>> >> i think not this to be an unpopular thing if voters were asked to weigh in on it. eric: that's it for this week showed thanks to my panel and for all of you i am paul gigot hope to see you back here next week. oco before just a little over two weeks ago before the midterm elections. carson very tired race is shaping up across the country. the balance of power in congress is at stake in just over two weeks. candidates this weekend out on the campaign trail making their cases known to the voters. hello everyone i am eric shaun this is fox news live. hi arthel. c5 hello eric and hello everyone i am arthel neville. if you are a network junkie nasa time to check in but much of president biden's agenda is

relying on the results of the midterms were in a handful of races could make the difference including the senate race in pennsylvania between lieutenant governor john fetterman and dr. oz. early voting is already setting records in georgia where senator raphael warnock is in a tight battle with republican challenger herschel walker. we have fox team coverage with alexis mcadams covering the race in pennsylvania. and charles watson in georgia. we are going to begin with lucas tomlinson. lucas is live in the white house, hey lucas for. >> arthel comic candace might be out of the pint campaign trail but president biden is not doing any of them. in studies employing a weekend at the beach. after some initial court victories lock the plan to repay student loans. releasing a statement we will continue to move full speed ahead in compliance with this order. the administration will continue to fight republican officials suing to block our efforts to

provide relief to working families. iowa center joni ernst said this will influence the midterm elections. >> there are a lot of other folks that are very, very angry and upset about this. this is just the tipping point with the federal spending and what joe biden is doing. voters see that and they are going to take that to the polling places november 8. >> biden boasted he has reduce the deficit. responsible budget set that is through the end of billions of dollars in covid relief checks going to millions of americans. last night the oldest president in u.s. history was asked if he would run to get in 2024. >> that is my intention. my intention to run again. we have time to make that decision. >> is doctor biden for? mr. president? >> doctor biden, my wife thanks

that i, but we are doing something very important. and i should not walk away from it. >> will be former president barack obama heading out to those swing states to campaign for democrats and not joe biden, arthel. arthel: former president barack obama does know how to galvanize folks to the polls. i guess you shoot your best shot. alright lucas tomlinson at the white house, thank you. >> now to pennsylvania were around this is voters are getting ready to choose between democratic lieutenant governor john fetterman a republican dr. oz. mcadams joining us with the latest on the race in the keystone state. hey alexis. >> looks like crime in this it is a top priority for voters. doctor oz closing the gap as he

tries to convince voters betterment is soft on crime. >> people feel like the folks in charge value criminals more than the innocent. families are in pain, no one seems to care. >> philadelphia district attorney larry krasner on the left who federman endorsed could be impeached, critics blaming policies for a surge in crime in the city. one of the criminal reforms put into place was called the conviction integrity unit, federman called groundbreaking and exciting but turns out health exonerate this guy. harris convicted of murder in 2012 but under krasner's direction was released last year. he is suspected of shooting and killing 50-year-old charles know who you see here. his sister saying the local policies are to blame. >> they have no consideration for the victims.

this is to put prisoners convicted back on the streets. the system here proves doesn't work, this does not work. >> cross are elected in 2017, since then crime has surged. so far this year more than 1900 people have been shot in the city but the d.a. says the push to get him out of office isn't about his progressive policies but all about scoring political points. >> part of the republican playbook as you know, to be pointing fingers at large diverse cities and say large diverse cities are lawless. >> harris turned himself in and the latest murder case but it's going to be one of the examples doctor oz uses to hammer home lawlessness and filled up you and try to connect it to his opponent as we get closer to the midterms. eric: thanks so much. arthel: there are closely

watched midterm races in georgia and despite the state recent election law under attack, early voting is already at a record pace in the peach state. charles watson has more on the highly contested races for governor and senate. >> good afternoon, both jordan democrats and republicans are trying to rile up there base. you talk about the early voting. which so far seen turn out on pace with the record-setting numbers during the 2020 presidential election. let's look at the latest numbers from the secretaries of state office. you can see 720,000 people have cast a ballot with more than 90% of the vote from in person voters this is despite claims of racism from corporations and democrats over georgia's voting law which restricts things like handing out food at the polls and requires id for those voting

by mail. gubernatorial candidate stacey abrams with hollywood stars like oprah and kerry washington campaign the last few days and says her criticism of the voting laws isn't just about numbers. >> as i said, voter suppression is not about turnout, it's barriers to access. unfortunately there are new barriers to axis the state of georgia. >> her opponent and bryan kemp repeatedly shut down claims of voter suppression. instead he continues to focus on his accomplishments as governor while tying abrams to president biden's failed policies in washington. >> i have a record to run on now. jordan's know me, last election they did not and abrams had the national media and tons of money just like she does now, 90% of her money is coming from out of the state. >> democratic senator rafael warnock and his republican challenger herschel walker are in a tight race for u.s. senate

hoping to avoid a runoff thinking as many votes as they can before election day. >> they are trying to fool us and take us out and tell us we are no good men here to tell you we are. our option come november right now early voting we get the opportunity to change it. [applause] >> the issues are too urgent. >> the democrats will have them help this upcoming week, president obama expected to come to georgia and campaign for the democrats no word on any big name republicans plan to do the same. arthel: we will keep an eye on that. thank you. eric: one of the trends we've seen around the country are continued smashing grubs. brazen break-ins and stores and is slated one robbery in socal. the jury outside of los angeles there brutally pistol whipped by suspects. live in los angeles with the

latest on this attack. >> jewelry store owner attacked by two armed men in disguise as an amazon worker and security guard in rancho cucamonga 40 miles west of l.a., the owner says she was able to to hit the panic button on her watch but one of the robbers saw her do it and pistol whipped her. she's treated at a nearby hospital for injuries on the back of her head and is now recovering. robbers got away but a 28-year-old and 23-year-old were arrested within days. a third man also arrested in connection. police seized three guns and employees of a nearby target are rattled by the attack. >> seeing the video broke my heart, it was set. >> it's scary to know people are around here like that. one was disguised as an amazon and another security, they clearly plant this. >> the robbery days after

unprovoked scissor attack on a woman broad daylight in hollywood, 30-year-old homeless man arrested. l.a., many in law enforcement blame the soft on crime policies and permitted here and another california cities for the rising crime. cashless bail and permitted by george gascon when he took office last year but rescinded july amid failed recall attempt by l.a. residents, one county d.a. saying zero bail policies resulted in 70% of criminals released going on to reoffend. eric: thank you. arthel: as we count down to the midterms, key races look like they would grow down to the wire. fox news power ranking shows 33 house races currently tossup's they will determine which party controls capitol hill and next year. lauren wright joined us now, princeton university. tossup. does either party appeared to gain ground x if so, why,

especially this close to midterms? >> there's reporting lately about how republicans are pulling ahead of the late stages. it's quite simple, it's because more people are paying attention and republicans have the advantage when it comes to the top issues voters care about in the freshest pulling so those issues are the economy, crime and immigration. some of the issues where democrats are dominant like abortion have faded away, inflation, the economy, jobs, these are things if anything, growing even more salient and that advantages republicans. arthel: you think democrats are planning to bring abortion back to the forefront since we are months away from key decisions, initial decisions? if they plan to are they communicating their messages? that always seems to be their problem.

>> yes. i think it's a good strategy for democrats, they should talk about abortion as much as i can because the majority of the country is with them on the issue. however, not a lot of opportunity to do this. it's campaign rally, maybe campaign add, first lady jill biden talking about her friends, personal experience with abortion. those messages when voters hear them can be effective but very few opportunity for them to hear them where people go to the grocery store every day and see prices so they are reminded of that constantly. arthel: 16 days and several hours until election day. can either party the right? who's counting? can either party coast at this time? is it just going to be a strong sprint until the finish line? >> either party can coast. something i worry about what you see probabilistic poles, races about 45 out of 100 chance for

instance that either republicans or democrats will take the senate. it changes a little bit day today but that's dangerous for whichever party is slightly ahead in the projections because people to understand probability very well and they might say for the party ahead why am i going to stand on a big line? it looks like my party is doing pretty well, maybe they don't need my help so in this type of a race where you said it truly is tossup, either party once there people staying home so we should stick straight pulling and maybe not focus so much on these probabilities. arthel: you are saying maybe early voting versus election day voting whether is good news for either party or any particular candidate may not be a good move at this time. >> i just mean the new york

times 538 sort of projections about probability of a certain party winning the house or the senate. those are tough to understand where is straight up pulling but doesn't mention the chance of a party winning but talks about how voters respond to surveys is a little more straightforward and easy for people to understand. early voting i don't think is that informative because there's just as much energy on the republican side, republicans tend to vote in person, democrats banking ton of votes and vote by mail but there tends to be a lot of energy with the party out of power in the white house so that will change and we don't know until election day of the in person votes will turn out. arthel: and if we don't have a firm full and complete tally on

election night, usually the case, are you concerned -- >> we probably won't. arthel: are you concerned some candidates will claim victory regardless and cast doubt on ballots that voters cast? >> yes and it's irresponsible and every candidate should want to win votes based on their message and their plan and they should want as many people to get out there as possible and the truth is, in some of these states for they don't have free processing like pennsylvania, ohio for instance constructive process ballots, check signatures, stacked them up and get them ready for the election day machines beforehand, in the state that don't have rules like that, it might take more hours, days even to tell and with turnout as high as we see right now with so much enthusiasm, it's a possibility and we have a

close set of races as you and eric have been talking about. arthel: so you are saying is possible some candidates even with numbers not incompletely for the psaki i one regardless? >> yes, they will or already casting doubt on the election saying unless i win than we need to worry about this in fact not great. arthel: all right, we will leave it there. thank you very much. take care. eric: millions in ukraine in the dark at this moment after russian troops struck our stations across the country.mpli we'll have the latest on vladimir putin's punishing assault on the nation. more crimes say many as a mask criminal and kremlin must be stopped. we arelect live in kyiv's with e

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russia intensifying strikes on power stations, water supply systems and other key infrastructure across ukraine as the war here's a eight month mark. a bipartisan group of u.s. congressman met with ukrainian president zelenskyy yesterday in kyiv. trey yingst sat down with them to discuss latest in the war. he joins us live from kyiv. >> good afternoon, a bipartisan group of u.s. lawmakers met

yesterday with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy here in case, here's our interview with those congr congressman. >> it was important to come and what did you do in ukraine? >> three senior members in intelligence committee and felt there was important to be here really to send a signal to the ukrainians even though it's a couple of weeks before the election we choose to be here even though it may be risky we choose to be here to send a signal on a bipartisan basis the u.s. has committed to this fi fight. we had a series of terrific meetings from the president to his people and the people running the war we been able to deliver that message that the united states is behind the ukrainian people. >> what can the americans do to help ukraine when they are not only facing a threat from russia but now as we seen according to reports iranian members on the

ground and crimea training them to use these? >> the fact that iran is here illustrate the weakness and russian military. it's something that i think is somewhat a success as a result of what ukraine has done with our support but now we need to realize together there are things we can do as a threat evolves and changes, we have the ability to help and support as you all nato allies and european allies, we are not the only ones here in the united states is working to make certain we are not the only ones providing support to ukraine. >> how serious should the american people take the threats by russian president putin of using nuclear weapons in this war? >> it's absolutely irresponsible to bring up nuclear weapons and he should know we are in this fight in a bipartisan way in america stitching together allies not just nato but across the world and we will continue to fund ukrainian effort until russia leaves ukraine. to elevate to that level is

irresponsible and i don't think it's worthy of tit-for-tat to give what he wants and that back and forth. >> thank you for your time. >> russian forces continue to attack ukrainian power grid. we heard sirens today in the capitol of kyiv's, another reason lawmakers were here, we affirm u.s. support for ukraine. arthel: thank you. eric: flooding or putin sending missiles raining over ukraine, iranian suicide drowned smashing into apartment buildings. an attack against electricity in ukraine citizens, infrastructure, the winter is about to set in denying power and heat. some see it as desperation from a losing war criminal. john spencer is here, urban warfare studies at the madison policy forum and author of the new book, understanding urban

warfare and an expert on the russian military. good to see you. what do you think are the russian military mistakes we've seen? could fall back to the ukrainians and may suffer a major defeat and croissant momentarily. what has stunned you about the russian military failings? >> that's a long list. number one russian military's inability to understand your powers only the will of your soldiers to fight and even though the most recent trip is adding to their own fire and showing their soldiers they don't care about their lives and that's what we are seeing, and entire military who does understand your power comes from your will to fight and your means which is your weapons and technologies and why 50 plus nations are back in ukraine, not just u.s. although we are leading the way to be look.

eric: what have they done wrong structurally in terms of maneuvers and how they have deployed? >> that's a long list. from day one, they've lost their war to take ukraine. strategically they didn't apply the right approach to achieving their objective which is the fall of kyiv which is why understanding small military at the time defeated on paper the second biggest military in the world but they have continued these mistakes thinking old-school ways of fighting will achieve their goals which is to take land. ukrainians backed by question weapons have shown they are not only having the will to fight but they are hitting behind russian locations. they won't fight the russians away russians want them to fight which is clashing in the open.

ukrainians victory is very clear but how much will russian sacrifice of their own soldiers? eric: can there be an ultimate ukrainian victory? what would that be and what would you expect? >> i expect to see what we've seen thus far, ukrainians get stronger every day. they have the will, the will of their people and soldiers and government to fight the war as long as it takes and slowly every day they gain ground. the ultimate is they relive rate all of their land. nobody is trying russia, it's not about starting war, it's about preventing war, world war iii in preventing terrorist with nuclear weapon saying what he can do what he wants. commit genocide in front of our eyes. it's our time to be on the right

side of history and prevent world war and genocide. eric: what happens, there's talk and congress among republicans to not give a blank check to the ukrainians, maybe iranians, deployment of military equi equipment. what would happen if we republicans we take the house? are you concerned that could happen and what could that mean? >> i'm always concerned but like our representatives who went to visit themselves, that's an important step, there's no blank check, there's lots of over oversight, bipartisan support so i hope even if we were to see the change of leadership, we continue to aid ukraine achieving their goal of defending their territory. international community voted what putin said he's doing saying i own part of ukraine is not in accordance with the un charter so i hope, and i'm

pretty confident we will maintain bipartisan support for ukraine like we should. eric: quickly, how is this going to end? >> personally i think it ends with the culmination of military, which we have seen in multiple locations but ultimately all across ukraine. he can make the decision to withdraw. make no mistake putin doesn't have to save face, he's a dictator, he could end the war tomorrow and say he won and nobody can question that. this isn't about tiptoeing toward nuclear warfare, this is about a bully, a terrorist with a nuclear weapon trying to take another country because they don't have nuclear weapons. one of the leaders of the free world said no you can't do that. eric: we hope he does that as soon as possible, and this unspeakable carnage he's caused. retired major john spencer,ne

thank yoezu for your service to our country and your insight. more news when we come back.

a look at headlines we are following right now. cdc director michelle lewinsky tested positive for covid-19. the agency says she's up to date with her vaccines expanding mild symptoms will isolate at home and attend meetings virtually. new hampshire a plane crash to the southern part of the state last night, the airport, killing both people on board. the plane hit the family building and set it on fire, fire officials say thankfully no one in the building was hurt. one person is dead and another hurt in the suspect opened fire at a hospital at the methodist

dallas medical center, officer shot the suspect and right now they have no motive for the hospital shooting. ♪ >> customs and border protection released september numbers, late last night and new members hit a record, to 27000 plus migrants encountered last month alone bringing the total for fiscal year 2022 to more than 2.3 only migrants and that number, another record. bill melugin live in the border in eagle pass, texas with the latest. >> good afternoon, cbp waited until three weeks into october to release new september numbers and they did last night on a friday night 11:00 p.m. eastern time in the numbers are historic. the month of september alone, to

27000 migrant encounters, it goes down as the highest september ever recorded at the southern border and fiscal year 2022 ended with well over 2.3 million migrant encounters, the highest fiscal year record of the border. it also shows 98 border patrol arrest of people on the fbi's terror watch list of the southern border. ninety-eight is nearly quadrupled the previous five years combined. look at this video we shot yesterday morning in eagle pass from his verbal drone, hundreds crossing in the early pre-done early morning hours yesterday. source telling fox news in the last 24 hours alone in the del rio sector, more than 1500 illegal crossings and border patrol reports in the last three weeks alone they've had more migrant cross here for more than 35 different countries all around the world. look at this video we shot in

eagle pass yesterday afternoon, another group of 150 -- 200 migrants crossing illegally, most are single adults, that's predominately was coming across our southern border. however, we are starting to seek a huge drop in venezuelans as a result of the dhs policy which expels venezuelans if they are caught crossing illegally. look at these pictures in arizona, cbp port of entry, officers making two major fentanyl bus, one 85000 fentanyl pills and 114 pounds of meth. a second bus, 47000, eight pounds of pure fentanyl powder and 40 pounds of meth. when you hear us talk about staggering numbers 2.3 million illegal crossings in a single year, that does not count known getaways which sources tell us number at 599,000 for fiscal

year 2022. eric: we have to be thankful air into temp do something to stop as much as they can. >> we want secure borders, we will don't want to see the humanitarian crisis continue and we don't want to see fentanyl continue to come into the country and land in the hands of our children. if you haven't taken the time to talk to your children about fentanyl, do so, as a dangerous drug killing hundreds of americans every day we do congresswoman myra florez joining a chorus of voices sounding the alarm over the fentanyl crisis. law enforcement is warning about rainbow colored fentanyl, it looks like candy in an attempt to target the use. let's bring in lieutenant colonel daniel davis, senior fellow in military expert for the vent properties. dan hoffman, he served in moscow and fox news contributor, thanks to you both. dan, even if your life has not

been directly impacted by fentanyl, why does this matter? >> this matters a lot. you look at the numbers of americans being killed each year from internal overdose, 60000 roughly a year end it is a reflection of our poorest border but i can harken back to my days in the intelligence community, we want to get to this crisis before it reaches attack at our border, that means precursor chemicals in china and the mexican cartel is operating with impunity. arthel: people are clearly frustrated and when they ask, is there anything the military can do, what is the answer? >> there's lots of things because right now it's clear there's little that's going on. when you have staggering numbers you correspondent just mentioned there, illegal crossers in the country, obviously something needs to change and we've done

in the past where u.s. military on the border, it's a potential solution but we have to understand it's extremely expensive and would require significant adjustments to the u.s. military and we have to make sure it makes sense long-term and we see if it's the right way to go but something has to be done, bottom line. arthel: no doubt. what should we emphasize politicians not working in good faith or as diligently as they can? either the crisis works in favor of the other party or against their party. >> we should have bipartisan consensus on this. there are two sides, one is the demand side, we've got to get people not to use fentanyl obviously, that's one side. the other side is the supply side, i mentioned going with china ensuring chinese don't

allow precursor chemicals to be shipped to medical we need to work with overseas intelligence community and military working with mexican law enforcement and their military to target their cartel and rest members of the cartel, sanctions aren't doing enough but we should be doing more. at the border we need to do more to strengthen the border and harden our defenses and inside our own country, dea state and federal, local law enforcement working gather relying on intelligence collecting overseas to find the gang members, illegal aliens operating to distribute internal to americans who get hooked on the drug so quickly and it's dangerous. it demands an approach where government including congress is involved in a bipartisan effort with unity of mission and we are

not seeing that but this is a clear and present danger to our nation and we've got to do more. arthel: we've got to do more and do it now, we can't wait for whoever is in power, it doesn't matter. if the mexican cartel exploit porous borders, of course special forces can roll up into mexico to confront them and that would call for a lot of different arrangements and not even sure if it's safe. how do we interrupt their operations? >> we can -- some of the things were counterterrorism operations and went more aggressively, there's funding and support and where the funds, and once again to the united states, i agree we need to do more to track down after these guys get rid of and disassemble the networks in the united states. operations on both sides of the border, we need more aggressive

in doing that. i harken back to what you said, it should be a matter of faith in the united states no matter what party you are in, qs four has to be fully secure and it doesn't matter anything about your policies on immigration, those are discussions that can be had and it depends on how you come down but whatever the answer, we have to follow the law and keep borders secure for everybody. arthel: quick answer from you both, we can have intellectual discussions about this crisis until the cows come home but the american people want action. what is the action. >> i think harden defenses at the border is certainly important but i like to get this at the origin. i mentioned china but the mexican cartel, if mexico can't do something about it and we

need to use our diplomacy in a positive way and coerce them to do more. our military and intelligence officers and diplomats in mexico and be on the ground facilitating enabling mexican law enforcement, military and police to conduct operations we need. i don't want to deal with these people at the border, i'd like to get at them in mexico and prevent fentanyl from getting close to the border. we need to be more aggressive overseas for the problem originates. >> in addition to what dan just said, the american people want to see their government take action and quit squabbling back and forth. i like what you said, it seems like one side worried about how they can benefit harden the other side politically and less on the actual problem. i'm confident our elected leaders of both parties for the state and local federal level said we are going to knock this

problem out. i'm confident americans will do it but we have to get serious first. quit squabbling amongst each other first. arthel: that's why we are the greatest country because we can work together. thank you very much. eric: republican committeeu accuses a tech giant of political censorship.al alexandriale hoff is here, she'i explaingn we return.

republican national committee filed a lawsuit against google in federal court and it claims the tech giant has been sending fundraising e-mails directly to users so they can't see them. alexandria off has more from washington to make the are in c is accusing google of suppressing 41 million e-mails since the start of early voting impacting fundraising and get out the vote efforts. chairwoman mcdaniels shared in a

statement, for ten months and row google country crucial in of the month republican get out the vote in fundraising e-mails to spam with zero explanation. committed to putting an end to this clear pattern of bias. the committee shared this graph sharing gmail delivery drawn out at the end of each month. according to google, more e-mails come in from campaigns the companies at the end of the pumping users to mark them as spam. a spokesperson told fox news quote we simple don't filter. they reflect users actions. we provide training and guidelines to campaigns, who recently launched a pilot for political centers continue to work to maximize e-mail deliverability while minimizing unwanted spam. over the summer republican senator john thune introduced legislation called political bias e-mails act in response to a study out of north carolina state university which found

gmail send far more meals for republican candidates to span compared to those from democrats. >> we want to make sure they have to disclose their practices and they are not discriminating against any clinical party or candidate or any political e-mails out there and that's what we have seen in the past. >> twenty-eight page lawsuit from the rnc was filed in the eastern district of california and claimed discoloration based on political affiliation. eric: thanks. arthel: an update ahead of the female athlete, she came under fire for competing in a rockclimbing competition without her job. unl her job. unl concerns growing about her safety as she arrives back home safety as she arrives back home to her family. that's next. ♪

iranian rock climber reportedly under house arrest after completing without he job during the competition earlier this week. ryan has the details. >> there are conflicting reports right now as to whether she's been put under house arrest or not. the website that is critical of the government into iran says he she has an official in charge of the sports federation that

governs climbing, says she hasn't. we do know is she's in the islamic republic of iran and arrived the wednesday after completing an event in south korea without covering her head. she got a hero's welcome upon arrival outside the airport from crowds of women gathered, many synthetic to the protests at first arrested after the death of the 22-year-old woman who died in police custody mid september after she to allegedly violated the rule that requires women in public to cover their heads with a hijab. the protests continue to rage unrest taking place yesterday, today reports shopkeepers into iran on strike as well, doesn't killed since the protests began. recopy said she unintentionally competed without covering her hair. it was say it may have been made under duress. she thanked her supporters

friday. in the picture in the post you can see she's on one of her climb and suspended in the air holding onto a rope. perhaps an important metaphor there. pso arthel: thank you very much.hing we'll be right back. weeks. the majority of people saw 90% clearer skin even at 5 years. serious allergic reactions may occur. tremfya® may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms or if you had a vaccine or plan to. emerge tremfyant®. with tremfya®... ask your doctor about tremfya® today.

him before just over three weeks ago before the midterms. there it is, you can get a preview of the big midterm show tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m.

eastern time. hosted by shannon bream. shannon all the specials will be breaking down the races run the country that you're going to want to watch. i tell you, arthel, is really starting to get down to the wire and getting even more exciting as those races are getting like this, you know? like like this you got to get in you got to watch and a check or outward we are back tomorrow at noon eastern pre-hope you then. ♪ hello everyone, happy saturday shaun duffy in joe concha. welcome to "the big saturday show". here's what we've got untapped tonight. >> democrat run city are now paying the price on the rights with the new homicide hotspots just revealed a possible impact for the midterm elections, shaun. >> mr. biden's rumpelstiltskin