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neil: explosions over tehran as israel launches its largest attack on iran ever. ever. now the wait to see whether these latest airstrikes will bring an end to the seemingly endless are fit tit for tat between the two countries. we've got israel's ambassador to the united nations, danny danon, on why now and the latest from the white house on what the administration aims to do now. welcome, everybody, glad to have you. hope your weekend is going well. we've got a busy two two hours for you. let's get right to it. first, to haifa, israel, where greg palkot is gauging reaction to this latest attack. greg. >> reporter: hi, or neil, yeah. for the moment at least israel has wrapped up its retaliation against iran. between 2:30 and 6 in the morning israeli time -- and we were up for it -- some 100 israeli fighter jets took the 1,000-mile trip over the iran and conducted what israel says were precisely-calibrated

strikes on iranian military targets. the first wave aimed at taking out defenses including syria and iraq and then hitting 20 long-range missile production and preparation sites around tehran and two other western iranian regions. no oil facilities were hit as requested by the biden administration. it was, in fact, a very specific retaliation to the barrage of some 180 0 ballistic missiles fired at israel on october 1st. here is what israel said. >> our message is clear, all those who threaten the state of israel and seek to drag the region into wider escalation will pay a hey price. a heavy price. >> reporter: now, even though two two iranian soldiers were killed, tehran seemed to downplay the attack claiming many israeli projectiles were intercepted and that the damage was minimal. but, neil, perhaps this is wishful rhetoric from an iran

that might in the be sure about a full scale war with israel. still, the ball is now in iran's court. it had propsed to respond -- promised to respond to any attack by israel. their movement back to you. neil: all right. thank you very much for that, greg. just to put the u.s. in perspective, we are hosting, this country is hosting what they call a deescalation, meaning it's scheduled for qatar tar tomorrow. that is supposedly still on. what the white house is thinking right now, that's where we find our own lucas tomlinson. hey, lucas. >> reporter: good morning, neil. the response from the white house and the administration has largely been muted. no statement from president biden. he did not speak to reporter when he landed in delaware last night. he's spending the weekend in wilmington -- excuse me, spending today in wilmington before going to a rally in pittsburgh. we did hear from if his defense secretary, however, in a new statement this morningful elle read most of it, from defense

secretary lloyd austin. quote, secretary austin reaffirmed the ironclad commitment of the united states to israel's security and right to self-defense. the secretary emphasized the enhanced force posture of the united states to defend israel in the face of threats from iran and iranian-backed terrorist organizations of. this was the largest attack by israel on iran in history, over 100fighter jets threw over 1,000 miles to strike iran. most of those were taken out in the initial wave -- defense systems -- much like during the vietnam war. recall president biden telling reporters on of coursed 2 2nd, just one day after -- on october 2nd, he only wanted israel to the hit military sites, and that's what israel did last night. to to oil terminals were destroyed as we just heard from greg. biden told reporters last week he knew the targets israel wanted to the strike the. white house officials say they were given a heads up before israel launched this massive

airstrike on shabbat, it should be noted. there was no mention of it from vice president harris or beyonce last night. iranian officials told "the new york times" if israel only hits military targets, they might not respond. president biden's in wilmington right now, but he will be going to pittsburgh in the western part of the state, and it should be noted we take for granted israel being able to carry out this strike over 11,000 miles away, it's not guaranteed -- 1,000 miles away. it's not guaranteed that all those jets could make it back, but they did. neil: lucas tomlinson. honored to have brigadier general rob small smalling with us -- rob spalding with us. there are no rules for what's going on with this particular war where one country makes a move, then the expectations is that the other country responds. and there's no closure to that. what do you think this latest move by israel triggers iran to

do? because it's promised some response. >> well, i mean, they've already attacked israel, so i'm not sure how much more they can respond if or have a wider war. you know, it just brings me back to other things that are going on right now. so we have not nearly put as much or pressure on zelenskyy to stop the war with russia as we've put on netanyahu to stop the war with iran. and then look at this. we know that we need to go after nuclear sites. we know that israel has to respond and yet we're restraining the israelis from going after the nuclear sites in iran. so i just have to wonder, what is our strategy here and what are we trying to achieve? israel is going to strike iran, we know that. why would we not take advantage of that? neil: now, for the length of the attacks concern i believe almost four hours, it ended shortly before dawn in that region,

we're told that they were really targeting these iran, russian-made s300 air defense systems. but to your point, general, not going of after key military and/or nuclear sites. donald trump had said that that would be a mistake. what do you think? >> absolutely. and i think there's something more important, that point that donald trump made in this podcast with joe rogan. he said, hey, look, iran was broke. iran was broke, and that was something that the united states did. so instead of being broke now, they are very well -- and, by the way, they were forced to -- we told the chinese if you buy a single barrel of oil from the iranians, you will not be able to trade with the united states. and so iran was isolated, they were broke, and then the biden administration came in and turned it all off. so in addition to the things that i just noted, we've created

the problem that the israel has to now go solve. neil: so what happens in terms of reaction from more moderate arab a countries in that neck of the woods? some of them have condemned israel for this move but not loudly or even very angrily. i'm wondering if it was just a politically correct, almost to be expected response when you reminded me, general, that some of these countries hate iran more than israel does. finish. >> yes. and if you had cameras in the private spaces with those leaders are, it would look like the end of a soccer game, seeing those bombs go off in iran. they'd probably be shooting ak-47s in the sky and just laughing and and triumphing because israel's actually going after iran. they don't like the iranians any more than israelis do. neil: so where do you see this going? if iran plans -- and i'm just taking it from their foreign minister that it's looking at some calculated response.

to your point, israel was responding to that missile attack back on october 1st, but this is what we see happening, a new pattern here where it never ends. because as a response to the response and then a response to that response, unending. >> and i think that's the whole point, right? i think if we have an election that's coming up that goes one way, we're going to continue to see a never if ending series of -- never ending series of wars in the middle east, in europe, in his -- in asia with. that's what we've seen. it just continues to escalate and really -- it never ends. or it goes another way and perhaps it does come to an end because we tart to dry up the money that's financing these wars, and we stop to supply money into them. so, you know, it's our strategy. we can do what we want with it. and either we're going to work to stabilize things, or we're going to continue to have chaos like we do today. neil: general rob spalding, very

good seeing you, sir. thank you for joining ugh and thank for your incredible service to this country. appreciate that even more. with in the meantime, politics, we're going to take you to one state because both candidates are there. of all the seven battle -- battlegrounds, this one seems to be getting the most attention. i'm talking michigan and whatad they're up to, afterdr this. our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility for a va loan, for up to 100 percent of your home's value. if you need cash for your family call newdayusa. with automatic authority from the va we can say yes when banks say no. give us a call. veteran homeowners need cash but worried you can't get a home loan because of your credit? here's great news. at newday we've been granted automatic authority by the va to make our own loan approval decisions.

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key to her, you know, making up for other states in those battleground states that she will likely lose? >> yeah, i do, neil. i think she needs, as i calculated, to win the blue wall, wisconsin, michigan and, ultimately, pennsylvania. from looking at the poll data that i see, north carolina, georgia, arizona and and even now nevada if are looking like they're moving to trump. so if she's going to win and get to 270, she needs michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin, and all of those polls in the real clear averages are either even or show a narrow trump lead with all the momentum in donald trump's direction. so the quinnipiac poll is probably one of the most encouraging if not the most encouraging michigan poll that's out there, but it's clearly, as you suggest, neil, a must-win state for her. neil: yeah. you know, and we're reminded in

history, noel, that a lot can change in a week to the ten days. of course, we remember jimmy carter, ronald reagan going at it. they were essentially even money at this time back in 1980. we know what happened. is there anything you see or from the donors you talk to who see something like that, that beneath the polling surface there's something going on? you often hear about this momentum that donald trump has, but again, i look at the aggregate polls themselves, and they're still kind of even. >> yeah. matter of fact, i was just at mar-a-lago for a fundraiser for a state senator in mississippi x there were a lot of big donors that came out. they wanted to see mar-a-lago. and, 40 and behold, trump -- lo and behold, president trump came through the door and said hello. he looked very good. he looked very happy. he looked encourage, had lot of vigor and was ready to to go. that tells me he is receiving probably some information that says he's looking pretty good. and let's look at michigan.

that is way too tight for a blue belt state for kamala harris. but then when you look at kamala harris, or she really did not get the nomination to run for president. she was placed in there because of she was of replacement for joe biden. so the enthusiasm could be waning just a little bit. and if you look at the top two issues, which is the economy and border control, you will see that republicans shine on both those issues which pushes the importance of abortion down to, you know, maybe three or four. so michigan, we very well could see it's so tight, we could see a trump win in michigan. neil: interesting. you know, doug, what do you make of these reports axios and elsewhere that there's a lot of, you know, finger-pointing among democratic higher-ups that kamala harris is blowing it? now, again, i don't know what they are seeing. if you look at polls, they costill seem tight.

maybe there is something, as i say, beneath the surface here. are they already crepe hanging? are they doing it too soon? what do you think's going on even how staffers didn't flip if over here and all that -- over her and all that. >> i think there are a bunch of things going on, neil. first, there's a little bit of what you say, the premature declaration of victory. but there's also the perennial fight between the left which feels that she's not been poppe let's enough and left wing enough -- populist enough, and the centrists who feel that elections are won in the middle. and then there's the fight between the biden people who feel that she's not being respectful enough of the administration she is an integral part of and the harris people who know that they need, as she says, a new way forward. there's a lot of finger-pointing, a lot of bitterness in the democratic camp. and what i pick up from my sources and my friends is there's a real sense that trump is surging. even though, as you point out

and noel points out correctly, the overall numbers are very close nationally and in the swing states. but i think it's pretty clear as the numbers you're putting on the screen now suggest the momentum is with with the normer president. the former president. neil: real quickly, noel, the money momentum is with kamala harris. she has twice the as much cash on hand as does the former president. of course, this, you know, joe rogan interview is sort of free money and the impact of that chat. but how do you see it going in the money advantage that she enjoys? because she doesn't seem to be capitalizing on that a. >> yeah. and right now that's really not going to make a difference. i've told a lot of my donors, when you get to, you know, less than two weeks away, there's only so much money you can spend, only so much ad space, only so much you can do with it. so right now it's kind of a blurry furry. you know, people are going9 0 -- 90-0, so i don't think her money

advantage means anything right now. neil: all right. final word. noel, great seeing you. doug, the same. we'll see what happens these next ten days. >> thank you, neil. neil: in the meantime, we've been telling you about israel finally responding to that iranian missile attack back with in the beginning of this month. already iran's foreign minister is on record saying they will respond to this response. what khanny danon, ambassador to the united nations, make of that? we'll ask him. he's next.

neil: all right, just giving you the latest on that israel attack on iran. it was the largest such attack in history ever, never seen anything like it. ten iranian guards, we are it would, have died in this attack. tehran is saying though that the

damage itself was fairly limited. whether that would mean a limited response, if any, from iran, the foreign minister put everyone on notice that will not be the cates, that there will bl be a response. danny danon with us, israeli ambassador to the united nations. ambassador, so there will be a response the your response. and on we go. what do you think? >> well, neil, i it would you when we spoke a few weeks ago that what happened on october 1st, we would not sit idly by. haas exactly what we did last night. we sent a very clear message the iran that you cannot send 200 ballistic missiles into israel and expect us not to react. but the iranians, you know, they targeted civilians. they used their ballistic missiles -- [inaudible] we used highly precise weapons, and we targeted military facilities. these were very successful

operations. just look at the maps, the distance between israel and iran. think about the capabilities we have today to reach everywhere in iran. i think today they know that they are vulnerable, and we would advise them not the challenge us. neil: you know, and you know these numbers far better than i, ambassador, so feel free to correct me, but in that iranian attack on your condition country launched close to 3000 missiles -- 300missiles. there have been thousands since on the part of hezbollah, hamas, if you want to throw the houthi rebels in there. your famous ire dome has been able to -- iron comb has been able the deal with most of that, but it must be taxing. how do you deal with these nonstop onslaughts not only from iran, but all of its proxies and all of them together? >> with well, it has been a very tough year for us in israel since october 7th. like you mentioned, thousands of rockets flying from all over.

you mentioned lebanon, but what about yemen? iraq? syria? neil: true. >> you have iranian militias that are targeting us. but what happened in the last few weeks was a new paradigm when iran actually sent ballistic missiles from iran into israel. that's something we haven't seen in the past. that's why yesterday we had to send a message that we would not accept it. and i tell you that we have nothing against the iranian people. we know that they are peace portfolio people. they are, unfortunately -- [inaudible] if regime. but the regime is a dangerous one, and look at what they are able of doing today in lebanon, in syria. they want to create chaos everywhere. neil: ambassador, i know you're not free to give a lot of information, i well understand. but did any of this get run by the white house, that this response was going to happen overnight?

your time it was finished by dawn this morning. did any of that get run by the white house? >> neil, we are a sovereign country. we have a government, we have a cabinet. we take our decisions. we do discuss issues with our allies, and we respect the strong bond between israel and the u.s. but at the end of the day, it's our responsibility to protect our civilians, and that's exactly what we are doing. i want to remind you, the war against hamas, against hezbollah, against what we saw with iran, it was all unprovoke ised. they're coming against us, and we are defending ousts. -- ourselves. neil: i always follow, as i'm sure you do, ambassador, what the rest of the arab world is saying on the you -- about you, your country. mild criticism. and i stress the mild on the part of the united arab a emirates and saudi arabia with, this latest attack saying there have to be peaceful solutions. the u.s. itself working on this deescalation conference i guess

going on in qatar, scheduled for tomorrow. what do you make of that? >> neil, you mentioned our very peaceful countries. and they are intimidated by iran, threatening them day and night. and i think they will not admit it publicly, but they are proud of what we kid last night. they are proud of the actionses we took because when you have somebody bullying your neighborhood, somebody standing up against them, you support the bravery. and today israel, that is the brave young guy when stands against iran who is -- who stands against iran who's trying to bully the entire middle east. neil: danny danon, israeli ambassador to the united nations, thank you, sir. >> thank you, neil. neil: all right. in the meantime, we've got enormous if reaction to my chat with mark cuban. we got more of that interview including his take on what the administration to come, if kamala harris makes it to the white house, means by the rich paying their fair share. he's rich so i was curious what

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♪ ♪ neil: you knowing there once was a time where mark cuban and donald trump really liked each other. in fact, they palled around. that was then, mark cuban says it's very, very different now. take a look. >> he wants to be divisive.

he wants to be denigrating. and, look, i can outdrive him any day, all day, every day. he can the one of my classes where we do box jumps in terms of athleticism. bigger picture, it doesn't matter and i'm not running. but the fact that he gets all amped up and finds a need to come back at me, you know, that tells you his ability to focus, that tells you how much time he spends on policy and trying to learn things x. that really was the underpinning of why i stopped supporting him back in 2016. because the more i talked to him about policy, you know, the less are engaged he was. the more i asked him what he's been learning, there was always a non-answer. you can't find a time where you said, wow, that was really a nuanced position and conversation with donald trump about this or that policy. it's always just talking points and sound bites, no depth at all ever. so he has to resort to truth social posts. neil: you're not a fan of those posts -- >> oh, i don't care. neil: he's got the backing of at

least half the american people, so a lot of them see maybe all of these flaws, whatever you want to call them, his mannerisms and his temper, all of that, maybe they see some of the carriages that he would be vindictive, we just don't know. but are you saying that if he were to become president, some in your party have said -- i don't even know if you're democrat or republican finish. >> i'm not. neil: -- they would leave the country. is that a little crazy? >> yeah, that is a little crazy. i've heard republicans who tell me in texas if kamala wins, they're rheeing the country too. -- leaving the country too. but mass deportations, showing up and doing checks on the street to see if minute has their papers right. he's talked about the enemy within and going after american citizens. he has no care for freedom of speech. he wants to take away the license of cbs even though they don't have a license, their affiliates do. that's just who he is, he doesn't get into details, so it's going to enjoander --

engender a hot of extreme responses. neil: but your candidate ebb genders some ebb ream responses too, right? and -- engenders some extreme responses. and you've been critical of sometimes how the message get requests out, not necessarily the underlying message. i hope i interpreted it cently. you have said the harris team, well, they're not great sales people. what did you mean? >> we've all had to deal with people that are kin -- consistent and nonstop sales people. they're going the bother the hell out of you. that's donald trump. on the flipside, people who may not ant sales-y in that regard, but the content and the product9 and the service is great. that's the difference between the two two of them. donald trump is not about substance, kamala harris is. donald trump, he's been sell, sell, sell, more power to him, but the good news is kamala harris has a better product so she doesn't have to be as

relentless a salesperson as donald trump is. neil: when a lot of americans are polled on the candidates, as you know better than anyone, mark, they long for the days of donald trump. at least the first three years of donald trump. covid, of course, everything was off kilter then. and there's been criticism how he handled covid himself. i think you've been among those. but they miss the low inflation, the soaring job growth even though joe biden's had pretty soaring job growth himself. but are they getting it wrong? whenner they are leaning to that, are they missing something? because they turn around and say you are missing something. >> of course. but i do think they're missing a lot lot, i mean, we had more death in the military under donald trump, we had riots urn donald trump that he refused to take responsibility for, and when he tried to take some responsibility, his line was when the looting starts, the shooting starts. he wasn't trying to diminish that at all. we had january 6 evident. i mean, think about it. the person closest to him in

office, mike pence, people were chanting hang mike pence. if someone was chanting hang neil cavuto, i would do anything to help you, neil, and i'm assuming you would do the same for me. if he doesn't have the character to be able to stand up when somebody is screaming to hang somebody he knows, that's just wrong. you can't just dismiss him saying he wants 10,000, whatever, votes from georgia. you can't just dismiss, you know, the fact that when there was a bombing -- it was syria or iraq, i forget, and there were 200 service people who were injured. many of them had traumatic brain injuries, and he said they're just headaches. i can go down a long, long list of things people don't remember. lock, it's not their job, people are just trying to live their lives on a day to day basis, so no one expects everybody the go in there and do the a detailed analysis of his presidency. but that trump-nesia is overcoming a lot of judgment. neil: still, this administration criticizing anyone on foreign policy or soldiers or deaths in

light of afghanistan and that horrendous pull ow, that's -- pullout -- >> look, afghanistan a was horrific, neil, there's no question it was horrific. but fewer people have died, american soldiers have died, you were joe biden than under donald trump, and that's ooh just a fact. neil: let me step back and get your sense of tariffs because a key part of donald trump's new economic initiative, if he gets back in the white house, is to slap severe and huge tariffs op largely on china, the likes of which we've never seen. now, i know kamala harris has been critical of that. but, by and large, the biden administration -- with her -- have kept most of the tariffs that were in place under donald trump under them as well. >> so let's just look at that, right? during the trump administration, he got his butt kicked by china in a trade war. soybean farmers got destroyed. in terms of the tariffs that was kept, before he left office the

first thing that happened was the tariffs from china went down from if 25 25% to 15%, to 7.5%. those tariffs kept were at a much lower rate and far more strategic. and then there's the tariffs with the e.u., joe biden signed an agreement, a treaty with them saying there'd be no bidirectional tariffs for at least five years. most of them were strategic and in some cases where they're strategic -- and i've always said strategic tariffs are great for ev and other things concern he increased those. look, no one's complaining if donald trump wants to come in and to do strategic tariffs. it's the fact that he wants to do across the board tariffs. the things you buy for christmas, we're looking at christmas presents now. fast forward a year where we're looking at presents. if donald trump institutes a 60% tariff on imported chinese goods, most of those presents your looking to buy for your kids, your family, your friends, they're going way up. 60% or more. and when that happens not only

do you buy less, but the small businesses, medium business, large businesses, they suffer even more because when their businesses decline in the fourth quarter, their entire business, you know, when they book everything, they're going to get crushed. and it gets worse from there, you know? when you look at a tariffs, there's always retaliatory tariffs. china came back and said tear lives -- so farmers who wanted to export soybeans, there were stories wren about farmers committing suicide -- neil: you're worried the tit for tat gets out of control. >> he got crushed. neil: he disagrees with that characterization, but let me ask you a little bit about mixed messages even from kamala harris. she -- you had wanted to clarify, i don't know why you felt the need to do so, that she will not raise the capital gains act. but many point out she's raisings a lot of other taxes on corporations and the rest, and she said she's going to spare those who make $400,000 or less.

but the fact of the matter is she is targeting the rich. that would be people like you because she argues people like you don't pay your fair if share. so that's got to trouble you somewhat, doesn't it? >> no. no. let's go through it. what she's not doing is she's not going to do a tax on unrealized capital gains. that was in joe joe biden's budget, it's never, ever been proposed. it was wrong when he put it in in. that's one, she said she's raising the capital gains tax to 28%. i can live with that. that's ooh9 -- not going to change behavior -- neil: you don't think that would change -- maybe not for you, but you don't think someone who sees tax on an investment or real estate or any purchase now suddenly up to 28%, it might be just a blink for a billionaire like yourself -- >> no, that's not what she's saying, neil. neil: it could make a big difference. >> it's a tax on your gain once you reach a certain threshold. so you've already done really,

really well if you've reached a threshold where it's going to be taxed 28 the %. we're not talking about -- neil: well, that dun matter if you're rich or poor, right? >> no, no. in -- neil: -- [inaudible] right in. >> if you're under the threshold, your rate's not going up as best i can remember, right? neil: what about the fairness thing? that fairness issue. it keeps coming up, and for the life of me -- and i've heard this for decades covering this issue, that the rich aren't paying their fair share. i remember bernieen sanders talking about the time the top rate was 900%. we're a long way from there, neil, he would say. it got down to 7322%, 40 -- 72, 40. 37 is the top rate, and i'm just wondering what do you think is a fair take for the rich the pay? >> you know, it's really contextual. when our deficit is where it is, you're going to have to charge a little bit more. if we get the deficit down lower, and it's been dropping the last three years, the programming of gdp has been

dropping the last three years, then i can make an argument there's no reason the raise them. but that's part of reducing the deficit. neil: you know what? on this race a lot of people wonder, it's close right now. i have no idea how the election will sort out, but if kamala harris were to lose, do you think she would accept that defeat -- >> oh, yeah. neil: -- and concede the election? >> 10 100%, no caught about it. neil: do you think donald trump would do the same? >> no chance at all. none. neil: so you're very convinced. because they do have batteries of lawyers, each side, where like a coil spring that counts whatever the results are -- >> yeah. but one, trump trusts the rule of law, the other one does not trust the rule of law. neil: so your sense is that kamala harris, even if she lost a close election, she would acknowledge that, and since she is the vice president, she would have to put the finishing stamp on the electoral college vote,

and she would agree to do that. >> absolutely, 100% no doubt in my mind. neil: all right. let's turn it around and see if she gets elected president, what cabinet position will mark cuban have? >> none. absolutely none. i don't want one, i don't want to work for government. i have a company that's killing it. we're changing health care. that's one of great things about kamala harris, you know? you've heard her talk about p pbms, farm i -- pharmacy benefit middlemen, you've seen her talk about transparency which will reduce the cost of medication for families and households 20, 30% or more. i think i can have more of an impact on health care in general in just doing what i do as a entrepreneur and ceo as opposed to working for the government. neil: so you wouldn't have an elon musk role in a trump administration? i think donald trump has said he would be his cost cutter -- >> yeah. but, look, elon's got -- you know, to me, i would follow the

law -- [laughter] and say if i wanted the cabinet position, which i don't, i would have to key vest everything that doing -- divest. i don't see how elon has a cabinet position or real position inside an administration because of all the conflicts of interest that he would have. i mean, i don't see how that works. now, you know, in the past even with donald trump i've been an advisor. i helped peter navarro find a company in the united states that did mass and helped them you. i helped donald trump when they were talking about health care and getting rid of the aca. i pray that the he is not president but, you know with, i'll do what i can to help my country first, second and last. neil: all right. mac cuban not interested in a cabinet position in a harris administration. that is under the assumption that she gets a chance to have an administration. polls show tight as a tick right now. we'll see how that all sorts out. speaking of polls in battlegrounds and everything else, arizona the latest stop for the vice presidential candidate on the kamala harris side, tim walz. we've got griff jenkins

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♪ neil: all right, to hear the experts the tell it, immigration and if abortion are the hot issues in this rah race and both coming to a boil and some measures on the ballot in arizona. griff jenkins has more on that. hey, griff. >> reporter: hey, neil, good morning. governor walz is barnstorming the grand canyon state today. first he'll hit the navajo nation in window rock, arizona a, then to9 to the capitol in phoenix, concern capital in phoenix. trumps has a mere 1-point lead over harris where these -- with these measures on the ballot that plays to both issues of the border and abortion. now, both candidates hit those motes harder in dueling stops yesterday in the lone star state. >> we're here today in the great state of texas -- [cheers and applause]

which i like it, i like it. ms. -- [applause] which under kamala harris has been turned into ground zero for the largest border invasion in the history of the world. >> we are here because, obviously, it is a very important state, and we are here the really highlight that, sadly, the elected leaders of texas, a lot of them, have made texas ground zero in this fundamental fight for the freedom of women to make decisions about their own body. if. >> reporter: ground zero, neil, may lie in the latest and final new york times-sienna poll which shows the race in a dead heat. they go deeper. when voters were asked the most important issue driving their vote, the economy was on top at 27%, but look there, abortion and immigration tied for second at 15%. the billion also shows hearst has a -- the poll also shows

harris has a 15-point advantage on abortion while trump maintains an 11-point advantage on immigration, 54-43. and moving forward to today, both candidates are crisscrossing the battle ground state of michigan which fox news power rank aings shows is a toss-up -- rankings shows this is a to to the toss-up. this race couldn't be closer, neil. neil: man, oh, man. i think i can get the map of your show in a little over an hour from now. great job, as always, griff, thank you very much. griff generals kips. in the meantime, at least 78 people have been infected by coal lie, and now it's spread to 113 states. other -- 13 states. other fast food restaurants are, out of an abundance of caution, getting rid of the onions. we'll keep you posted after this.

♪ neil: all right, well, it's spreading or at least others are trying to make their best to make sure the e. coli outbreak that mcdonald's has experienced, 75 people sickened in some 13 dates -- states, but other restaurants minimizing any suspected onions that are used in some, not all, of their sandwiches. this extends to the likes of taco bell, also under the yum brands umbrella. again, whether this puts a scare in the companies or a scare in general on the part of the american people to avoid fast food, gary kaltbaum says sometimes that could happen. gary's a good market watcher but also a good people watcher. gary, what do you make of this thing and how mcdonald's, for one, is handling it? >> well, for mcdonald's, they came out and i will tell you that the ceo was out front and

center the fors minute this came out -- the first minute. i saw him on tv, so i think they've handled it pretty well. but, look, when there's a death and when there's two people that are critically in the hospital right now, this stays front and center for a while, and it's affecting things. mcdonald's $16 billion market cap cropped, and you're seeing -- dropped, and you're seeing other companies really trying to get careful about this and make sure it doesn't happen with them. neil: yeah. i think they've earned a lesson -- learned a lesson recently from b if oar's head, cold cut giant, that it was late responding to that problem. and we've learned from companies that do not get in front of it, that they never then get in front of it. so the other fast food giants that are taking preemptive measures of their own and they don't have any of these problem problems, what do you think of that? >> yeah, look, nobody's messing around at this point in time. this is bigtime.

when you are serving food, there are who the things. people enjoy it and the safety of it. and i hearken back to 2015-16, chipotle had an outbreak. they got past it -- the. neil: right. >> and then in 20217, today had a norovirus outbreak. their stock dropped over 50%, it took 4-55 years to get back to even. -- 4-5 years. so i think this is lesson learned and, helpfully, this goes away sooner rather than later. but i can tell you yesterday as soon as it was announced that more sates, more people, the stock got in trouble again, down $9. so i think it's still a moving target here. neil: real quickly on the markets, you know, not a great week for the dow and the s&p. very good week for nasdaq. i believe its seventh straight advancing week. hit a record intraday. what do you make of technology? is it back with a vengeance or how would you define it?

enter i don't know vengeance, but that's where always the great growth is. and i can tell you strong growth always works through the market over time. you show the companies that have grown 50-100% a year, and they will get through bad markets. bottom line with the dow this week, which was down aboutis 1100 points, had some bad earnings reactions, but the 10-year yield, 3.6 back up to 4.2 is a headwind. and if it keeps going higher, i suspect the market's going to have a little bit more trouble as we head into the end of of the year. neil: all right. we'll watch that closely. you're right, a little competition for stocks when you get government-protected notes and bonds at 4.25%. we'll watch it closely. also watching the candidates on the trump right now -- stump right now. we're on all of that after this. that god is made man in his image

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