between israelis and the palestinians. sinwar's death also provides an extra merry to achieve a lasting cease-fire to end this awful war into rush humanitarian aid into gaza. our forces in the region stand ready to assist. >> now the release of the hostages remains in hamas' hands. back to you sooner jennifer griffin on that for us. thank you. that does it for us. >> what a heck of a week. my goodness. skookum go to keep it going. some going to go join larry i 4 on his show and join the folks on the 5 speakers is counting on my there's only 15 days left as of next monday when we come back before the election. co then. thanks for joining us. i'm john roberts. >> i'm sandra smith. the story with tracy in for martha starts right now. >> thank you. afternoon everybody. i'm trace gallagher in for

martha maccallum and this is the story. 18 days until the election and everything still at stake provides for vice president harris and former president trump focus on battleground michigan. harris wrapping up a rally in grand rapids heading to lansing. trump has 2 events plant near detroit as michigan's 15 electoral votes shift from lean democrat to toss up in our latest fox news power rankings. harris reportedly struggling to connect with sceptical black voters in the state. now plans to roll out barack and michelle obama in the coming days as well as music superstars lizzo and osher to try and keep up with trump in the final sprint. >> the momentum of kamala harris has stalled and i think they feel like they have to change something's going on in the campaign because they are seeing a rise and out stalled out. she still more popular than trump but joe biden was more popular than trump much more and barely won and hillary clinton was more popular than

donald trump and lost. the more popular than trump isn't enough. she was to continue to see her abilities rise but they're going the wrong direction. >> lisa within mark penner standing by first to the senior national correspondent rich edson live for us in waterford, michigan. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. plenty of events for the vice president today. 3 in the state of michigan. just wrapping up that first adding grand rapids lansing and here in the detroit suburbs in the evening. this has been a major push for her and michigan. her second trip to the state and just this week. she had 6 democrat governors on stage with her in that event in grand rapids including avner gretchen whitmer the governor here in michigan along with josh shapiro josh shapiro pennsylvania and wisconsin's tony evers. earlier harris spoke with reporters and was asked a former president trump is so unfit for office as she says wise as ray so close. >> it's an election for president of united states. it's also see a cakewalk for

anyone. there's very important issues at play and i'm clear and i think the people you hear in the background are clear that donald trump is unfit for the office spee nenshi give a similar answer to bret baier couple of nights ago. harris sistering to convince moderate suburban voters to support her and shore up, will head back to pick out someone else talk in the state. back to. >> let's go back to romulus michigan. thank you. here's a former president talking to the media. watches. nevada we are doing very well so i guess you see that. that's why you're here and will have a little fun today. reading a speech at the end and it's been very good. >> he was not a good. that's my reaction. >> [inaudible question by the media]

what event of a cancelled? i haven't cancelled. she doesn't go to any events. she's a loser. she doesn't return events. sheena sharp for the catholics last night at the hotel. it was insulting. all they are our sound bites. so today is at fox and friends at 7 in the morning pick at them when to 2 different other appearances. i then made 15 phone calls. i've done 40 days without arrest and i've got that loser who doesn't have the energy of a rabbit. she should have been last night with the catholics. so all they do is put out sound bites. tell me when you have seen me take even a little bit of a risk. not only i'm not even tired. we are killing him the polls because the american people don't want her. she didn't pass her bar exam. she's not a smart person. she's not a person that should represent our country so just want to let you know that very clearly.

smacker makes it easier smacked talk to minister netanyahu about. >> trace: he's called me. i've not spoken i'm going to speak to him probably now is doing good job. joe biden is trying to hold him back. joe biden is far superior to the vp. is trying to hold him back and probably should be doing the opposite actually. i'm glad that he decided to do it he had to do. but it's moving along pretty good. every thing is moving along. deranged jack smith is a drainage lunatic who lost florida. is losing everything he is doing. should have never been put in charge of this case. there is no case. i did absolutely nothing wrong. is an arranged person. it's called election hunting.

that's all they are doing. election hunting. the weaponization of the justice system and the people know it. nothing was released. there's nothing released. in florida he said the same thing and he lost the case and keep losing the case. is got a case. how they are trying to is anything they can do to help live with the election because there was a very in the american public is totally aware of what's happening smack million undocumented immigrants are here between states vote for them. what you think. >> kamala harris is allowed 21 million people at least probably more than that to enter our country. many of the murderers tkachuk dealers people we don't want. terrorists. we have the largest number of terrorists in our country are now that wayfair had according to the records. all allowed by the were some border security in history and that's kamala the borders are. i watched her make a fool out of herself.

she was the borders are. she does and what she's doing. this is a woman that doesn't have a clue. frankly i think they should put back biden. now based on the numbers i think of doing better against her that i am against joe biden. maybe dubai will come back and do the third time spent it's an honour frankly. got a lot of endorsements. arab-americans, a lot of people so it's great honour student due to go move the needle? 's. i don't think we'll be voting for her because she doesn't know what she's doing and so i don't see them voting for her. onto a lot of people voting because she's not a smart person smack mr. president will you release your health records smack my health records i've done 5 exams over the last 4 years. you've got them all. obviously i'm in the middle of a very big very contentious fight. we are leading.

i've given my health exams. of also done cognitive tests twice and have based their meaning a perfect score. i want to see her do a cognitive test because she could not face because she was not born smart. thank you and. >> trace: former president in romulus michigan about 23 miles outside of detroit, michigan. he's got a couple of campaign events there today. he and harris both battling it out and michigan. fox news polls have taken us from lean democrat to premature toss-up. will have much more on that. me timbits binnie lisa boothe the host of the truth with lisa boothe podcast in fox news political analyst. mark paine former clinton advisor and poster now ceo of stagg well. very quickly toward the former president was saying about kamala harris not attending the al smith dinner last night. you are a poster and run numbers. was it a mistake oesly n matter?

>> at this point this is so close to anything that anything could matter. i don't understand why she didn't attend the dinner. trump did a pretty good job and he was able to rake her over the coals relative to that dinner. he told some tough jokes and she would have been there to return them and kind. they are both pretty rough. she's calling him unfit and he's calling her a. of the growth of them better realize it's about the issues and out about the insults. but i do think you got an edge on her last night by being there >> would've been a good face-off. here's a gnu trump ad. lisa boothe hammering her kamala harris on her electric vehicle mandate. so this following. watch smack harris' push requiring electric only as failing big and michigan autoworkers are paying the price massive layoffs already started. >> it's an issue across the country but the bigger issue in michigan.

>> huge issue in the state of michigan. i think what we are seeing right now is the honeymoon period is over for kamala harris. she's flatlining and donald trump is ascending, and look at another blue wall state of pennsylvania. you have democrat senator e there tying himself to donald trump in an ad right now on the issue of trade. if you're a political candidate you don't hire self to something that's unpopular. he's fraudulent with the ad because he's voted with joe biden and harris 98.5% of the time. look at the rest of the data. look at polling donald trump running ahead nationally then where he was in 2020 by over 7 points. 5.5% running head of work he was in 2016. he's ahead in the battleground states and real clear politics average and look at the behaviour of the candidates. she's trying to show up for political base of black voters. donald trump is entering in the blue states siakam want to pick up or lisa tucker web polling

because michigan on keep all issues to klatsky the rundown. the economy the president's up by 6. inflation president up by 10 former president up by 10. immigration former president up by 13. interesting he's up 49-43 on the economy. housing afford ability have flipped. she's up 4943. what you make of the numbers? >> eye of the fact that we are not going to learn from polling who's going to win. clearly her momentum has been stopped. it's close. there some underlying who don't like biden that to give him the edge on the economy. the give him a very, very slight edge they could be overturned by something as simple as who gets in more mail in balance but if you look at she's winning on issues like abortion. she's going to win on housing afford ability because she's been hitting that. he's running on the economy and immigration.

they both have equal personal ratings. this is as close to race as i've ever seen in my life's. it's a nail-biter. i have 15 seconds and got to go to break. >> i think it's a testament to him his strength as a candidate. she's out spinning him 2 and a half to 1 and you look at the majority of the media has been behind kamala harris giving 89% of negative coverage. he's faced 2 assassination attempts and the guy is not only standing but potentially on track to win on november fifth. it's pretty remarkable smack lisa boothe mark penn thank you both. still ahead this hour gen. jack keane clay travis and andy mccarthy on the trove of new documents released from special counsel jack smith's investigation to former president trump. and the debate over whether they should be put out so close to the election. >> i have been investigated more than alphonse capone. i say it.

>> we are getting a new look at documents and former president trump's federal election interference case. the judge rejecting the trump team's request to delay releasing special counsel jack smith's files until after the election. writing quote it is in fact defendants? requested relief that risks undermining the public interest. of the court withheld information the public otherwise had right to access solely because of the potential political consequences of releasing it, that withholding could itself constitute or appear to be election interference. the court will therefore continue to keep political considerations out of its decision-making process rather than incorporating them as defendant request. former federal prosecutor andy mccarthy standing by.

first to the national correspondent griff jenkins live for us today in washington. afternoon. >> afternoon and we know it former president trump thinks about this. reacting moments ago as you showed on the ground of michigan. he called jack smith strange and says that there is no case calling it election hunting. what got released today was a 4 part appendix of what smith plans to use to back up his arguments which the judge ordered him to do after the supreme court ruled trump had some immunity over official acts as president. smith was order to refile similar charges arguing those actions were not official. the timing of this release just 3 weeks before the election in a case that won't go to trial until well after is perhaps is not worthy is the content of what we see released. this trove of documents is nearly 1900 pages long and heavily redacted and it's much of what is already been made public including social media posts by trump, transcript so witnesses interviewed by the january sixth house investigation and a memo from

trump attorney john easement made public first by bob woodward laying out a legal strategy for vice president mike pence to block or delay the election certification that included a scenario for how pense would take over the electors counting process at at the capital saying this. the main thing here is pense should do this without asking for permission. next in the process judge chunk it will take all this material including trump's objections put and determine which criminal charges including conspiracy and obstruction can go to trial if any and she could then set a trial date that could potentially start before inauguration day next january pick meanwhile continue coming through these documents it's quite extensive sphere griff jenkins live in d.c. thank you. for spring former system u.s. attorney andy mccarthy was a fox news contributor. its was great to see you. are you curious the judge decided this new information is not relevant to the election?

>> i'm not curious because i thought from the beginning this was political exercise. that doesn't mean there's not a case in there someplace for the timing of this strategically has always been a political exercise. after chuckle when the judge says she would not want to let politics or anything like that enter into her decision-making. a judge in a normal case would be concerned about the jury pool. contrary to what the judge says her responsibly is not to the american people written large to fill the campaign airwaves with new information. her responsibly is to give trump a fair trial and make sure the jury pools not prejudiced. and any judge who's making that her northstar would be very concerned about releasing this information prior to the election. jack smith if he was a normal prosecutor, if he was serious when he was running around saying his defendant is a threat

to democracy and could even be a threat to witnesses, the last thing you would do is release your case if that was what you're really concerned about. >> the truth here is if there's no trial before the election which there's not going to be, and there's no but if you release the information you will get publicity. >> absolutely. i thought the report was very helpful. the 1 place i part company is there's no way this case goes to trial prior to inauguration because however, she rules on the immunity issue is still live immunity issue and trump will be able to appeal. so it's going to be months before this case could be tried if it ever happens smack it's fascinating. andy mccarthy great to have you on the show as always. thank you. the doj suing virginia for trying to clear noncitizens from

voter rolls and what's been called a legal bomb review for the election. how similar flight is now playing out in florida. that's next. >> it is unprecedented in my mind to see the justice department the in fact right to intervene in what has been a very clear process to remove self identified noncitizens from voter rolls that if we have only citizens voting in a presidential election call me crazy but i do believe only citizens should be voting in u.s. elections le to lay my hand. three — i want a nonsurgical recovery. ♪ four — i want options — nonsurgical options. and five... and if nonsurgical treatment isn't offered? ♪ i'll get a second opinion. let's go! take charge of your treatment. if you can't lay your hand flat, visit findahandspecialist.com to get started.

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♪ ♪ >> 18 days until the election florida is now suing the biden administration claiming dhs is not helping the state to verify citizenship or immigration status of certain potential voters. dhs firing back saying states can verify citizenship using an online service called save. let's ring and republican florida attorney general ashley moody attorney general it's great to have you on the show is always. you would think that everybody would want to make sure that only u.s. citizens vote. but there's clearly some back and forth on this. >> yeah, the dhs mayorkas are playing a game of hide the ball back with information that would allow states to determine weather matt coronato voters are in fact citizens before they vote. they came back with this mark about we should have to use the safe program pack this program

to verify. that's the whole point of our lawsuit. we don't have that specific information to do it and federal government you are required to give us this information. and it's just a slap in the face to the states after kamala harris is out there talking about our immigration system is broken and i'm vowing to fix it when in fact they are in court suing states like virginia and alabama. keeping them from protecting their citizens and enforcing the laws. so florida will not play that game. we sued them to get this information. >> trace: virginia governor glenn youngkin same battle. he said this today. watch. >> i believe this is political. they waited until 25 days before presidential election in order to file the suit. i wrote to my executive order back in early august. they could have at 18 years to object to this end they didn't. and this is why i think people lose faith in the whole process. >> it really is about faith in

the process senior cats absolutely about faith in the process. americans can see this is an obvious calculated pattern. they have forced millions of people into the country. we try to fight them in court to stop the policies. states put up barriers and pushed people out of their states. they follow in court on. now they are fighting us in court to make sure that our election rules are accurate and correct. it's astonishing and blatantly goes against what they are telling the american people every day leading up to the selection smacked dhs keep saying you could disenfranchise eligible voters. so further 0 evidence of that. attorney general ashley moody of florida thank you for coming on. we appreciate it. >> great to be with you. meantime there are new to criticism of the harris by them push for restraint from his real after the killing of hamas terror chief yahya sinwar.

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