i'm bill hemmer.resident, he's on stage right now, on cue, and expecting a highlight with the agenda. later it's on to battleground north carolina, two critical swing states in one day, both went right for him and 2016. election day is two months away, both campaigns are moving to a higher gea f

bill hemmer will have a presidential press conference. >> bill: thanks, dana.interesting tonight. so good afternoon. i'm bill hemmer. here we go. awaiting to hear from the president. he will be in the briefing room. he's defending his coronavirus response. the president said he didn't prevent panic on a national scale. also, this hour, senator kamala harris is in south florida. president trump is there on tuesday and joe biden will visit there next week. tonight the president heads to michigan to make a pitch to voters about a day after biden spoke. all of the areas getting

. >> dana: going at it over the suburbs, but it's bringing in bill hemmer, anchor of "bill hemmer reports want to hear from two voters and their reaction to the debate last night. >> some of it was pretty hard to follow and they were going off topic, and was like a lot of -- it was not very presidential. >> it is this service to the american people that you can't really get any substantive thoughts or ideas or policy proposals through all of that. it's going we just had hogan gidley of the trump campaign said that they would do nothing different. and i get what they are coming from from the campaign, but the reaction from the two women you are seeing that a lot. >> the fact that she uses the word substantial. i want to talk about style versus substance. what we saw was a flurry of style that allowed not a whole lot of people to focus on what was happening with the substance of the argument. when i was sitting there in cleveland last night i felt the same way. i was caught in this world when coming to pick up your iphone and you send text message, the slim effect. my head was bouncing off

i bill hemmer. interesting hour coming ahead.esident as new revelations sweep through the campaign. bob woodward's new book claiming the up knew the virus was deadly. the white house said the president never lied about the virus. here's part of the comment that everybody is reacting to today. >> it goes through air, bob. that's always tough. the touch, you don't have to tough things. but the air, y

. >> i'm bill hemmer. good afternoon on this friday 9/11 bear the honor of a lifetime for a u.s.as one amazing story. we will watch together. a big deal from the middle east, joins us live from the state department on that and sarah sanders and chris wallace and a most generous gift to our wounded veterans and a couple of minutes top of the hour, i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: amazon and some of its third-party sellers are facing accusations of raising the prices of essential items during the pandemic. watchdog group claiming products like hand sanitizer and masks were marked up as much as 1000%. susan li has the latest for us. >> amazon claims that price gouging goes against their rules and have already suspended millions of those guilty of the practice but according to research done by several groups, amazon itself is also guilty. amazon marked up 15 types of its own essential items by 72% to nearly 1000%, face mask, hand sanitizers, toilet paper and paper towels among the goods. includes flour, sugar, hand sanitizer, and disinfectant sprays hiking prices from 225% to nearly 1000%.

i am bill hemmer, we are 46 days from the election, the president will be out any moment now.y voting in the state of minnesota. a surprising swing state, at this hour we are waiting to hear from joe biden in hermann town minnesota, about as far east as he will get. and for a long time, new yorkers voted democrat but republicans are making serious influence. a bit rate or come up president trump holds rally, he flipped

know that it doesn't have any pull the real political outcome except for on the ground misery oh hemmer well with the well once cast as i would say it's and indeed distracted by what is now 19 the american government has continued its aggression on the international stage and continued to suppression on the basis it's a move we have seen in recent days is. washington impose new sanctions on a cuba venezuela and iran hands i believe peter that we really need to see these new sanctions true. russia. how are all of the international say yes on the one hand and the americans do want to take action against the aforementioned countries they will answer bring down the governments their classes and turn those countries to how they were trying to do the revolutions in those countries namely vassal states of america and i believe on the other hand the most important reason is that the americans are shreiking back against russia and doing so i guess free of russia's most important allies and friends in the world as russia has a strategic partnership with iran russia has a strategic arms ship with.

hey, bill hemmer. >> bill: just another day. nice to see you, dana., coming up in a moment, president trump will speak later today as sally crawls in lid after slamming the gulf coast pregood afternoon, and bill hemmer. sally made landfall early today as a category 2 hurricane. currently a tropical store, dumped more than 2 feet of rain in some areas. logit power for half a million homes and businesses, and it's not over. reporting today with jonathan hunt live in alabama. an update from the head of fema live in a moment, i will speak with florida governor ron desantis coming up live in tallahassee. first, however day , election day 40 days

i'm jon scott in for bill hemmer. vice president nominee kamala harris meeting with union letters in milwaukee, wisconsin right now. a democratic strong hold in a key battleground state. the ticket is doubling down on this labor day. joe biden meeting with union members in swing state, pennsylvania. he says he will sign a law to make it easier for workers to organize and be labor's stronger ally ever in the oval office. president trump says joe biden would be a disaster for our economy. >> job, the radical socialist democrat, would immediately collapse this economy. biden wants to surrender our country to the virus, surrender our families to the violent left wing mob and surrender or jobs to china. if biden wins, china wins. china will own this country. >> meantime, vice president mike pence making his own trip to wisconsin. the president won the badger state by fewer than 23,000 votes in 2016. it is key once again this year. peter doocy reporting live from milwaukee. peter? >> jon, you can see there's some curious bi

i am bill hemmer.ign trail as protests over the breonna taylor case break out across the country. the president goes to battleground north carolina. then he will speak tonight in jacksonville, florida. he is set to leave the white house. if he comments we will play them for you. the fallout over the grand jury's decision to not charge any of the three officers of killing breonna

i will bill hemmer live in cleveland, ohio.n in cleveland. he will face off with joe biden in the same room for the first time. the first of 3 presidential debates hours away. there is no shortage of drama. in these covid times there will be no handshake between the candidates. chris wallace will handle those duties. the crowd is capped at 100 people indoors. it's what is happeni

that's where we find our very own bill hemmer.me back to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm sandra smith and bill, great to have you for special coverage for couple of days. >> bill: i couldn't stay away, smitty. i couldn't do it. >> sandra: love it. >> bill: great to be back with you, sandra, today and tomorrow we'll be together in cleveland, ohio, i'm bill hemmer. in a moment we'll give you the lay of the land what we're learning on the campus of the cleveland clinic which is, as you know, one of the finest medical centers in the entire world and as a country we're really blessed to have these fine men and women working here at the clinic. in the meantime we have a major milestone. the race for the white house. we're exactly five weeks before the election. both candidates gearing up for battle on the debate stage which will be watched by millions. both sides hoping to shake things up in their favor. the first face-off tomorrow night 9:00 eastern. moderated by our own chris wallace. sandra. >> sandra: peter doocy is li

i am bill hemmer.resident trump going all in on the campaign trail as protests over the breonna taylor case break out across the country. the president goes to battleground north carolina. then he will speak tonight in jacksonville, florida. he is set to leave the white house. if he comments we will play them for you. the fallout over the grand jury's decision to not charge any of the three officers of killing breonna taylor. two offices shot last night in louisville. the police chief there is a suspect in custody. we will get analis with bret baier and reporting from matt flynn in louisville. first john roberts from the north lawn today. >> i can hear the helicopter. no reports yet that the president left the oval office but should soon. he will head to florida and stop in charlotte, north carolina. we will talk to healthcare and talk about how he would replace obamacare in his second term. here's how the press secretary laid it out. >> the president will layout his healthcare vision today. i don't wa

your treat of the week, bill hemmer. >> bill: nice to see you. see you at 5:00. ♪ here we go. update at this hour. hurricane sally is taking aim yet again of the gulf coast. it's a slow moving storm expected to make landfall overnight. taking aim at louisiana, mississippi. it could be done might bring life-threatening, flash flooding and updates on sally in a momen. in the meantime good afternoon, hope you had a great weekend. deadly fires in the west focusing as the election is

. >> i'm bill hemmer. will congress get a deal? mitch mcconnell will tell us.sivexclusively here today. mail in ballots happening now in battleground states and bill barr's strong language about black lives matter. we will see you in about 12 minutes, top of the hour here on "bill hemmer reports." ♪ >> dana: the second week of the nfl season starts tonight and who better to ask about it, let's bring in pro football hall of famer and fox nfl analyst how we long. great to see you, howie. now that we have the first games under our belt, what are you looking for now that we've got those out-of-the-way? >> you know, i have to say, i wasn't optimistic that we were going to get to this point. and i think the biggest question i heard traveling around the country in the off-season was, are we going to have football? and quite frankly i wasn't sure we would and i think the league has done a remarkable job, where we are right now with the kind of numbers we are talking about, the volume of players, coaches, equipment, trainers, et cetera, that's a lot of folks to keep hea

i'm bill hemmer live in cleveland. there is a ton of ground to cover. five weeks to the day before election day. you've got six topics on the agenda, the pandemic, supreme court, protest for racial justice taking place in parts of the country. the stakes could not be higher and both camps say they're ready to go in ohio. >> i'm looking forward to the debate. >> tell the truth. >> the president has done enough preparation. you can't have better preparation than taking the most hostile of questions from the white house press corps every day, multiple cases and oftentimes on the way to the plane, deplaning and press briefing room. >> he has been on that debate stage so many times. what joe always does, he will speak directly to the american people. understanding what their needs are. he will talk about facts and solutions. >> sandra: fox team coverage this morning. we'll have analysis from the "wall street journal" bill mcgurn and kevin corke is standing by. we begin with john roberts live in cleveland for us this morning. john, what is the president's lin

i bill hemmer. interesting hour coming ahead. waiting to hear from the president as new revelations sweep through the campaign. bob woodward's new book claiming the up knew the virus was deadly. the white house said the president never lied about the virus. here's part of the comment that everybody is reacting to today. >> it goes through air, bob. that's always tough. the touch, you don't have to tough things. but the air, you just breathe the air. that's how it's passed. so that's a very tricky one, a delicate one. it's also more deadly than your -- you know, even your strenuous flus. people don't realize, we lose 25, 30,000 people here. >> bill: the battle for swing states front and center. the campaigns focused on voters in michigan and pennsylvania. two states the president won narrowly in 2016. mike pence speaks north of pittsburgh p.a. and joe biden is in michigan sounding off on trump saying that he knowingly lied about the virus for months. we have team fox coverage with martha maccallum and jacqui heinrich in delaware,

i'm jon scott in for bill hemmer. a new jobs reports showing us where we stand in this covid-19 world. the unemployment rate dropping 8.4% in august. the lowest since shut downs began. also shows the u.s. has recovered half the jobs lost during the pandemic. hiring slowed down last month. ahead this hours, we'll speak with labor secretary eugene scalia and the biden campaign. >> so it's a fake story and it's a disgrace they're allowed to do it. nor considers the military especially people that have given their lives in the military. to me they're heros. they're heros. it's even hard to believe how they can do it. i say that. the level of bravery. and to me they're absolute heros. >> defiance from president trump. several officials strongly deny a new report that claims that he called america's service members suckers and losers. the atlantic cites for anonymous sources that say it happened during a trip to france in 2018. the magazine reports president trump made those comments when he cancelled a visit to a cemetery

bill hemmer, now i see you. idea but i'll still be watching. nice to see you in person. welcome back. you got it. >> bill: good monday, everybody, i hope your weekend was terrific and here we go with another story. wow! a potential momentum shifting hour in the next 60 minutes with a showdown looming over justice ruth bader ginsberg's seat on the u.s. supreme court. we're waiting to hear from several major players as both sides dig in for a fight. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was speaking of a vacancy for the first time from the u.s. senate and we'll hear from chuck schumer. we'll see if he takes questions from rorrs

i'm bill hemmer. we watched the president presiding over the signing of historic peace deals at the white house. the deal with n

"the five," the president is going to have his press conference, bill hemmer, you're going to have to play that press conference. >> bill: he runs a pretty tight schedule. we will have it when it begins. you have an awesome weekend. thank you, dana. see you on monday. >> dana: i will. ♪ >> bill: good afternoon, everyone. i am bill hemmer, we are 46 days from the election, the president will be out any moment now. people are already voting in the state of minnesota. a surprising swing state, at this hour we are waiting to hear from joe biden in hermann town minnesota, about as far east as he will get. and for a long time, new yorkers voted democrat but republicans are making serious influence. a bit rate or come up president trump holds rally, he flipped it into thousand 16, can he do it again? we also have analysis from fox news anchor chris wallace but we begin with john roberts. john, good afternoon. >> bill, let me first of all say, your lips to god's ears because we thought an hour ago president trump was going to come out here in the briefing room and we are still here but he onl

i'm bill hemmer. wait until you hear from the president, he's on stage right now, on cue, and expecting a highlight with the agenda. later it's on to battleground north carolina, two critical swing states in one day, both went right for him and 2016. election day is two months away, both campaigns are moving to a higher gear for the faux stomach post-labor day sprint to the finish. i will speak to steve quartiles, jacqui heinrich is in delaware with the latest, but first, white house correspondent john roberts who was on the north lawn. talking about jupiter, florida, now. >> florida is 29 electoral votes, a big battleground, one the president would like to have and a new poll shows it's even up and moving the president's direction. the trump ticket, leading the biden ticket by one point among registered voters when you asked likely voters who they prefer, it's event at 48-48. the president on his way today, saying he will do whatever it takes to be joe biden, even if it means his campaign, if it runs

i'm bill hemmer. we watched the president presiding over the signing of historic peace deals at the white house. the deal with normalize ties between the top middle east ally israel and two arab neighbors. bahrain and the united arab emirates. the last arab state to make peace with israel was jordan 26 years ago. >> we're here this afternoon to change the course of history. after decades of division and conflict, we mark the dawn of a new middle east. thanks to the great courage of the leaders of these three countries, we take a major stride toward a future in which people of all faiths and backgrounds live together in peace and prosperity. >> bill: so the agreements did not address the conflicts, but as the ink was drying, the israeli military sent out a warning. air raid sirens in southern israel. trey yingst is live. we'll hear from michael anton from the trump team. he was at the ceremony today. we begin with john roberts on the north lawn. >> i was with the president may of 2017 when he spoke wit

i'm john roberts and for bill hemmer. coming right up. >> neil: thank you very much. the dow jones industrial with just a whisper of all time record topping 29,000 for the first time since we had that careening that was known as the meltdown. february before march. the dow gains today put it within less than 1.5 percentage points of all-time highs. it would follow in that case, the nasdaq and the s&p 500, the nasdaq for the first time over 12,000. again, all of this on a day you think you would be nervous about political accusations and who's

i am dana perino, hey, bill hemmer, do you want one of these cookbooks? >> bill: well done, nice to see you both. good afternoon, everyone. i am bill hemmer back in new york, reaction a moment ago from president trump after the fiery showdown with joe biden in cleveland. the president said a moment ago that he thought it was a great evening. more on that in a moment as he heads out to minnesota. 44 days until election day, both candidates on the trail. joe biden kicking off the tour to the key swing states of ohio and pennsylvania. the president heading to battleground minnesota as i mentioned a moment ago. also the president raising concerns about the integrity of the election because of mail-in voting. joe biden asking americans to vote early in whatever way is best for them. also today happening now on major hearing on the hill, that is the former fbi director james comey testifying about the russian investigation. chief medical correspondent mike emanuel has details on that and also speaking with former assistant u.s. attorney andy mccarthy and indepe

bill hemmer will have a presidential press conference. >> bill: thanks, dana. it will be interesting tonight. so good afternoon. i'm bill hemmer. here we go. awaiting to hear from the president. he will be in the briefing room. he's defending his coronavirus response. the president said he didn't prevent panic on a national scale. also, this hour, senator kamala harris is in south florida. president trump is there on tuesday and joe biden will visit there next week. tonight the president heads to michigan to make a pitch to voters about a day after biden spoke. all of the areas getting attention. brett bear reporting from jacqui heinrich in delaware with the biden camp. first, john roberts from the north lawn. john, what are you hearing about what we're going to hear about? the briefing room? >> good afternoon. we expect the president will field a lot of questions on the woodward book. this was sold as the normal coronavirus briefing. but the woodward book is probably going to take up the bulk of the question and answer session. the president insisting that he

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. >> harris: did bill hemmer just call the debate at telethon? he is so funny. the stage is being set, in fact, in cleveland, for the first presidential debate tomorrow night. president trump and joe biden's at the square off for the first time face-to-face in person, and we are learning more about the differing strategies to cope candidates are employing ahead of the big night. president trump says his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, and former new jersey governor, chris christie, are assisting him. he said he doesn't need the kind of debate prep that joe biden does. >> we had a little debate prep before we came here. i think this whole thing, though, is debate prep. what i do is debate prep every day. i'm taking questions, i have taken a lot of questions from you over there, the last number of years. he doesn't. >> harris: meanwhile, joe biden took a more aggressive approach by holding mock debate sessions, and ripping into the president over the weekend. >> he doesn't know how to debate the facts. he's not that smart. he doesn't know that many facts. he doe

hey, bill hemmer. >> bill: just another day. nice to see you, dana. fox news alert, coming up in a moment, president trump will speak later today as sally crawls in lid after slamming the gulf coast pregood afternoon, and bill hemmer. sally made landfall early today as a category 2 hurricane. currently a tropical store, dumped more than 2 feet of rain in some areas. logit power for half a million homes and businesses, and it's not over. reporting today with jonathan hunt live in alabama. an update from the head of fema live in a moment, i will speak with florida governor ron desantis coming up live in tallahassee. first, however day , election day 40 days away. joe biden expected to lay out his plan to get americans at coronavirus vaccine. he said the trump team failed to do their job is the number of deaths approached 200,000 here at home. trump campaign says biden wants to keep america shut down in the gridiron on lockdown, as we get some big news from the middle west battleground state's big ten football coming back to the field. the trump issue ma

in cleveland, ohio, i am bill hemmer. thanks for being with us tonight. thanks for watching.ood night from cleveland. >>> to take the time to welcome all of our viewers joining us on track to following the first presidential debate that wrapped up. president trump of course and former vice president joe biden. they face are for the first time tonight in cleveland ohio -- cleveland, ohio. as malik perkins parts were flying from the onset. among the topics on the table tonight, the pandemic of course. the economy as well. >> let's bring in greg lee. greg, a lot to unpack here tonight. this thing started rockets and ended that way as well. >> it never really stopped. the way this debate ended i think these two men could have continued to. it began talking about election results and joe biden trying to fax check him on the flight. we have talked about people a lot and how many voters have already decided which way they're going to vote. about 86% say they have already made up their mind. if you are in an independent voter, the 4% watching this hoping to get some idea of which way

that it doesn't have any people that were real political outcome except for on the ground misery oh hemmer whoa with the well once castrated and indeed distracted by what is no 19 the american government has continued its aggression on the international stage and continued this aggression on the base it's a move we have seen in recent days is a washington impose new sanctions on a cuba venezuela and iran hands i believe peter that we really need to see these new sanctions true. russia. how are all of the international say yes on the one hand the americans do want to take action against the aforementioned countries they would like to bring down the government so that they would last and turn those countries to how they were trying to do the revolutions in those countries namely fassel states of america and i believe on the other hand the most important reason is that the americans are shreiking back against russia doing so i construe of russia's most important allies and friends in the world as russia has a strategic partnership with.

the obama administration for doing exactly that it's walking away from it that i'm critical of go hemmer this is a credit to the russian federation in the seasonal so it is serious and disagree so united nations security council measures be an employer stalling iran and say this is there. but also russian diplomats who privately were not happy with that but in tracy transceiver russia is very different russia to retreat is not pursuing a strategic partnership or on russia has a strategic partnership with iran over lathrop an iranian foreign minister has said and also remember that he's now prepared to supply a state of the art. systems to iran previously would not do because of his radio attraction as the russians are now criticizing israel your taxes and they have prioritized their relationship we have iran over israel and i think just listening to sanctions sanctions are one of the most potent weapons in america's phone policy also and what i hear with dmitri says about kerry for people who are suffering from what is known as kerry tonight saying that it's a shame in the american polic

i'm bill hemmer.h the battle in the supreme court the highest court in the land, senate republicans and democrats launching

i'm jon scott in for bill hemmer. both campaigns hitting battleground states today.joe biden. he's meeting with community members in kenosha as i mentioned. he's about to take the microphone that city shaken by protests and violence after the blake shooting. former vice president biden met

. ♪ >> john: good afternoon, i am john roberts in for bill hemmer this friday. trump in atlanta, he is set to speak about black economic empowerment in the next few minutes, a busy day for the president. earlier he spoke at a roundtable in florida, also has events in virginia and washington, d.c., today. meanwhile, jill and joe biden paid their respects to the late justice ruth bader ginsburg on capitol hill this morning. president trump says he will announce his pick to fulfill a

bill hemmer, we are on your home to her pier, talking about joe montana. >> bill: yes you are you arethat from your childhood. >> bill: i was all you a quick story, takes about seven seconds very joe montana, you are responsible for the two of the worst days of my childhood. he said "i hear from a lot of people." nice to see you, hang on. >> bill: welcome to the broadcast here live in cleveland, president trump and joe biden taking the stage tomorrow night with the first of three presidential debates but this one might mean the most. chris wallace will moderate i'm of the big debate set to start at 9:00 eastern time. president trump speaks from the rose garden about coronavirus testing. we will see if he takes questions, other major stories we are watching including "the new york times" battle over

i'm bill hemmer. let's start with the battle in the supreme court the highest court in the land, senate republicans and democrats launching attacks at one another with historic effects. as we've learned before it's about the math. herd what we know now. president trump says he announce his pick on saturday. it appears republicans have moved forward to try to fill the ginsburg seat. moments ago senator mcconnell saying he will bring the nominee before the judiciary committee and likely fight to the finish. i'll speak with republican senator langford out of virginia, first congressional correspondent chad. >> we know they have the votes to try to advance a supreme court nomination this calendar year a presidential election year and the main reason here is that mitt romney the republican senator from utah today signalled he was okay forging ahead. >> i think it's okay to tornado to the qualifications you looshg for someone an expert in the law someone that has fairness in judgment continue stint with the

i'm john roberts and for bill hemmer. "your world" with neil cavuto is coming right up. >> neil: thank you very much. the dow jones industrial with just a whisper of all time record topping 29,000 for the first time since we had that careening that was known as the meltdown. february before march. the dow gains today put it within less than 1.5 percentage points of all-time highs. it would follow in that case, the nasdaq and the s&p 500, the nasdaq for the first time over 12,000. again, all of this on a day you think you would be nervous about political accusations and who's going to do what about violence that is increasingly happening across our country and the buyer's concerns and cases spiking or not. what the heck is going on with china with three inventions in hong kong suffering the same problem? we will get to the markets and what drove them in a second. in the meantime, the story of two wilmington's. wilmington, delaware, and wilmington, north carolina. we go to peter doocy first following the former vice preside

your treat of the week, bill hemmer. >> bill: nice to see you. see you at 5:00. ♪ here we go.etting an update at this hour. hurricane sally is taking aim yet again of the gulf coast. it's a slow moving storm expected to make landfall overnight. taking aim at louisiana, mississippi. it could be done might bring life-threatening, flash flooding and updates on sally in a momen. in the meantime good afternoon, hope you had a great weekend. deadly fires in the west focusing as the election is now 50 days away. awaiting president trump eating with emergency responders and sacramento, california, where the fires in northern california, tens of thousands out of their homes, it's killed two dozen statewide. the president made it to mike visiting one of the worst buyers on record and he still has months to go. >> we came back here for the first time. it's the worst thing i've ever seen in my life. i've seen videos, but it's a thousand times worse than i could've ever imagined. >> bill: heartbreak in oregon, at least ten dead. entire neighborhoods and towns have been torched. fires burni

i am bill hemmer and welcome to our special presentation tonight.n a few minutes, president trump and joe biden will face offer the same room for the very first time. tonight is the first of three presidential debates. some may argue this one could mean the most. in these covid times, there will not be a handshake between the candidates or the moderator, my colleague fox news sunday anchor chris wallace. the crowd is capped at 100 people.

i will bill hemmer live in cleveland, ohio.e're are waiting for president trump ready to touch down in cleveland. he will face off with joe biden in the same room for the first time. the first of 3 presidential debates hours away. there is no shortage of drama. in these covid times there will be no handshake between the candidates. chris wallace will handle those duties. the crowd is capped at 100 people indoors. it's what is happening behind-the-scenes that has everyone talking. both campaigns will join me live in cleveland. ted cruz ready to tee off to the supreme court battle. first trump campaign advisor steve courtez. good afternoon to you. thanks for your time? >> good afternoon. >> bill: what do you consider victory? >> victory will be a chance for the american people to see who joe biden is. he has been hidden away? they can't hide. for 90 minutes in front of a massive audience, he has a record of economic failure. we contrast that to president trump. somebody who can boast of being an incredible job creator and an entr

i'm jon scott in for bill hemmer.kamala harris meeting with union letters in milwaukee, wisconsin right now. a democratic strong hold in a key battleground state. the ticket is doubling down on this labor day. joe biden meeting with union members in swing state, pennsylvania. he says he will sign a law to make it easier for workers to organize and be labor's stronger ally ever in the oval office. president trump says joe biden would be a disaster for our economy. >> job, the radical sociali

. >> i'm john roberts in for bill hemmer. we're watching the 2020 race unfolding in real time. north carolina. the president's trip comes a day after he visited kenosha, wisconsin. joe biden claims to go tomorrow. early her he talked about reopening schools. we have coverage from all the angles this afternoon and in a moment i'll speak