kaylee: futures are pushing higher in the u.s. as well. s&p 500 futures out by 25 points, outperformance no surprise from technology with futures up 1%. is it a weaker euro or a stronger dollar? the dollar is higher against everything in the g10 space. .3%.off session highs another risk asset benefiting from the risk off tone. $44 a barrel. francine: if it is euro strength or dollar weakness. let sorted out with the former ecb president. he always makes our shows better. we are delighted he joins us. there's a lot of talk if the euro is too high. i don't know at what point it becomes problematic, but there were warning shots from the ecb chief economist saying this could mess up monetary policy. does it? important to is consider the euro went up vis-a-vis many other currencies around 12% in a certain period of time. the euro does not need that taking into account the difficulty of the current situation. in the u.s. we had a growth and catching up process in the time of pandemic, which takes time, and we are not in the best situation possib

kaylee hartung from the region again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the california wildfire sparked by a gender-reveal celebration, taking the life of a first responder. the u.s. forest service confirming a firefighter was killed overnight while battling the el dorado fire near san bernardino. new video shows the fire flaring up, crews fighting flames on both sides of highway 38 in rugged mountains. this afternoon, a solemn procession carrying the firefighter's body through the charred landscape. officers later saluting the flag-draped gurney. wildfires now claiming the lives of at least 36 people out west this year. the wind-fueled bobcat fire just north of los angeles another big concern tonight, forcing new evacuations in juniper hills. an orange haze there blotting out the sun. >> the winds just driving flames towards homes here. >> the fire is right behind the house, up on the little hill up there, and i just said, screw this. >> reporter: that fire inching dangerously close to the famed mt. wilson observatory. the smoke even closing yosemite national park, marring its natural bea

>> kaylee hartung reporting in tonight. kaylee, thank you. >>> and yet another major breaking story today. this one in the deadly police shooting of breonna taylor. six months after she was shot and killed by police, serving a no-knock warrant. taylor's family has now reached a $12 million wrongful death settlement with the city of louisville. it also comes with a list of police reforms. and what's next now in the criminal case? abc's alex perez from louisville tonight. >> reporter: tonight, one of the largest settlements involving police excessive force in u.s. history. louisville agreeing to pay $12 million in the wrongful death lawsuit brought by breonna taylor's family. >> i'm deeply, deeply sorry for breonna's death. >> reporter: today's announcement comes six months after plainclothes officers barged into the 26-year-old emt's apartment at night on a no-knock search warrant. her boyfriend kenneth walker, who told investigators he never heard police announce themselves, saying he fired a warning shot with his legally o

kaylee, thank you. >>> we're also following a developing headline involving u.s. troops in syria. news from the pentagon, word that the u.s. is hardening forces in sear i can't recollyn. troops and bradley vehicles in the wake of confrontations the russian forces. >> reporter: the pentagon is sending a 100 additional forces, six bradley fighting vehicles arrived in syria today. they'll also increase the frequency of u.s. fighter jet patrols over midwestern forces. this move comes after increased tensions after russian forces rammed a u.s. armored vehicle last month. seven soldiers injured in that collision. the move is intended as a show of force to russia that the 500 u.s. troops in russia will not be intimidated. those troops deployed to protect kurdish oil fields. >> rachel scott. thank you. >>> we turn at home to new fallout involving jerry falwell jr. his wife's cal to 911, telling the dispatcher her husband fell down the stairs and was bleeding from his head. here's adrienne bankert. >> reporter: tonight, the newly released 911 call from the wife of embattled former liberty

and here's abc's kaylee hartung from portland. >> hey, time to move the hose line up! >> reporter: dramatic new helmet camera video shows firefighters battling a massive wall of flames in california. the creek fire incinerating homes on both sides of the street near the sierra national forest, about 200 miles east of san francisco. crews racing through the firestorm to escape. tonight, 17,000 firefighters battling 25 major fires in california. >> we still have 38,000 plus people that have been evacuated and again over 3.4 million acres have burned to date. >> reporter: in oregon, officials calling in a mobile morgue for the first time ever, at least eight people killed in the devastating wildfires. 50 more still missing. this couple from salem searching for the firefighter who rescued them from their camper as they slept. >> you deserve our heartfelt thank you. and we need to meet you. you saved our lives, literally. >> reporter: the fire destruction is unprecedented. more than 2,400 homes and businesses destroyed. david, we are in the most polluted air in the entire w

parts of the town of oroville still under threat and that is where kaylee hartung is this morning. >> reporter: it is a difficult firefight in this area. two wildfires converged here and those flames exploded when they met in the middle of the night. authorities really struggled to notify people who were asleep in their beds at the time, and you can see that this home is one of thousands daughter in tcaught i destrublgts difference pade strublg structure difference path. and the fire burned so hot at times, it melted glass.destruct. and the fire burned so hot at times, it melted glass. the homeowners did everyting that they could to try to save this place. and it seems like they were able to get animal to the safety, but this family last everything else. like so many others. and again, this fire exploding in the middle of the night leaving little warning. we know that at least three fatalities in this area just a couple miles from here, others trapped more than 100 rescued and so many more injured. kaylee hartung, abc news, oroville. >>> and air crews are helping to battle thes creek

kaylee hartung joins us with the latest from malibu.porter: good morning, amy. as a mother we should never underestimate the strength of a parent or grandparent when a child is in danger. right here in his home, joe montana and his wife were faced with a nightmare scenario, and they jumped into action. football legend joe montana making the greatest play of his life, he and his wife saving their 9-month-old grandchildren from an attempted kidnapping. they were in their malibu home on saturday evening when the nightmare unfolded. according to the los angeles county sheriff's department, the child was asleep in a playpen in the family's living room when a 39-year-old woman entered the home and snatched the baby. authorities say the couple confronted the woman, tried to de-escalate the situation, and asked for the suspect to give back their grandchild. a tussle ensued and mrs. montana was able to safely pry the child out of the suspect's arms. the suspect, sodsai dalzell, fled the home. the woman was taken into custody soon after charged w

>> okay, kaylee.t can you tell us about the number of people going to the hospital because of the air quality? >> reporter: well, here in oregon, michael, they say one in ten people who are going to the emergency room are doing so for conditions related to this air quality, and when you're in the middle of a pandemic, that's a challenge because a lot of those symptoms are similar to covid-19. >> scary all the way around. thank you so much, kaylee. robin? >>> yeah, and, michael, she mentioned the pandemic. we're going to turn now to the latest on the coronavirus emergency that we are experiencing. the w.h.o. reporting a record one-day rise in the number of new infections, nearly 308,000 worldwide. now a top trump appointee at health and human services is claiming a resistance unit at the cdc is trying to undermine the president when it comes to covid-19. steve osunsami is at the cdc for us there in atlanta. good morning, steve. >> reporter: good morning to you, robin. this has to be described as a face

lots to get to tonight, so we begin with kaylee mcinerney. thanks very much, good to have you here tonight. >> thank you, martha. >> martha: so i know that the president and you have basically said you know, the president gets preparation every single day, he takes a lot of questions, a lot of those questions are pretty aggressive. but the debate environment is a little bit different. you're up there with your opponent in this presidential race and a moderator who is, you know, analyzing things you set in the past, sort of holding your feet to the fire on that. is there any concern that he hasn't done enough prep? >> the president has done enough preparation. as he noted yesterday, he was with governor, chris christie, mayor rudy giuliani, so he has had some sessions to prep but really, and we lean very hard on this, you can't have better preparation than taking the most hostile of questions from the white house press corps each and every day, multiple cases and often times on the way to the plane, the press briefing room, but he has done som

>> kaylee, thank you. michael?> thank you, whit. >>> turning now to an incredible moment at last night's thursday night football game. a man who makes his living talking, speechless. announcer joe buck's surprise on air learning he'll be inducted into the hall of fame. his longtime friend paul rudd narrated a video about him ahead of the announcement and his partner in the booth, troy aikman, was the first to congratulate buck who joins his father, jack buck, as the first father/son duo to win the rozelle award. i am great friends with joe and so happy for him. he's so talented and you deserve it all, joe buck. congratulations. >> you have one of those coats as well. >> yes, i do. >> all right. >>> we have a lot of other things we're following this morning in the headlines, including "cheer" star, jerry harris, now under arrest. the charge he's facing. first to ginger. >> reporter: i want to get you straight to the weekend forecast sponsored by walgreens. >>> we'll be right back. stay with us. knowing who we a. >>>

kaylee hartung has more on that. marriage was perfect on their reality show, but this divorce came as a surprise to many fans earlier this year. now kristin is explaining why the choice to split is the hardest decision she's ever made. >> this season on "very cavallari" -- >> reporter: this morning reality tv star kristin cavallari breaking her silence from april split of former nfl quarterback jay cutler to peopletv.com. >> it was the hardest decision i've ever made. when you work at something for so many years and nothing's changing, i think you have to just make a decision, and, you know, life is short. i want to be happy. >> relax. >> reporter: their nearly seven-year marriage profiled across three seasons of the e! show "very cavallari." talking about it for the first time, the couple who shares three young kids had been struggling for years. saying, quote, i always thought it was interesting when people would refer to us as couple goals. i was, like, if you guys only knew. >> we might want to work on that pre-n

abc's kaylee hartung is there. >> these trees are acting as dry fuel, and as you feel this wind kick up, you understand why authorities say the creek fire is uncontrollable until the weather improves. >> reporter: a massive rescue effort still under way late tuesday for more than a dozen people trapped by flames. one woman desperately waiting for her husband and two sons. >> so i'm just anxious for them to come home and for me to see them step off, then i can breathe. le denof anima e california >> just incredible there. megan, thank you. >>> a major development in the race to develop a covid-19 vaccine. one of the leading vaccine trials is now on hold because of an unexplained illness raising safety concerns. meanwhile, with coronavirus outbreaks in other parts of the wbe-state to require visirs travelers to fill out registration forms. abc's faith abubey joins us with the latest on this pandemic beginning with that vaccine news. faith, good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning, kenneth. there's a lot of pressure right now in these companies to produce a vaccine. but a temporary

good morning, kaylee. >> reporter: and good morning, michael.has been an extremely difficult firefight here. we're just off of lake oroville. this is where those two wildfires collided and exploded overnight. authorities here struggled to notify people who were asleep in their homes. this home, one of thousands that was in that path of destruction. you see that flame still burning and you can still feel the heat coming from these embers alive beneath this wreckage. this fire at times was burning so hot it even melted glass. that means temperatures were around 3,000 degrees and it appears that these homeowners did everything they could to try to save this place. there's a garden hose right here and an empty stable ahead of me. it seems that they got their animals to safety but they couldn't save anything else. michael? >> all right, thank you so much, kaylee. >>> now we go to ginger with a look at whether any relief is in sight. good morning, ginger. >> good morning, michael. the winds are a little lower. remember, i just got back so i wanted to

if you have anything for kaylee. last wednesday you were speaking to the attorney general.ou said he hoped federal judges were watching what's going on. do you hope she's watching as well? >> i think everyone is. we made it a very big issue. it's an issue that the democrats tried to get away with. so many reports of phony ballots. i don't know if it would've been reported before. all of these rallies, thousands of people last night. we were in pennsylvania the night before. we were in virginia. 30,000, those crowds are massive. that's on very short notice. we have eyes and ears now that we wouldn't have. i'm sure she's watching. i'm sure everyone is looking at it. it's just common sense. >> did you discuss the election with her? >> i didn't. i didn't think it would be appropriate. i've watched his presidents would interview and talk and make a decision. i was surprised. they wouldn't talk about various things that are very important. i don't know that it's inappropriate. i've gone by that custom. arguing thatare this puts in danger not only roe v. wade but other decisions.

our kaylee hartung is in butte county. >> the fires scorching a record three million acres this year alone, more than 26 times what burned at this time last year, and these firefighters are stretched thin, some working nonstop for nearly a month. >> reporter: with four months still to go until the end of wildfire season, this year has already produced historic destruction. in washington, fire claiming the life of a 1-year-old boy and badly burning his parents. 600,000 acres burned the past three days alone. the town of malden nearly burned to the ground. the governor pointing to climate change. >> we talk about this as a wildfire. i think we have to start thinking they're more climate fires. they're climate fires, because that's what creates the conditions that makes them so explosive. >> just a devastating scene again tonight. matt gutman in phoenix, oregon. and we can see the pictures there behind you. i know that just in the last couple of hours they've announced at least two deaths in the community where you are tonight, and i know they're bracing for the possibility that that to

kaylee, good morning. >> reporter: it is. good morning, whit.created in the comment section of each post but when those conversations turn ugly, it's a new form of bullying online. tiktok's known for singing and dancing. ♪ but this morning a controversy is trending on the popular app. lgbtq users say they're experiencing a wave of bullying against them after chris singled them out in a duet. >> i was getting tons of dms of people, like, calling me slurs saying that they wanted to kill me. >> reporter: the duet feature allows one user to react to another user's content. seth and madeline both say they experienced hatred online when chris started sharing his reactions to their posts with his more than 2.5 million followers. ♪ in the videos chris doesn't speak. the harassment happening in the comment section by his fans. >> his comments have been filled with death threats, negative message, hateful comments. even if he doesn't say anything, he's still allowing for his huge platform to breed transphobia and homophobia and hate on tiktok. >> reporter

try and disparage the atlantic magazine and the white house as recently as just a few moments ago kaylee machinating the press secretary the latest to say the veterans are coming to the aid of the president to defend him but at the same time one person who is not defending him just the opposite is joe biden his rival running to be the president of the united states in november the democratic presidential nominee he gave a press conference with reporters in which he condemned the president's comments and called on the president to apologize. the country clearly if it is written is true is discussed. most of the believed to be true. donald trump is not true to the press be the commander in chief let me be clear. my son was assistant u.s. attorney and he volunteered to go to kosovo when the war was going on as a civilian he wanted to sucker when my son volunteered enjoy the united states military as the attorney general who went to iraq for year one the bronze star and other commendations he wasn't a sucker servicemen and women he served with particularly those did not come home we're not l

our kaylee hartung is there. >> two fires converged here. years of drought and high winds exploded this fire into one of the largest in california's history. >> reporter: one man unable to escape, sheltering inside a sheet metal shop. >> i thought i was going to die. at least from -- if not from the fire, the smoke inhalation. >> reporter: and tonight, we are learning there are multiple burn victims. >> this is just an awful scene unfolding. let's get to matt gutman. he's live in phoenix, oregon, tonight. and matt, i know you were telling us that these devastating fires are spreading so fast that authorities have been unable to get a handle on just how many people are missing? >> reporter: we've been asking authorities for 12 hours already how many peoplare missing and they say they simply don't know at this point. and the reason i'm actually riding on the back of a truck is because the devastation here is so widespread, the only way you can get a sense of the scope is to drive through it. david, 180 homes in this community. this goes on for

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kaylee: nvidia is down for a second day in a row, another 6% today, putting it on pace for its worstlo since the depths of the bear market in march. we have to keep in mind where nvidia started this decline from. as of wednesday at a record high. through wednesday, it was up 143% this year. we have come off from that point, but the stock has still more than doubled year to date on a fundamental basis and trades at a p/e multiple at 80 times. as for the decline, it may be the launch of their new gaming chip. the last time they went through one of these product cycles at the end of 2019, it didn't go well. they had revenue declines for the two quarters afterward. there may be some concern around that. then you have the china issue. reports that china is starting a five-year program to build up its own mystic semiconductor development and production which poses a risk to nvidia, which gets a quarter of its revenue from that market. then you have the broader tech selloff. profits being taken as we see this froth come off the market. at the tech sector surge, the biggest in a decade. what

. >> thanks kaylee, good afternoon. i'm keith kellogg, olivia troy worked for me.a firefighter at the reason i fired her was her performance and started to drop after six months working on the task force as a backbencher. she was responsible for coordinatingmeetings , bringing people together and with when the performance level dropped off i went to the vice president and recommended she leave. i'm the one that escorted her off the compound. what she has said i never heard. that's never happened and i've been to every meeting of the task force, then with the president and vice president through every meeting. what bothers me about what olivia said is by insinuation , the disparagement of the task force, the vice president and president of the unitedstates . when you look at what the task force has done we are now facing the worst pandemic we have seen in over 100 years and we're fighting through it. we are this close to a vaccine that will work. we are finally fighting through it and we're developing some opportunities to make sure the american people are protected

. >> some of the people starting with dwyane wade and gabrielle union, kaylee hartung sat down with themng your kids as they are. it's weird to get credit for that. >> reporter: gabrielle union and dwyane wade are on the time 100 list for good reason, like speaking out against injustice at the espys. >> the racial profiling has to stop. >> reporter: they shared this intimate moment on social media. >> being true to yourself. what's the point of being on this earth if you try to be someone you're not? >> reporter: revealing wade's 13-year-old coming out as transgender. >> she helped us see life differently. she's allowed me to be informed so i can help others. >> what surprised you most as you shared zaya's story? >> the level of hate. that's really the only way to put it to be completely honest. the level of hate based off of like everything but the facts. >> it's a lot ofeoe in cha a t that will not accept someone of transgender community, you know. look at them as different and not worthy of, not worthy of life. >> it seems impossible to separate the work you're doing with the lgbtq pl

let's get to kaylee lines. >> it will not be in out right sale.nlike microsoft, which oracle has edged out, it is not trying to by the u.s. operations are right. this would look more like a partnership, restructuring for the top u.s. operations of tiktok, with oracle hosting the to, but tiktok being able maintain control of its all-important algorithm. the issue here is that this is a long way to go. this would require approval by both the trump administration those ai,g given algorithmic questions beijing wants to protect. the treasury secretary was speaking on cnbc earlier. he said it will go through a national security review this week and he will make a recommendation to the president, who has until sunday to decide whether or not to sign off on this deal. china a part of that equation as well. the fact that there is more of a restructuring may make it more attractive to beijing, given that control over the ai, but maybe less so for the trump administration, which has been pushing, really, for a sale. even if this does go through, the question

joining us now, kaylee mcgee for the washington examiner who just wrote about the american garland will the presidential election we shouldn't have a supreme court nomination fight. that is what mitch mcconnell said in 2016. things might look different today as mitch mcconnell said overnight the president's nominee will get a vote. there is a lot of linguistic gymnastics going on to explain how things are different in 2020 than 2016 because there is a republican in the white house. >> important to remember when mcconnell created this merrick garland will which he cited from comments joe biden made during the clarence thomas confirmation hearing he made it clear the only reason he was denying merrick garland the opportunity to have a confirmation hearing was the federal government was divided. you had a democratic president and the republican-controlled senate therefore the american will was not clear because the government was divided. in 2020 that is no longer the case, you have a republican president and a republican senate and no reason to believe the voters who helped the senate exp

more, kaylee, about the u.k.. >> more insight on the debate over boris johnson's plan to rewrite the brexit debord -- divorce deal. as the market appropriately pricing -- and/or does it need to reprice in the near future the risk of a no deal brexit? bhanu: i think the risk of a no deal brexit is high and that markets will price it as we get closer to october. i don't think anything much will happen not now because i believe the market is directly seeing this as a tackett -- tactic for boris johnson. is moveis trying to do away from negotiating with brexit negotiators and go straight to angela merkel and to dealn to get a last-minute as happened with ireland. if that is the case the market is a right to wait and hold on to its forces. the economic situation in the u.k. indicates the pound should not end -- the market pricing in a no deal brexit now would be premature very closer to october is when the market will get more worried about that. guy: if it does, what will be the policy reaction? the bank of england on thursday saying if they need to -- how will policymakers respond? yet

good morning, kaylee. >> reporter: yeah, michael, good morning. not guilty plea but her attorney says she's not trying to shy away from what she's done here. we still don't have any clue as to why she tried to steal that baby but the defense says they'll focus on trying to get her the help she needs. the woman accused of attempting to kidnap joe montana's granddaughter now formally charged in a los angeles court. the judge setting bail at $200,000 calling 39-year-old sodsai dalzell a clear danger to the public. >> this was an extremely violent attempt to kidnap a child. that's what's alleged here. >> reporter: dalzell pleading not guilty and her defense attorney said it's help, not jail time, that dalzell needs. >> we will do our best to make sure she gets the help she needs because clearly this seems to be some type of incident that was probably onset by some type of depression or maybe drugs, and miss dalzell is extremely apologetic, very concerned for the well-being of the family. >> reporter: dalzell's arrest over the weekend captured on this

. >> neil: i don't know, kaylee. a lot of what i'm saying out of the vice president might be catch up. he might be expressing strong views on stopping the violence. not a peep. out of really any of the prominent democrats from the democratic convention peered maybe they realize that was a mistake and -- are they behind, or do they risk being behind on this issue? >> secretary mcenany: i mean, we are coming up on 100 days of violence in portland. this is way too little, way too late at this point. of the same goes for the coronavirus. biden has been hitting trump about the fact that he hasn't taken this seriously. but the fact of the matter as peter put it to today during the event, biden was holding campain rally six days before the trump administration implemented the national lockdown. if we're playing by biden's rules, he is just as guilty as trump as not holding the covid seriously. >> neil: i get that. he rarely talks about the number of people who have been hit hard by this virus. and the fact that we are in ze

kaylee: another date of outperformance for tech. today, the gains are following through with a little bit better data from china, adding to risk appetite here. that outperformance is coming from tech. nasdaq up 1.5%. and that is relative to the 1% gain in the s&p 500. something i have been paying attention to is volatility, specifically that vx and. that is down for the seventh day in a row. many see that the worst of the text selling is over. dollar is roughly flat, but stronger against the euro today. all of this is a backdrop to the fed kicking off its meeting today. for more on what investors are watching, sarah hunt is here from alpine woods capital. what could the fed due tomorrow that would most upset the markets? give: i think they did not a lot of detail about how they were going to make sure when it was time for them to change their inflation standpoint, when was too much over. if they narrow the window and say we are looking for a tiny bit of - on the inflation side. i think they are expecting inflation to run hotter if t

kaylee, tictoc, we're waiting for news -- the stock is suspended. >> merger mania. nearly $70 billion. tictoc, a lot in the deal space. you are seeing that show up in .he tech and nasdaq strength coming through for the s&p 500. positive start to a week after the first back-to-back week of losses since all the way back in march. you have a weaker dollar, down 0.4%. -- .0 4%. the recovery looking a little more shaky. i do want to get back to the dealnews, kicking it off with one of the slew of deals, oracle and tiktok. the u.s. government will undertake a security review of the potential partnership. treasury secretary steven mnuchin said that earlier today and added the deal tiktok would create tiktok global and finalists. joining us now, shelly banjo. outre waiting for more news of oracle. it still needs approval from the u.s. and beijing. what are the odds this thing actually gets through? shelley: we are far from done. i would say we are just beginning to figure out what will happen. now the ball is in the trump administration's court. has a set ofktok microsoft,

kaylee hartung has the latest. >> time to move the hose line up! >> reporter: this dramatic video recorded on a firefighter's helmet capturing how fast the creek fire overwhelmed crews in california earlier this month. enormous flames engulfing homes and cars melting in the street as whipping winds and thick clouds of smoke plague overnight those walls of fire still moving. a ring doorbell camera capturing when it rages through the forest and closes in on this home. in oregon, toxic air blankets the state. you can see the destruction this wildfire left behind me. look around me. the smoke hanging so thick, this is the most polluted air in the world. the state already says one in ten visits to the emergency room are related to this air quality. did those numbers line up with what you're seeing here? >> absolutely. we've seen an increase in respiratory illness, particularly in people predisposed to it. >> reporter: so the air quality index, it works sort of like a thermometer and runs from zero to 500 degrees. anything above 300 is considered hazardo

for ten months, kaylee's dad could not meet his granddaughter, riley, for the first time.ith a visit, in which he was able to hold riley finally for the first time. in the middle of the basketball playoff series, the toronto raptors guard was reunited with his two kids in orlando, florida. the three shared a hug together for the first time since june. i love you, daddy. i hear that. thank you for inviting us in your homes tonight. that's it for tonight's "special report." fair, balanced, unafraid. "the story" with martha maccallum starts now. >> martha: thanks, bret. good to see you tonight. 's stomach ♪ >> martha: here we go, everybody. brand-new polls for you. in battleground states, they look like that pure president trump down by 3 in these three states -- i should say, down by 9 in arizona, 8 and wisconsin, 4 in north carolina in this current snapshot coming out of the two conventions. dueling figures today pure biden in delaware again today talking about reopening the schools. taking questions from reporters. first time we have seen that in over a month from joe bide

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kaylee mack enenny and his supporters created various scenarios why there wouldn't be a peaceful transitionhat is the real election. this election is rigged, it's because donald trump is trying to rig it through the supreme court by trying to block people from voting, by trying to disqualify legal mail-in ballots because he can't win a fair contest. but the bigger point here and the most important point is donald trump's failure to call for a full and complete peaceful transition of power betrays the principles of our country and republicans have an obligation to call him out on it and rise above partisanship and put constitution and democracy first. >> you mentioned the supreme court, robert. alice, we have word that amy coney barrett was actually the only candidate that was even formally interviewed by the president. do you see any reason that might be problematic? >> no, christi. that makes sense given she has been vetted before and she has been on his short list for supreme court nominees for many years. and she is someone that not just this president but a lot of his base has support a

it's a pointjohn that you put to the press secretary kaylee mack and eric take a listen.try in the world you have for percent of the world you have for percent of the global population and 25% of the coronavirus death. how is that a success story? yeah, when you look at, europe has 28% higher access maturity rate rate. there are critical numbers which i'm giving you which is for percent of the population. 20 for percent of the debts of covid. how can that be exercise? and i'm giving you the numbers that we feel are very indicative as we stand to the rest of the world. yes, several times the white house change the way they measure this. what did you make of her response, john? well, she files on. but, ithink her response, john? well, she files on. but, i think she does herjob very well. she is very well prepared, she's got a brief, her talking points and she doesn't straight 5 degrees in either direction. but when she talks about excess deaths as a calculation, that is kinda complicated. the much easier calculation for people to understand is what proportion of does do we

couple of them are family, as ivanka andjared, and couple of them are family, as ivanka and jared, and kayleet watch general matus if he comes out and says anything else. a battle is brewing over donald trump's nomination for the us supreme court. this weekend, mr trump announced judge amy coney barrett to replace ruth bader ginsburg. confirmation hearings start two weeks from today, with many republicans hoping to have her confirmed before for the november election. judge barrett's nomination is a contentious one. she aligns herself with conservative values, and her devout catholic faith has raised concerns about how she'd rule from the bench. in the past, she's said that abortion is "always immoral", and that marriage is based on the "commitment of a man and a woman." but does she represent a new form of feminism — conservative feminism? ronnee schreiber is a professor at san diego state university, and author of righting feminism: conservative women and american politics. welcome to the programme. what is conservative feminism? the first of all, thanks so much for having me. conservative f

. >> kaylee and kellyanne conway, they were anti- trump. the network was not reproach trump.and then slowly, they just gave over to it. is in the book were someday said from a hoax about trump is how one by one awe of the host decided to go on the trump train. they looked around, they saw the incentives, they saw the opportunity for even hannity for example, his show is getting pretty stale pre-trump. their conversations about what should be dictated? maybe give him a liberal cohost again to make the show more interesting, and then trump comes along he is the most interesting thing in the world. if you think about it that way, hannity saud trump is a way to relevance to regain elements. that happens awe the way across right wing media. >> doesn't seem to be a space on the network for a real assessment of the ideas of the other party. you will never see something on msnbc about does the regulation actually help the economy? lower taxes help the economy? the de- exportation of conservative ideas on a progressive network and vice versa ever seem to happen. you won't see on fox n

the creek fire now spanning more than 150,000 acres, continuing to incinerate dry hillsides and our kayleeartung right there. >> as you feel the wind pick up you understand why authorities say the creek fire is the weather improves. >> firefightersreildfires in california alone. many of them are up those wind gusts topping 50 miles per hour and forests decimated by the bark beetle. just south of big sur a life or death scenario. more than a dozen firefighters by the dolan fire when it more than doubled in size. we're in the middle of all those houses fully engulfed. >> copy, troy. you have all parties accoued for? >> parties are in their shelters except for myself as far as i know. >> reporter: the fire engulfing the fire station and three of the firefighters life-flighted to a nearby hospital. one in critical conditn. >> these dedicated firefighters njuries including burns and smoke inhalation. the fire station was completely destroyed. >> reporter: one store own his general store open to support first responders. >> we can't shutn able to get fuel at 3:00 in the morning might save somebo

kaylee mcnamee will likely talk about that and see what the white house unveils today.ring that in 1792 before you were born but it's always been a peaceful transition. thank you very much. development on capitol hill where the "issue is" twofold, a measure may be to keep the government open and a separate one to be dealt, stimulus relief that we've seen on the federal reserve chair and treasury secretary endorsing, actually pushing today. what is the latest? >> i covered the government shutdown of 1792 but anyway, it's going to be a vote. we don't think there will be a vote in the u.s. senate today on the spending bill, the band-aid bill to fund the government through november. past that earlier this week, an overwhelming vote, 359 -- 87. alexandria ocasio-cortez, democrat from new york city voted present. they had to go back and retool the bill to get it across the finish line. i'm told in the past 20 minutes, they think they will vote on this next wednesday, thus the last day they can do this because the government shutdown at 11:59 p.m. next wednesday nine, steve mn

methodist university and began his career working for not one but 2 texas senators, phil gramm and kaylee hutchins . chad left the hill after the september 11 attacks to serve our country and protect us from terrorist threats. going to work at the newly created transportation security administration in 2002. he became an early leader at the tsa, finishing out his first run of service there in 2005 as the assistant administrator for transportation security policy . after over a decade in the private sector, chad returned to the tsa as chief of staff in 2017. before becoming iedeputy chief of staff and eventually chief of staffat the full department of homeland security. he has been acting secretary of homeland security since november 2019 . and in that role he has shown .trong leadership leadership i believe has been tested in particular. by the protest that became riots and the violence we see across the country. nowhere was that violence, were those riots worse than in portland oregon where night after night thousands of angry protesters physically assaulted federal law enforcement offic

our kaylee hartung is in butina county. >> reporter: these wildfires burned a record 3 million acres this year alone. that's more than 26 times what burned by this point last year. fire crews are stretched thin. some have been working nonstop for nearly a month. >> is this your parents' home? >> yeah. is there an a-frame house to the left? >> reporter: seeing the destruction at her parents' home in this facetime call with our sacramento affiliate. >> can you show me again, please? >> reporter: at first she feared the worst but her parents were later found safe staying at a casino. in washington state a fire claiming the life of a 1-year-old baby and badly burning his parents. 600,000 acres have burned there in the past three days alone, more than any entire year except for 2015. the town of malden destroyed. the governor now saying the culprit is climate change. >> we talk about this as a wildfire. i think we have to start thinking they're more climate fires. they're climate fires because that's what creates the conditions that makes them so explosive. >> reporter: now, law enforceme