>> lawrence: it's 8:00 on the east coast, thursday, october 24, this is "fox and friends." >> steve: this election is 12 days away. the vice president prepares her closing argument while ramping up fearmongering against donald trump. will it work? >> this is panic politics with a halloween flair. something wicked this way comes.

>> brian: meanwhile, word salad city, how a former obama advisor describes a harris town hall where she dodged on accountability for the border. >> i never intented nor will i allow america to have a border that is not secure. >> brian: right. >> ainsley: glimmer of hope af after -- blue ridge parkway is partially reopening as one business owner makes it clear western north carolina is back open for business. >> lawrence: thank god. final hour of "fox and friends" starts right now. >> brian: get dressed. vice president harris plans to deliver a closing argument speech on tuesday on the ellipse just steps from the white house. >> ainsley: the democrat and her allies ramp up a fear campaign against former president trump. >> steve: we have heard it before, it is reaching fever

pitch. lucas tomlinson is live at the white house. >> lucas: good morning, that is right. when harris supporters asked what is motivating them to vote for the vice president, leading response, dislike of donald trump. >> yes, i do believe that donald trump is unstable and increasingly unstable and fit to serve. >> the fact of the matter is this is a dangerous person, this is a stupid person and that's a bad combenation. >> this is somebody who wants unchecked power. we do not need to see what an older, loanonie r looks like. >> donald trump is stupidest and most dangerous presidential president in history. >> he is a menace to democracy, threatening to sick troops on

protesters. >> he's a genuine threat on our democracy and that is not hyperbole, that is the god's truth. >> lucas: then this from the town hall last night outside philadelphia. >> do you think donald trump is a fascist? >> yes, i do. i do. and i also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted. >> lucas: also according to fox news poll, leading issues for trump are economy and immigration. >> steve: she does not talk much about it. thank you for the live report. >> brian: she didn't take responsibility or offer opinion on anything except the fascist comment. refuses to name one major policy goal.

distance herself from biden. reveals in her weak nness she studied too much, tries too hard. who is more pro-israel, trump or biden? easy, easy, simple questions. i givenderson cooper a lot of credit. i'm stunned she chose not to answer them. >> ainsley: how will you be different from biden? will you build a little bit of the wall? i will keep the border secure. after admits she made mistakes, she could nol tell the oaudienc what they were. carol asked her major policy goal, which would she want to accomplish she has not accomplished. she could not answer. eric asked who do you blame for rising grocery cost. could not answer why she did not

do what was promised as vice president. >> lawrence: most damaging question is what are you going to do differently? if you are not going to do anything differently and say everything is fine with current administration, there is no motivation for voters to vote for you. i'm wondering if there is any real advisors in the room that sits down with kamala harris and asks her, do you want to be president? all questions being proposed to her by the press, like repeat almost. it is a double-down on reasking same old question, she has no answers to. >> steve: i think advisors in the room are saying don't answer specific questions, be as vague as possible and it is driving us crazy, we are not getting answers. >> lawrence: you reference to that, why do you think they are doing that? >> steve: they don't have a good answer on what she is going to do to bring down cost of energy and cost of groceries and what

she'll do with the southern border. don't talk about it. what they want to talk about, lawrence, and we've been hearing it for a year, actually three years, how donald trump is a threat to democracy. yesterday when asked is he a fascist, she said yes. they assembled white house corps at her house and she read a statement regarding what some damaging revelations are in that atlantic article we were talking about yesterday. it is part of their playbook. jonathan turley says the playbook says panic. >> this is sort of panic politics with a halloween flair, something wicked this way comes. if you vote against me, you are voting against democracy and life as you know it. what is missing is any sense of

history and constitutional law. for over two centuries, we have the oldest and most stable democratic system in the history of the world. we have gone through wars and economic crisis and social crisis and we're still here temperature is a system designed to last because we have overlapping safeguards and checks and balances in a system. all of that has to fail for the dire apoma liptic way to come through. this is designed to distract voters, to say no matter what is bothering you, vote for your own life, you are looking at the end of democracy and your way of life unless harris is elected. >> steve: the public is not buying it. there is a brand new "washington post" poll that came out, who would do a better job defending democracy and donald trump beats

harris by three points. >> ainsley: it is not going to work. do you hear anyone voting for kamala say i'm voting for her because of xyz, they are voting for her because they don't like donald trump. they think he is dangerous, every network is painting him out to be. he said this, this is not factually correct. everyone fact checks him, anchors on other networks. they are scared and voting for her. it is not because of her policy. when obama was running, it was because of healthcare. do you hear people say i like this about her, that. >> brian: she's been weak on the border. she wants to point to her work with trans national gangs. >> ainsley: that was in california, no one know upons what she did there. >> brian: we still donald trump

know. easy, simple question and answer get your stop watch out, it is going to be exciting, watch. >> 2022, 2023, there were record border crossings, your administration took a number hundreds of executive actions, numbers kept going up. in 2024, just in june, three weeks before first presidential debate with joe biden, you had dramatic impact, shut down people coming over, why did your administration not do that in 2022 and 2023? >> you are right, as of today we've cut flow of immigration by half. numbers i saw recently, illegal immigration -- >> if that easy, why not do it in 2022 and 2023? >> we were working with congress and hoping we could have a long-term fix instead of a short-term fix? >> you couldn't have done one

and both at the same time? >> we have to understand this problem is going to be fixed through congressional action. >> you criticized wall 50 times, called it stupid, useless and medieval vanity project. is a border wall stupid? >> talk about donald trump and that border wall. donald trump said mexico would pay for it? come on, they didn't. how much of that wall did he build? i think last night, about 2%. >> you are doing this compromise bill that calls for $650 million -- >> i am not afraid of good ideas. >> you don't think it is stupid anymore? >> i think how he did it did not make sense, he didn't do much of anything. i just talked about that wall, he didn't do much of anything. >> you do want to build some wall? >> i want to strengthen our

border. >> lawrence: this is why you have open primaries for candidates to debate and go against each other and have their ideas challenged because by the time it is time to get to the big boy or big girl ticket, they there message honed in. this is why nancy pelosi and barack obama, don't forget barack obama and nancy pelosi wanted an open primary process. joe biden was so bitter in way they got rid of him, he slammed the endorsement and this is what you get, untested, unchallenged candidate not prepared. >> brian: she got to keep money from the joe biden -- could have mailed it back and reissued, we never had that chance. the problem, she called it a medieval vanity project. >> ainsley: 50 times. >> brian: no criticism

offanderson cooper, not that he cares, in middle of the desert, you could say you are selling it off pennies on the dollar. it does work. the border patrol says it does help. why not show you want to change things by taking the money there, by project that taxpayers paid for and start doing it? that would show revelation and get people who are nervous about what you are going to do at the border, instead you got somebody talking in circles, had no idea how to handle a follow-up question and no inclination to fix the border. >> steve: we did, she did sit down with telemundo, and nc earlier in the week, yesterday internal polling numbers show people have more questions. she is not provided more answers, it is more of that broad, vague stuff that drives

people crazy. you want solutions? you did not get them last night. obama, former advisor, david a axelrod was honest and it is not good for the current vice president. it was a mixed night. she was strong coming out of the gate and strong on abortion rights, she feels passionately about it. she could be clinical on economic issues. she was great on long-term care for elderly. things that would concern me, when she does not want to answer a question, her hab itd is to go to word salad city and she did that on a couple questions. on israel,anerson asked, will you be stronger than trump and theres a seven-minute answer, none related to the question he was asking.

>> brian: he might have walked off and go, good, i got away with that. these are average people, undecided, they can't feel they got enough. >> ainsley: look at that, front cover of "new york post," this crowd is in mexico and coming to the border and we spend $150 billion last year on the border nationally. this is affecting city of denver. their estimated bill the city is paying is $90 million. they had to cut 8.4 million from the police department and fire department, local governments and states are having to pay the bulk of this. >> lawrence: imagine new polling that says majority of american people that support mass deportation. you have lost the american people on this issue. this will come up in the town hall and you are not changing

your position at all? every step, border or what is happening in grocery stores, people tell you where they stand on this. she does not moderate her position. she says she evolved on it, she did not tell you what she's going to do differently. >> steve: can i toot our own horn for watching it on television? when people ask hard questions and you wait for are sw, you can see in realtime. yesterday we told you how according to the intel community, russia has put out fake videos of tim walz, they have a bunch of stuff cooking out there. >> brian: fake claim by a player he was harassed. >> steve: microsoft is talking about how dozens of fake accounts on x is linked to china and not targeting the president, they are targeting members of

congress that have been hard on china. blackburn of tennessee, all criticized china. and operation is known as sp spam spam-oshsoflauge. china has bots and they are trying to stir the pot and say things are not right and they are doing it. >> brian: announcement, i'm getting more followers and if you are a bot following me, i would like you to get off. i don't want fake people following me. >> lawrence: we appreciate that public service announcement. >> ainsley: bots are not real, they have ears and can hear your message. >> lawrence: somebody that is not a bot is carley shimkus. >> carley: i'm a human girl. >> brian: not a russian. >> lawrence: i'm learning from brian. >> carley: keep the numbers, makes you more important, you

are important. you know what i mean. day four of jury selection in daniel penny manslaughter trial gets underway in two hours. he is accused of putting homeless man jordan neely in a deadly choke hold last year. new york city transit crime is expected to take center stage. daniel penny lawyers will face on this. nancy pelosi getting heckled by anti-israel protesters outside an event at harvard. >> you're a liar, you're a crook. [chanting] >> carley: nancy pelosi was there attending an event discussing her new book. on the campaign trial, vice president kamala harris will appear in georgia today and make her first joit appearance with

former president barack obama. and donald trump will, attend rally at arizona state university. trump was introduced by country star jace son aldean. >> he is a president who when knocked down, gets up, raises his fist in the air and says fight. [cheering] >> to me, that is a warrior and that's who we need running this country right now. that leader is the 45th president of the united states, mr. donald j trump. >> donald judi judge truchl /** jtrump. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> thank you very much and hello duluth. hello, duluth.

very special hello to georgia. [cheering] >> i'm here today with a message of hope for all americans. with your vote in this election, i will end inflation, stop the innovation of criminals into our country and i will bring back the american dream, going to bring it back very quickly. america will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer and stronger than ever before. [cheering] >> carley: how about that? usually jason aldean is the main event, he was the opening act yesterday. >> ainsley: his wife is used to it now. >> steve: thank you, carley. he's not afraid to say, i'm for this guy. >> brian: he wrote that song "small town" and they tried to take it down. people in the city do not feel

secure. he feels a lot has changed in this country even though they tell us crime has gone down. >> steve: an hour ago we did this, we mentioned we love the diner segments. you love them. we love doing it. we would like to bring our show to your diner. it could be a diner you own or a diner you go to or somebody who -- >> brian: everybody knows your name. >> steve: that would be great, that would be a bar, cheers. >> ainsley: that would be fun. that might be better. >> steve: when i was at harry and the natives they were waiting until 7:00 to serve alcohol. e-mail your suggestion, the name of the place and town ask your name, as well. foxnews.com. we may drop by. >> ainsley: we did a book signing together years ago, was it georgia? jacksonville? it was in a bar -- >> lawrence: no way.

>> ainsley: brewery, we were drinking beer talking to a crowd. >> lawrence: how many did brian have? >> ainsley: brian packed the room? oh, how many beers? >> brian: nobody complaining. it was fantastic. >> lawrence: i think they want us to go. music just jumped up. >> steve: playoff music. >> lawrence: more "fox and friends" coming up. ♪ k-d emotionaling ♪

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600 migrants with ties to the gang and 100 had enough gang confirmation to be deemed people of interest for trans national criminal organizations. some others could be relatives or victims. tdid sheing a is suspected in crimes committed in 15 states from arizona, chicago, texas, florida and new york. days ago a venezuelan man accused for sex trafficking a girl in palm beach and been implicated in high-profile cases. remember joslyn nungaray and beating of officers in time square? the gang is still in infancy stage and they are working to crack down. you see here, this statement, is part of our work to counter tda. dhs has operation to crack down

on gang members through rescreening certain individuals previously encounter in addition to screening and vetting at the border. some states are getting tough. last month, texas governor greg abbott listed tdid sheing a as gang status. steve. >> steve: a new york democrat is fighting to keep his seat and making last ditch effort to distance himself from biden-harris administration. >> you are not doing your job right if you don't piss a few people off, even your own party. it is a mess, biden needs to clean it up. >> steve: his opponent says pat ryan has been pro-open border his entire political career. candidate from the 18th district, allison espizito joins us now. good morning.

>> good morning, thank you for having me. >> steve: i'm sure democrats are going, if you're in a tight spot, democrats, go ahead and say, you know, i'm for a strong border, even though the administration has been mia in this. >> right. it is absolutely pathetic. pat ryan is a liar and a wolf in sheep's clothing. he will call in an ad, an election year, he knows he is going to lose for biden to secure the border. his entire career she's been a sanctuary city guy. he made oyst er county a sanctuary city. may voted against the laken riley act, against the save act, which would have required proof of citizenship to vote in our elections. he called this crisis a republican made fearmonger event. he is the wrong guy. you can visit sanctuarypat.com,

see a list of his votes. he's a rubber stamp for the biden-harris administration and has not secured the border, among many other things. in an election year, he will lie about his stance, or mine, he's calling into the air for biden to secure the border. >> steve: i tell you what, you're right about the ads, i see his ads and your ads in the new york city area. let's talk about this, later today in new york state, high school students will particparticipate in a statewide walkout from games and practices to protest biological male athletes competing in girl sports. you called your opponent out this, right? >> absolutely, i have. my opponent says he stands for

women's rights. he boil women down to one right, abortion. he does not stand for women's rights, if he would, he would stand against men competing in their sports. women need privacy when undressing. he would stand for border security and against atrocities happening, a woman walking through a park gets raped or murdered. do not boil women down to one thing. when i asked him at the debate, do men belong in women's sports? he looked around and got nervous and talked about his five-year-old boy in swim practice. he is not able to answer the question, he stands on the wrong

side of every issue. for district 18, he is the wrong side of every issue for united states of america and voters see through his ridiculous ads lying about my position and what he's done for them and november 5, they will take action. >> steve: that is why you're appearing today, running in the 18th district in new york. pat ryan's house seat. you are former new york city police commander and inspector. thank you for your service and good luck. >> thank you, thank you for having me. >> steve: we also called pat ryan's office and asked if he would like to come on and we have not heard back from him. georgia on the line in this election. lawrence is gone to atlanta to talk to the barber shops as his series continues, coming up next. >> my guy here looking for an opportunity to start his own business and he's telling me,

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on record. that is amazing. election weather will be a factor and we'll be talking about that in the next few days. back inside, over to you. >> brian: weather is going to be nice, if you're a child and watching us, be a lifeguard. >> janice: for halloween? oh, for halloween, i understand now. >> brian: there you go. >> ainsley: thanks, brian. >> brian: bullfrog on your nose and tank top, lifeguard. >> steve: you have that costume in your closet. >> brian: absolutely. >> lawrence: save money. >> ainsley: picturing our kids coming out and a woman comes out in a bikini. >> brian: dress like summer. >> lawrence: a little weird. >> steve: let's talk politics. vice president harris and former president trump making campaign stops in georgia. >> brian: new poll has trump leading hays by 4 percentage points there.

>> ainsley: it shows 74% of black voters in georgia would vote for kamala harris, drop from the 87% joe biden got in 2020. >> lawrence: it is huge. i went to atlanta with the barber shop talk series. take a look. >> what is the state of the community right now? >> know ma, right now, state of the community, we're kind of in disarray. we want to know what is going to happen in november. >> lawrence: if the election was held today, who do you think is going to win? >> i think trump. >> trump. >> it is going to be close. >> in here, we've seen more people leaning toward kamala harris. >> it is not about the person. right? i've never fallen in love with a personality. if you look at my history of voting, even the most current,

it is not down the line, blue all the time, not all red. it is mixture, i look at people. >> people who is best for the situation. >> lawrence: what are you hearing from people right now? >> a way for them to work for themselves and they want to pick the best candidate to allow them to work for themselves. right. a lot of times you have people like my guy here looking for an opportunity to start his own business. he's telling me, what president would help me the best? i'm telling him, i think kamala. >> i voted for her and biden last time. >> lawrence: you gave them a shot. >> right and my pockets hurt. i don't want pockets hurting? >> i'm going to say it, i'm voting for trump. he gave us four years of prosperity, secure border, no new wars and one biggest thing

that speaks to me as a business owner is the border. inflation, we have more dollars chasing less goods and innovation is another form of inflation. we have more people that are n needing less products. >> lawrence: what would you say is number one issue facing black america right now? >> oh, man, the number one issue facing black america is trust, the trust of washington, d.c. inflation is high, interest rates are up and we don't believe what is in our office will support us another four years. >> i consider myself middle class, i can relate to ms. harris a little more. same time i respect other people's opinion. that being said, financial agenda that works best for me is

one that is going to give me that $50,000 tax break if i start another business or save me six or seven thousand dollars on taxes during that year. >> kamala has not presented a plan yet, all she's talked about is what she's going to give people. all this stuff. we're going to give you $25,000 tax credit to buy a house. >> lawrence: that is not enough for you? >> it don't matter if you give these people $25,000, they are not going to buy a house. everybody wants something for free, that is what democrats think. if we give you something, you'll vote for us. i don't need a handout, i need opportunity. >> lawrence: what is number one issue folks talk about, is it the economy, is it more jobs? >> sports. no, really --

>> lawrence: that, too. >> yeah, yeah. again, people come from all walks of life in this barber shop. that is beauty of georgia and any barber shop in america. >> lawrence: true. >> steve: pulse of the people. >> lawrence: yeah, i think mere fact there is debate in the barber shop shows trouble for democrats. it used to be guarantee, 95% of electorate with black voters and black males. there is debate happening and polls see 25 to 30% of black males. >> ainsley: good mix, though. >> lawrence: some folks still want kamala harris, that is okay. i'm glad we're able to have the conversation with two different groups. >> steve: good job. straight ahead on thursday, ufos are not only thing they especiallyize in, path to u.s. energy dominance running through new mexico. straight ahead.

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site in lee county, new mexico. lauren, what have you seen, what can you tell me and what can you not tell me? >> this is exciting because this is where the growth in the permian is. new mexico, despite all regulations, is seeing record production because of this tiny county i'm standing in here. watch here. >> there is a pocket in new mexico, it creates an immense amount of value. >> a third generation oil man has been drilling here for decades. lee became the first in the nation to produce million barrels per day and not far behind is eddy county. the two are responsible for all output in the lower 48. that number account rise as chaz's five wells start producing. >> 3.5 to 5 million barrels over

life of the wells. they will produce 30 to 40 years. we are excited and been here a long time. >> people are concerned about a bust, folks here don't see that happening any time soon. >> a lot is demand for more electricity, data centers and cryptomining and ev charging. >> if we can operate the way we've seen operators produce over three or four years, i don't think we should see boom-bust cycle. >> they are closely watching what happens in two weeks at the polls. they are sick of being pol politically demonized. two years ago they were struggling to stay in business, the climate has changed. most agree we need fossil fuel and renewals to fuel and power artificial intelligence, ev's,

crypto, the future of our nation. in counties like lee, this drilling rig behind me is going down 10,000 feet and out two miles. they will start to frack three miles, four miles, they have permits and technology, they are saying let us do what we can do. >> brian: i love it, that is the real world. thank you, lauren, appreciate it. i want bill hemmer to build on this story in the next coming two hours. >> bill: amazing, down two miles, across two miles, amazing stuff. good show. ford and bill mcgurn on what we learn from harris town hall. tom bevin on polling numbers, where do we stand today? a road from the right and ready to dish on set today. how many gang members are here from venezuela? it's a scomplot we're still counting. see you in eight minutes, top of the hour right here. see you in f

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to communities struggling to bring in all the tourists in what is supposed to be their busiest month in these small mountain towns. we have an owner of a business in north carolina, good morning, thank you for coming on. you have a cute store. everyone can go online and shop. if you are in that area it is fun to visit the small towns, see the general stores and stores like yours. the hurricane wiped many of the towns out. how exciting is this that the blue ridge parkway is opening up? >> extremely exciting. surprising and thrilled to hear that yesterday. i took a drive myself on the blue ridge parkway and the colors are beautiful. that's the drive of the area for the fall here. so we're very pleased about that news. >> ainsley: we used to go up there in the fall and being from south carolina we would go to grandfather mountain and walk that bridge across the

mountains. it is so cool and pretty. what are your neighbors saying? are people coming back? what are the hotels like for people who want to go and support your town? >> blowing rock was relatively unscathed through the whole helene disaster. we were open throughout but not very many people were here in town for the first weeks. this is our most important month of the year. so it's really a big deal. about a week and a half ago as we let everyone know the town is reopened, people are definitely coming back. we're thrilled to see that and appreciate that so much. of course, the tourists are what keep us going and why we're here. so we're very thrilled that people -- it's not going to be the october normal but improving. >> ainsley: which stretch is open? >> the best stretch. it opened from blowing rock to the beautiful viaduct. the colors are amazing on up to

grandfather mountain, also reopening today. so this is like i say the drive when you come up to see the wonderful fall colors. so we're really thrilled about that. and we expect this weekend to bring many more people back to town. >> ainsley: what do you think the christmas season will be like? for anyone be back to normal and reopened by then? >> yeah. in our town completely reopened. it will have a lingering effect as some people -- we're trying to get the word out. not everyone knows we're open and fine. that's one thing we're trying to put out there. please come up. our holiday season is very important as well. and that sustains us through the weaker months coming up after the new year. >> ainsley: you have are support. you're resilient. the carolinas are amazing. everyone go and visit. god bless. >> bill: thanks, good morning. time for a closing message. vp kamala harris trying to make her ca