♪ ♪ >> kayleigh: hello, everyone. this is to be 26. i'm kayleigh mcenany here with my cohost harris faulkner and emily compagno. also joining us, fox news contributor and "the federalist" editor in chief, mollie hemingway, and fox news national correspondent griff jenkins. we begin with brand-new polling showing former president trump pulling ahead of vice president kamala harris. maybe a sign that her momentum has stalled. "new york times" siena college poll shows trump leading harris by one point in this super tight race. the new polls show that trump remains popular with a 46% approval rating. that's big, better than where he stood in either of his last two presidential campaigns. this poll is being called one of trump's most overlooked advantages. voters see trump as closer to

the center than harris, and nearly half of all voters say that harris is too liberal or progressive. that explains all of her flip-flopping. this policy simply won't get her to the white house. but just as brady sanders. he seems to know this. >> you have described vice president kamala harris as a progressive. she has previously supported medicare for all. now she does not. she has previous supported a ban on fracking. now she does not. these, senator, are ideas that you have campaigned on. do you think that she is abandoning her progressive ideals? >> no, i don't think she is abandoning her ideals. i think she's trying to be pragmatic and doing what she thinks is right in order to enact the election. >> kayleigh: republicans everywhere rejoiced with that sound bite. mollie, this reminded me of the etch-a-sketch comment from the senior advisor to the romney campaign, we set a general election is an etch a take it up

and you change everything and he got widely derided for that. that she's just hiding it. it bears asking all the american public, that she still support all of this? her 2019 policies, medicare for all, banning fracking. the list goes on. grainy deal. an extreme list. >> mollie: first off, i think it is worth pointing out that she actually hasn't changed her positions on anything, according to her own speaking. she has had anonymous sources in your campaign come out to compliant reporters and claims she has changed her long-held consistently held positions from when she was attorney general of california, when she was senator, when she was running for vice president, or even as vice president. so she's got a lot of consistency. but it's true she is willing to say almost anything to get elected, and my favorite example of this is back in 2020. in the democratic primary debate, you might recall she called president biden a horrific racist. she was asked about it on a late-night show later and she

said -- they were like, why would you be on the same ticket as someone you said was this horrible person? and she kept saying, it was just a debate. since she has a track record of being able to say whatever is needed, the voters will look at what her actual policies have been over the course of the election. >> kayleigh: to that end, emily, she finally put up a policy paid on her website. but if you want specifics, you just don't get them. for example, when she talks about environmental justice, she doesn't talk about fracking. which talks about the border, se doesn't mention decriminalizingr crossings. she has flip-flopped verbally, but why not commit to that on your website? >> emily: because i think, frankly, the campaign and she lacked the intellectual depth to do so. frankly, i don't think she coud have that conversation in any type of detail, nor, clearly, candor campaign. all they have focused on, to mollie's point, is redefining her in sound bite increments that will resonate with young voters and people's votes can be bought. but the reality is most people feel they can't be bought,

because right now they can't buy groceries or baby formula. they remember back to the horrific things you have suffered under this administration, and though she has promised. i think, moving forward, what these polls show our that race to define her, that her campaign is losing. it is therefore incumbent upon the trump campaign to fill in the gap. she talks about environmental justice. we don't know what that means, but here we are going to talk about conservation, and here's what that means. here's what that looks like. here are the indigenous tribes that agree with us. they need to fill in those gaps that her talking points aim to call in with people, but it is ineffective because it is based on nothing. to me, this just shows her entire situation is fractured. >> kayleigh: mentioned trump. griff, if i'm the trump campaign, i'm feeling really good this morning. not just because of this poll, but i was digging through numbers and real clear politics. this is where nationally the real clear politics stands. you can see harris has a 1.4% advantage. but compare that to biden, 7.5%

advantage. compare that to hillary, 2.7% advantage. flip to pennsylvania, where it is a tide. look at the advantage. running behind biden by 4.5 points, running behind clinton by 6.5 points. she is not standing up to the numbers are predecessors put up. >> griff: that's a great point, kayleigh, and there's a lot to be excited about if you are the trump campaign. but the thing they may also be happy about his come across the pulling in "the new york times," americans don't know who she is. is she the progressive liberal that espoused all those things in 2019 and the primary? issued the centrist? bernie sanders perhaps said the quiet part out loud there, that her values haven't changed. that's the only thing she said in one interview she has done since she became the nominee. when you look in that poll, 27% said they needed to know more about her compared only 9% is that they needed to know more about trump. which means they don't really know where she stands, as you point out. the policy page is as big as can be. there's no specifics to dig into. i think the most damning number

in that poll is 56% of voters said that harris does not represent major change. so she tried to separate herself from specifics to not nail her down. to be the cumulative change, more than half of the voters in that poll say we don't see her as a change candidate. >> harris: i see so much irony in what you're saying. donald trump now is a candidate for change, and the change is what he had that was working. the change is what people have already seen. and that's ironic, because usually people want you to imagine what it would be like if it were then, and that's what she's trying to do. you don't really have to imagine with him. you can hit the post and the tweets and blah, blah, blah, but you got to love those gas prices. you got to love those food prices. you've got to love a guy who's got a plan for tackling inflation that actually is about tackling inflation. >> griff: to that point, 51% in that same poll did see trump as a major change candidate. >> harris: it's fascinating. change to what worked. real quickly, you had that

scroll on before, and i caught it, the very first item. starting i.c.e, u.s. immigrations and customs enforcement, from scratch. this is the woman who failed at the border. you want to take one of the infrastructures and keeping us safe in america, the customs enforcement department -- and we can have also it's of talks and arguments about how much longer they need to be, especially rigt now, with maine's illegal immigrants unaccounted for, particularly children in this country and potential sex trafficking victims. but is that who you want starting something from scratch that has something to do with national security? and where is she on foreign policy? that's another one of those rails that affects national security. look, maybe she can cook. she's been talking a lot about food. keep your cooking from scratch in the kitchen for all of us. i wouldn't be doing it, either. i'm not the harris who is running, either. but we need somebody who can tell us and articulate exactly what it's going to look like, not build customs enforcement

from scratch. >> kayleigh: i want to pull up that change number that's been mentioned repeatedly. you can see it here. more than 60% of voters want change and only 25% say harris represents the change. 53% say trump does. the reason i want to focus on this is because, if i'm kamala harris, my job on that stage is not to create a legacy for biden that doesn't exist. it's too win and election. that being said, i stood up to him here, i stood up to him there. this is where he's wrong. it means being tough. i don't think she can do that. >> mollie: she's got a very difficult situation with this debate she's going into. she has to run against everything she's ever said or done as an elected official. she's also got to run against her current administration. she is the incumbent, and that effort that has definitely been made to bamboozle the american public into thinking she's not the incumbent has clearly failed, probably because the american people are not stupid. and she also has to run against donald trump. i think we can't understate how

dramatic these "new york times" poll results are. you pointed out what was happening four years ago. this poll four years ago had biden up eight points. she is down one. that is a 9-point spread. remember, 2016 and 2020 were essentially tidy elections. one that trump nearly won and one that trump narrowly lost. if she is running eight points behind her predecessor, that 6 the bad news and cleans why democrats are in a bit of a panic mode today. >> kayleigh: i think it is trump election to lose and kamala harris' debate she must win tomorrow. we'll see. up next, why the harris team is reportedly getting nervous ahead of her showdown with trump tomorrow night. we will tell you. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> emily: vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump are set to face off for the first time tomorrow night. you can watch the abc presidential debate simulcast here on fox news. our coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern. it wasn't that long ago and vice president harris dared trump to meet her on the debate stage. >> he won't debate, but he and his running mate sure seem to have a lot to say about me. well, donald... [crowd reacts] i do hope you will reconsider to meet me on the debate stage. [cheers and applause]

because, as the saying goes, if you've got something to say, say it to my face! >> emily: well, now kamala's report of numbers. politico reporting that the harris team is worried that she will be "handcuffed" by the debate. the quote is that harris had planned to object, fact-checked, and directly questioned trump while he was speaking during their debate next week, but now with rules just finalize to mute the candidates when their opponents are speaking, campaign officials said that they harris advisors are scrambling to rewrite their playbook. kayleigh, as someone who has done press release debates, bake it out for us. just prior to this block he said she has to win tomorrow night. tell us what that would look like, and how she could lose. >> kayleigh: the stakes are high for her, and she knows this. they are even strategizing about how she will shake hands, according to nbc, and if she will shake hands.

they have a trump costume, basically, with a red tie, mimicking it imitating him. they are worried that they are overcooking here and part of the reason they are taking this so seriously is because trump had a really good debate performance against joe biden. he ended a 50-year political career. on her side, she could be over preparing, we will see, but to trump side -- this is so important. this went under the radar, the robby mook at cnn, the field 2016 campaign, he said she is preparing lines on reproductive rights, she's ready to deploy these attacks, and they are counting on c8 ring off put by this. he shouldn't be. pick up the 20 nonpage child health care plan by marco rubio and pick up marsha blackburn plan securing children in schools. he can give policy details. she gives vagueness on her website. we had legislation. talk about it. >> emily: to talk to us, mollie, about the impact of that. there is no live studio

audience. as she engaged in her rehearsed "let's be clear" lines and whatnot that we can expect, as trump has details and receipts and can articulate these things, how is that going to play out in terms of the effect as the people are watching from their homes? >> mollie: first off, i would say her campaign poorly served her by preparing her for a debate with rules that are not in existence. these are not new rules. these were agreed to by her administration's campaign months ago, and she should have known that's how it was going to be, thbut to some extent these rules don't necessarily help trump. kamala harris is someone who relies heavily on notes. if you remember in her 2020 presidential primary debates, and the vice presidential debate, she was currently consulting notes. a lot of her lines seem to go flat unless you have an absolutely fawning audience. i don't know if it would be good to have an audience not filled with actual complete supporters. and they can say she wanted to

interject. i think the real thing is she wanted to be interrupted so she could play victim. >> emily: "i'm speaking." >> mollie: exactly. >> emily: president biden prepared for days at camp david and still failed miserably. is it because donald trump is confident and comfortable in his own skin? he has a command of material and experience, and we haven't seen that from kamala, frankly, ever. is she being overcooked/will she just simply not rise dedication that you could argue is his sweet and comfortable spot? >> harris: it's a great question so i'm going to hit that first. i think it's a combination of things for former president trump. his policies worked, and that gives a boost of confidence going in. obviously you could argue them and obviously you're familiar with them because you're not trying to run away from them. what kamala harris now has to do is to know the policies that failed, and why she didn't speak up. that is really her job tonight. you say you want to speak up for all americans, but you couldn't speak up for yourself with a

president who is apparently becoming diminished before our eyes. it would be my first question for her. maybe not fair, but i would ask it anyway, after welcoming her nicely. [laughter] the other thing i want to point out, because this is really a caution for donald trump, if she manages to define him further and villainize him, that becomes the story. remember, that's what she did with biden. i think, mollie, you're the one who brought it up, she called him a racist and she was able to use that does rid of the moment, which has had legs like never before, because it is rooted in victimhood in that sense. you don't want her to be able to do that. so cutting the mic actually is also good for him, because if he goes after her too hard, it isn't that she wanted to interject with a fact or a matter, she can't play victim in that moment. you take away some of -- but he's also got to have the discipline not to do that. go after her on policy. there is so much meat on the bone. one last thing, that child care, that was brilliant advice. when he was asked that question

at the economic event last week, he couldn't answer it. i mean, look at you. you are still in the white house. you are so talented. can i read it? speech he was a white hat speaker, always a white house speaker. griff, what is your advice to president trump and why should he watch out with kamala harris? >> griff: talk about that breakup moment in 2019, she broke through the fourth wall. she broke through to the audience and got support, and they ran with it. she has a high bar for connecting with the american people. in this case, because there is no audience. there are no muted mics. that's not likely going to transpire. and she is against a person who by all accounts is a true showman. he knows how to reach an audience is nothing more than a camera. she should be nervous. this is the first time she is on the biggest debate stage in the world, going against a guy who has been there now his seventh time. and the last debate ended the previous candidate.

so i think perhaps there was a little bit of miscalculated strategy, putting surrogates out there like governor shapiro and senator fetterman, and pete buttigieg saying, well, we know trump is a great debater, to lower expectations. because what she has to ultimately do is reconcile the fact that more than half of the country believe that the country is headed in the wrong direction. don't forget that. and that is under her watch, that she is still presiding over, and she's got to reach that audience out there. and, look, i don't give any advice, but if i were, i would think, to harris' point, trump really has to be careful to not belittle her or treat her disrespectfully, because the harris campaign has made it very clear they are going after women, they going after the reproductive rights angle. that's what they think is their strongest play. so anything he does that perhaps is offensive isn't going to be a win for him. >> harris: can i say one more point on that?

wouldn't talk about abortion -- because you brought it up, too come on women -- it would be helpful if he maybe talked with a few women going into the debate about maybe who made the choice of an abortion and wish they hadn't, to have that side of the story in his head. this is about the mother, too pay to have it fresh, and get ready. because that is how kamala i imagine would attack it as a former prosecutor. from a victim's perspective. >> emily: and resources like mom's house ministries. no shortage of those that he can tap into. just a reminder, tune in to fox news democracy 2024 special coverage of the abc presidential debate simulcast. our coverage begins tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. the department of justice says an illegal immigrant still a u.s. citizen's identity to vote in not one but multiple elections. details and a live report, next. a ve♪ ♪ homeowner, and the family bookkeeper, you're the first to know

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>> harris: the department of justice is now charging an illegal immigrant from guatemala with stealing a citizen's identity and using it to vote in multiple elections. all right, so this is the nightmare that people warn about when you don't have an i.d. that can be verified at the ballot box. this is all coming just days after democratic senator denied any evidence of undocumented immigrants voting in our elections. or, in this case -- i won't sweeten it like that. they are illegal border crossers. rich edson is live at the white house with more. rich? >> good afternoon, harris. the department of justice now says she's going to plead guilty to all the charges. this comes out of the northern district of alabama. the u.s. attorney's office in a statement saying that angelica maria francisco assumed the identity of the united states innocent in or around 2011. francisco used the false identity to obtain a u.s. passport in 2011, using the same false identity, she also

registered to vote in alabama in 2016 and voted in the 2016 and 2020 primary and general elections. former president trump a point prosecutor who leads this office. she does serve under the biden doj. republicans have been pushing voter i.d. laws, democrats argue cases like this are isolated. they say state auditors and analysts have shown few are registered and even fewer vote. >> it's a solution looking for a problem. there is no evidence that undocumented vote. it's hard enough to get citizens to vote. it is just creating a new system and requirements that there doesn't seem to be any necessity any necessity. >> house republicans are scheduling a vote this week on

the bill that would require americans to produce a birth certificate or passport to register to vote. >> it is a major problem. we do need a solution. considering that the last election was decided by about 80,000 votes out of well over 100 million cast, there is nothing more sacrosanct in a republic than to make sure you have secure, honest, transparent, and open elections. >> as for the still an i.d. case, you got the department of justice saying the state department investigated it because she applied allegedly to renew her passport in 2022, and traveled to guatemala on it that year. harris? >> harris: busy. all right, rich. thank you. i want to go to you first, mollie. you have strong thoughts about this. my big question was, how do we fight this? >> mollie: it's really interesting what senator kelly was saying. he's from arizona and arizona is one of the state that separates out voting for people who can prove citizenship and people who can't. they would love to prevent

illegal immigrants were noncitizens from voting, and they've had a lot of trouble doing that. in 2020, 11,600 people voted a federal only ballot, because, in arizona, if you don't have proof of citizenship, you can get a federal ballot. so mark kelly says it's not happening petey should know more about the laws in his own state, and the trouble that election officials are having with preventing noncitizen voting. the everything that is interesting is the republicans in congress have a simple bill called the save act which would limit the voting only to citizens, and it seems like one of these issues where you could have almost no disagreement, while only five democrats voted for it in the house and everyone in the democrat party has been fighting this tooth and nail. president biden said he would veto the bill to limit voting to citizens only. this is an issue because even just a few thousand votes here or there can make a huge difference. >> harris: we had representatives chipped early on, who helped sponsor to save , last hour. he made the point that, as you

say, democrats did cross the aisle. not many of them, but some did. so maybe they are in border states, too. clearly this could be a bipartisan issue. they will have to figure out how to hit that sweet spot with it. because i can't imagine, emily, there is any advantage to having illegals vote in our elections. >> emily: i mean, unless you are one party that makes a big assumption for it. i will say this, the defense of not passing the law, which is that this is an isolated incident, is not logical and does not provide any type of defense or not passing a law. just because a crime is massively egregious and therefore rare, it does not mean you shouldn't pass a law preventing it. in fact, you would think it would make it all the more reason why you pass it, because it would serve as a deterrence for the small amount of people then that might want to break it. we know in reality it is not a small amount of people. frankly, it is in the thousands. but what is a small amount of people is the amount that could sway this election. so election integrity, to sum up, is a very crucial and important issue all the time.

to our republic and also right now to this election. so everyone should prioritize it and let your reps know that you support the save act and we need laws on the books preventing this type of illegal identity stealing. it actually does happen all the time. >> harris: we have seen others run with this as a candidate. mayor adams here in new york city. i don't know what he sees now that he has an out-of-control billion-dollar problem with illegals on our streets here in new york. i don't live here, but i here. >> griff: $5 billion, by the way. to the point of voter integrity, i will go off the show and go back to d.c. where i am likely going to cover a big fight in congress as congress comes back. because republicans are looking at possibly attaching a provision to a short-term funding bill that will have a provision to require proof of citizenship in the election. you know, mollie mentioned that only five dems voted for the save act. have in the world's voter integrity not a bipartisan issue with overwhelming --

>> harris: at the great question. >> griff: here's how we answer a question. sometimes a picture speaks a thousand words. let down actually a picture of someone that i took in eagle pass. that was down in mexico when i was down in the seven part of mexico. there is another one of a biden-harris t-shirt just 6-8 months ago when i was down there, with "biden-harris 2020" coming across. and so democrats perhaps see an advantage. >> harris: trump should cover a picture tomorrow night at the debate. who paid for those t-shirts? >> kayleigh: i doubt abc will let him, that he should. it's crazy to me. you just have democrats saying there's no proof exists. but wait, glenn youngkin removed 6,000 noncitizens from the voter rolls in virginia. greg abbott removed 6,500 noncitizens from texas. guess what? 1,930 of them had voter records in texas. we just played proof of a doj prosecution from the biden administration of a woman who voted twice illegally. so for all the talk about russia

influencing votes, russia is not changing the vote totals. illegal immigrants voting are changing vote totals. so care about russia, yes, the care about noncitizens changing vote totals. >> harris: vice president kamala harris' campaign is blaming former president trump floyd -- what is it this time? this time she wants to blame him for that disastrous afghanistan withdrawal. ♪ ♪

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>> kayleigh: a scathing house report claims the biden administration directly led to the american people about its disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan. vice president kamala harris is somehow trying to blame trump for administration's failures. gillian turner is live at the state department was more on the

story. gillian? >> hi, kayleigh. this 350 page report outlines two big-picture findings from republicans on this committee. they say first and foremost at the biden of administration failed to have a plan, a safe evacuation plan for afghanistan, until it was way too late. they also come as you mentioned, accused multiple officials across many departments and agencies of lying directly to the american people. take a look. they write, "the administration misled and in some instancdirecn people, at every stage of this withdrawal." >> the truth was manipulated and then spun out to the american people that everything is going to be just fine. well, guess what? it wasn't. you know why? because they didn't have a plan. there was no plan as required by federal law. the day the plan came out was the day the taliban overran kabul. too little, too late.

>> though the report barely mentions ep kamala harris by name, democrats on the committee are accusing chairman mccall of using it to try to damage a peasantry campaign. listen. >> it is a politicized, cherry-picked report designed to do one thing. not shed light on a tragedy, which, by the way, i would support 100%. and let's also look at the 20 years in the four presidents that double down on afghanistan policy. it's going to be a nakedly partisan campaign thing. speak of the harris-walz campaign says the blame actually lies with former president trump. they tell us "trump trump left the biden-harris and his ration with zero plans for an orderly withdrawal, only a dangerous and costly mess." the report names and change key officials across the white house, state department, and pentagon, including most prominently national security advisor jake sullivan. they argue their decisions ultimately led to the tragic death of 13 american service members and afghan civilians.

chairman mccall told us this morning, kayleigh, that his investigation is going to continue forward. right now he's got secretary of state antony blinken in his cross hairs. he is demanding that he present himself and testify before congress by september 19th at the latest. kayleigh? >> kayleigh: gillian, thank you. you know, harris, i find it interesting that democrats say this is a partisan exercise to attack kamala pay 350 pages, her name is only mentioned 17 times. she is front and center of this because of what she said to dana bash on afghanistan about being the last person in the room. let's remind viewers. >> president biden always said that he wants you to be the last person in the room, particularly for big decisions. he just made a really big decision. afghanistan. >> yes. >> were you the last person in the room? >> yes. >> and you feel comfortable? >> i do. >> kayleigh: her words >> harris: unfortunately the question of why you feel comfortable as an aspirate i want to ask her, what would you

do differently? clearly it was failure. you can spend it any way you want, but he spent time with those families of the 13 basically assassinated, if you want to use the word, or executed. they were just gone down. of our personnel at the kabul airport as we tried that botched withdrawal. he spent time with those families i think you would find convincing evidence of who is missing at the dinner table as to how we sailed. the beginning of our failures. not to mention all the afghans who work with us for 20 years, and they paid the penalty of death and torture in some instances with a lack of freedom. i want to know how she would do things differently. if she were the last person in the room, she must have known about the plan. but then we learn from are presented of mccall that the plan was rolled out within 24 hours of the withdrawal. it's hard to get a military mission together like that with all the training they have. that sounds crazy to me. so she is responsible, and the best thing she can do with the debate is not look complicit and have some ideas on the matter.

>> kayleigh: that would be good to see. mollie, this part stood out to me on page 26 of the report. colonel seth chrome edge, the chief of staff for special operations command, put it this way. president biden decided we are going to leave and is not listening to anybody. the reason i bring that up is i have surmised his mental acuity has led to stubbornness in this decision-making, and kamala harris' role in covering up his mental acuity, there are real national security consequences. perhaps this. >> mollie: absolutely. and she is conflating two separate issues. it is true that trump should get credit for the departure from afghanistan, which is something that many americans feel the nation-building exercise had gone on for decades too along there. but the execution of the withdrawal is what the biden administration was doing, and she has wanted to claim credit for it. so she deserves the blame for how that was done. it does also show i foreign policy is such an important thing to have in debates. we didn't have that in 2020, and the whole world is on fire under

the biden-harris of administration. whether it's the russian ukraine war, the middle east, problems in china, or this afghanistan withdrawal. >> kayleigh: a very simple question, if you're the last person in the room, made of the generals were warning against this. did she stand up to president biden? that should be asked. >> emily: regardless, she's comfortable with it and she has no regrets. to mollie's point, i appreciate that distention so much, because if she is comfortable with it and stand by her statements, is she comfortable then with those 13 service members' lives are lost? with the fact that we just saw billions of dollars worth of our equipment parading down as they were celebrating their new government? is she proud of the fact and comfortable with the fact that the women now in afghanistan, the young girls, can't go to school, as every one else is putting up the first day of school photos of their kids? the daughters cannot go to school because the taliban forbids it. so there is an entire host of tragedy, including and especially the abandonment of our allies and of americans. i talked about before the people have stepped in the gap to state our allies and the like. so i have to say this, it's a

point i take the biggest hubris with. for them to intimate that president trump, who was an officer four years with zero prior political extremes, was responsible for handing them a plan, when we are told that president biden has served 50 years in the senate. 50 years on watch. shouldn't he know better? shouldn't she know better, with the opposite she has held that she shoves down our throats can ask if they want us to believe that her experience qualifies her for the commander in chief role, and yet they couldn't rely on the general's advice, they couldn't rely on their experience help articulate one? i don't trust them one more minute, and i never did. >> griff: i just think that this evacuation was the largest, what was at stake, compared to vietnam. when the chief of staff is saying don't do this, countless times, with navy, with the army in iraq, this is not a simple undertaking because lives are at stake. debbie think that

thing. >> the everything i think is telling, they were saying days before kabul cell that there wasn't a threat, but they knew. and that should resonate poorly with the american people. >> kayleigh: and it has. i would cite biden's approval rating prior to dropping out as evidence of that. vice president harris called for the end of divisiveness while visiting a spice shop known for hating and bashing republicans. the lungs and lower airways. but i'm protected with arexvy. arexvy is a vaccine used to prevent lower respiratory disease from rsv in people 60 years and older. rsv can be serious for those over 60, including those with asthma, diabetes, copd and certain other conditions. but i'm protected. arexvy is proven to be over 82% effective in preventing lower respiratory disease from rsv and over 94% effective in those with these health conditions.

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>> one day before the thriller in philly, complete coverage of the living face-off with a poll that shows donald trump delete nationally. judge jeanine and delaware governor john carney join us. a stinging new report from a house committee on the disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan. we will talk to a gold star dad just ahead. a bipartisan group of new york city counselors asking to ditch sanctuary city status. leo terrell has a few thoughts about that. and kate middleton comes out of chemotherapy with a positive attitude in ottawa. dr. nicole saphier on her prognosis. i'm john roberts. come join sandra and me top of the hour for "america reports." we will see you soon. >> emily: vice president kamala harris taking a break from debate prep over the weekend. she visited a spice shop in

downtown pittsburgh and lectured about bringing our divided country together. >> a lot of what i think is happening -- and i was just talking f with some folks here n pittsburgh about it, people are exhausted about the division and the attempts to divide us as americans. it is time to turn the page on the divisiveness. it's time to bring our country together. to chart a new way forward. >> emily: it looks like that spice is specific, because that spice shop is known for slamming republicans. their website has an entire "about republicans" page with a staggering 842-word essay bashing the party. part of it, written by the ceo, reads, "going forward, we would still be glad to have u.s. customers, but we are done pretending the republican party's embrace of cruelty, racism, covid lies, climate change denial, and threats to democracy are anything other than the risks they legitimately are." harris, is this -- side note, is

this the president that would be president for every american cannot because it seems like by shopping there you are only sending the message that you want to be a president for half the country. >> harris: did you google it to find it, that shop team at google spice and politics and hate republicans, and it's got an address. let's go there to shoot our promo. that's what that was. it was promotional value for her. that wasn't a real press opportunity or interview. i am really, really lost on why she can't just hold a news conference. at this point, i really end. >> emily: and the irony, mollie, that she's preaching about divisiveness at a spice shop that physically puts that on. >> mollie: it's not like this is a new thing. penzeys has been bigoted against republicans and hateful and intolerant for so long, for many years. this was an intentional thing. for her, going to a safe space to speak against divisiveness while being at one of the most notoriously hateful companies in america. >> kayleigh: i'm interested in the business model of this country.

according to foxnews.com, "i'm sad to say might be happier elsewhere," speaking to republicans. and they labeled martin luther king jr. day, republicans are racist day weekend, and law subscribers after this. interesting business model. i will with my garlic lawrys season i put on everything. >> harris: great on a burger, by the way. >> griff: as an intrepid reporter, i have to confess that mollie has penzeys spices. she was given a gift. yet, at the london thing. that's how she knows, going back. choosing a place to go to talk about unity while the shop called 70% of americans cruel, racists, threats to democracy, is really a bad look. someone didn't think that photo op through. >> harris: or they absolutely thought it through, and it's on purpose, and they googled to find it and shoot it there. >> emily: oof. it would be nice if our vice president practice which he preached. more "outnumbered" in a momen—l. oh, absolutely.

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>> last but not least, elton john is giving a thumbs up on for president trump's rocket man nickname for kim jong un. >> i left. i thought it was brilliant. i thought good on you donald. donald has always been a fan of mine and he has been to my concerts many, many times. so i have always been friendly toward him and i thank him for his support. when he did that i thought it was hilarious. it made me laugh. >> i thought that was so funny. it is objectively funny what donald trump did calling him rocket man and it is so nice seeing elton john not take the low-hanging fruit of i'm the overseas version of hollywood. >> he was a fan of -- he is technically not in hollywood. this is his own space. >> this is proof that people

like trump's nicknames. i doubt the vice president likes the current comrade harris but this is proof that that's what trump does good he is great at giving nicknames. i think it is good for him to come out and say that. >> what a breath of fresh air. we were saying how much we love elton john. a breath of fresh air for someone who is larger-than-life and can be himself and say it i love donald it's great. he won't be canceled because no one can touch him and he isn't afraid of being canceled because he has a spine. bravo. >> no one is going to cancel elton john. >> it's a reminder that one thing kamala harris and donald trump share, they probably don't see her very much, they love music. a good question to soften things up tomorrow might be to ask them a question about some of their favorite bands or artists. >> tomorrow the much-anticipated abc presidential debate between trump and kamala harris. tune into box for it. it all begins tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. "america reports" now.