follow the lobber congress never passed a law mandating gender affirming surgery but federal judges have and they are basically saying it's cruel and unusual punishment if you deny them surgery. she says she will file the law. trump said he would fight it. >> yeah, and this is coming back to haunt her a little bit. we'll do much more on this tonight on fox news at night. william thank you. we appreciate your time. that is the story of friday october 18th. but is always the story goes on and i will see you back here tonight 8:00 in the west coast 11:00 and east coast, not only will we talk about kamala harris transgender for inmate story but also breaking news and coverage of the menendez brothers. it's fascinating." co tonight 8:00 p.m. on the west, 11:00 in the east. your world neil cavuto right now >> thank you very much. the race is on.

18 days to the election but early in person apparently kicking off tomorrow and detroit, michigan,. where it has been going on it has been setting record numbers. that's a reason why vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump are crisscrossing that state today and the latest polls show is anyone's race. with harrison trump are set to hold events in this next hour. welcome everybody neil cavuto. it just gets busier and busier as we take down to election day. on the phone now and detroit with the latest. >> good to be talking with you. the former president is making a campaign stop at a trump campaign office in a town hall in michigan. this is where the mayor was a democrat, on muslim has endorsed trump. this town has very large population of muslims and i can't overstate enough how huge

this moment is. i think we have a radio were playing free right now of this image as a muslim american myself i'm telling you this image is going to resonate with many muslim americans right now who feel disillusioned, disappointed, left behind by the democratic party and the said initiation cc trump is seizing on this opportunity to attract the voters along with jewish voters, black voters in the state people who historically go to the democrats. this is a big moment for the trump campaign. he's promising to fix the economy. he says he feels very good about his chances in michigan. he spoke with the trail when he landed in detroit. take a listen to this. >> 48 days now without an arrest and i've got that loser who doesn't have the energy of a rabbit. tell me when you see me to give it a little bit of arrest. not only am i not even tired. i'm really exhilarated.

>> i've been talking with democrats here on the ground who support harris but they say trump is a force to be reckoned with. and he's going to ring a lot of people out to the polls. >> thank you very much. donald trump is speaking right now michigan. >> you see empty all over the place. so we're going to start the little project and get to the people who have plenty of money but don't want to lose money. i wasn't going to let any car coming to the united states and destroy the michigan automobile business and. >> thank you mr. president. you're exactly correct. have been to my coworkers in the uaw and more and more about it there understanding this. the president is right in the mayor is right. i've worked with a lot of air arab-americans, muslims, trump

and 4. a lot came from this community, dearborn heights. hardworking people, family people. >> continue to monitor this taking you to waterford, michigan. rich is following team harris and what they are doing the exact same state. to my friend. >> you've got 3 stops in michigan today for vice president kamala harris. this is after 3 stops in wisconsin yesterday. these are states democrats won for the bulk of a generation and no polls show a very tight race between harris and former president trump. she just finished grand rapids and is on her way to lansing. in grand rapids she was on stage with 6 democrat governors including michigan governor gretchen whitmer 20 years of wisconsin and pennsylvania's josh shapiro. the vice president ripped her opponent for cancelling events because he was reportedly exhausted that is something for the former president 9. harris also pitched autoworkers

promising to continue this administration's spending on converting old auto factories to support electric vehicle manufacturing. skeena contrary to what my opponent is suggesting, i will never tell you what kind of car you have to drive but here's what i will do. i will invest in manufacturing communities like kent county. harris is trying to draw moderate suburban voters from republicans to support her while also showing up support among constituencies typically back democrats by very wide margins, like arab-americans were critical of now the administrating supporting israel and black voters. the vice president was in michigan earlier this week to meet with black entrepreneurs and for a radio interview with charlamagne tha god. harris is scheduled to campaign in detroit tomorrow with lizzo is the city begins early voting. later she will travel to atlanta to campaign with asher and next week the vice president will appear for the first time with

the obama's, 1 event with former president in georgia. another event back here in michigan with former first lady michelle obama. back to. >> trace: thank you very much for that. is rich touched on both candidates and referred before are trying to appeal to voters not only in that state but elsewhere with new promises for benefits and the rest from donald trump today. a plan to have a no tax policy for military members of police and firefighters. that is on top of his plan for no tax on tips, no tax on overtime. no tax on social security benefits, no double taxation for americans working abroad. continues the theme although in smaller numbers from kamala harris was also calling for more loan forgiveness, middle class tax breaks but are neither candidates part are any of these things paid for. in fact they'll be adding to to the debt. but the debt is not exactly a premier issue not on the for the candidates but for americans and in michigan it's no different than it is in the rest of the country. people hear about it.

they don't seem too concerned about it. hans nichols sara bedford political reporter following this. so sarah the latest from plan now to just take whole swats of groups away from paying any taxes dollars very appealing to those groups including the military police can firefighters but it continues the theme can tax breaks tax breaks. kamala harris has something similar the not a sweeping. what you think of it? >> this is a direct counter to 1 of the biggest hits the kamala harris campaign had initially tried to roll out against trump which is that he was good for wealthy americans, that is 2017 tax cuts and jobs act benefited primarily corporations and wealthy americans. that's not necessarily the case. most taxpayers saw some sort of a break from that tax legislation but he's sort of directly countering the idea that his economic policies primarily benefit wealthy americans with the rollout of

these new proposals that he has on the campaign trail. i do think that the window is closing for persuading undecided voters. it is time for both campaigns to shift to a turnout operation so it's surprising to see donald trump and kamala harris still rolling out proposals a slaving game. it speaks to a close race still is. >> it really is. in michigan in particular you're dealing with an administration the biden-harris and administration that's lost a good deal of muslim support, in a state where that populations the highest for population of any state in the country. donald trump since is an opportunity here, some muslim leaders of our he said they are supporting him. that can cut both ways and other states i understand. but how do you think that's going? spee ikonick the honest answer here is no 1 knows whether are not arab-americans in michigan are going to take up their anger

divided administration by withholding their vote for harris and/or jumping all the way over and pulling the lever for donald trump. the middle ground which is rising most people think it's going to end up is the vote is going to be depressed among that population. it's not necessarily they are not going to turn out for trump. there just want to show up. what no 1 can tell you and by knowing i mean mean senior democratic officials republican officials is just how big that percentage is going to be. and it's at tight of races we are in, the margins matter so it's a great. it's especially true in michigan there's a similar dynamic of what's happening with union households where democrats, republicans as well but democrats don't know how strong their supporters among union households especially in the auto industry, and if you want to win michigan you need to jog up your numbers with that cohort skeena craig point. you need to gauge early voting enthusiasm. and that's where i kind of kick off with you. the states he seen early voting begin georgia earlier this week

north carolina we are in our second day record numbers we are told. other states will begin rolling this out in florida i believe next week so we always peek at, you know, our democratic areas and disproportionate numbers but republicans and republican errors voting at this who tries to seize on that anglian something, i know it's early in this process but the sheer lacquered early voting performance. what you make of that. >> both sides will try to paint that is a sign of enthusiasm for the candidate especially when you see really strong turnout in strongholds of either party but if democrats want to look for reasons to be worried in these numbers they could look potentially at the absentee ballots in michigan which are being returned, requested and returned a slower rate at this point in the race then in 2020. early voting absentee voting act tends to favour democrats, republicans as we know famously tend to vote closer to

election day or on election day so if the rate of returns for mail-in ballots is lagging so significantly and it is, by about 300,000 votes as of yesterday in michigan that's not a great sign for democrats who know how their voters vote and tends to be that way, absentee. >> neil: how do you gauge it? jazz orders get up to the polls are important to each side. who is more jazz? >> you don't know. sorry to give you a second nonanswer in a row but both sides sort of scare the data and they really want to see something good for their side. you just don't know. what we can say as early voting is much more prominent. democrats have traditionally in the last 4 years had a huge advantage there. trump is trying to reverse course and get his people to vote early and get out there and make sure they get every thing and i'm not have it all be on

election day but i think the big take away here is the country is getting much more custom and come to but with early voting. we don't know if that favours democrats or republicans and tries in my out of the colour side can dig into this even at the precinct level. >> at your bath raid about that. so little we know now and hazarding a guess would only come back to get a gun your face. thanks very much for coming to more updates on his real. is sending a clear signal now that hamas bigwig is gone, really if you seen these terrorist ranks decimated over the last few weeks. couple of dozen on each side. signs that israel is saying to the other side cool it. or there's more after this. all-t heartburn acid prevention with just one pill a day.

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>> hamas today confirming yahya sinwar was killed in the gaza combat with israeli forces. the question becomes who replaces him. is said an opportunity or just the wish of death? greg has the latest right now in israel. >> that's right.

hamas finally about a day later confirming what we pretty much know, that it's former chief yahya sinwar is now dead. but that as you noted raises all sorts of questions. sinwar of course the mastermind of the october seventh attacks that left 1200 israelis dead, 250 taken hostage, triggering as we all know regional cartage. and new and graphic video and injured sinwar is seen hold up in a house in southern gaza shaking a stick get a drone taking video before a tank blast finished him off. hitches hamas official has stated today that the death of sinwar doesn't change anything. in fact, it strengthens them and that there will be no hostage return until israel withdraws from gaza. ally hezbollah in lebanon said it will continue to fight and the string puller iran noted sinwar death only inspires others to defy israel.

israeli prime minister netanyahu met with the security cabinet today. he said he will try to get the hostages out but he will also continue to fight against whoever is named the new hezbollah boss. as always left hoping and wishing and hurting the families of the 101 remaining hostages in captivity, and the fear that there could be some revenge killings after the sinwar death. back to you. >> then there's the issue my friend about iran and responding to iran from the missile attacks back on october first. i wonder if you're hearing that is put off until they resolve this or after the u.s. election. what are you hearing? >> we are hearing about that, that infected still is very much on. that is an israeli counterattack

that iranian missile barrage that we saw early in october. the feeling the reporting had been this would be conducted before the u.s. elections but in the past 24 hours the landscape here has changed, in the dynamic has changed as well. still hearing from netanyahu he seems determined to give the fight on on all fronts. and that probably includes that counterattack against iran. spent be safe my friend. you and your true. greg in the middle of all of that. the pentagon has responded to all of this by saying the numbee getting the hostages out whether this company gets the matter is anyone's guess. the guy used to run the pentagon for bill clinton. former defence secretary is next.

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future in gaza without hamas. >> reporter: defence secretary lloyd austen spoke from nato headquarters in brussels. >> sinwar devoted his life to wrecking the chances of peace between israelis and palestinians. sinwar's death provides an extraordinary opportunity to achieve a lasting cease-fire to end this awful war and to rush humanitarian aid into gaza. our forces in the region stand ready to assist. >> the pentagon insists the u.s. military played no roll in yahya sinwar's death despite having iaand intelligence personnel on the ground in israel to help with hostage recovery efforts and the tracking of sinwar since last october. when asked whether-- provide any information or intelligence that was used as part of the operations around the killing of sinwar. here is the pentagon's response.

>> so my understanding is that short answer is no this was an answer the operation u.s. forces were not directly involved snacks add missile defence system provided by the u.s. to israel this week is not fully operational yet which could affect israel's looming counterattack against iran following the october first missile attack. >> think you jennifer is always. jennifer griffin of the pentagon. used to run the pentagon lynn cohen former defence secretary of united states kind enough to join us. great to have you picked is this killing of sinwar come to get things? you could look at it 1 side might hamas to start trying to make a deal or it could build up revenge and taking it out on innocent hostages. smack first we don't know who the israelis might be negotiating with. we don't know where the

leadership is going to ascend and what layer. so you have to have at least 2 parties and other 1 hand we've got prime minister netanyahu who is not accessed any interest in making a deal short of hamas surrendering and leaving the country or leaving gaza. so while 1 would hope would be if he still in the path, eticket this particular point the israelis feel hamas is still in existence has will is in existence and they intend to do as much possible in the shortest period of time. in addition to that i think all roads lead to tehran. i think iran is in a position to call some of the shots at least 2 hamas and hezbollah same back away make a deal because they are now at risk as well because the israelis are going to respond. they are going to hit iran in the real issue is whether united states is able to persuade prime minister of

israel to calibrate that attack in a way that doesn't inflict so much damage that iran is going to respondent hit israel again. and then the war continues at a higher scale. >> what's been deafening is the silence out of the general arab community. another condemning or consoling the israeli attacks on hamas leaders and i'm wondering, given the clear proxy for iran whether that's by design, there quietly hoping this continues. >> most of the gulf states unfamiliar with the leadership, they are not at all sorry that sinwar is gone. they are not sorry to see the israelis going after iran. they worry that iran might strike them and that's the reason why the iranian leaders are now going to saudi arabia to meet with the crown prince to say let's make a deal.

we won't target you if the israelis strike us. but do not let the israelis use your space in order to inflict damage upon us. that at least is reporting is going on behind the scenes. the saudis don't want to be targeted. they know what's at stake for them to be attacks by the iranians. so i think all roads lead to tehran. i would hope the a demonstration has a back channel. i suspect they have many back channels going into iran and saying this is the time to call your proxies off because we are going to continue to attack who these, united states is done that. we are supporting israel going up to hezbollah and also after hamas. so there's an opportunity here for a peaceful resolution that will save you from being attacked by the iranians, by the israelis and possibly by us

because if iran strikes israel and hits centres in israel i think all bets are off at that point the united states will be in it. that's not something the israelis would not welcome because i think israel has for sometime hoped the the united states would help them go after iran and take out the nuclear facilities and to decimate their military. so that's where we are. i think hope is always something we need to keep alive but at this particular point in time i don't think either the prime minister of israel or the iranians and the proxies are interested in making a deal at this point smack in the middle of all this yesterday bob woodward on. fascinating new book and he characterized the relationship between benjamin netanyahu and joe biden for example as the worst tcn between 2 leaders of the separate countries. you witnessed many of these relationships yourself over the years. but the fact tha