to what do i owe this great honor, david wallace?michael, i am calling-- and gromit. michael? yeah? michael? hmm? i'm calling to see if you would come down and interview for a job we have opening up in corporate. really? bring your first-quarter stats and your recommendation for who'd take over the scranton branch. wow. mm-hmm. i wish i had prepared something to say. that's not necessary. may god guide you in your quest. yes. [cheerful music] ♪ okay, everybody have their towels and swimsuits? we have about an hour and a half. i suggest that you all go potty now. and then we will be congregating on the par-tay bus. oh, i'm excited-- today is beach day. michael is taking the whole office so i'm wearing my bathing suit underneath my shirt. oh, yeah, i packed it in my purse. oscar, you brought your speedo, i assume? i don't wear a speedo, michael. well, you can't swim in leather pants. ha ha ha. i'm just yankin' your chain. not literally. anybody need sunblock? it's got an spf 30. oh, you know what? uh, you're not going. it's beach day.

. >> well, i had david wallace wells on the program who's a writer for "new york" magazine, wrote aned "the uninhabitable earth" sort of about what the future of the worst case scenario of climate might look like. and it was the early days of covid and we were talking about covid and he said something that stuck with me which was a kind of positive takeaway, which was that you know, he said within the span of a few weeks we've seen essentially 2 billion people completely change everything about their everyday lives. this is in the midst of the shelter in place orders in which, you know, you could take a camera to any plaza in europe or in downtown mumbai or in shanghai, like the whole world had closed down. he said in some ways it's remarkable to consider what mobilization is possible. right? the mobilization that we did to battle covid in the early days. and i think about that as i think about the climate, you know, when i flirt with sort of disastrous nihilism about how we're screwing this up and how can we deal with it, is like we also have seen incredible mobilization in this era

arthel: yay for chris wallace. david at the white house. thank you.ric: speaking of the campaign the biden harris ticket hitting crucial swing states, joe biden will campaign in pennsylvania tomorrow and kamala harris heads to milwaukee and the first in person campaign trip since the former vice president chose his running mate. jacqui heinrich reporting from the headquarters right outside wilmington, delaware. >> just moments ago we learn more details about senator kamala harris trip to wisconsin tomorrow. she is meeting with unions and labor leaders also tomorrow on labor day former vice president joe biden heads to pennsylvania, he will talk to the cio, the union federation representing more than 12 million retired and active union workers in this trip is about much more than collective bargaining, biden's plan for union talks a lot about healthcare, guarantee public schools for children of union families including universal pre-k and clean energy jobs, that is important for biden to unpack and allegations from the trump campaign that is energy pla

david: we are watching chris wallace, the moderator, addressing the crowd.ut 100 people there, space between the chairs. giving instructions, saying please, let's not have applause her outbursts. we will bring you the debate as soon as it starts but he is not seated yet. rick, from your point of view there is a problem with the fact checking. at the same time, joe biden cannot let a lot of falsehoods go by? rick: we know chris wallace the moderator has said he has not going to play factor. we know social media is going to be just alive and burning through this debate with fact checking and commentary. so there is that aspect of it he can rely on. but he has got to be able to have moments in this debate where he pushes back, where he says that is just not true. and that will have to be as symbolic as they are factual. i think that is a really difficult process for him. secondarily, he has got to be the adult in the room. part of his campaign messages end the drama. let's get on with government. that's has -- that has to show up tonight as part of the mood and

. >> guest: not as many as david foster wallace, but one or two. footnotes are kind of fun. remember it was said of edward gibbon, the author of "decline and fall of the roman empire," that he lived out his sex life in his footnotes. [laughter] >> host: now you've thrown me off. let's go to the e-mail that we got. from martin. please speak about scheming to bend the law. i remember him promoting his first book almost 30 years ago on david letterman and remember going to the library the next day to check it out and read it in one day. >> guest: i love to hear that. it's sometimes nicer to hear that they went to the bookstore. it's funny, you know, listen i don't have enough fans that i can afford to be blasÉ if i would like to personally hug each one, but it is funny how people will come up to you and to say i can't wait to read your book. i number 56 on the list at the library. [laughter] indictable think that's very sweet. you could order it on amazon. it was my first book. it was my editor a marvelous man named tom who died just before they make a few days before christmas

plenty for our colleague chris wallace over at fox news to get to tomorrow night. >> reporter: it should, david, be a meaty debate on paper, but let's see. those topics that chris wallace have chosen, six topics, 15 minutes each, the trump and biden reports, the supreme court, the coronavirus pandemic, the economy, race and violence in our cities and the integrity of our elections. voters are also going to get a good look at both men under pressure at length, really for the first time. david? >> 36 days to go. terry moran, thank you. >>> of course, again, that crucial first debate tomorrow night. abc news with a special edition obvious "20/20" starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern, followed by the debate at 9:00. >>> the emergency in the west at this hour. a massive fire, quadrupling in size north of san francisco, racing across nap pa valley. families forced from their homes. incredible pictures coming in. new evacuation orders just this afternoon. tens of thousands forced to flee. so many wineries also threatenithreatened tonight. a senior home has been evacuated tonight. a hospital rushing to transfer

far as we know they will see to the two and half weeks later, september 29 for chris wallace will moderate. eric: davidl have more on that on a newscast. there are calls from the sun down the anonymous sources go public. arthel: meanwhile joe biden's campaign using those reports about president trump relaunching ads that target voters living near military bases in five swing states. we are in wilmington, delaware for that part of the story. hi jackie. >> hi, this new ad speaking to this issue is actually not new at all. it was released back in january during the primary but following the president allege comments disparaging american troops, the campaign is re-upping this ad that will circulate and swing states speaking directly to military families as part of a 47 million-dollar add list. >> may god bless you all and protect our troops. >> joe biden understands the awesome power, responsibility and sacred duty of being commander-in-chief. he has been in the situation. >> the ad will also run on social media near military bases like fort bragg in north carolina and fort mccoy in wisconsin. biden's camp

westin, to david franklin said amongst the swing chris, they thought wallace was the winner. he tried to bring decorum back to the debate. i will call it chaos, he called it a hot mess. manus: biden's salvo was under the u.s. -- under trump, the u.s. has become weaker, sicker, and poorer. president trump and joe biden hurling insults repeatedly. this is the first debate. pres. trump: we are going to deliver it right away. we have the military set up majestically. thatve our military delivers soldiers and they can do 200,000 today. >> the same man who told them by easter it would be gone away, by the warm weather it would be gone like a miracle. maybe inject bleach in your arm and that would take care of it. >> i said it sarcastically, you know that. >> this man is talking about a vaccine. every serious company is talking about maybe having a vaccine done by the end of the year. the distribution of that vaccine will not occur until sometime beginning or middle of next year to get it out. a lot of chatter about how he did debate got. the markets are absolutely focused on the fa

wallace kennedy, where are your parents buried? >> they are buried at lake memory cemetery. they are together. >> if that here in montgomery? >> yes, that is here in montgomery. >> dr. david carter, how did george wallace change the national conversation? >> because he identified at this mood that was in is very early stages of conservatism. it was made possible not only by his great skills, but by circumstances over which he had no control but was able to exploit. to me, the great tragedy is that here was a person of on -- of enormous abilities. >> the politics of rage is the name of dan carper's book. the has been our guest for the next -- last two hours as it has joe reed, the chairman of the alabama democratic conference as well as the executive secretary of the alabama education association. we are very proud to have had join us peggy lawless kennedy, the daughter of george wallace. we thank you all very much. we also want to thank governor robert bremer for opening up his temporary home. it has been wonderful, so thank you governor bentley. we also want to thank the governor's mansion staff and thanks to everybody at the alabama state capitol building for all their

>> david, the issue of fact checking so i think chris wallace is going to fact check a bit. i know the presidential debate ahead says it's not their job to fact check but if biden fact checks the president, that's not exactly getting his message across. how does he dance that dance? >> no, you're exactly right. if vice president biden tries to go point by point he's going to get his message muddled and it won't be effective. we know president trump lies or spins or tells half truths in many instances in speeches and debates. there's nothing that the moderator or biden can do about that. you know that the president is not going to play by the marquis of queensbury rules so how do you respond to that? the message for biden is to show he is strong and that he has a way forward for the country and you don't do that by getting into these long debates. you debate senator elizabeth warren, you need a five point plan and here you need a pithy point to counteract and hopefully that's what biden's team has prepared for him and if you're president trump, his team will prepare him for a

he can -- >> the president of the united states refuses to condemn david duke, refuses -- >> he condemned it last night. chris wallacehe condemned it and he said sure. he said sure three times, not one time, but three times. chuck, don't throw joe biden a life vest here. >> stop this. you know you're making stuff up. >> chuck, i'm not making -- >> jason miller -- >> that's not -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> i'm pointing out that -- chuck, listen to me. >> jason miller, i want to understand why the president of the united states four years ago couldn't condemn david duke. three years ago, said there were fine people on both sides. couldn't condemn the proud boys. this is not an accident any more, this is called a pattern. >> chuck, chuck, don't gaslight the viewers here, clearly last night president trump said that he condemned those when chris wallace said do you condemn them, he -- >> what does stand by mean? why does he want the proud boys to stand by for sh >> stand byhe and let law enforcement do their job. he's condemned the left, the right. he wanted them to get out of the way. he wants law enforcement to do th

wallace. we've been talking about it and people can see at the bottom of the screen. jon: we are looking forward to that. davidpunt at the white house. thank you. the white house and congress reach an informal deal to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month. it does not include more coronavirus relief funds. leaders of both parties still appear to be mild apart on that issue, lucas tomlinson has the latest. >> good evening lawmakers remain far apart, it is not just president trump on the ballot, lawmakers from both parties want to get a deal done and "fox news sunday" treasury secretary steven mnuchin blamed the democrats. >> we injected $3 trillion into the economy. people thought we would get 25% unemployment and fortunately and never came close to that and were down to 8.4. but the president, i believe we should do more stimulus and the speaker has refused to sit down and negotiate unless we agree to something like two and half trillion dollar deal in advance. >> a spokesperson to the biden campaign is not free optimistic. >> folks have to asked himself the home, if the recovery is working for y

david bernhardt dismissing calls as muriel bowser asks a committee for historic monuments to slavery or racism recommending they are relocatable contextualized. jane hampton cook, to understand our history -- >> chris wallace selected to moderate the first trump biden presidential debate. widespread praise after moderating the candidate of donald trump and hillary clinton and 2016, the trump biden debate set for september 20 ninth. >> the sports world is mourning the loss of tom seaver, many, the greatest of all time pitching since 1967-1977 winning three cy young awards in the 1960 world series. he would play another 10 years in the majors before retiring in 1986, after a battle with dementia, covid-19, he was 79 years old and he is called terrific. >> 10 minutes after the hour, portland's liberal mayor and his possible successor, and antifa supported. are we going from bad to worse. >> a jogger coming face-to-face with a bear. how the jogger managed to escape when "fox and friends first" rolls along on thursday morning. mike: right it ravaged portland's next mayor could be a self-proclaimed supporter of antifa. >> mayor tom wheeler of waiting a runoff. >> james bugles is if she wins it will mean more vio

wallace. leland: member of trump campaign team in a calm of minutes to talk about what we will hear from the president on the trail, davidnk you. david: thank you. alicia: meanwhile joe biden is heading to the campaign trail with a visit to a key battleground state. he'll be on the ground in pennsylvania tomorrow addressing the nation's largest federation of unions, jacqui heinrich tracking from wilmington, delaware. reporter: exist polling in 2016 president trump two two fifths of union households contributing to narrow win in pennsylvania and tomorrow joe biden will likely touch on what we expect he usually touches on in these events speaking to union leaders, his mantra always the unions built the middle class and the importance of protecting collective bargaining, getting good pay and protections for workers. the campaign points will be colored on how coronavirus has impacted the economy and jobs. campaign senior adviser symone sanders on fox news sunday. >> folks have to ask themselves at home, is this recovery working for you, economists are starting to call this recovery a k-shape recovery. mean it's going well an

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wallace asked. he said, are you willing to condemn these folks, and he said, sure, i'm willing to do that. >> wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on, david. let's play it, because he really struggled. i'm not going to read it, i'm going to play it. watch this. >> okay. >> are you willing, tonight, to condemn white sprupremacists an militia groups -- >> sure. >> -- and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in kenosha and in portland. >> i'm prepared -- >> go ahead. >> but i would say almost everything i see is from the left wing, not the right wing. >> so what are you saying -- >> i'm willing to do anything. i want to see peace. >> do it then. say it. >> you want to call them -- what do you want to call them? who do you want me to condemn. >> proud boys and white supremacists? >> proud boys, stand back and stand by, but i'll tell you what, somebody's got to do something about antifa and the left. this is not a right-wing problem, this is a left-wing problem. >> his own fbi director said antifa is an idea, not an organization. >> you've got to be kidding me. >> that's what his

you defend that behavior i guess we have come to expect, david, but to me it was a crescendo tonight. >> the democrats owe a lot to chris wallace. it was chris wallace who asked those questions, not joe biden. he asked for a reason. he asked the president to do something he doesn't like to do. >> which is? >> say something bad about people who don't support him. >> the white supremacist. >> and, two, he knows the president doesn't think this election is fair. the president believes the absentee voting, which happens in pennsylvania. but these states who mail ballots without r he thinks it's unfair and rampant from fraud. he knows the president is not going to -- >> that's different than violence. >> the president made those two gaffs and those are worse than gaffs. if i was joe biden, i would be focusing on he wouldn't say he wouldn't pack the court. >> i don't think that's a big issue. >> it's a very big issue. >> another important issue is covid-19. to hear the president of the united states dismiss his experts on fundamental policy. >> i think the president did a much better job on that. the president brought that up. there

wallace argues for the need to try to smooth things of with the soviets. jfk is caustic in swatting town the notion. just a side note, joe kennedy sr. -- and david brings this out in his biography -- maybe arthur schlessinger jr. brought this out by joe kennedy articulated a position that more than a few cold war historians would articulate, which is the soviets aren't going to invade anybody. there's not a threat to the out in terms of its resistance. we can take a hands off approach here. that's joe kennedy sr., his son felt very differently at the time, which is fascinating between the two of them. >> interesting incident of that he goes to vietnam in 1951 and this is the opening of your wonderful book and asks all the right questions questions and w- what she see is the french are fighting a losing endless war and why should that be our war? why are we defending a colonial empire? we're the world's hope for democracy but by the mid-'50s he is talking a more hawkish view but vietnam as a threat, giving speeches in which he thinks we have to hold the line against communism right there at the parallel between north and south vietnam. what happe

wallace, he's rino. that guy is a clown, man. host: you asked a question. i appreciate your input. illinois, david, biden supporter.ould like to talk about a problem that i see. if you want to talk about terrorism -- if you want to talk about terrorism going on in this it is originating at this time from the electoral college being used to control the food supply chain in this country, making it impossible for most americans to actually health,ote on their because all the farms, and all the meat packaging plants, decided to build right next door to one another, keep it all in of theily, and instead electoral college being something about their taxes or their property, they have turned by spreadingre this covid-19 that is originating and coming out of their food processing processes. that is the real terrorism going on, and the fear from it is making everyone upset, making everyone overreact, and it is at least partially causing the violence in the street. host: we welcome your comments on twitter @cspanwj. a couple here. it says -- it ain't trump supporters riding. -- those areocrat democrat supporters. it was afte

wallace tried. i think at some point, you just have to stop it. it was not a presidential debate, it was mud wrestling and as david pointed out, in the middle of a pandemic. i have been in touch with some voters who i met on our cross-country trip. there was one man who was leaning towards trump, but going into the debate tonight, he was leaning towards biden, but he did not like the name-calling, he did not like biden dropping to the level he said of donald trump. and a lot of talk about the military tonight, as you know, george, i'm in touch with a lot of people in the military. one of them said to me tonight, this is the most shameful interaction between two leaders ever, ever, i am sad and ashamed. >> martha raddatz, thank you very much. we have to take one more break. we'll be right back. i'm looking for my client. i'm his accountant. i'm so sorry. [ sighs ] hey! hey man! you're here. you don't trust me here is vegas, do you? well... i thought we had a breakthrough with the volkswagen. we did. yes. we broke through. that's the volkswagen! that's the cross sport. wow. seatbelts. ♪ please, just tell me where we're going. ♪ nature's bounty is here for

david, thanks for being here. it's really good to have you here on this night. it is now just past 9:00 on the east coast, which means we are about to start. you see chris wallace there taking his seat. he will be the sole moderator tonight. there will be three presidential debates in total, each one will have a solo moderator. seeing the first lady melania trump arrive. we're seeing -- she'll be sitting there on the sort of trump side of the -- of the house with lots of trump family members and white house personnel. we don't know very much -- we were just talking about this, the three of us, earlier a moment ago, we don't know very much about who is in the room. there would usually be, like, 900 or 1,000 people in the room like this becaufor the debate. because of covid, we believe there is less than 100. the campaigns don't appear to have pulled any stunts as to who they've got on site. you can see family members and advisers are quite close to the stage. >> look agent some of whom donald trump invited. he's got a widow here, and who is i guess maybe a part of his immigration message. he's got people who spoke at the rnc. at the republican national conventio

david webb. rachel first t.>> this is one oe debate, brian, there were a lot of points missed in the cross talk that the president did underline. but it also goes to chris wallace's, i am the democratic party, then doesn't want the responsibility or accept the responsibility in the question of calling the governor and the mayor out there in washington state or in portland or in any other left wing governor that doesn't support law and order by their own actions. by letting the riots in portland continue. the occupation in seattle. or even you look at the riots in kenosha, wisconsin or the attempts to do the same in lancaster, pennsylvania. so he can't have it both ways. i think this is one punch in a whole lot of, to be honest, flurry of punches that got the audience confused at times that trump really landed well. brian: rachel, if you look at what the president -- when he breaks down the numbers in which he has to improve the most, it is suburban women. you fit that category. whether a did they hear last night that feel better or worse if you are the president? >> well, overall, if you -- you know, trump can be very charming. and i don't think he brought that t