the 33 points back in 2020. early in person voting in maryland kicks off today. >> bill: thank you so much for that. appreciate it. >> dana: can i ask the questions i was asking you? there are a couple of other races out there on the senate that are interesting. one in pennsylvania with dave mccormick and bob casey. >> bill: that is a cost-up. >> dana: in our rankings? >> i think it is lean demi believe. >> dana: same for ohio? >> >> bill: montana. virginia will flip and if sheehy wince it. ohio could win. he needs a strong turnout on behalf of the donald trump. an mccormick in pennsylvania, too. >> dana: you could get to 53. >> bill: you could. with a really good night for the

red team you might be able to. >> dana: do you like listening to all of our nonsense? we'll move on to more news. we want to get you to this. >> i can't with my own eyes to see the comments that reporter was vile enough to put in that paper, it was just hurtful in all kinds of ways. it was just a lie from the very beginning and it was very upsetting. >> dana: speaking there was a sister of the vanessa guillen. she was slain and the atlantic claimed president trump disparaged her. she is -- it could be it. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: are you feeling it? >> dana: yeah, i'm in. >> bill: let's talk about halloween. >> dana: no, never. >> bill: good morning. i'm bill hemmer. good morning at home.

final countdown. ultimate showdown. we're underway. the candidates crisscrossing the country hitting all the battleground states 12 days from the big day. the trump campaign with a closing message for voters promising to fix the problems created by the biden-harris administration. that's their line. >> dana: vice president harris is boiling down her campaign to an idea that encompasses the word fear. watch. >> i do believe that donald trump is unstable, increasingly unstable and unfit to serve. the people who worked with him have all called him unfit and dangerous. they have said explicitly he has contempt for the constitution of the united states. they have said he should never again serve as president of the united states. >> dana: lucas tomlinson is at the white house for us this morning. >> good morning, dana. according to a recent fox news poll when harris supporters were asked what is motivating you to vote the number one response, a dislike of donald trump which perhaps is motivating the harris

campaign. at that cnn town hall outside philadelphia vice president was also asked the following question. >> do you think donald trump is a fascist? >> yes, i do. yes, i do. i also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted. >> hours before harris held impromptu remarks outside a residence yesterday following the release of the audio of donald trump's former chief of staff, john kelly, calling trump a fascist, something mike pence's former chief of staff disputes. >> if that's not possible to codify it in the house, what do you do? >> i think we need to take a look at the filibuster to be honest with you. the reality of it is this. let's talk about how we got here. when donald trump was president, he hand selected three members of the united states supreme court with the intention that they would undo the protections

of roe v. wade. >> the filibuster procedure in the senate, not the house, in the senate the vice president served for four years as a senator and also asked about the high price of groceries. >> price of groceries still too high and we need to address it in a number of ways. part of my background and how i come to it is probably a new approach grounded in a lot of my experiences as a former attorney general where i took on price gouging. and part of my plan is to create a new approach. >> we did not here specifics about what that new approach would look like. last night david axelrod called her performance word salad city. >> dana: we saw that earlier. lucas, i don't know if that was the best town hall i ever saw. we'll talk about it here. >> bill: another story people are talking about. mark meadows joining vanessa guillen's sister refuting the false article in the atlantic accusing former president trump

erupting at the $60,000 funeral bill he promised to pay. jonathan hunt tracking all this down from every angle. what did you come up with, jonathan? >> good morning, bill. a lot of questions this morning. in a story that has become as much about standards of journalism in this election season as it is what was or wasn't said by former president donald trump in any particular meeting. here is the back story. army private vanessa guillen was murdered at fort hood in april of 2020. then president trump met with guillen's family in july 2020 and promised to help pay for the funeral costs. a new article in the atlantic claims using unnamed sources that in a later private meeting in december trump complained about the $60,000 cost made an offensive remark about burying here and ultimately refused the pay. mark meadows who was in the room

at that time disputes that. now guillen's sister myra is pushing back hard on the atlantic's reporting talking to laura ingraham last night. >> it was a lie from the very beginning and very upsetting. my sister's name was never to be used or stained in this direction and that's what they did. all i'll do now is defend her name and myself and my political views. >> the family's lawyer says the writer, jeffrey goldberg, was dishonest in his initial approach to the family. >> he first reached out to me and said he was interested in doing a the four year anniversary of vanessa's murder story to that. >> for his part goldberg is standing by his story. >> the fact remains he didn't pay but there is a split mark meadows has come out and said this didn't happen. but i have great confidence in my sources and in the notes that i've seen. >> now it's worth noting

goldberg also said the guillen family lawyer told him trump did not end up paying for the funeral costs, which were ultimately covered by the army and private donations. as far as we're aware, bill, neither the family nor the attorney has denied that part of the atlantic story. >> bill: thanks for running it down in los angeles. thank you. >> dana: joining us now is chief political correspondent for "the washington examiner" and fox news contributor byron york. what do you make of this as an october surprise? seems pretty coordinated. >> it does. the story that you are referring to about the guillen funeral issue was also a story alleging donald trump expresses admiration allot for adopt hitler. a mish mash of trump attacks in the story and you saw some synergy yesterday between the atlantic, a leading resistance to trump journal, and the harris

campaign. story comes out and then harris schedules kind of an unusual press statement at the vice president's residence yesterday to talk about how terrible trump is and how troubling the story is. and then it's discussed at the cnn town hall last night and then there is a thing that you just reported, which was harris is asked do you think donald trump is a fascist and she says yes, yes. so i think there is -- you are working hand in glove here from the resistance forces and now the actual nominee of the democratic party. >> bill: the follow up was in what way is he a fascist. what decisions and policies, define it for us? i don't know if a lot of people in the audience could do that. you write as attacks intensify trump becomes more popular. explain your piece. >> almost every poll we've seen. talking about thousands. ask a basic question about

whether the respondent has a favorable or unfavorable impression of donald trump or any other public figure, kamala harris, joe biden, etc. if you look at the results to that favorable/unfavorable question from 2016, 2020 and 2024 today. trump has been underwater the whole time. that is more people say they have an unfavorable impression than say they have a favorable impression. but he is getting better every single time. in 2016 he was 20 something points underwater. decreased significantly by 2020 and now he is just barely underwater. so trump is actually more popular today than he has ever been at any time as a candidate or as president of the united states. >> dana: caroline leavitt is the spokesperson for the trump campaign. she was on the bottom line and said this. >> kamala harris has lost the plot. she came into this race after

the democrat party staged a coup against joe biden as the candidate of joy and change. all of that was a bunch of baloney. now she has resorted to the democrat party instinct being the party against president trump rather than the party for the american people. >> dana: we found out yesterday that kamala harris is planning a big closing argument speech about january 6th on the national mall. details to come. the "washington post" poll on this question of who do you trust more to handle threats to democracy? trump is up 43 and she is up 40. that might make democrats really mad and confound them but what we keep finding in the polls. >> we see a full 360 in the harris campaign. if you remember, joe biden actually wanted to make the campaign about january 6th and his top advisor said that on the record. this election is going to be about january 6th. and when kamala harris takes

over quickly after biden pulls out on july 21st it goes away and we start hearing about trump and jd vance weird and a campaign of joy and trying to make fun of trump. now we're back to trump is a danger to democracy and january 6th is the closing argument. the thing democrats are worried about is she made a poor argument on cnn last night and she took quite a bit of time to prepare for that. and i know in the earlier hour of this program, i don't want to speak for harold ford but clearly his mind was blown by the fact that she did not have an answer prepared when asked for the first legislation she would push as president of the united states. so she has been an unprepared candidate so far and that could extend to the final argument. >> dana: as harold ford's unofficial press secretary. he says it the most politely of

anyone. >> he does. >> bill: the ratings after the town hall last night could be revealing. talking about joy, watch the rally in new york city on sunday. inside the arena at least at madison square garden something else. got to go. >> that will be a huge event. trump has been planning it since he spent a lot of time in new york when he was on trial. and it will be a big, big deal. >> bill: i read about that. could be hot on the sidewalk outside, too. byron york, have a good day. >> certainly there is a strengthened relationship for lack of a better term, between russia and dprk. >> bill: reinforcements for putin's army coming from north korea. what will the troops mean for the war in ukraine? >> dana: locked and loaded. israel getting its sights on striking back against iran. this as the u.s. investigates an

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>> dana: the white house is considering more sanctions after north korea sent thousands of troops to russia. officials say they don't know if those troops will be sent to fight in ukraine. gillian turner is live from the state department. this is a curious and possibly troubling development, gillian? >> that's right, dana according to all the u.s. officials in the biden administration now speaking out about this. they are confirming that there are north korean troops right

now deployed to russia. it is believed there are 10,000 of them in total preparing eventually to fight alongside ukrainian troops -- alongside russian troops inside ukraine. they aren't saying how or when the troops are going to make their way onto ukrainian battlefields. they are ringing alarm bells. listen. >> certainly there is a strengthened relationship for lack of a better term, between russia and dprk. you have seen dprk provide arms and munitions to russia. and this is a next step. it is an indication that he may even be in more trouble than most people realize. >> putin so far has lost more than 600,000 soldiers during his war in ukraine over the past 2 1/2 years. replenishing those ranks is fast becoming a matter of desperation. >> what we have seen, of course,

is russia's increasingly collaboration with a variety of malign actors. >> north korea has one of the largest militaries, 1.2 million troops or more. for many decades has stayed largely out of the world's major wars. putin and kim jong unmet face-to-face in recent months. the white house says once the north korea an troops hit ukraine an soil they will be war targets. >> if they do deploy the fight against ukraine, they are fair game. they're fair targets. >> south korea now contemplating getting into this war as well. overnight the president there saying he is considering a plan to send weapons to ukraine to help fend off this new russian/north korean alliance in the war there.

>> dana: a great question jennifer griffin asked lloyd austin whether we are know a new world war but just don't have it defined that way yet. gillian turner, thank you. >> the savage venezuelan prison gang tren de aragua, have you heard of them? they are a lovely group of people. tren de aragua. it has taken over apartment complexes and unleashing a violent terror spree all over america. >> bill: last night duluth, georgia. the former president stoking up concerns as the department of homeland security flags 600 migrants with potential ties to that venezuelan gang. the agency recommending that more than 100 of them be put on the f.b.i. watch list. that's amazing. former f.b.i. special agent dan brunner with me now. good morning. nice to have you back on the program. call for number one, fiscal year 2023 venezuelan migrants apprehended at the southern border, 266,000. followed by another 261,000 the following year.

you stha number of 600, however, is misleading because it is undercounting. go ahead and explain that first. >> absolutely, bill, thanks for having me. the number 600 is absolutely way -- misleading. i think the number of tren de aragua in the united states i would say we're talking 2,000 to 4,000. you have to understand a lot of these members of this organization have been training, have been receiving familiarity with all the crimes they're already conducting here. they've been active in chile, peru rick columbia. when conducting criminal activities down there, their organization, the tren de aragua management, moves them into the united states via the pipelines. they're working with sinaloa and with the cartels from mexico. human trafficking moving them north and numbers coming into the united states. the 600 doesn't take into

account 12, 13, 14 year olds recruited clearly a good example is new york city. the 42nd street boys are being recruited by one member of tren de aragua and that multiplies. that one person brings in 15 additional members. the number 600 is closer to 2,000 or 4,000. >> bill: did they all come across the border or were they flown in on that app that's been used? >> a combination of all of them. taking advantage of the systems built in during this administration. they're taking advantage and coming across the border. the numbers that we're getting is how many encounters. how many encounters were not -- were unknown? individuals that came across the border, into the united states. this is a sophisticated, organization. this is a trans national criminal organizations. they work in bitcoin and encrypted communications and know what they are doing and know how to take advantage of the system. >> bill: very interesting

answer. you remember the debate with all the democratic candidates? they were asked the question whether or not crossing the border should be decriminalized, all right? kamala harris was asked that again last night on this question by anderson cooper. >> you did raise your hand saying in the debate when asked if border crossings should be decriminalized. that is not your position? >> i never intended nor will i ever allow america to have a border that is not secure. i believe we need to deal with illegal immigration, there needs to be consequences, which is why part of my plan that i have outlined -- >> bill: you can decide for yourself whether or not she pursued that the way she answered that. you say they are not a gang, they are a criminal organization. if that is true, could we prosecute them in a different way? >> absolutely. i think utilizing the same statutes, federal statutes of reekio, racketeering, going after them with much larger,

much harsher counts. much harsher investigation. it's mandatory life sentence if con -- i went through two major rico trials in new jersey. there is a lot of tools that can be utilized by the department of justice and f.b.i. along with hsi and other partners to attack this organization within, from in here in the united states. mass deportations is not going to work. they're here so we have to deal with this problem now and it is a very complicated situation. i think the nbc report is a lot bigger. we're looking at thousands of individuals so now we have to attack this head on. >> bill: very interesting and concerning. see whether or not we get to that point soon enough. we'll keep an eye on it with your help. thank you, dan. >> i may not be quick to have the answer as soon as you ask it about a specific policy issue sometimes because i'm going to

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down. >> let me ask you tonight, do you think donald trump is a fascist? >> yes, i do. >> three weeks before the first presidential debate with joe biden, you had executive actions that shut down people crossing over. why didn't your administration do that in 2022 and 2023? >> we have cut the flow of immigration by over half. >> why not do it in 2023 and 2023? >> we were working with congress. i took on price gouging and part of my plan is to create a new approach that is the first time that we will have a national ban on price gouging. we need to have laws in place that make those who would commit crimes on behalf of anti-semitism and hate that they pay a serious consequence. but i will tell you what doesn't help. go online to listen to john kelly, the former chief of staff of donald trump, who has told us

donald trump said essentially why aren't my generals like those of hitler's? >> bill: a lot there in the sound bite. jim messina and karl rove. let's go, guys, you look at the numbers every day. where is the race now? go. >> coin toss. rather be him than her because he has a lead on the economy, inflation and border. but this is tied and anybody who tells you how this will turn out -- every morning i take real clear politics and silver bulletin and take the numbers for each one of the battleground states. we have 21 data points. in two instances out of that 21 the lead for in this case donald trump is two points or better. five the lead for either him or her is between one and 2% and 14

of them are less than 1%. it's a toss-up. >> dana: does she have momentum that she needs to try to close this out? if it is a coin toss do you think she can edge ahead. >> i think she can. she has room to growth. voters say they don't know enough about her. she is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in a ground operation and karl is right. this is a coin toss race. if it's a coin toss race their bet is they can win it ton ground. >> bill: "the new york times" last night watched the town hall and thought there was a lot of -- donald trump what he is doing at the rallies gets to the point where he gets a minute and a half where he says this is what i'm going to do and everything he says is a headline on a policy that he would support. here is an example from last night in duluth, georgia. check it out. >> we'll close the borders first day, first hour, first minute. we'll close our borders. we're going to take the criminals immediately and we'll

deport the criminals. we'll get them out fast. we're going to get them out fast. we'll drill, baby drill and get our energy prices down and get our country back in order. and i think we're going to have the four greatest years in the history of our country. [cheers and applause] >> bill: when you were doing campaigns both of you gentleman, how important was it to make a succinct closing argument? >> very important and obviously the emphasis on being optimistic is important. he keeps stepping on this talking about arnold palmer's privates and saying 39 minutes of dance music. this is the most disciplined campaign his staff has run but he remains undisciplined and in the next 12 days you need to have him saying that kind of thing with a little bit more depth and substance to it and less on the sort of riffing that has caused people -- if he says something sort of wild the media

will cover the wild thing rather than the substantive thing. >> dana: the "wall street journal" poll. who voters trust more on the top issues. trump is ahead by 15 points on immigration, 12 points on the economy and nine points on crime. israel's war he is up 15. she is up 14 on abortion on those five issues. you said she has room to grow. does she have time to grow >> that's a good question. 92nd day of the campaign. like a european snap election. this is her big challenge. if she loses she wasn't the nominee in time to grow. she has a succinct message. the best town hall when she had her closing and said look, he is in it for himself. he has an enemy's list and i have a to do list for the american public. if she can close like that she will be successful.

the clip is what he needs to do. the problem is the other 91 minutes of that rally were him rambling about arnold palmer's genitalia. >> bill: they can't both lose but either one could. that's in the "wall street journal." >> dana: way to stick your neck out. >> i didn't write the headline but a darn good one. >> bill: i know you are scouring the early vote as many of us are. georgia has an extraordinary website and 30% of the expected vote in georgia has already been banked. they break it down primarily on race. white and african-american. what appears obvious to me in the state of nevada republicans are voting early in big numbers. what also appears apparent to me in georgia african-americans are not voting at a level where you need to win statewide. conversely you could make the case more women are voting and i don't know if that plays to abortion against trump. but these are all little pieces that we're trying to maybe push

and pull every day. >> you have to be careful. what is good is to compare it to a baseline but we can't care it to 2020. with covid it was entirely distorted. you are right, in nevada two things are going on there. one is i sort of grew up part i my childhood spent there. the cow counties, but now the preeminent journalist in the state call them the rurals and deep red and voted for trump three and four to one and they came in heavy early. yesterday the democrat vote in clark county, las vegas, began to cut in and cut the republican lead on the early vote. the fact that republicans are leading on the early vote is representative of something else. the old saw used to be in nevada republicans had a shot if the registration gap was 100,000. that's to say there were less than 100,000 fewer republicans than democrats. the gap today 19,000. 19,000.

now, there has been a growth of the what they call in nevada the nonpartisan. the independents. they are now the largest group, 34%, 30% democrat, 39% republican. who those people are will determine the outcome of the election. republicans are on the march in the state. >> i agree in nevada. i think that's true. if you look at early vote in michigan and pennsylvania, higher than expected african-american turnout. so karl is right. nevada has gone from the easiest state when i ran obama to win to the toughest of the states. early vote looks better in the midwest for the democrats. >> bill: we'll see who is right. >> dana: great to have you both. what an honor. a doctor is refusing to write her own study about gender transition because it doesn't fit with her woke agenda.

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dr. olson kennedy is concerned publishing her results might fuel political attacks. at a time when transgender care in adolescence has become a red hot issue in american politics it led to bans of youth gender treatments in more than 20 states. other experts argue it is really important to get the scientific research out there. vice president kamala harris was asked about the issue this week and she said we should follow the law. then harris was pressed on a personal level if she believes transgender youth should have that access. >> that is a decision that doctors will make in terms of what is medically necessary. i won't put myself in a position of a doctor. >> do no harm is a watchdog group representing medical professionals and policymakers and expressed concern about the data being kept private. >> the dereliction of duty as a researcher and gender activist who has been pushing these

medical interventions on children. she and many of her physician colleagues around the country have been lying to the public for years. >> other expert say it it is important to put results out there so parent and public know the truth. >> bill: we'll follow it in washington, d.c. >> dana: louisiana is suing the biden administration for allegedly putting residents at risk of contracting a deadly disease. state attorney general naming head of homeland security and others over an illegal chinese migrant who may have exposed hundreds of people to a rare form of tuberculosis. david spunt has more on this. >> quite a story. an emergency lawsuit asking for an injunction and homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is the target. the suit was filed by the louisiana state attorney general. it seeks to stop immigrations and customs enforcement or ice under the umbrella of the department of homeland security from releasing detainees in custody until they are medically cleared and medically deemed

safe. according to the lawsuit a chinese national who crossed the southern border eventually ended up in the custody of louisiana officials. according to the suit, this national has a quote rare aggressive and drug resistant form of tuberculosis which carries high mortality rates, end quote. a person came into contact with what is believed to be 200 other detainees in various holding centers and numerous non-detainees across the state of louisiana. the state attorney general says this puts other detainees at risk and those who work there. the attorney general and louisiana governor jeff landri want the following. an immediate temporary restraining order and then a preliminary and permanent injunction preventing ice and its contract facilities from releasing any detainee unless and until the louisiana department of health has medically cleared that detainee. >> we're in a good place. we have dodged a bullet this time. we have utilized the justice

system to insure that we can continue to protect the public. what we're dealing with is a form of a drug-resistant tuberculosis. and again, at this time we have no indication that the public is in any danger. >> hoping this does not get out to the public we reached out to ice and homeland security for comment and have yet to hear back. >> bill: the top house republican pressing the white house over north korea's growing partnership with moscow. why he said this latest move should be considered a red line for kim jong un.

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americans struggling. new research now shows the american dream is too expensive for most people to achieve and critics are piling on the white house's attempt to explain joe biden's call to lock up former president trump. congresswoman kat cammack, david asman, lisa boothe. "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> if their intention is to participate in this war on russia's behalf, it will have impacts not only in europe. >> dana: lloyd austin on intelligence reports that north korea is sending troops to russia possibly to fight on the front lines in ukraine. a former state department senior advisor. i want to get your take on this. to me it's pretty alarming. >> it is very alarming. it is significant for several reasons. first of all, it may mean that the losses that putin is suffering in ukraine are far

greater than we the public realize. secondly, it shows that our enemies are getting bolder. north korea feeling free to sign a strategic partnership with russia. russia having a no limits partnership with china. it could also lastly mean that north korea needs the money or whatever it is and it is getting from russia in return. we haven't paid much attention to north korea during the biden-harris years and our deterrence has eroded. here we are with open cooperation between states that are frankly our adversaries. >> dana: mike turner, the house intel committee chairman said this. if north korean troops attack ukraine from russia territory ukraine should be able to use american weapons to respond. if north korean troops can go into ukraine the united states should take action against those troops. one more sound bite from lloyd austin on the ties between

russia and north korea. >> certainly there is a strengthened relationship for lack of a better term between russia and dprk. you've seen dprk provide arms and munitions to russia. and this is a next step. what it means in terms of where putin is, this is an indication that he may be even in more trouble than most people realize. >> dana: gillian turner at the state department last hour said that south korea is thinking of getting involved to provide weapons to ukraine. jennifer griffin had an interview with lloyd austin yesterday and asked him is the world in a new global war and we just haven't recognized it or called it that yet? he said no, what do you think? >> we don't do a good job talking about the world as it is.

we're constantly talking about u.s. aid to ukraine or russia/ukraine conflict. what we're actually seeing is this is a proxy conflict. it has been since the beginning with china, russia, iran, north korea aligned against the united states, ukraine, the nations of europe and other freedom-loving nations as well as our strategic allies. is the the global conflict in the proper definition of the term where we're fighting all over the world? no, it isn't. but certainly it is a global conflict within the confines of ukraine. but also, too, dana, i think it raises a lot of questions about arguments that the united states should somehow abandon the middle east and move our forces and all our concentration over to europe -- to asia, rather, to fight china. just once again demonstrates that china is a global threat. russia is a global threat. the nations cooperate and we

need need to acknowledge that and have our thoughts accordingly. >> bill: nice to see you, mary. before we get out of here, before we go. >> dana: what have you got today? >> happy birthday to one of our moist loyal viewers, paul russell dan ford. today he turns 102. that's him in washington ten years ago. watches the show every day. while the army air corp he went on 54 missions during world war ii and got to see eisenhower's car as he drove to sign the peace treaty. thank you for your service and thank you for your life here on planet earth. >> dana: have a wonderful birthday. he watches every day and i wonder if he likes dana reads sports, hemmer celebrity news. we would like to have a contest. we would like to know. happy, happy birthday to you. we'll be back tomorrow. harris faulkner is next. >> harris: vice president kamala harris in a