this is not a political hack somewhere. from the rnc who is making this accusation. so they have to take it seriously. james comer has no option but to investigate it. let's not forget that donald trump was impeached because somebody said ghee, i think there was a phone call that was inappropriate turbulent out it wasn't inappropriate the impeachment was a sham. it we are going to play by the rules okay somebody made an accusation who need to find out what happened and does he have a relationship with the chinese. of all the countries one could have a relationship with. you are allowed to have moral hall weeksed to the edges sent it goes this deep we need to find out. governor mike huckabee appreciate you always always. >> remember, debate conch for you 8:00 p.m. eastern time. "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪

>> steve: 6:00 new york city curvey couch. thanks for joining us. first day of october, 2024. welcome to "fox & friends." we start with a fox news alert right now. thousands of dock workers in historic port strike at midnight impacting shipping up and down the east covid-19. we have got a live report from the noisy picket line coming up. fox weather alert. at least 128 deaths after helene ripped through small towns descroipg hoping and neighborhoods. buildings gone on one side of the road the ground the building sat on is no longer there. >> brian: samaritan's franklin graham joins us. >> ainsley: tonight is the vice

presidential debate with senator j. vance, will he get a fair shake? >> lawrence: kellyanne conway previews the night. fox and friends starts right now. ♪ ♪ had this so fox news alert. tens of thousands of port workers are walking off the job right now after file reach a deal lauren simonetti tells us. the sign top line automation and that really is the sticking point. >> it is. automation is the future and in a way you got to respond to it. they use automation, guys, on the west coast. and that has increased productivity. increased wages and employment nearly 50,000 unionized dock workers walked off the job a few hours ago just as their contract with the ports expired. their employers represented by the u.s. maritime alliance say they proposed nearly 50% rage

increase to the international long shore than's association in agoition a boost in healthcare benefits of tripling of retirement plan contributions. it was rejected by union leadership. dock workers also striking over fears, as you said, receive steve, that automation could toledo traumatic job loss. they are demanding a total ban on automated cranes, gates, and container moving trucks used for freight. the ports shutting down responds cybil for about halve of all u.s. imports and billions of dollars in trade a month and production will not be able to be imported or exported during the strike. this includes chemicals, iron and steal, medical equipment. furniture, vehicles, machinery and electric machinery. a j.p. morgan analysis predicts this strike could cost the economy $5 billion a day. the new jersey port director told fox business, 6 ships have already anchored offshore after failing to make it into the port

before it shut down. that's a reminder of the supply chain crisis during covid. it that number is expected to reach 35 if this strikes exsends over a week. now, president biden has the power to impose an 80 day cooling off period to get the workers back on the job as contract talks continue he has said he will not intervene, the teamster's union is stay saying stay out of this fight. they're using much cruder language on arab to say that message. another strike what is it 71 or 72 under the biden administration. >> brian: i think 71. >> ainsley: this will be 72, right? >> brian: he took taft hartley off the table. essentially gave the union workers a little bit more leverage. that tactically has never a great move. the thing is, if there is any time in which a union strike is hurting the country, outside the

air traffic controllers, it's got to be there. you can't get anything. >> particularly ba thans. lauren, while you are still in the studio. >> brian: bananas? >> brown ban chocolate, cherries, a lot of things are affected. >> steve: talk about ships didn't make it into port. now they are sitting at sea. that means they can't offload. if they can't go anywhere, they are just stuck there and this is going to impact the supply chain if it goes more than a couple weeks. >> it's inflationary, guys. you are going to have your halloween stuff. you're going to have your christmas stuff because of precautionary measures. the retailers and shipment companies brought that all. in it's the future. but i'm also thinking of the vp debate tonight. five weeks before the election they can talk about the economy and inflation. i'm thinking about hurricane helene, two swing states. they need medical supplies. how do we know we have enough and some of those supplies

aren't on those ships stuck at sea. >> great point. all right, lauren. >> ainsley: that's live in baltimore. you see the people who have walked off. they are striking there the taft hartley act you mentioned brian a just federal law restricts the activities and supports of the labor unions, can jp at the white house never taft hart lear to break a strike and are not considering to do so now. lawrence, you are from texas, houston, tv equipment, iron and steel. brian, steve, y'all are from new york and new jersey, cars, semiconductors and furniture. charleston, south carolina, piston engines,. >> steve: you are leaving out the most important thing, ainsley, european alcohol comes through the port of new york and new jersey. lawrence lawyers lawyers just no leadership on the commander-in-chief on this. this is his base, this is his crowd, look be, my dad is a truck driver. i get these workers. i get their requests. but there is no slowing down automation.

it's happening for every individual and to just take your ball and go home and not work with the companies to come up with some deal, if you want the sympathy of the american people who is going through this in their industry as well, probably, you probably shouldn't stop some of the merchandises they need on the day-to-day basis. >> brian: lawrence, we can't drill down on the entry crazies of something that's been going on for weeks, i goat gte it just helping tim walz out with debate invice president at a fundraiser where the southeast a drowning and the president has to go to the beach every weekend? they have to drag him from the white house and say you can't run again. if the white house is so bad, is it musty? is the air conditioner broken can anyone stay there overnight. >> lawrence: so true. >> steve: people have to donate but they could stay there. talking about truck drivers?

>> lawrence: not only effect major retailers but hurting everyday americans across the country. >> brian: here with more american trucking president chris sphere. hey, chris. >> good morning chris, how is this effecting you as of now. >> like you, it's alarm ngt, here we're. these peters have not been able to the to the table since june. so, you know, the president likes to say it's collective bargaining, that's true if they were actually at the table. it's the job of the president and this administration to bring two parties together when they can't reach an agreement. to plead katie. they are not doing that they are encouraging this strike by revoking the option of taft hartley. you are encouraging this union to strike and shut down this economy when our southeast united states is recovering from a natural disaster. this is the worst time to have 36 ports shut down our economy. so if you are really, you know.

regular americans north carolina not looking at the wealthiest pay package that any union in the country has. we have heard about corporate greed. this is union greed. >> steve: you are right. to say your point, apparently the white house officials did say okay, the offer on the table from the shippers to the unions was 40%. when they left the table yesterday, actually they didn't even get to the table, it was at 50%. but, the union people, to your point, chris, they want close to 80%. but they also want the guarantee that there will never be any automation at any of those ports. there is already technology. it's the future on the west coast. throughout europe, but these union guys say, look, you know, we don't want to be replaced by a robot. >> let's take both, starting with pay. look, just to illustrate what greed really is here. you've got six figure salaries

in this union crane operators over $300,000. 77% pay increase they're over half a million dollars. if you are that person down in the southeast digging their community out of the mud, do you think they care about someone whining about getting $500,000 a year? this is where this administration has parked this. and putting everyone else in jeopardy. this is really a lack of leadership. and if you look at automation. they want to move us back into the stone age. i said yesterday we may as well be moving this freight with donkey carts. i have 12,000 trucks each day servicing boxes in new york, new jersey. this is no small task. this is massive movement of freight. and we need automation. we need these workers but we need automation to be competitive globally. >> lawrence: chris, real quickly, what's the incentive? this is an election year. the american people aren't going to take too kindly to this.

so why is the president and this administration backing this? >> n. is all about endorsements and political campaigns. this is about union bosses enforcing. daggett knows he needs to get a sweetheart deal or he is out of a job. they are putting pressure on this administration. they have walked the walks with unions. walked the picket line with the uaw. not just the president. the vice president, the acting secretary of labor. these guys are in the pockets of big labor, if you are us smx representing 36 points. you have joseph incentive to come to this the table because they have already shown their dardz. they have completely nut economy in verpd. >> ainsley: why didn't daggett agree to this 50% pay increase that's a tremendous bonus. >> ma'am, wouldn't you and i like it have a 50% increase? who wouldn't. >> steve: they want 77. >> apparently show. they are willing to shut the economy down in order to get it.

we have heard corporate greed from this president and vice president. this is union greed. this is putting the economy peril because they want as much money as they can possibly get. >> if they gate big increase like this is it passed on to us the consumer? of course, everything costs more, absolutely it's like anything. our industry passes on costs too. as we sit idle, we will take time to catch up. that's going to result in inflation. fewer products and more prices at the shelf. they want $500,000 or more it's absolute lunacy. >> steve: looks like you have today off or take it ease werey the strike going on. >> we still have the other half of the country to as much as. >> brian: i think this is important. the union vote is just melting away from kamala harris. bill clinton won it by 30. hillary clinton won it by 12. she is only leading donald trump by 9 point on the europe vote

let alone the teamsters refusing to endorse her she afraid to buck these unions and is he afraid for her. ing that sends a message. >> the gonger it goes the more stuff costs and that's not good for her if she wants to be a president. right now valley are israeli troops moving deeper into southern lebanon after crossing the border overnight. nate foy joins us from tel aviv. nate? >> hey, guys, loorng with a limited ground often underway right now certain lebanon. hezbollah terrorists are already responding, we are learning in the past hour by targeting a military base with that sod's. sirens were blaring not long ago we heard explosion and idf confirming multiple rts rockets fired from lebanon some but not all of them were intercepted and

two people injured as a result of it. we know the two people injured were drivers driving on a main highway that runs through central israel. they were hit by falling shrapnel. second time in a week that hezbollah has targeted tel aviv. first time that any of their rockets got through israel's air deference paratroopers led the offensive confined to the areas immediately against the border. here is idf spokesman daniel hagari talking about that. >> localized ground raids will target hezbollah strongholds that threaten israeli towns, and communities along our border. >> so, israel complemented its ground offensive with additional strikes on hezbollah's weapon facilities in beirut, your night they targeted the neighborhood, same neighborhood where they killed hassan nasrallah. with the ground offensive underway, the u.s. is providing thousands more troops to the

region, including fighter jet squadrons, despite the fact the day before president joe biden said that more u.s. troops would not come to the region, now, overnight, we are learning that israelens defense minister yoav gallant spoke with the sect lloyd austin and gallant expremised intention to continue operations in southern lebanon until the 60,000 evacuated residents in israel's north can return to their homes and two also talked about countering iranian proxies in the region as we learning this morning that it appears the houthi rebels have continued their attacks on shipping in the red sea with at least one vessel being damaged from an attack this morning. we will send it back to you. >> brian: did you hear that one of our drones was shot down, one of our more expensive grons by the houthis? have you heard that? >> yes, we have heard that, brian. u.s. forces are preparing for all situations that could possibly unfold, we had reported earlier in the week about a

contingent of american troops waiting in cypress in eastern pedestrian terrainian island country thrill and thousands more troops including fighter jets, squadrons, u.s. troops are yesterday for any doive actions that may come as a result of attacks from iranian pox proxies. >> >> steve: nate, i was reading in the jerusalem post this morning the apparently the reason israel is targeting these villages just over the lebanese border is because essentially hezbollah has turned them into military camps. they have got a bunch of terrorist infrastructure there. and so they are going after those guys in what israel is calling a plan called conquer the galilee. apparently that's the operational name. >> yeah, you are absolutely right, steve, i was actually able to tour some of those kibbutz right against the border in december and january you could see that so 78 of those homes had been destroyed and that's why the 60,000 people need to evacuate. you can watch the areas where

hezbollah keeping their webs in people's homes, and then they take out rbgs and and tank missiles and over their soldier they fire them into israel destroying these immunities, that's why people can't live there since october 8th, they have been doing that and now at this point israel has had enough. and if you speak to people. our reporter mike be tobin as well as trey yingst in the north right now talk to israelis that are happy that israel is finally doing something about this so that they can return home. >> thank you so much. they said it's expect to only last days not weeks for israel to be in the southern part of lebanon. they said the goal here is to push hezbollah forces farther away from israel's border. if they are going to stay for a few days, won't the troops won't hezbollah come backed to the border. >> blow everything up. >> we will get to the "wall street journallens" peace. but the idea that we are acting as if this is just israel's

enemy and not our enemies as well is baffling to me. we are giving them no assistance when it comes though this right now. they are not even reading us in pretty much. they are telling us after the fact that they can't trust this administration's leadership. they keep saying no, no, no; get a deal get a deal. hamas doesn't want to a deal. hezbollah doesn't wanted a deal. you have got hostages all over the globe right now as a result, we have given them the opportunity to move them. so, they have to continue the campaign to defeat every single one that's on the board. by the way, they are on our most wanted list as well, brian. >> brian: houthi rebels in particular, what we can do and the "wall street journal" writes about this today. this is an opportunity, this is escalating to de-escalate. this is an opportunity to put maximum america on iran. they are losing their honor guardrail, hezbollah and hamas, on their heels, looking to iran to step up. pressure. why don't we step up on iran's government, who iranian people

hate them. they want to get rid of them. they are repressed women like no one's business. we watched the unrest, we have done nothing, i get it. we can't get involved in everybody's country. i understand it. but this is an opportunity. there and the houthi rebels shut down the red sea, it's 5% of capacity, these are the people that were removed from the terror watch list that we blamed saudi arabia for fomenting violence in the region. and we told the houthi rebels we'll recognize you and we called them the pariah nation that's how as backwards his foreign policy is within the biden administration, back him, help him and the other half says get out. don't touch them. >> ainsley: thankfully israel has the iron dome. there was a missile heading toward the airport when benjamin netanyahu was flying back. they intercepted that and age to shoot it out of the fire.

the white house is calling for a cease-fire, the best way to do that is to have a diplomatic resolution. they are exploring options, too. americans trapped in lebanon. >> brian: 30,000. >> ainsley: exploring options. they are not evacuating americans. >> brian: some are dual citizens that just live there. >> steve: today is october 1st been on our calendar for months because it's debate day. ohio senator j.d. vance and minnesota governor tim walz will meet here tonight for the cbs news vice presidential debate. >> ainsley: according to the debate prep team is he prepared to wint floor with tim walz. that's a quote. >> brian: so much for exceptions. alexis mcadams is live at the cbs center in manhattan. you are not on cbs you are just there for the event. >> she works for fox. >> steve: she is on west 57th street. >> close to where easy to get over here to join you on "fox & friends." i'm still at fox.

so, no, but what we're talking about this morning, we are now just hours away from the first vice presidential debate and happening here in new york city. this could be the first and last debate here coming up before the big presidential election happening in a matter of days as you said tim walz on that stage and j.d. vance go after each other. comes down more to be about the top of the ticket. might sip over more personal attacks on each other. we have heard that the trump team believes advance is ready, watch. >> tim walz plays the part of this folksying a friendly outdoors men when you first meet him and got these smiles. is he likeable until you start to get do know exals and his policies he wants to give illegal hes free healthcare, free college,signed a bill to give them drivers licenses this year, which now we got to watch that in the voting process. >> that's just a little bit of a preview that you guys heard yesterday, too. walz, according to media reports is very nervous for this

debated. hits team says is he prepared and plans to be just himself. he thinks he has those midwest valuings going to come across the debate stage. vance is prepared to slam him as a weird radical liberal. no matter the strategy, both teams know how pivotal this debate can be. >> reminder really close race. when we look at the fact we have only 36 or so days left until the election, you know, the candidates are going to to be out there earning people's support. >> and this debate here in new york city is going to be a little bit different. the cbs news team says that both candidates are going to have to fact-check each other. if there is something that they don't like, that they think the other team is saying, it's their responsibility to do that, not the moderators, it might play out a little differently. >> brian: abc did. they studied for months. donald trump's tapes and appearances. >> steve: alexis, you are inside cbs right now. i used to work there for a minute and a half. here's a great bit of trivia.

did you realize that used to be a dairy barn? >> did i not know that. >> ainsley: it it was a dairy depot. that's where they brought all the milk for new york city for a while. >> oh my gosh. i'm sure the rent prices have gone way up since then on the upper west side. >> lawrence: great job, alexis. >> steve: go home have a cup of coffee. >> ainsley: fox news is same simulcasting the cbs ghus vice presidential debate which is tonight, predebated coverage beginning at 8:00. can you with some of our anchors i'm sure bret and martha i know sean hannity will be involved in. that tune in tomorrow morning from 5:00 to 9:00 a.m. because we are going on an hour early for a special post debate conversation. >> brian: the "new york times" did a whole thing. walz is hartley inexperienced. is he not nervous. he has a ton of. >> steve: lowering feptions. >> showing the ability to show munchy infantry teaks, got him

doing multiple debates. >> very good on his feet. if you watch him go to bat for president biden when he was pretending to run for election. he was a hostiles who fighter go hostile territory. hogwash so nervous biting his teeth, biting his nails. >> lawrence: only reason we don't see more of him a he doesn't know kamala's policy and number two, he doesn't wants to overshadow her as well. he has to stay on the sidelines until the vice president makes her plea. >> steve: and, remember, one of the reasons we heard that she picked him was because in the run-up to the pick, it was like between him and andy beshear. but he was very effective at protecting kamala harris. >> ainsley: watch 8:00 right here and the debate starts at 9:00. we will be with you at 5:00 in the morning. this is a fox weather alert. at least 128 people are dead across six states due to helene,

that number could go even higher with many people still missing. right now, nearly 2 million houses and businesses are still without power across the southeast, and hundreds of roads are still closed. country superstar morgan wallen stepping up with a $500,000 donation to the red cross. so nice of him. the money will be used to help people affected by the hurricane. the star saying, quote: my family in east tennessee are safe but i know many are absolutely devastated it is going to take a monday monuments effort and i'm in contact with my team and others working on ways that i can help. in about 15 minutes we will have a live report from hard hit asheville, north carolina, where there are extreme shortages of food and water and gas and just basic supplies. >> steve: indeed, we will tell you at the top of the hour how what is going on in north carolina could actually impact the election. because 14 of the election offices in 14 of the counties are closed because of the storm. and they have they -- they just

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♪ >> brian: all right, fox news alert. right now israel troops are launching a limited ground invasion look at the red explosion marks right there on the map. going into lebanon first time since 2006 in a substantial way. taking down what is let of the iranian backed terror group hezbollah, they have assets and they have got tunnels. meanwhile here at home, president biden still pushing for cease-fire, well, just the fact that israel may be now launching a limited operation into lebanon, are you aware of that? are you comfortable with their plans? >> i'm more aware than you might know and i'm comfortable with them stopping. we should have a cease-fire now. >> brian: what is he saying? our next guest knows all about fighting the war against terror. u.s. retired brigade general anthony tata joins us now. whether the president wants to or not, the israelis are being aing and informing us later, with our stuff, but these are the areas, we don't know exactly where they are looking to go in and penetrate and they're looking to destroy these tunnels which i understand a more

sophisticated, bigger than the ones in hamas and gaza. your thoughts about the president's words, and the idf's action? >> yeah, hey, brian, good morning, what i would say is that four years ago, we had habitation mum pressure on iran, we had abraham accords with peace breaking out all over. the biden-harris administration unwound the abraham accords, they unwound maximum pressure, they gave billions of dollars to iran. they unfroze billions of dollars of iranian assets. that money has flowed to hamas and hezbollah and that money has reinforced and built these tunnels that you are talking about. i have been in the high growrched the golan and galilee there looking across the border at lebanon. it's very defensibler is t. rain, can you have pillboxes and tunnels it is very, very challenging what hezbollah is doing they have tailor and rocket launchers in that area. where they can range tel aviv and further south into israel,

so what israel has done here is a very methodical campaign where they have messaged that they are coming in. they have taken out the leadership. they did airstrikes to soften up the defensens and now have ground troops coming in so secure terrain to push back that artillery. >> brian: because currently 30,000 to 80,000 people out of their homes. given up way too much land and a very small country the size of new jersey. they are going to push it back. but, there is, i this i we are speaking of two minds in administration. politico has this story. u.s. officials quietly backed israel's military push against hezbollah. even though president biden is saying something different. i'm all for head fakes if it helps the mission. but we have an opportunity here, to destroy an enemy of ours, hezbollah, degrade hamas even further, yes, that terror group in gaza, and then take out the houthi rebels. should would he be publicly endorsing this move now or do you like the dual message?

>> no, the dual message undermines israel, which is our best ally in the region. and really what this is all about, brian, is politics, and domestic politics in dearborn, michigan and minneapolis, minnesota. where have you heavy islamic population in the harris biden regime don't want to do anything to offend those sensibility. so they have been strangling the support for israel for the last year, since october 7th. and even before that this dual messages is all about the election. it's constraining report for key ally so, that they don't offend the arab americans in the area. so, no, information is a key part of foreign policy and we got to have one message out there. >> right now, israel can't get anywhere. this is the opportunity taking out 3,000 of their fighters, 30 of their high command, killing

nasrallah, really destroying their communication. this is rare opportunity to push forward. we should be supporting it. walter ruffle immediate says in today's "wall street journal" that general talk to you soon. hopefully this is another successful operation for the israelis. meanwhile, straight ahead, fox weather alert. rescue efforts still underway as catastrophic flooding keeping north carolina at a stand still. how mayors like our next guest are getting aid to residents. ♪

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>> ainsley: we are back with a fox weather alert letter. at least 128 people confirmed dead across six states because of helene, that number could go even higher with many people still missing, nearly 2 million houses and businesses are still without power across the southeast. and hundreds of roads remain

closed. fox weather correspondent robert ray is in the hard hit area of asheville, north carolina and joins us now. robert, what are you seeing and what is the latest? >> ainsley, it's still a very devastating and fluid situation here this morning in asheville. and i have to note, asheville is not the only area in western north carolina that is still suffering power outages, lack of cell phone service and communication issues with modern society. there are so many towns across this area that are suffering and have need the aid and access right now. and gosh, look at this video from tennessee of this casket being swished down across a raging river over the past couple days, and that's someone's loved one is in that was ceted. unbelievable scenes of destruction that we're seeing not only on the ground in western carolina but across these regions. like tennessee, south carolina,

virginia, georgia, and florida. the power outages are still well over 1 point 5 million customers and active search and rescues continue when the sun comes up. now, we have been talking to people who live in these areas, and also we got this information from the city manager of asheville. let's listen to what he she said. >> please note that our team and our partner agencies, which you heard a lot about, have been doing everything we can to get you these resources potable water. food, fuel, supplies, we appreciate and hope that you will be patient with us. >> look, we respect the words of the city manager and others that are trying to do their best to get these people aid, but the fact of the matters is it's not happening fast enough. aid groups are trying to get in national guard is trying. but there are people in dire

straits as we speak right now. a lot of help is needed here. back to you, janice dean in new york city. >> janice: robert, you're doing a really great job of highlighting that area. you are helping get those donations in. so i thank you. you mentioned the power outages. we still have know, places like florida, the big bend up towards eastern georgia, the carolinas, ohio, without power, this is coming on close to a week. so, if you have people that rely on power. this is now turning into a humanitarian situation and a dire one at that. we have rain in the forecast. mostly for areas north of the carolinas in towards virginia, the mid-atlantic, up towards pennsylvania. looking at asheville itself, very good news for rescue crews that are going out there. temperatures are good and not looking at a olot of rainfall in the next seven days. also want to make mention we are watching this area of low pressure that could develop. we need to watch it. it is eventually going to go into the gulf of mexico. something we need to keep an eye

on. prayers, of course, i know you believe in the power of prayer, ainsley and we need that today more than ever. >> ainsley: yes, we do. franklin graham with samaritan's purse is out there. >> janice: amazing work. >> ainsley: christian organization doing a great job. i have been praying for them and i know you have too. supplies arriving by plane and by mule, in fact, in north carolina as helene's death toll now nears 130. president biden set to tour the areas that were hit the hardest tomorrow, but historic flooding continues to cut off access with a almost all roads in the western third of the state still slowed. joining us now is one of the officials work, to send tied that region bill disturb, thank you so much, mr. mayor, for joining us, what is the biggest problem you are seeing or hearing from your residents? >> well, probably the biggest thing is that all of our cities are rounding up their resources. coordinating with the emergency management to make sure that all

our police, our fire, our electric services can be coordinated to get them up to help our friends up in the mountains. >> ainsley: yes, sir, i saw that elon musk is going to bring in star link to help with communication. i have family in that area or friends that that area, they were saying they can't contact their loved ones and i think that's a big problem. they had to drive. one lady drove to her boyfriend's house to get him and his kids because of she didn't even know if they were okay. they didn't want to leave the house because they weren't sure if the roads were safe. so 600 people at last count, family members have called in saying that their family members are missing, do you expect that number to go up and are they missing or they just can't get in tough with them? >> well, from our side, we have a lot of friends up in the mountains and a lot of our communities we talk to all the time. and that's a common thing we're hearing and as the communications come back, we are starting to see that they are finding their relatives. that's really a great feel to have.

>> ainsley: yes, sir is, i know you are involved with operation air drop. collecting supplies and using planes and mules to deliver splice. thank you so much. god bless you. >> well, yeah. we are excited about that the fact that -- that so quickly we could put that all together. in the past 24 hours we have had 72 flights going up towards the mountains along with 41,000 pounds of supplies that we -- >> ainsley: yes, sir, i know utility workers are trying to restore power there too. god bless you, everyone pray for north carolina and everyone affected by. this thank you, mr. mayor. >> thank you very much. >> you are welcome. in just hours, walz and vance take the stage for the cbs news vice presidential debate. does vance stand a chance with the network's long history of anti-trump bice? kellyanne conway is here live next. ♪

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let's get back to the candidate you are here to talk about. >> steve: critics pointing out that cbs has a long record of down playing biden's scandals while praising his administration. >> it's very important issue to find out whether or not a man is corrupt who is running for president, who has accepted money from china and from ukraine. and from russia. take a look at what is going on, leslie. and then you say that shouldn't be discussed? i think it's it's-i think it's f the biggest scandals i have ever seen and you don't cover it. because. >> well, because it can't be verified. >> you want to talk about insignificant things. >> i'm telling you. >> of course it can be verified. excuse me, they found the laptop. leslie. >> it can't be verified. >> when i hear people say, you know, i'm going to vote for kamala harris because she is black woman. she is so much more than that she is so uniquely qualified to be president of this country. >> steve: so what can we expect to on the debate stage tonight in new york city. we have fox news contributor and

former senior white house counselor with donald trump kellyanne, good morning to you. >> hi, steve. >> steve: i have read there will be no fact-checking from the moderators. so if they were going to be, you know, posit some sort of bias, it would have to be in the form of questions and question selection. >> we saw that also on the abc debate in way. the questions are sins of commission or omission. meaning flat on repeat something someone has said and you distort it for your own purposes. or you don't bother to ask key questions at all. the best debate moderators, steve are those that ask questions that mimic the way we ask ourselves questions going into that polling place and we ask ourselves questions when we're discussing politics and presidential preferences, so i think there is some pressure on these cbs moderators to be a little bit more cnn was on june 27th and the way abc was on september 10th. you don't want to make yourself the issue at all. but i also think these are two

very volcanic personalities in walz and vance, and they are probably not going to allow the debate moderators to become the stars of the show. >> i was reading in this morning's "new york times," j.d. vance, in town for the debate tonight, was over at la bern dan, a couple of blocks up from where we are sitting right now. talking to big money donors. one of the things he said about his performance tonight is he going to go after the hairs-biden record on the border. because that is their achilles heel. >> that's the key. kamala harris remind dollars us of all her many deficits and deficiencies at the border last friday by showing up there for a few minutes. people in new york and elsewhere, spend more time in the starbucks line and chick-fil-a line than she did at the border on friday and she just jetted off to california as she has many weekends during her vice presidency, this is not going to rectitude phi the fact that she has failed all the

statistics, i lost last week's statistics from ice were jarring. they are worth repeating i hope senator vance does tonight. the agency harris likened to kkk. >> steve: over on fox nation, you sat down with the former president, among other things he said out on the trail he does not feel safe. >> he doesn't. i asked him that question do you feel safe? he said no. do you feel footprints differently out there. >> yes i do. it's a dangerous business it should not be an occupational hazard for anybody else running for if the that you et up on that today yum and looking around every time you get on the plane he made very cleave clear, steve, is he going to continue to barn storm this country regardless of how he feels about the safety. he feels very compelled to get this economy back, border more secure. get us out of these wars abroad and just make people feel more secure. everyday life more affordable and more fair. >> steve: check it out on fox

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