dna, you know, i didn't do anything that anybody else wouldn't have done. saw something that needed to be done and they did it. >> ainsley: maybe a good book for a parent to die and every night before you put your children to sleep you read one of the stories. >> for teenagers and college kids. it is important they know these stories. >> ainsley: we need more american heroes. if we can emulate the people in your book it will be a better country. >> small heroic things we can do. go vote, that's a heroic thing to do. >> ainsley: buy their book called american heroes and it is out now. all right. lawrence's final barber shop in atlanta is airing this week. today is monday. i will see you on tuesday morning. thank you so much for watching. have a great day. >> bill: thank you, ainsley. here we go now 15 days on the

calendar. candidates in a full on sprint. you will see this every day now, folks. former president moonlighting as a fry cook as we say hello, good morning, everybody. hope you had a joyous weekend. bill hemmer live in new york city. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." at this point in the cycle you see who is winning the news cycle every day. i think he won it yesterday. because yesterday was so good at mcdonalds looks like he will win it again today. >> bill: when you eat mcdonalds fries, ketchup, salt, both or what? i did it saturday. salt only. >> dana: we have a lot for you this week. let's kick it ow with this. vice president harris campaigned in georgia and michigan and former president trump was in pennsylvania as we mentioned he worked the shift at mcdonalds. >> he was at the fryer and the drive through fulfilling a life long dream in the process, he says. >> my first day at mcdonalds.

i always wanted to work at mcdonalds but i never did. i'm running against somebody that said she did but turned out to be a phony story. if you don't mind, i want to work the french fry counter. i like it all. i love it. i like every ounce of it, everything. >> dana: appearance is sending democrats into a tizzy. >> what is on the docket today. man, there is a lot. the vice president will be in the blue wall states of pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. she needs all three. former president trump will head to north carolina to tour the devastation from helene. the vp nominee jd vance will join us live in a moment. let's begin our reporting in concord, north carolina, bill melugin north of charlotte today. >> former president donald trump has several campaign stops here in north carolina today but as you guys just mentioned he had himself a very busy weekend and he was all over the headlines.

we'll start with last night. look. donald trump visited the nfl game between the steelers and the jets where as soon as he walked into that stadium and the crowd saw him chants of usa brock out from the crowd. trump was joined by steeler star antonio brown out campaigning for him in recent days. hours before that football game trump made a visit to a pennsylvania mcdonalds. you guys showed this. he got rid of the suit. put on an apron and got to work making french fries and working the drive-thru as supporters cheered for him outside. he was trolling kamala harris claims to have worked at mcdonalds saying there is no evidence before. he believes he has worked at mcdonalds 15 more minutes than harris ever did. he made a visit to the a barber shop in the bronx. he spoke with mostly minority men in there. a pretty informal setting.

held a q and a about topics the men care about. the border and how to get rid of sanctuary cities. >> we get rid of them. we get rid of them. they are for criminals. all over the country the criminals go there. but you are right. the polls are showing that inflation and -- not the border, the border is third. they have inflation and the economy as the number one and number two issue. i disagree. i think inflation is massive. the economy is massive. the border to me is the fabric of our country. >> as we mentioned trump will have several campaign stops here in north carolina today where the latest fox news polling shows vp kamala harris has a slim 2-point lead over trump with registered voters. we should point out that poll was from last month and is within the margin of error. when trump gets to north carolina today, he is first going to have an event in asheville in the western part of the state. that was an area that was just

devastated by hurricane helene where recovery efforts are very much underway. then later in the afternoon he will come right here where we are in concord, north carolina holding a round table with religious leaders here and hinting that former u.n. ambassador nikki haley may soon be joining him on the campaign trail in the coming days. that's certainly something we'll be keeping an eye out for, guys. send it back to you. >> bill: we'll see if it comes to pass. nice to see you bill melugin kicking off a brand-new week. thank you. >> dana: vice presidential nominee senator jd vance joins us now. great to have you on the show. thank you for being here. i was saying to bill at the top of the show at this point in the cycle you see which campaign is trying to win the news cycle. i would say president trump won it yesterday and that continues today because this trip to mcdonalds was creative, it was fun, and it has gotten a ton of views not just on television but all over social media. there is another way to look at it, though, coming from some of

the mainstream media headlines, sir. rolling stone trump makes fries at mcdonalds in bizarre attempt to troll harris. "washington post." trump serves mcdonalds supportner a campaign stop. trump attempts to troll harris by serving fries at a pennsylvania mcdonalds. a staged managed campaign stop. what do you make of that? >> well, i actually went to a sports bar outside of lambeau field yesterday before the packers game. they won. and i was pouring some beers for people there at the bar and i felt pretty good about myself. saw the news headlines about donald trump at mcdonalds. i said i was serving beer as you were serving fries. he did win the news day. the president has to have security because there have been two attempts on his life in the last eight weeks. he can't just walk into a

mcdonalds and sign a w9 and go on the payroll. it is not how it works given the security threats on his life. look, he was interacting with people. he was talking to the employees. he was giving people food and he was just being what he does best. being among the people, talking to them about what they care about. he showed genuine interest in the employees, lives, where they came from and what they were doing in their job. you can't stage and fake that. that's the genuine person donald trump is and why a lot of working people, even he is a successful real estate billionaire, have this emotional connection to donald trump. you can't make up that kind of connection. unfortunately kamala harris has tried and failed. i think it is why her campaign is flailing a little bit right now. she goes into sheets and does four takes of her buying doritos. trump goes into mcdonald and he is who he is and people love him.

>> bill: did she work at mcdonalds as a student in college or was she lying? >> i don't know if there is a campaign position on it. i haven't spoken with donald trump about this. what we find weird about this is kamala harris has been able to produce no evidence that she worked at mcdonalds and didn't talk about it until 2019 during her first run for the united states senate. i don't know what's ultimately true here but interesting where the media will try to nitpick and micro manage every single thing that me or donald trump has said and they just buy into the narrative from kamala harris that she invented five or six years ago. just do journalism. maybe it's true, maybe it isn't. i don't trust the media's lack of curiosity about this issue when they nitpick everything else the republican candidates do. >> dana: there was a sea change last week towards the end of the week in two battleground states in pennsylvania and wisconsin. the two senators there, democrats incumbents are in tough races, bob casey, tammy

baldwin. they had something new in their ads. >> casey bucked biden to protect fracking and sided with trump to end nafta and put tariffs on china to stop them from cheating. >> tammy baldwin got president trump to sign her bill. >> dana: the states from the last congressional cycle. casey voted with biden 98.5% and baldwin 95.5% of the time. are they seeing writing on the wall to get away from biden-harris? >> let me say two things about this. bob casey what he is saying it's not true. i served with him. he has been a down the line partisan democrat during his entire time. he didn't defend pennsylvania manufacturers and dave mccormick i think will win the race. the politics are fascinating. you notice dave mccormick and

eric hovde aren't running ads how they agree with biden-harris. what i think kamala harris has seen in her following important weeks. her policies just aren't popular. people are trying to run away from it as much as they can. this is a person, kamala harris, who casts a deciding vote on trillions of dollars in new spending. signed onto the open border policies of the last 3 1/2 years. now she is trying to run as a change agent. kamala harris is more of the same. she governed that way. we'll get even more of the bad policies in the last 3 1/2 years if we promote her to president and why i think the american people will make donald trump the president of the united states in just two short weeks. >> bill: a couple interviews within a last week. he is asked about the enemies from within comments. i've read all of it and listened to all of it.

hard for me to understand. why is it necessary? >> donald trump is unfiltered. this is one of the reasons why the campaign has gone well is because he is not doing a basement campaign strategy. he is not just running on slogans. when people ask him questions he speaks from the heart and sometimes that means he will talk about issues that the mainstream media isn't focused on. i think americans are asking themselves when we had this terrible riots in the summer of 2020, 20 people died, $13 billion in property damage, why wasn't law enforcement empowered to put down these riots to reim bows law and orderer on american cities? that is what president trump is talking about here. when you have local officials, when you have local rioters burning down american cities and folks like tim walz encouraging rioters to go after local police stations you need to have a federal response that reimposes law and order in this country. that's how i understand his

comments. we have got some very important enemies to focus on overseas but if people are burning down our cities and of course we have to have a police response to that very basic violation of our right of public security. >> bill: he mentioned adam schiff and nancy pelosi over the weekend by name. >> bill, look, you have adam schiff and nancy pelosi who have been really part of weaponizing the department of justice against our country. i think what donald trump is saying is look, we're the strongest country in the world. we have the best people in the world but we have some broken leadership. we have people like nancy pelosi getting rich off insider stock trades even as her own country has gotten poorer. who is obsessed, nancy pelosi is obsessed with donald trump, not with reimposing policies that will deliver peace and prosperity for the american people. we do have people on the left, not most people to be clear. but some people on the left who are encouraging violent responses to what we believe is going to be a donald trump

victory in a couple of weeks. that's not okay. i think it is totally reasonable for the president to point out that yes, we have the strongest country in the world but we have some broken leaders in washington. why we're running this race. >> dana: kamala harris has been rolling out new policies as we get towards the end of the campaign and one of them is about elder care. a lot of people are dealing with this trying to figure out how to take care of parents and going through all the regulations and not enough people to take care of them. her take on what she wants to do. >> so my plan is to recognize this is about dignity and say that shouldn't have to happen to help to take care of an elder. we'll have medicare cover it and i think about this issue also in the context of people who are in the sandwich generation and that's what we call people taking care of young kids and their parents. >> dana: bad idea? how would we pay for it? >> well, first of all, dana, the most important point here why

isn't kamala harris doing this now if it is such a good idea? she is the sitting vice president. the democrats control the senate. the entire campaign of kamala harris has been to throw out ideas that sound good on paper but then you ask yourself why isn't she actually doing this with the power the american people have given her, the responsibility they've given her and real is it is all slogans meant to appeal to people but no actual governing agenda or policy detail behind it. that's the theme of kamala harris's entire campaign. of course we want to make it easier for elderly americans to get the care they need. there are a lot of bureaucratic loopholes and barriers to actually making it easier for young american families to take care of their elderly friends and family. we of course want to deal with that. but you can't say as a sitting vice president you've got a great plan if it's such a great plan she should be doing it now. >> bill: appreciate your time. hope to talk to you again before the big day.

a quick answer. you guys are looking at internal numbers all the time. how do you feel where you stand right now? are you winning, losing or a dead flat tie? >> bill, i don't like the polls when we're winning or losing. our message to the american people is very simple. get out and vote. i feel very good where we are. the internal numbers are great but i choose to disbelieve them and believe instead in the american people's grit and hard work. get out there and vote. get your friends and family to the polls. we have to swamp the vote in this country and get a margin that is so big that we will call it early on tuesday night but the only way that will happen is if people get out there and make their voices heard. >> bill: we'll talk down the road. jd vance thank you. >> thank you both. good morning. >> revenge against their boss, it could be anger over u.s. foreign policy. anything that you could possibly imagine. >> bill: this is a major

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causing an explosion in the sky. the fire department saying the crash sparked a fire spanning up to three city blocks. investigation underway. multiple deaths including a child. all of those fatalities happened on board the helicopter, none on the ground. more questions to come on that from houston. >> dana: smoke rising over the southern suburbs of beirut. israeli air strikes targeting the financial arm of hezbollah trying to make it harder for the group to fund its operations. matt finn live in tel aviv with more. good morning, matt. >> good morning, dana. israel has been striking lebanon over the past 24 hours. at the same time the world is waiting to see how israel may retaliate against iran for the iranian missile strike here on

october 1st. now the u.s. is investigating the leak that may reveal some of the elements of israel's plan. the leaked document describes the types of aircraft and weapons that israeli military is possibly preparing to use in a strike against iran. the report might contain images generated in part by american intelligence. the documents were published by an online group called the middle east spectator. people call it pro-iran it describes itself as independent. in a statement it claims it got the leaked documents from a telegram channel online writing we have no connection to the original source which we assume to be a whistleblower within the u.s. department of defense. the justice department and speaker of the house say the leaks raise a concern of more sensitive information being released. iran is giving a chilling warning writing any country aware of the timing and manner of the attack on iran or participating in any aggression

will bear responsibility. happening now in the middle east israel has been bombing lebanon. it identified spots it considers hezbollah linked. the idf says it is using present situation targeting and giving advance notice to residents to flee the area. israel announced it arrested seven people who were iranian spies in israel paid money to pass along information about military bases and the iron dome. >> bill: retired four star general jack keane and analyst. good morning to you. curious to get your take on this leak, weapons, aircraft, etc. what do you make of it? does it change the calculus? >> i don't think it changes much. i think the israelis are likely trying to conduct this attack prior to the election in my view based on sources. but in terms of the leak certain

life is very disappointing. somebody who obviously has access and doesn't want israel to do well here. is pro-iranian. it's very unfortunate. here is what it doesn't do. it doesn't reveal the plan. it doesn't reveal the scale of the attack and it doesn't reveal the timing. it reveals the preparation that has been ongoing in terms of exercises and other things to get ready for the attack. disappointing to be sure but i think israel will be able to conduct a successful attack despite the leak. >> bill: speaker mike johnson asked over the weekend. >> the leak is very clern. there is serious allegations being made there. investigation underway and i will get a briefing on that in a couple of hours. classified level briefing and other. we're following it closely. >> bill: i imagine we'll get some folks from congress who come out and give us more about this. meanwhile with regard to lebanon, here is axios. they say scoop israel gave the white house demands for ending

the war in lebanon. i don't know how that will go or how you see it giving the killing of sinwar in gaza, how would you game out the rest of this war as you see it right now? >> we talked last week on this show about israel reaching out with some kind of a deal on lebanon. what is happening here you separate the two of them. dealing with hamas in gaza, the objective has been destroy the military effectiveness of hamas and destroy the political entity of governing body of it. make a deal temporary cease-fire to get the hostages out. that has been the objectives. they are still ongoing. in lebanon this is a nation state. and a country with a significant population. israel does not have an objective here to destroy the military organization of hezbollah. what they want to do is seriously degrade it. you can see them doing that.

eliminating leaders, now destroying their banking system which has been a front for their financing their operation. significant reduction of rockets and missiles particularly long range ones that can reach all over israel and eliminate the military infrastructure by a limited ground invasion in southern lebanon. what they are heading towards and what they want is to put enough pressure on hezbollah inside of lebanon to get a deal. what that deal is all about is that fact that there will be no hezbollah in southern lebanon so the citizens of northern israel can return. the israelis would like to participate in enforcement of that. it would have to be negotiated out. whether that can be done or not. the u.n. enforcement since 2006 and i had failed miserably. they are on the ground trying to keep hezbollah out of southern lebanon and they are in residents despite the u.n. peacekeeping force that's there.

it has to have a better construct than what it has had. >> if israel gets that it would be a significant win in that part of their country. thank you, sir, nice to see you, jack keane. we'll talk later in the week. thank you, general. >> great talking to you, bill. thank you. >> we go after the entire networks not just the one individual. we go after the whole network to take the head off the snake. >> dana: a nonprofit devoted to shutting down sex trafficking. the exploitation of minors is exploding and lays the blame on loose border policies. is president biden taking a back seat? the vice president has no plans to get her boss to join her on the trail.

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today, this sunday morning, i am yesterday i was in michigan, tomorrow i will be in pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. and i am leaving nothing on the field. >> dana: there you have it. nothing on field. vice president harris on a marathon media circuit as her momentum is lagging a beat with two weeks and one day to go. we have our panel here. it is perfect to have you here. meghan, are you a scheduler and who is winning the day. mark halperin had a case. the initial bounce is gone and voters are seeing her as they always have, lacking in presidential skills. if you look at our poll from last week, we have trump 50, harris 48 within the margin of error. how does it feel to you right now? to me there is a taste of 2016 in the air. >> right. i think that she is out there

talking to voters where she needs to be talking to them an doing a variety of different media. on fox last week, did reverend sharpton over the weekend. she is out there but there is a shift from the summer when she had the momentum on her back. i don't think it is as strong as it was. voters are starting to tune in and look for her policies and look a little bit more than just her biography and hopes and vibes they had in the fall. >> dana: some undecided voters to the extent there are some quoted today they don't know enough about her net and getting late to make that decision. the way that both candidates are putting together coalitions in order to try to win has been very interesting. the gender gap is a fascinating part of this. kamala harris is down playing her disconnect with male voters. >> why is there a disconnect with you and men right now?

>> you look at the audience and say there were people of every background and gender who are showing up by the thousands. >> to be clear, though, men still say by 16% margin they support donald trump. why do you think that is? >> it's not the experience i'm having, to be honest with you. >> dana: when you think about the gender gap issue, how much will it play into the 2024 results? >> you know, ignoring the problem does not fix the problem. she does have the problem. not acknowledging it and not coming up with a suggestion or strategy for fixing it doesn't help. obviously as you pointed out a minute ago there aren't a lot of undecided voters in america. there are enough of those people who would vote either way to change the election one way or the other. i think as meghan points out, we're in the homestretch here. all the people that were already decided were already decided.

the last couple weeks here, i think we're probably a couple of weeks into that period, there are people who are making up their minds and looking at the issues and i think that that is why you see the harris campaign trying to come out, change strategy trying to come out. do some interviews. i don't think the interviews are working very well for her. we're reminded why she doesn't like to do them. i think a lot of those voters who do have an open mind look at the issues and the situation and say okay, she is not answering the questions for me and i may not love donald trump but he is answering the questions for me. >> dana: one of the things that has been curious, it is a curious election after the switch with biden and harris. this today meghan from nbc news that harris has no current plans to campaign with biden before election day. is there trouble in paradise? >> no, i don't think so. it is one of those things that overplayed in the media. i think this is the opportunity where the democratic party has a lot of surrogates that support her, obamas are out there, a

number of surrogates out. the president is going to new hampshire and arizona. he may not be doing campaign spes i have events but tout the accomplishment of the add min trigss. they are letting joe biden do things and be the president and she will be out campaigning and a number of other surrogates out, too. i wouldn't read too much into it. much to do about nothing. >> dana: if she was campaigning with him it would be a curious choice. the policies and things people are concerned about over the last four years would be a big reminder about that. >> like it or not, no matter how much she tries to spin it, she is running as the incumbent and is responsible for the decisions over the past four years, of course for a lot of that time she was embracing them and touting her role in making some of those decisions. she has to defend herself when

you have 79% of the country saying we're on the wrong track and you are the incumbent for the past four years that's difficult. she doesn't want to remind people of that by campaigning with joe biden but also there are down ballot candidates who don't want to show up when she comes to their state, which is another problem and another clear indication that even democrats in swing states don't think that the harris campaign is going in the right direction and don't want to be tied to it. >> dana: we were showing some of the swing state senators incumbents running for re-election are running ads showing they distance themselves from biden. a pattern there. >> embracing trump? >> dana: yes, they are. bye, guys. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: oh boy, bill, here we go. kansas city chiefs are 6-0 on the season. quarterback patrick mahomes

leading his team to victory with two big runs in the fourth quarter. >> he gets around fred warner. what a run. he is still inbounds. racing to the end zone and he is out of bounds. fourth and goal. got a walk in, touchdown. >> dana: the chiefs knocking off the san francisco 49ers, 29-18. they remain the only undefeated team in the nfl this year. >> bill: how about that, huh? chiefs got -- >> dana: did the bengals play? >> bill: they beat cleveland. we're slowly digging ourselves out of the hole. we have to keep it going. we hose philadelphia next week. baseball is on a roll. america's past time has the new york yankees against the l.a. dodgers. an awesome series, apologies to our friends who are mets fans in new york. dodgers yankees is good for the

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>> bill: breaking news from the u.s. supreme court. they rejected mike an cohen's big to bring back a lawsuit accusing donald trump and others in his administration of jailing michael cohen in retaliation for a book that criticized the former president. he mentioned bill barr and a few others. the court will not take that up. for now and maybe forever that case is dead. we'll see. 46 past the hour now. >> dana: any moment in new york city jury selection getting

underway in the trial of daniel penny. the former marine charged with killing a homeless man on the subway. cb cotton is live outside the courthouse with this story and we've been waiting with great interest for this trial to get started cb. >> that's right. moments ago chants were echoing outside the courthouse people demanding justice for jordan neely, the homeless man who died after being placed in a choke hold by marine veteran daniel penny. protestors may show up for penny soon. there are high stakes for this case. penny faces up to 19 years if prison if convicted on the charges. you may remember he pleaded not guilty to second degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. his defense team says penny did not intend to hurt or kill him only hold him down until police arrived. prosecutors only have to prove penny acted recklessly and was negligent. witnesses report neely expressed he was homeless, hungry and

thirsty when he got on the train. prosecutors say while some witnesses heard neely making threats, others did not. penny's attorneys released a statement to fox saying in part, quote, our team looks forward to commencing the jury selection process and selecting a fair and impartial jury that will ultimately clear danny of any wrongdoing. neely, who performed as a michael jackson impersonator had 42 prior arrests including a history of attacks on subway riders. his family's attorneys have pointed out that neely had no weapon while on train. neely family attorney telling fox in part, quote, this case is simple. someone got on a train and was screaming so someone else choked them to death. those two things do not and will never balance. online fundraiser for penny's defense has raised more than $3 million. this trial could last up to six weeks. back to you. >> dana: cb cotton, thank you. >> bill: something we'll be watching and so will paul mauro,

hello to you. video statement daniel penny 2023 described what was happening on that train car this way. >> threats he repeated over and over i'm going to kill you, i'm willing to go to jail for life and willing to die. i acted in a way to protect other passengers, myself and mr. neely. >> bill: two other witnesses confirm what he says there. will he take the stand? >> here is his defense. justification is the legal term. justified in doing what he did. no denying everybody knows he put the choke hold on jordan neely. his defense is going to be he had to do it. the prosecution, who has the burden of proof will have to say you went too far. you were either reckless or negligent which of the two charges. you went too far. you could have let him up once the danger was mitigated. he says this guy was a threat and i was protecting myself and

others. that's the key to his defense. relative to the witnesses, this is important, what did the cops do at the scene? the cops responded there. transit detectives would have taken statements from the witnesses you are talking about. one of which this woman of color. unfortunately it will matter. a lot of overtones in this case. it will matter in jury selection. statements taken at the scene will be what those witnesses say they saw and heard at the scene. those things are obviously going to be crucial evidence if you are trying to show from penny's side that i had to do what i did. >> dana: you said there are overtones but also there could be unrest. protestors that are gearing up. >> you are already seeing it outside the courthouse now. we're only into jury selection and already there. when the whole thing started the cops got there and sorted it out. it went to the prosecution and decided to go with a grand jury. then instead a bunch of

protestors all of a sudden started jumping on the subway track and stopped the train, etc. all of a sudden bragg's office decided to make an arrest. they didn't wait for the grand jury. the protestors know they moved him in the past. the other overtone let's be frank. your audience is smart and know what's going on. one of the things that will play into it's a manhattan jury, the race angle and we're two weeks out from an election. they see the fact -- a lot of these protestors know that there is a cadre of protestors that work together and tuned into the hamas situation. it is been decimated. you see that stuff going on. sinwar is doa. right now they have grievances and they'll be out there. >> bill: i want to get to the story. we talked about tren de aragua, tda associations in aurora, colorado, santonja, texas came up over the weekend. ray kelly is the former police

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they would descend into chaos. >> dana: right now north carolina governor roy cooper is giving an update on recovery efforts in the asheville area of north carolina. this is after a month when hurricane helene struck the state and it has had so much damage. i read stories this weekend about people who are basically trying to figure out how to survive without any power, any water, and it is a huge issue. he is giving an update and we'll follow it for any breaking news. >> bill: this is an issue that has been flying under the radar when it comes to school choice, however, it could prove a key factor in this election.

one candidate supports it, the other not so much. william la jeunesse has a closer look at this now. william, break it down. good morning. >> good morning, bill. for some families including in swing states this is not a sleeper issue but a difference maker. freedom to send a child to the school of your choice outside of traditional public schools. not just charter schools but multiple states now offer vouchers, educational savings accounts and tax credits, public money that follows the child to pay for a private education, religious or not. trump supports it, harris does not. >> we want school choice but we have to get out of this washington thing. half the buildings in washington are occupied by education. >> harris says we' pose the use of private school vouchers and tuition tax credits and other schemes that divert taxpayer funded resources away from public education. >> one of the greatest

expressions of love that a society can make toward its children is to invest in their education and by extension their teachers. >> so why does it matter? a growing number, 29 states now offer programs ranging from vouchers and tax credits to these educational savings accounts which allow parents to fund all or part of a private education. 14% of catholic students use these and 71% of parents support the idea. so parental choice groups give harris and f fearing she will parents but gets an a from teachers unions who she has promised a pay raise. >> going to be close. we have a good ground game. >> we're used to close elections in pennsylvania. we understand this election likely will come down to tens of thousands of votes.