer exists, used to be closely tied to the chinese government. and its influence operation, which now appears to include joe biden. not just members of his family.

set to generate millions of dollars. one of the emails that says that hunter biden was going to receive $10 million for introductions alone. this is not normal business. a reasonable person looking at this would say this is the sale of influence into american policy and it looks like joe biden is not separate from it, he is part of it. >> sandra: james, here is a bit more from that piece from the editorial board. joe biden ought to clear the air on this china business in his own political interest. is he the big guy in the email? what happened with the deal? china will be one of mr. biden's toughest foreign policy challenges and the unexplained documents won't go away once he is elected. reference back to former governor huckabee this morning saying that this isn't about hunter biden. the president should not lead with this story on the debate

stage, for example, or when he is campaigning. he suggests it is because the american people don't really understand this story. james, you are always so good at bringing politics to the kitchen table. what is it that americans might be missing about this story and need to know? >> well, i think there is certainly an effort in the biden camp as you suggest to say that this is about a troubled son of joe biden. but what these documents do, which is biden campaign has not said are fake, they show joe biden involved in this family business. and by the way, even where it's hunter biden, i think a reasonable person would say he probably can't collect $10 million a year for introducing people unless the people he is introducing are very high level, including his father, the vice president of the

united states perhaps. so this question of, you know, how young hunter i guess almost 50 now uses this influence business to collect millions and millions of dollars, didn't some of these people want something in return? we've seen in these documents it blows away any argument this is legitimate business about finance or energy or any of the things that it superficially appeared to be about. this is the sale of influence at a very high dollar. much bigger than we thought before. the document suggests it is a joe biden, not just a hunter biden issue. >> sandra: senator ted cruz joined us earlier, listen. >> joe biden has not denied that communist china offered him millions of dollars to do business with them. right now the biden strategy is count on the press and count on big tech to protect him from answering even basic questions.

>> sandra: so we'll leave that there for the moment. to biden's he can nicks and his proposal on taxes. the risk from joe biden's policies isn't that they will send the economy reeling right away. the problem, the board writes, is that they'll have a long-term corrosive impact by raising the cost of capital, reducing the incentive to work, and invest, james. this is a really important piece by the editorial board as the tax policy institute is looking into joe biden's tax policy proposals and their conclusion is that joe biden tax policy could lead the california and new york people paying 62% of their income in taxes. that would be the highest tax rate on some of those individuals that we've seen in over 30 years. what was the point of the piece that you wrote this week? >> that's right. you are talking about tax rates in a lot of places going so

high because the joe biden plan is to raise the top individual tax rate, also to apply the payroll tax to high incomes that above $400,000 where it's never been before. this is not just about raising taxes on rich people. it is also about raising the cost of energy and raising the corporate income tax. president trump cut the federal corporate income tax to make america competitive. slashed it from what was the highest in the industrialized world down to 21%. the biden plan is to lift that further and if you look at the hoover institution study that we wrote about this week, it is saying over a decade the full biden economic plan is going to cost 5 million jobs. a big part of that it's not just the tax increases, it is the regulation to make energy production much more expensive. limiting fossil fuels, moving us to alternative energy.

and pushing america toward electric cars. you have to have more electric cars but less fossil fuel production, that is a big heavy cost that makes lots of things more expensive in the economy. so you are talking about a smaller economy with the biden economic plan. >> sandra: james freeman from the "wall street journal." always appreciate it. you will hear more debate on the economy. joe biden and hunter biden and these stories and more covered by bret baier and martha maccallum begins tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. debate two between the two candidates. >> trace: early voters who forgot to sign their ballots in one swing state will now get a second chance. one of the rulings in major legal battles already playing out in court. ahead where another ruling will let votes be counted for a full week after election day. plus will president trump's strategy of personal attacks against joe biden be as effective as it was against hillary clinton in 2016? karl rove joins us next with

more on that. >> corruption is a major issue for the american people because they see what washington has been doing. how they've been lying. joe biden is one of the chief, you know, problems in this city and in this country. rates just droppede even lower. veterans who refi now can save three thousand dollars a year. with newday's va streamline refi, there's no income verification, no appraisal and no out of pocket costs. one call can save you $3000 a year. $3000! that's a big deal.

>> the president isn't talking about hunter biden? what he is talking about is joe biden. what the emails now reveal is that joe biden is flat out corrupt. this is one of the big problems with hillary clinton back in 2016. the american people knew about clinton cash. >> trace: that's national press secretary hogan gidley on the campaign strategy to focus on hunter biden and international business dealings to attack former v.p. joe biden. the president was very effective four years ago in portraying the clintons as corrupt. will it work this time around? karl rove former white house deputy chief of staff and fox news contributor and joins us now. great to see you. that's the question. you have these political analysts who say back in 2016 painting hillary clinton as crooked hillary worked. do you do the same thing to joe biden or do you focus on the economy, foreign policy and other strong topics? >> there is an interesting piece today in the "washington

post" by a former white house colleague of mine marc thiessen. he argues the focus ought to be on the economy and policies of trump and biden and i agree with him. we knew about hillary clinton and bill clinton and all their dealings and all the stinky stuff for years. we don't have a similar picture about joe biden. now, we do know that hunter biden is a bad actor. we know he made money by china flying in on air force 2 and he got money from the moscow mayor's wife. talk about a weird payday from an oligarch and we saw pictures with a kazakhstan oligarch who is sort of a seedy guy wanting hunter biden to help him do his investments. we know about hunter biden.

i don't think in the last 13 days it's as effective to talk about this than it is to talk about how joe biden is going to raise your taxes, diminish your savings, slow down the economy, attack our energy independence, raise your utility bill. all the stuff that trump could spend the time between now an the election talking about. the best part of his speech last night was not the attack on biden. the best part was saying who will you believe about fracking, joe biden what he is saying today or what joe biden has been saying? let's go to the videotape. on the screen biden saying i will end fracking. very important to western pennsylvania. economy matters a lot more than what's going on with hunter biden and yet another scandal involving influence peddling on his father's name. >> trace: biden said he won't raise taxes on anybody making less than $400,000 a year.

50 cents saying i don't want to be 20 cents and you have "the washington examiner" saying the whole idea of joe biden not raising taxes on anybody is nothing but hooey and planned to overhaul the way tax works for retirement savings. on net his plan would reduce the tax benefit of traditional retirement accounts for those earning above $80,000 under but $400,000 violating his tax pledge to not raise taxes on earners below $400,000? do you agree with that, the whole $400,000 thing should be a point of attack for the president? >> absolutely. he will institute the individual obamacare mandate. he wants to diminish the tax advantages of retirement savings. should we be encouraging people to save more, not less for retirement? the corporate tax increase studies from the tax policy

center, the tax foundation, the american enterprise institute point out that corporate taxes are paid by the customers of that company and the employees. the employees pay it in lower wages and less opportunities. it will cost a half million jobs directly. that's before we get into all the regulatory stuff that james freeman was talking about in your earlier portion. and even the study that the biden campaign continually refers to saying moody's says we'll have a lovely day and great economy because of the biden plan. even the moody study points out there are 7.3 trillion in new spending and 4.1 trillion in new taxes so where is the other 3.2 trillion dollars going to come from? from higher taxes. you can only squeeze that turnip, that 1% at the top so far. you have to get money from most of the people who pay taxes in america and that's what is going to happen if the biden plan is put in place. you can't spend 3.2 trillion in

additional deficit spending over the next decade without blowing up the economy in other ways. >> trace: i have to go, karl. if you were adviseing the president tomorrow night in the debate lead with the economy? >> i would lead with the economy. if the other issue comes up, fine. put the focus on the pocketbook. make a sharp contrast between his policies and the policies of joe biden. >> trace: karl rove, always good to see you, sir. thank you. >> sandra: north carolina scrambling to inform 10,000 absentee voters about rejected ballots, those voters did not sign their ballot or forgot to add a name and address. they were not notified because court battles held up the process. this comes after a federal appeals court ruled overnight the state can accept absentee ballots postmarked for election day and a week afterward. the state is closing in on two million early votes cast out of more than 37 million nationwide.

and we are less than two weeks to go until election day. more than 37 million americans have already cast their votes with 3 million of those coming from florida. phil keating is live in miami with more on that. >> good morning. on the north carolina tip here in florida, 3 million people have already voted early. mostly by mail. 12,000 of those ballots were rejected and are now being scrutinized and clarified because of signature mix-ups. if you vote by mail you have to make sure you do it right. probably a combination of electorate enthusiasm combined with coronavirus fears has led to surging and record numbers of early voting nationwide. not just by mail but also in person compared to four years ago. at this pointless than two weeks until election day close to 35 million americans have already voted in 35 states -- 45 states. early this morning and has been

the case since monday the longer in-person voting early lines happen between 7:00 and 9:00 a.m. this morning there were about 100 people in line. by 7:15 that line was pretty much gone. plus today is a wash-out. flood advisories and a day of rain all day here in florida. there are still 11 more days of early voting options. so what are you going to do? stand outside in the rain or wait for a sunny day? >> big increases in early voting in every state compared to 2016. the eight states with the largest increases kentucky up 553%. new jersey up 515%. pennsylvania up 356%, connecticut up 279%. virginia 258%. new hampshire, alabama up and vermont up 151%.

so far registered democrats are outpacing registered republicans at mail-in voting. >> what is difficult to tell at this point is whether or not we're having what we might call a substitution effect where early in-person voting and vote by mail is cannibalizing the people that would normally vote on election day. if that's the case president trump is doing just fine. if democrats are moving from voting on election day to voting by mail or early in person it's a wash. >> typically republicans outpace democrats with mail-in balloting. this year flip-flopped. the democrats registered are voting more by mail than republicans. democrats are winning the mail-in vote tally so far. but even democratic strategists expect that republicans will then outpace registered

democrats from here until election day with in-person early voting. >> sandra: interesting analysis. phil keating, thank you. >> trace: for the first time barack obama is coming off the sidelines for joe biden hitting the campaign trail in philadelphia today. details on who the former president is hoping to reach with his visit. plus congress is getting ready to grill social media giants over online censorship. our next guest wants to change a law that he says has become a loophole for big tech to censor free speech striking at the very heart of the first amendment. we'll hear from senate commerce committee chairman roger wicker next. >> they blocked the "new york post" from circulating or any american from posting two blockbuster stories alleging evidence of corruption by joe biden. that's a serious, serious abuse of power by big tech.

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officials tell fox news the f.b.i. is now in possession of the laptop on the center of joe biden and his son and their business dealings overseas. the f.b.i. won't comment and confirm if there is an investigation underway. >> sandra: coronavirus being blamed for what could be an all time high for deaths in drug overdoses. numbers are on track to set a record as isolation and stress from the pandemic leads to more people doing drugs. >> trace: the last time minnesota saw this much snow was when woodrow wilson was in office. >> sandra: the ceos of twitter, google, facebook are expected to testify before the senate commerce committee next week as several republican lawmakers express concerns over suppression and censorship. an act would modify a law that

shields the companies from liability. senator roger wicker, chairman of the senate commerce committee. good morning and welcome. thank you for being here. first up, what is your concern when it comes to these big tech companies and what americans see when they use those social media giants? >> well, listen, these are among the most powerful people in the country. the ceos of google, facebook and twitter have enormous power over the free flow of information in our country. and it is a real concern not only to me. i'm sponsoring this bill but senator graham, chairman of the judiciary committee and other members of the commerce committee and judiciary committee are sponsoring this bill. under current law, they get a free pass and liability protection under what we call section 230 of the

communications decency act. and if they are going to show a bias against a conservative point of view, which we see time and time and time again, i think it's time to re-examine whether they should have this section 230 exemption from liability. our bill would tighten up this language and basically the law as it is today gives them a right to censor anything they find objectable. now, objectionable is in the eye of the beholder. so we are going to tighten that up. we think they need protection if they take down content that advocates violence or self-harm or terrorism. that's okay. but we're not going to in my view i don't think we should leave it up to big tech to decide what is objectionable and what isn't.

>> sandra: these companies are huge. where do you expect to get with companies that have -- they're worth billions. in the case of google a trillion dollar company. do you expect you can actually hold them accountable if it indeed is the case that they are censoring what the american people see when they use these companies? >> let me say this. i'm outraged, for example, by what twitter did to the "new york post" story about hunter biden. that is a story that needed to be out there. the public needs to examine it and americans can decide for themselves. but the concern about big tech is bipartisan. we issued this set of subpoenas on october 1st and frankly in the commerce committee it was done on a unanimous bipartisan basis. democrats have other concerns about big tech dealing with privacy and things like that. we expanded the scope of the

hearing. i think you will hear objections from our side based on the clear anti-conservative bias that big tech has, particularly these three companies. but you will hear other concerns and frankly, i think there may be some bipartisan solutions to the power that these companies have. >> sandra: i have a minute left. are you talking about mark zuckerberg, the head of facebook, jack dorsey of twitter. when you have those executives sitting down in front of you, what's the first question you ask them, senator? >> well, i tell you what, i don't think i'm going to telegraph that. you can be sure that mr. dorsey will be asked about the clear bias in twitter not only not letting people retweet this "new york post" story about potential corruption in a nominee for president of the united states, and not only

shutting that down but shutting down platforms that chose to retweet that. i think mr. dorsey can look for example after example after example of anti-conservative and anti-republican bias. i think he needs to explain that. the other two ceos, also. >> sandra: i have the leave it there. thank you. we'll watch for that happening. >> thank you very much for having me. appreciate it. >> trace: former president barack obama heading to philadelphia today for his first in-person campaign event of the election cycle. the former president hoping to give joe biden a boost in a key swing state less than two weeks before election day. jackie heinrich is live in philadelphia. why is the former president going to philadelphia specifically? >> good morning, trace. a former -- a portion of the former president's remarks will be directed toward black men.

he will be highlighting the importance of the african-american vote and getting that turnout up. it is caused or contributed to in part hillary clinton's loss of this state in 2016. although she won the philadelphia area she didn't get as much as she needed to and won by less of a share than obama did in romney in 2012. obama will try to get turn-off to get biden to victory. philadelphia played a big role. he gave a speech on race as a candidate in 08 and carried the state in that election and in 2012. in 2016 he made a first solo campaign appearance for hillary clinton in philadelphia. laying into donald trump in a speech and then past august he delivered a stinging rebuke of president trump from this city accusing the president of playing on racial fears and stoking division. obama's first in-person appearance on the campaign trail for biden coming less than two weeks from the election. he has been praising his former

v.p. virtually on a podcast this month. >> that's who he is and why he was always late. if you got in a rope line with him, you know, i was pretty good about working the rope line. if he and i were campaigning, you know, i would have been really giving everybody a lot of attention. i would be at the end of the rope line and look back he was a third of the way through, man. >> obama will urge people to make a plan to vote and vote early as this state has been the subject of multiple ballot disputes and voting lawsuits, trace. >> trace: a lot of decisions there. jackie heinrich live in philadelphia. thank you. >> sandra: why democrats are divided about dianne feinstein's future on the judiciary. that moment last week and the final face-off comes tomorrow being president trump and joe biden. what impact will that debate

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>> sandra: presidential debate is tomorrow night. president trump and joe biden will face off for the final time. hillary vaughn, we just did the touch screen looking back at the clinton years and the election in 2016, hillary. here we are this crucial moment in this election happening tomorrow night and 13 days out. you are live in nashville, tennessee this morning. good morning. >> you're right. tomorrow night is critical. both campaigns have signaled their internal polling suggests the race is a lot tighter than what public polls are suggesting right now. a new survey from the university of new hampshire might explain why. the poll according to the

survey says a lot of trump supporters feel the need to hide their support. they won't put a sign in their yard. 64% say they don't feel comfortable putting a trump sticker on their car. so a tighter race makes this final presidential debate critical for the candidates. joe biden has taken the week off the trail doing campaign work. bernie sanders stumped for him sunday and trump has been preparing a different way. blasting through battleground states from nevada to north carolina. biden has been zooming from his home in delaware and did a local interview and criticized senator ron johnson's report on his son's business dealings saying this is the same garbage rudy giuliani, trump henchman. the last ditch effort to smear me and my family. the last debate will have six

topics. none of them focused on foreign policy. a break in presidential debate tradition. the trump campaign says it gives cover for the biden campaign by steering the conversation away from anything related to biden and his son's overseas business dealings. another break in tradition, sandra, will be the muting of the microphone during the two-minute answer period after a question but really what is not clear is if either candidate's microphone will be muted at any point in time after that if one of them interrupts too much. >> sandra: we'll have to wait and see. it could look different than last time. keep it here for the final debate for coverage beginning tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. >> mr. chairman, i just want to thank you. this has been one of the best set of hearings that i've participated in, and i want to thank you for your fairness and the opportunity of going back and forth. so thank you so much for your

leadership. >> one, that means a lot to me. to senator feinstein, you are a joy to work with. >> that moment landing dianne feinstein in hot water. some democratic groups are wanting her to step down for her post from being too nice to republicans. here is senate minority leader chuck schumer had to say. >> i've had a long and serious talk with senator feinstein. that's all i'll say about it right now. >> trace: a former national surrogate for bernie sanders, great to see you, hard to imagine dianne feinstein. hard are for me to imagine chuck schumer calling her on the carpet and giving her the what for. what do you think of that? >> it is hard to imagine chuck schumer standing up for progressives. that's another comment right there. listen, there has been debate

whether or not bipartisanship exists in washington i actually think that's all that exists in washington it's why even though there is a stand still on hot issues you have centrist democrats and republicans protecting corporate interests. and the reason why these groups are frustrated with senator feinstein is because in a moment when the stakes are just so high, when income inequality is worse than ever. the economy is tanking we see senator feinstein not just act in a civil way which all lawmakers should do. she didn't do anything. then she complimented the republicans pushing the process. >> trace: we keep showing here. specifically they were eye rate with the hug she gave lindsey graham, liberals were calling for her head. this nomination is illegitimate and process a sham.

senator feinstein failed to make it cleared and offered an appearance of credibility. we believe the committee needs new leadership. i mean, have we gotten to a point where the antipathy for the other side is just so bad that you can't even shake somebody's hand or give them a hug? >> i don't think it's so much about the hug. a great leader made the statement on behalf of that group. she was saying which side are you on, senator feinstein? are you on the side of the working people of california, the rest of this country when the senate is so close? when there is a race so close against lindsey graham you are sitting there complimenting him on holding up the process for democrats. >> trace: i have to go. i have to ask you if the democrats take the senate and the new rule saying you are not allowed to look at the republicans much less negotiate with them. 10 seconds. >> you can be civil, but it doesn't mean you get bulldozed by them. you have to have some strength.

republicans want that on their side, too. both sides want leaders that fight for them not corporate interests. >> trace: good to see you, thank you so much. >> sandra: road warriors with deep pockets on your marks. the hummer is about to make a comeback. the super trucks are not like you remember. one of the big differences that you will see with a six-figure price tag.

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>> 13 days. big debate tomorrow night. >> out outnumbered" starts now. >> harris: we begin with this fox news alert. 13 days until the election and new calls for joe biden to answer questions as fox news learns the f.b.i. does have his son hunter biden's laptop, the one thatting allegedly contains emails which may detail overseas business dealings including china and ukraine. the f.b.i. is not confirming or denying there is an investigation although officials at the d.o.j. have told fox news they do not believe the laptop is part of a russian disinformation campaign as a top house democrat has claimed. meanwhile the president