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>> sandra: the anticipation is building. two candidates, one stage, tens of millions of voters watching. vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump will face off of the very first time just hours from now. >> regardless of which version of donald trump shows up on the debate stage, it is an opportunity for the vice president to communicate her vision. >> i think we are going to see tonight is a contrast of her trying to run from that record but also trying to defend that record.

i think millions of americans are to see which kamala harris is going to show up. >> sandra: hello and welcome, everyone. i'm sandra smith in new york. what a day, john. >> john: this is going to be a big moment. just seven hours from now could be the second-biggest debate moment in history. i'm john roberts in washington and this is "america reports." a campaign official tells fox news in the last hour that the former president is "calm, cool, collected, and well read on harris' record dating back to her time is set for cisco district attorney." me to the met bay someone on site you can share with us first hand how was healing. the vice president has been in pennsylvania prepping for the big night. she has gone 51 days now without a formal news conference, and she did just finally post her policy platform on her website a day ago. "a new way forward." do her proposals really reflect that? >> john: some of the metadata according to sam is directly

pulled from the biden campaign website. we will ask larry kudlow about harris' economic pitch and get his expectations for trump tonight. first alexandria hoff is live in philadelphia. what can we expect tonight? 's ego we know the goal for foreign president trump is to remain focused and really press the vice president on these new policies. vice president harris has perhaps the more difficult job, a delicate dance trying to put forward these ideas, positive change, but also not criticizing the administration she is part of. a lot of this might come down to the ways that the campaigns have prepared. they have been very different in doing so. team trump says the near constant questions they have been fielding, unscripted on the campaign trail, that is the best practice possible. >> the bar for kamala harris has been raised. all the pressure is on her because donald trump has conducted north of 35 interviews

since she has been the de facto nominee, and she has conducted exactly one. >> former president trump has also sought help from allies like former congresswoman and former democrat tulsi gabbard he faced off against terrace and the 2020 primary process. >> she is not to be underestimated, because she is talented on the debate stage. there's no question about that. but she's going to have a tough time trying to defend this record that, quite frankly, from the view of the american people, is indefensible. >> for the debate prep the harris campaign went more of a traditional route, walking through talking points, stage dynamics, and intensive multi-day training in pittsburgh doing mock debates which featured a trump stand-in. >> when she is preparing for her debate, she wants to try to ensure that she understands the kind of things that the former president may say, the proposals he's going to outline, the attacks that he may try to land.

>> the harris campaign expects, maybe even hopes that trump will go low and some of his talking points, make a couple jabs. the trump campaign says they will only go low when it comes to the issues. sandra, john? >> john: alexandria hoff with a preview of the big dance for us. alexandria, thank you. sandra? >> sandra: let's bring in larry kudlow. i was just asking if he saw the interview with lindy. we are glad she came on. she runs the finance for the harris campaign and she's part of that program. she was defending harris enter economic policies, and i did challenge her on this opportunity economy that she described and we have heard kamala harris describe on your website and beyond. she talked about how priority for harris is to bring down prices. but we haven't heard her acknowledge how we got here. those prices ran up, and until you acknowledge how we got here, how do you promise voters are going to fix it? it's a simple question.

>> i don't understand, because her economic speech, which i think was more important than her dnc convention speech, she would spend another $2 trillion on top of the $2 trillion deficit as far as the eye can see. and as far as i can gather, her solution to prices is price controls. she says price controls on groceries are bad enough. the margins are tiny. those are not the causes of inflation. the cause of inflation is too much spending and then too much money-printing. i've never heard her ever talk about a spending cut, and this business about housing, she's going to port $25,000 per house or per sale or per application. >> sandra: is not going to push prices higher? >> raising prices across the board, and the rest of it is that she is taking jill biden's policies, the source code still on the campaign website, and i think you're going to get more

of the same. prices are still very, very high. >> sandra: i hope you're watching at 4:00 yesterday. i thought of you and rsm team cut this. neil bradley, and this has got larry kudlow rich to written all over it. watch this exchange. >> who is better for small businesses? >> we don't pick in presidential candidates, so you're not taking a side. >> with these businesses benefit from higher or lower taxes? >> certainly businesses benefit from lower taxes, less regulation, lower tariffs and more certainty in government policy. >> sandra: he made political statement that would indicate they were more supportive of harris' policies, but when asked how businesses thrive, lower taxes are higher, less regulation or more regulation, he answers the same no matter what political affiliation. >> i think that is right. by the way, some democratic economists have been very

critical of kamala harris' plan, particularly the price controls. if you raise tax rates on large and small companies, you're going to get less production, and less production of goods means prices are going to go higher. that is the flaw. trump gave a tour de force speech at the economics club of new york last week. he walked through a tremendous platform, lower tax rates across the board, deregulation across the board, spending cuts across the board. this is very important. the elon musk commission will be an important part of that, though not the only part, across the board. and he's going to reopen the fossil fuel spigots across the board. >> sandra: so is harris, apparently. they are making her out to be pro-fracking. >> i'm not going to trash anybody. i'm just going to say that the green new deal and the misnamed inflation reduction act is in effect as close as they can get

to a ban on fracking, and pipelining. all these will raise energy costs. let's talk about the tariffs issue. >> sandra: thank you, because one of your former colleagues -- >> i'm always here to help you. you know that. to remind you on the set of the program. >> sandra: i planned this early this morning so i have to get to it. >> of course he did, and here we are. >> sandra: joking that trump policies are going to lead to more inflation. >> what happens when you put tariffs on goods and you stop immigration and forced migrants to leave, in terms of wages? >> kind of against it. >> isn't it going to be inflationary? >> of course. >> is at one time? >> when you see tariffs like that, you obviously think about 1929-1932, or you see -- maybe trump saw the show, the show is pretty good, saw it twice.

>> sandra: it sounds like he's making the case that trump policies will lead to even higher prices. your reaction? >> he's a very smart guy and he's a friend of mine. this has nothing to do with 1929. let me put it to you this way. unfair trading practices have to be curved. very important point, number one. if you curb unfair trading practices, you're going to have more domestic production. it's the supply-side effect. and mr. trump is saying, if you produced domestically, we will give you a 15% tax rate. that is a tremendous advantage. kamala harris is going to raise the tax rate. the second point, very important on tariffs. consumers will boycott higher prices. if you put a modest tariff on -- this is what we do with china, where there is no

inflation, by the way. the burden will fall on china or whoever the unfair trading partner is. they will not be able to sell their goods to the united states. >> sandra: i got it. >> so what will they deal? they will cut and profit margins and the goods will actually be cheaper, not more expensive. inflation could be a problem if you blow up spending and you blow up the money supply, but trump is arguing exactly the reverse. he is creating tax, regulatory, energy, and trading incentives for american companies to produce more. more production leads to lower prices and s fast economic grow. his speech last week was a tour de force. it was a masterful speech. >> sandra: relisten to it here. i've got to the ego. how's he feeling ahead of the debate? >> all i will say he is he is in great shape and ready to go. >> sandra: great to have you added the debate.

you are to hear, john. >> john: one of the big questions tonight, is trump going to focus solely on policy or will he get into the personal attacks? we shall see. we got special coverage of the debate starting at 5:00 p.m. you can catch the simulcast right here on fox starting at 9:00. i will join "jesse watters primetime," by the way, about 10 minutes after 8:00. >> sandra: can't wait for that. we will be blogging throughout. i am in at 4:00 so that'll be a big night. we will see you then. a live look from capitol hill where former new york governor andrew cuomo is set to testify before congress over his covid pandemic response. you may remember his policy forced nursing homes to take in covid patients. a committee memo claims his administration then tried to downplay deaths related to that decision. bryan llenas has more on that for us. what do we expect to hear from former governor cuomo? >> sandra, good afternoon. we expect fiery testimony from

former governor andrew cuomo in response to what we expect to be aggressive questioning from the republican-led select committee on the coronavirus pandemic. the committee released its preliminary findings into its investigation into cuomo's response to the pandemic in new york nursing homes and found that cuomo was ultimately responsible for that controversial march 25th, 2020 directive that forced nursing homes to readmit covid-19-positive patients. the report concluding that directives "unjustifiably exposed vulnerable nursing home populations to covid-19." the report found that cuomo personally ordered, reviewed, and edited a july 2020 new york health department report to ensure that it blamed covid-19 deaths on nursing home staff infections and not on his office's march 25th directive. finally, the report says his office downplay the nursing home covid crisis by purposefully hiding the true nursing home

covid-19 death rate by excluding out a facility deaths. writing, "andrew cuomo owes answers to the 15,000 families who lost loved ones in new york nursing homes during the covid-19 pandemic." cuomo denies issuing the march 25th directives and denies editing the july 2020 state health report. he instead blames former president trump. this is what he had to say just a few moments ago entering capitol hill. listen. >> i'm looking forward to the opportunity to actually put the facts on the table, because what they are saying has no basis in truth or fact. it is all revisionist, and i hope you'll hear that. >> again, there have been multiple investigations into this that have found this was a mistake, that his office did try to hide the nursing home deaths,

and now we have this preliminary investigation. this is based on ten transcribed interviews including with cuomo himself and this is the first time we will see him question publicly under oath during all these rumors, by the way, that he is seeking to become new york city's next mayor, perhaps challenging mayor adams. >> sandra: we will be watching for all of that. bryan, thank you. >> john: sandra, "the new york post" reporting the arrest of an illegal immigrant in martha's vineyard on multiple child rape charges. what we know about the suspect's violent history, coming up, plus this -- >> she can be heard on the voice mail hushing her, and knew the end telling her "i'm sorry" in spanish while strangling her with her phone charging cord. there are no words that describe the heart-wrenching, soul crushing pain of losing your child so horrifically. >> sandra: the mother who lost her daughter at the hands of an ms-13 gang member shares her gut-wrenching testimony on capitol hill today. now she's here to share it with

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of 16, on the exclusive island resort in england. these latest charges against him just months after he was released from prison. he was found guilty of threatening to attack a family member and the strength of a or suffocate them. he entered the country illegally, we are told, at the texas border back in 2018. enforcement was able to arrest him on august 23rd after the sheriff's office help to hand him over to i.c.e. the director is saying that just too many cities and towns in our country do not cooperate with i.c.e. and removing aliens. "he allegedly repeatedly assaulted a massachusetts child. too often, local jurisdictions refused to honor detainers and release dangerous offenders back into the community to reoffend." this happens after last year. i.c.e. nabbed another illegal immigrant also from brazil on martha's vineyard found guilty of rating raping a five year ol,

sentenced to 14 years in prison, but he fled to the u.s. before he served any time. both found safety on the resort island, known as the summer home of the wealthy and many celebrities. ferrero was finally deported back to brazil this past june, and the same fate likely awaits neto, the first he has a court appearance set in massachusetts for next month. sandra? >> sandra: eric shawn out of new york city for us. thank you. >> she was a preteen out doing what teenagers do, going to the corner store to get a soda. she was preyed on by two illegal venezuelan immigrants. >> he crossed the border three times, was sent back. the fourth time he was a got-away. after he murdered my daughter, he stayed in the same town where he murdered her, continued to work in restaurants. >> we are letting everything

through the border because we are not checking them. and you are victimizing citizens, you are victimizing immigrants alike. we are not against immigration. we are against unvented immigration. >> this is not a political issue. it's a safety issue for everyone living in the united states. not only was kayla's life put at risk and taken it, so many children and adults were at r risk. the biden-harris administration is not putting american citizens 'safety first. >> john: we want to introduce you to one of the parents he just wrapped up gut-wrenching testimony on capitol hill, on the open southern border's impact on her family. tammy nobles lost her daughter, kayla marie, to an ms-13 gang member from el salvador who took her life back in july of 2022. tammy says the dhs failed her family. let's bring in kayla's mom, tammy nobles, right now. it is such a horrible thing that happened to your daughter, you tell the story again and again and again trying to bring

attention to it. why did you feel compelled to join those other parents who suffered the same tragedy in congress today? >> i want everyone to know what is happening at the border, that all the ones who are coming here illegally are not being background checked or vetted. they are just letting anyone in. i have been fighting for this ever since kayla was murdered. i have been fighting for this for over two years. >> john: when you look at the timeline of the illegal immigrant who murdered your beautiful young daughter, it's really unbelievable to see what happened. march of 2022, he entered the u.s. illegally through texas as an unaccompanied minor, was branded by border patrol and sent to live with a sponsor in maryland. he then moved to a mobile home in aberdeen, maryland, where kayla was killed. he was then placed in foster

care as police awaited dna results. he was enrolled in a local high school and then he was arrested after the dna results came back. he pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 70 years in jail. where do you even begin to pull back the layers of how dhs failed you and your daughter? >> there are so many layers and so many failures in her case from start to finish. child protective services did not let the aberdeen police department know that they put him in a secure children's home. they did not let the police know that they moved him from the group home to a foster home and enrolled him in high school with other children. >> john: and what do you want to hear in tonight's debate about this so very important border issues?

>> i want to hear about the changes they're going to make, how they are going to have american citizens safety first. we are not being put first. our safety is at risk, and i want changes and i want answers, and accountability. >> john: the way the hearing unfolded today, there was one moment that was really quite surprising. i couldn't quite figure out why it happened. where one democrat accused you and your fellow parents of being politically manipulated and exploited. listen to this exchange here. it's a little bit long, but it's very important. >> i think what is most frustrating to me as a member of congress is what is happening today at this committee hearing, where we have colleagues who are exploiting people's pain for political purposes. >> did republicans on this committee or any republican

staff exploit you in any way to come to today's hearing? >> no. i'm not being forced to be here. i'm here because i want to be here and i want changes to be made. >> i don't feel exploited in any way. >> you have said some very broad statements. it is insulting. these people lost loved ones, they lost children, and we want to see a difference. we may not understand everything that's going on, but i assure you that we are not being used in any way. >> john: what do you say to members of congress to look at what happened today and look at you trying to get some sort of change, going through this horror again and again, and they claim you're being politically exploited? >> every time i come up here to congress, the democrat always brings up that it is a political stunt, that we are just being brought here to be exploited, and nobody is forcing any of us to be here. they are not forcing me to be

here. i want to be here because i want to bring awareness on what is happening, and i want change. i am doing this for kayla and for others living here in the united states. >> john: i want to put up a graphic of your beautiful daughter, kayla, and several other young women and boys who were brutally murdered or otherwise affected by illegal immigrants. when you put up those faces to people who are either no longer with us or have suffered intolerably, for someone to say this is all politics, what do you say to that accusation? >> it is not a political issue. it is a safety issue. these illegal immigrants who are criminals aren't coming here to attack a certain political stance. they don't care if you are republican. they don't care if your democrat. he don't care care where you're

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kentucky with the latest for us. what did the text message say? >> according to the affidavit in this case, the suspected shooter texted a woman less than 30 minutes before the attack. "i'm going to kill a lot of people. well, at least try." he then goes on to text, "then i'll kill myself afterwards." the police think he is still out there and they are urging the community to stay inside, but still be conscious even if you are home. >> if you are at home, don't be alone. always have your cell phone. have a phone with you. check on your neighbors. >> law enforcement is in their fourth day of the search for couch. there's now a $35,000 combined reward for any information leading to his arrest. imagine just driving down i-75 like a lot of people do every day and getting randomly ambushed by bullets. that is exactly what happened here saturday evening. thankfully the five people shot are expected to be okay.

officers say, after the shooting, they eventually found the former army reservist's car and found the ar-15 lip and they believe was used in the attack. but not their suspect. this isn't an easy location to find someone. the terrain is extremely hilly, lots of trees. state police are describing the search area as a jungle. the mayor says people are scared. >> this took a huge toll on the community here. they want him captured, and while he's on the loose, the anxiety is going to stay high. >> schools here are closed for a second straight day due to all of this, and as you mentioned at the top, we are expecting an update from kentucky state police and about half an hour. back to you. >> john: looking forward to that. madison scarpino for us in london kentucky. >> sandra: former first lady melania trump weighing in on the assassination attempt on her husband, demanding answers about why the suspected shooter wasn't apprehended before firing eight

shots at her husband. >> the attempt to end my husband's life was a horrible, distressing experience. now the silence around it feels heavy. i can't help but wonder, why didn't law enforcement officials arrest the shooter before the speech? there is definitely more to this story, and we need to unde uncor the truth. >> sandra: let's bring in andy mccarthy, fox news contributor. welcome to you. interesting video that we have all had a chance to see by now. what did you think of it at her thoughts in it? >> i think her thoughts are completely understandable, and i think perhaps the campaign would like to roll out somebody who has -- you know, who is very popular in the country and has kind of a reputation for being

above it all in terms of the rough-and-tumble politics. maybe she can reach people who might be unreachable by former president trump or other people associated with the campaign. and there is a lot of questions about the security failures here, which seem to have been catastrophic from soup to nuts. so i think all people who are of -- well-meaning people would like to get answers about what happened. >> john: so it is fair that she is putting that out there, to say the least. legally there are still a lot of questions. obviously strategically for the secret service to be able to secure a former president in a better way. these are all reasonable questions that people still have, andy. >> yeah, and i think, sandra, the undertone is that melania trump and the trump family are also protected by the secret service, or supposed to be. so it's not just that the former

president is under threat. it's not just him, it's his family. >> sandra: finally, i want to ask you about the kohberger trial, the killing set of idaho. they have granted the motion to move his quadruple murder trial out of the county in idaho where this happened, where the murders happened in the college town of moscow. the judge order was unsealed yesterday. what do you make of this move? obviously this is upsetting the family and they are calling it an credibly disappointing, the ruling granting the change of venue. the only good about this decision they say will be the judge's last decision in this case. they always felt the judge favored the defense, which is just crazy for anyone seeing this. and it was a common theme that, whatever the defense wanted or needed, they got. it's an incredible response from the family. >> you can understand how emotionally invested they are in this, obviously.

on the other hand, to try to be fair to the judge, we are talking about a quadruple homicide, which is a death penalty case, and la the county has about 40,000 people. it is such a small place that almost everybody, or at least many people, will have some connection to someone who is associated with the trial, and it is just a fact that appellate courts don't like the death penalty and look for reasons to reverse it if a jury votes for it. in one of the reasons could be they are worried about prejudicial publicity. so in the long run this could be a good ruling in terms of getting the result the prosecutors are asking for. but it's very frustrating for the family members, obviously, and as someone who has tried a lot of cases, some of which were high-profile cases, i always think the important thing is to

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it will be one of the first times that harris faces tough questions without a teleprompter. will she finally have to answer questions about her record and explain her many flip-flops? let's bring in martha maccallum, host of "the story." it's great to see you. i'm wondering, when this is all said and done tonight, what will the media reaction be? to you think they'll say we need to have more q&a with kamala harris to really find out what she stands for and to that to her in a more detailed fashion connect or will they say, we heard all we need to come and go about their business? >> that's a good question, john. i think we know from recent polls that people want to understand better where she stands on things. she's been the vice president for over three years, but there's a lot of questions and a lot of voters say that they still need to understand about her. she had two routes she could have taken when she was chosen to take over the nomination. she could have gotten out there all the time, talk as much as she could, worked at that muscle

and reparation for tonight so there really wasn't anything she had been asked. that's where she is right now. that is what she needs to carve out. i think her path is that she needs to stay very steady, she needs to explain how she has sort of traveled the road from medicare for all, questions about i.c.e., questions about reducing funding for i.c.e., and some of the really controversial issues that came out of the aclu questionnaire. i was just in 2019. it wasn't like this was a high school or college perspective. she's got questions to answer. how the press is going to either laud her and say it's all set, we are good on the issues, or whether she will get pressed more. i hope it is the latter and that the process of what we do, take the tires on future presidents no matter who it is. he went on the question of why

she flip-flops on banning plastic straws. the world is waiting to hear that. >> she did say the paper once fell apart, so i think we can all relate to that. >> john: it was the way she said that was interesting. bill mcgurn thinks the in curiosity of the media at large will elevate tonight's debate. "reporters haven't insisted that ms. harris answer the basic questions. the debate may provide the only moment of the 2024 election when americans get to see how ms. harris performs under pressure." it really does seem to raise the stakes for her. >> you have done these sort of forums. i have done these forums, as well. i think there is pressure on the moderators. nobody wants to walk out of the situation and have the review of your performance be that it was all soft balls and they weren't pressed on anything. i think there's pressure on these moderators, on lindsey davis and david muir, to have the after comments be that they were tougher than i thought they

were going to be, but they were fair in these questions. i hope issues like the withdrawal from afghanistan, which is important not just because it was a difficult moment for the biden-harris administration, but because of what it left in its wake, the ukraine invasion, what happened in israel, all of these issues that may have begun to unravel on that day. so i really hope that is something that is addressed tonight. that is something i'll be looking for. what about future israel policy? we really haven't had her feet held to the fire on that and i think president trump needs to answer questions on both of those, obviously, as well. >> john: and what about this quote from 18 months ago? fairbury sixth, 2023. "dozens of democrats including some who helped put her on the party's 2020 ticket said she had not risen to the challenge of proving yourself as a future leader of the party, much less the country." what is interesting is the media at large is ignoring what it itself wrote not too long ago

about her. >> you know it as well, and everybody else who's been watching this, they were in a very tough position. it was so clear after june 27th that jill biden could not continue to be the nominee, and this is the reaction they chose. some of them including nancy pelosi wanted to see a more open process, a mini primary, as james clyburn put it. jill biden said no, if you're going to get me out of here you will take the vice president i chose and it will be my legacy. there were moments not too long ago when elizabeth warren was saying, i'm not sure, maybe she shouldn't be at the bottom of the ticket. maybe she will be a drag on joe biden. so much has happened in the past couple of months, and it's been fascinating to watch, but tonight is a huge marker in this whole process. >> john: it is. so far it is helping puppies and fluffy kittens. maybe it'll be lions and bears tonight. you have cory booker coming up on your program. thank you for joining us so close to airtime. we will let you get back to it. see you soon.

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growing threat of war in the middle east adding that a troubling relationship is developing between adversaries like china, russia and iran primitive national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live this at the pentagon for us. jennifer, what else did they say? >> sandra, interference of a public appearance together the world's top spy chief cia director bill burns and britain's mi 60 richard more warned of increased partnerships between russia china iran and north korea. while urging in a joint op-ed for the west to stay the course in ukraine. >> you can see north korea and robin regarding the iranian drones, you can see the sort of help that the chinese are providing through sort of dual use type material. >> we see the way in which china and russia, russia iran, russia and north korea are working together. their two way streets color defines partnerships. >> iran has already said russia thousands of us one

way attack drones peculiar ukrainian's and with iran's help that moscow has brought a giant drone factory shown in this video to produce more of the iranian drones. entered the russian soldiers have trained inside iran on the part that 360 close range ballistic missile system and secretary of state antony blinken who was in london today warned that russia recently received shipments of close range ballistic missiles from tehran. >> the supply of iranian missiles enables russia to use more of its arsenal for targets or further from the front line while litigating the missiles is receiving from iran for closer range targets. --'s' that poses a real

danger. >> when asked about the threat of putting using nuclear weapons mi 60 richard more side "don't ever use it tight -- that were with a stable group." >> sandra: jennifer griffin live in the pentagon for that with. thank you. what -- quick break, will be right back. >> ♪ ♪

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