we saw that at the nbc town hall.: let's look at one of those answers, savannah guthrie asking limb about the spoo the y group qanon. >> i know nothing about it. i know they're very much against pedophilia. they fight it very hard. but i know nothing about it. howie: now, qanon, some qanon followers spread baseless conspiracy theories about satan worshiping child sex trafficking rings won by democrats. some people were surprised that the president was sort of mixed in his response. >> he's not mixed in the response. he was clear he didn't know much about the group at all. when the american people got the chance to ask the questions that concerned their futures, not just for them and their families but for their children, their friends, they asked serious yes, questions about the economy, serious questions about jobs coming back, questions about covid. savannah guthrie takes her time to ask about a crazy conspiracy theory to which the president said i don't know what you're talking about. he doesn't know anything about

hall. hindsight how that the, will the trump -- is trump campaign happy so many potentially watched the trump town hall. the day, i sent out a tweet saying, the town hall format is not exactly the best format for the president because he is interacting with demeanor with not, it is not warm and fuzzy, shall we say? i am bringing this up because i presidentng from trump's perspective, which is better? a town hall or a campaign rally? from trump's perspective, there is nothing better than a campaign rally. andaides have tried to tell when there was a debate about the debate, they tried to convey, right now, just about no takes yourtwork rallies live. maybe fox news for part of it. the eyeballs you get from a debate or a national television event you do simply does not compare to you doing a rally or calling into foxbusiness news. own sense ofdents what he likes to do, he prefers a rally. >> i know he loves the rallies and seeing the people and hearing the cheers and applause and laughter perm

in real time than the joe biden town hall. the real question to me is, if knowing in hindsight how the town hall went, it is the trump campaign happy that potentially so many people watched that trump town hall in real time? [laughter] jonathan: i'm glad you pointed that out, because earlier in the day, i sent out a tweet saying, let's be clear, the townhall format is not exactly the best format for the president, because he is interacting with people. sort of his demeanor with people, as we saw in the abc townhall a couple weeks ago, it is not warm and fuzzy, i will put it like that. i am bringing all of this up. i am wondering from president trump's perspective, which is better, a town hall campaign or a rally? ashley: from trump's perspective, there is nothing better than a campaign rally. his aides have tried to tell him when there was a debate about the debate, they try to convey to him that's right now, just about no cable network takes your rallies live. maybe fox news for part of that, depending on what time the rally

president trump arriving in miami for a town hall that will go head to head with the joe biden town hall in philadelphia. the debate that was scheduled for tonight was canceled after president trump refused to take part virtually, despite his coronavirus infection. our political correspondent, arlette saenz, is covering the biden campaign for us. she's in philadelphia already. what should we expect from this town hall tonight? >> reporter: well, wolf, joe biden will be taking questions directly from voters as he participates in an abc news town hall here in philadelphia. this town hall coming about, happening on the night that that second presidential debate was supposed to be held. the biden campaign had agreed to a virtual debate but the president canceled it. once he backed out, the biden campaign said that they were going to make other plans, scheduling this town hall. biden has participated in quite a few town halls over the course of his candidacy, including several with cnn, and his campaign in the past have felt these have been favorable formats for the former vice president to s

presidency appearing in separate town halls. we'll get you caught up on the key moments. >>> and a worrying glimpse into what the coming months could look like with covid cases hitting highs in states across the u.s., and defiance as cases surge in europe. local leaders in one city are rejecting strict new measures by the prime minister. >>> on the night when joe biden and donald trump were supposed to share the same stage for their second debate, the two presidential candidates held competing town halls on rival television networks at the same time. you'll see the sharp contrast between them for yourself in just a moment. for biden, the format was familiar territory, to talk policy, although sometimes he avoided straight answers. when the event was over, he stayed to talk with voters off camera, and in contrast, that with the president, president trump was much more combative, his responses to pointed questions about the pandemic, white supremacy, conspiracy theories and other issues were largely defensive and peppered with fal

hall with president trump.were at the same type on the east coast in the united states. and some viewers did flip back and forth. but i think there was more interest in the trump town hall because he not sat down with a journalistic interview, someone of the caliber of this ever since is he came down with coronavirus two weeks ago, he has been calling in to fox and calling his friends on the radio, he not sat down with a big interview. it was notable that he was challenged about his coronavirus testing history and other issues in the news. like his comments in the past about qanon, it was a news worthy interview, but there's been criticism about why the network decided to host a town hall with trump at the very same time that biden was scheduled to appear on abc, in some ways it was about a petty tv network rivalry, but the stakes are high with a few weeks left in the election and millions people voting. on a about. c, biden tried to appear to be above the fray and above the trump noise. trump as always, in the

hall. >> joe biden is a disaster, i will say.id you see last night? did you see the easy questions? did you watch that whole deal? did you see him a week ago witht lester holt of nbc? come on, joe. come on, can we help you with the answer, joe? it's a disgrace. and you saw what i got last night, right? but it's okay. disappeared, nobody can find her. she's not too popular right now. but we enjoy her. we enjoyed it.t. >> sean: this is now the norm savannah, georgia, the liberal friends in the media mob did not want donald trump to win. they are not fair arbiters, not doing their job, they are not journalists, they have an agenda and at this point they're not even trying to hide it. these are corrupt people. journalism, as i said in 2007 is dead. they have a clear and unbridled socialist agenda. they're doing everything in their power to destroy donald trump and protect the weak and the fail and the cognitively struggling joe biden. this is who they are, this is what they do. when you add to that massive social media giants and the

the president's town hall is taking place in the same place where lester holt moderated a town hall with democratic nominee joe biden back on october 5th. president trump is being given the same amount of time in the same time slot that biden had. now, nbc has received some criticism for that schedule because on the east coast, it's airing opposite a separate town hall on abc news with joe biden. nbc released a statement saying in part, quote, if we were to move our town hall with president trump to a later time slot, we would be violating our commitment to offer both campaigns access to the same audience and the same forum. we hope voters will watch both discussions. if you missed the town hall with joe biden, it's on our website. go to nbcbayarea.com and click on biden town hall. you'll also find the town hall with president trump in the same location once it's over tonight. >>> the date is set. on october 22nd, the senate judiciary committee will vote on supreme court nominee amy coney barrett. committee chair senator lindsey graham made the announcement at this morning's meeting. he

by sunday, nbc knew that the biden town hall would be at 8:00 p.m.r the last four days they made a choice to schedule it head to head with biden. my conclusion, don, and after speaking with sources at nbc today, is that trump wants this. trump wants a head-to-head match-up and nbc has decided to give it to him. >> unbelievable. we're hearing there's some internal backlash, brian. >> oh, yeah, definitely some internal backlash, people at the network saying this is collusion between the network and the campaign. but the view of nbc is they had a town hall for biden at 8:00 p.m. last week so they're having a town hall for trump at the same time this week. >> come on. >> that's the view from management. >> come on. >> i can tell you someone from abc called nbc and said you move your town hall and the response was heck no, we scheduled ours first. this is kind of petty, don, and the viewers are the ones that lose. >> yeah, because they are going to have to -- look, i've already said this, i cannot believe that nbc would do this. it does not inform the ele

what a run by breece hall.n to get him on the ground after nik bonitto couldn't do it. >> todd m.: he had to talk his way back into the game with the left ankle injury he had. the trainers said, you know what, i'm going in, doesn't matter. to have that big play is huge. >> todd b.: and just poor tackling from oklahoma. saw this last week in a couple of instances in the meltdown against kansas state and could not have happened at a worth time than right now. >> sean: 36-yard run and stays on his feet again and scores. touchdown, iowa state, the cyclones go back on top with 4:06 to go. >> todd b.: credit tom manning and this iowa state offense, staying aggressive. running right at this oklahoma defense for the first time tonight has the look of defeat a little bit. that possession, they didn't tackle well. they got out of gaps. first time we've seen that. >> sean: big extra point for a seven-point lead. connor assalley, up and good. breece hall, quiet for a lot of the night but stepped to the terry forefront when

i think the town hall format suits joe biden. sometimes he does not do so well with those gotcha questions. what should trump do? what should be going on? people coming g up and saying i have lost my heaealth insururan, how w will you help me? you have seen presidentnt trumpo very poorlrly with that. hihis technique was arguingng wh the questioner, talking over them, doesn't work. it does not work when it is a member of the public. >> can i ask you a question about amy coney barrett's nomination? let me put to the question to you. amy coney barrett as supreme court judge, i was reading that she only had three years of experience as judge. is that normal to go from m suca low positionn to there? >> you have a long judiciaial careerer, you make a a lot of ts me up at t these hearirings. they are actually preferring to gogo for peoplee who have had shorter experience on the bench because i don't have to relitigate all these decisions they have made over the loan career. >> it is the case of picking someone more malleable. i'm thinki

i'm glad to hear you watched the biden town hall. >> it was a tough choice. symone, i have to ask you about kate bedingfield. she was originally scheduled to be here tonight in this spot. she has been reported today to have tested positive for the coronavirus. what do you know about her condition, and what can you tell us generally about others in the biden campaign? >> so, lawrence, i do want a quick correction because kate bedingfield is not here because she's actually in philadelphia with the vice president tonight, coronavirus-free, covid-19-free. all of our staff are regularly tested as are dr. biden, joe biden, senator harris, and mr. emhoff and she does not have a positive test. who did test positive was senator harris' communications director, and i've spoken with her today. i know senator harris and vice president biden have also spoken with her today. she's doing well. and we are pulling for her. she's tough. she's working virtually throughout the day today. so i want folks to know at home that the reason we, folks even have this information, is bec

the president is complaining about the town hall tonight and renewing the attacks on dr. anthony fauci. >> that is true, wolf. the president is on the way to miami after he backed out of what was supposed to be a presidential debate the joe biden and he is claiming hae is set up in the town hall which is not true, and he is attacking one of the top health experts dr. anthony fauci even after the president was using him in one of the campaign ads saying that he is fine in one of the campaign ads claiming this is fine. >> reporter: on the dueling town halls, the president is saying that there are imaginary forces against him from the news media. >> and not set up tonight and i said, what the hell we have a free hour on television. >> reporter: to dr. anthony fauci to the coronavirus task force. >> and he is a nice guy, tony. dr. tony fauci, and he is a nice guy. and it is not a problem, but he is a nice guy and we keep him around, right. >> reporter: the president is lash out at one of the most trusted health experts days after he was taken out of context in a campaign ad.

i came from the media hall. it did not seem like we were close to the debate starting because there were not many people. that is because of social distancing. so it feels different. >> what do we know about preparations for the debate tonight from mike pence and kamala harris? maureen: it has been reported the former governor of wisconsin who was a stand-in for tim kaine four years ago played a similar role this time. pence has a comfort level with walker. there are others involved in the debate prep, including his older daughter. she was active in the campaign four years ago. that time she helped her dad prepare for questions on abortion likely to come up and how to address those from a woman's perspective. she has been devolved in his debate prep. for senator harris, it is hasrted that pete buttigieg been portraying pence in her because he knows pence. they had some interaction when pence was the governor of indiana. and pete buttigieg has the debate experience. >> we are waiting for vice president pence's ar

>> well, look, there were two town halls tonight, lawrence. i will tell you i spent the bulk of my time watching who i believe will be the next president of the united states, joe biden. but i will tell you there were two town halls and we saw two different things. we saw a leader in joe biden. and what i saw from president trump were more lies, more skirting of the issues. at one point president trump asserted that the daca program and dreamers were two different things. what i saw in joe biden, though, was someone who understood the nuances of the issues that the american people are dealing with and someone who is so committed to answering the american people's questions after almost every question he asked -- did i answer your questions? and when the town hall was over, joe biden stayed to answer more questions from voters who didn't get a chance to ask. and folks were taking out note cards. he stayed for more than 30 minutes. so i will just have to tell you this election is a choice, in our opinion, a choice between the vision that vice-pr

very combative town hall. flip side no problem with the abc doing the joe biden town hall.ifference in tone when you hear republicans spout this whole bias thing, do you kind of get it a little bit or do you think it's overplayed? >> well, this is exhibit 527 of a very uneven playing field. different networks, different styles i get that. by and large. george stephanopolous was better than the cnn and nbc. he didn't ask anything about the recent hunter biden story. the only time he followed up repeatedly is when biden continued to be evasive on the question of court packing and plans for the supreme court. so when you talk about the culture clash here i would say that it was "good morning america" as a friendly tea party and the "today" show on steroids. >> trace: to your point about the hunter biden "new york post" story. how does the twitter and controversy, how does that not come up? example a, story one yesterday. one or two all day, howie, how does it not come up in the joe biden town hall? >> i can't imagine why stephanopoulos chose not to ask a question or two. i und

you can join savannah guthrie for tonight's town hall with president trump at 8:00 p.m. eastern on nbc. >>> a big point of discussion in that town hall is certain to be the pandemic as we noted at the top the country surpassing 8 million covid cases, infections building across the country again and what the troubling new wave in europe means for us here at home here's miguel almaguer >> reporter: tonight in every region of our nation, covid cases are climbing as new infections hit ominous benchmarks overwhelmed, some hospitals are out of icu beds, north and south dakota have more new cases per capita than any other state kentucky declaring a record number of infections >> i have said wake-up call before. maybe this is a jolt or a shock to the system. >> reporter: with hospitals in houston and miami preparing for a third surge the state of colorado says it's experiencing a third wave of the pandemic, soaring today to 8 million confirmed cases in the u.s. hotspots have flared across the country showing no signs of slowing. nbc news tracking what appears to be a third rise

next, media's reaction to the town halls.. ♪ ♪ greg: they were okay with joe but trump, that's a no. president trump holding a town hall at the same time as biden, caused the media to set what's left of their hair on fire. >> this is an outright embarrassing rating ploy on behalf of nbc. i am shocked and surprised that they would allow the president of the united states to do the programming and manipulate them into doing this. greg: shock and surprise over a ratings ploy. that's rich. >> are you as mad as everyone else is that they are doing a town hall with president trump tomorrow instead of the debate? [laughter] >> i am not touching that. [laughter] greg: thankfully, homer heads prevailed on the view. >> four more years of this, i believe that. the supreme court, god forbid they take the senate again. we are doomed. people need to vote. >> don't flip out. greg: never been right so that is good news. many on the left call a boycott for nbc saying this decision was bad for our democracy. the networks are required to give e

tonight, dueling town halls. and different styles. joe biden and donald trump making their case. >> the words of a president matter. >> hey, i'm president. i have to see people. i can't be in a basement. >> competing from two different battleground states. >> what is your plan for either extending the tax cuts for the middle class or creating a new plan that further reduces those taxes? >> what do you have to say to young black voters? >> if a vaccine would approved, would you take it? >> the covid-19 crisis front and center. >> i go to every local official, say mandate the mask. >> i'm good with masks. i'm okay with masks. i tell people, wear masks. >> as biden gains ground in the polls, what can the president do to change the course? "nightline" will be right back. >>> good evening. thank you for joining us. with election day less than $weeks away, tonight the unprecedented moment. two competing town halls replacing a presidential debate. former vp joe biden and president trump speaking directly to voters. were their messages heard?

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it's really on these teletown halls.e it pretty remarkable that he said those things to that many folks. that's probably the biggest crowd he'll talk to during the election. >> especially nebraska. let me play a little bit more, be c bakari. >> if young people become permanent democrats because they've just been repulsed by the obsessive nature of our politics or if women who were willing to still vote with the republican party on 2016 decide that they need to turn away from this party permanently in the future, the debate is not going to be, you know, ben sasse, why were you so mean to donald trump, it's going to be, what the heck were any of us thinking that selling a tv-obsessed narcissistic individual to the american people was a good idea? it is not a good idea. >> just to be clear, bakari, this guy is not in your party. this guy is in the other party. but he sounds not unlike what former president barack obama was saying the other day to "pod save america," that the republican party might have a reckoning in about

biden over course of his town hall really tried to stay focused on the policy. spend the entire night criticizing president trump. instead, trying to offer his agenda for what a biden administration would look like, presenting a clear contrast to the president who wasn't on that stage on thursday night. now, later today, joe biden is traveling to the battleground state of michigan, making two stops there as early voting is underway, as he's encouraging his supporters to get out and vote in these final weeks before the election. boar skp boris and christine. >>> an influential model used by the white house predicts 395,000 coronavirus deaths in the united states by february 1st. that's actually down 6,000 from the last forecast because the pandemic is moving into younger populations. but that decline is most likely temporary. health experts say deaths will begin to increase over the next week or two. we all remember the chaotic scenes in hospitals that played out at the start of the pandemic in the spring, and we could be seeing a repeat soon. more americans are

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debate canceled, simultaneous town hall meetings. town hall, this is what you got. >> the scientist will disagree with the economists so the question is, how do you decide this? who are you going to listen to? can you contain the pandemic without crushing the economy? >> you can contain a pandemic by being rational. >> how civil? >> a couple of days later on a different show, you denounced white supremacy. >> you've done this to me -- >> why does it seemed like -- >> i did not white supremacy for years. you always start off -- he didn't ask joe biden whether or not he denounces it. greg: what a contrast and on one screen, kenny g. on the other, the bride of chucky. more, please. >> mr. vice president, if you lose, what will that tell you about where america is? >> you could say i didn't do a good job. >> i just know about that. >> i don't know. no, i don't know. >> president trump, take a test that day, would be negative? >> before i came up here, i took another test. >> i know nothing about that. i know very little. what you tell me

and when the town hall ended. joe biden stayed for another 30 minutes answering questions from folks in the audience. >> i did hear that i -- >> -- president that the american people. >> okay. but in terms of answering questions in a full and straightforward way, there was still the confusion around whether or not he would support adding justices to the supreme court. and what he said last night was different than what we've heard before. he basically said, it depends on what happens with the confirmation of amy comey barrett. if she's confirmed as it appears she will be, then is he for adding justices? >> well alston, i actually didn't here anything new from joe biden last night. let me tell you why. from the on set of republicans deciding they were going to rush the nomination of this justice, even though we are in the middle of people voting. joe biden has been very clear that the american people deserve to be heard that. the american people frankly believe we should fill that seat in the white house before we

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it all comes after the dueling town halls. president trump making news with what he would not say and joe biden making headlines on the supreme court among other issues, and making an impression by staying well after the town hall, still answering questions. jonathan karl leading us off tonight. >> reporter: donald trump is in florida today, pleading for support from seniors, a group he won easily four years ago but is struggling with this year, in part because of his handling of covid-19. today he made them this promise. >> seniors will be the first in line for the vaccine. the light at the end of the tunnel is near. we are rounding the turn. >> reporter: campaigning in michigan today, joe biden shot back, saying the president is lying about a pandemic that by any measure is taking a turn for the worse. >> turned the corner? my lord. it's not disappearing. in fact, it's on the rise again. it's getting worse, as predicted. >> reporter: during last night's dueling town halls, the president insisted he's long known the dangers o

i have a suggestion for him, he should, during his town hall, have a screen with biden's town hall andlittle mystery science theater, get people to cut some tape that he can immediately respond to. it's going to be a crazy night but again, trump somehow always ends up being right, the thing proves that it was rigged. when the moderator is going to anthony scaramucci for advice, that would be like right before the debate finding that scully went to rudy giuliani. people would have been screaming their heads off. lastly, i do think, it kind of lends itself to the problem with these debates, they portray liberal moderators as conventional, objective moderators. they aren't. you need a straight wrath and you have the candidates ask each other questions. joe asks trump, trump asks to joe and you have a wreck because you can't seem to get a moderator who is not liberal. i don't know why, i'm available. >> dana: [laughs] >> greg: she laughed. you laughed again. >> dana: tonight was supposed to be the biggest debate. one thought of any easier? >> jesse: the debate commission really messed up a

hall. he had to face questions about things that he has supported. >> right, and this is interesting because it goes back to the 1994 crime bill. he was asked specifically about it. >> was it a mistake to support it? >> yes it was but here's where the mistake came. the mistake came in terms of what the states do locally. >> let me ask another follow-up. 100,000 police back in 1984. you've often said more cops clearly mean less crime. do you still believe that? >> yes if, in fact, they are involved in community policing, not jump squad. >> i will say that biden was very detailed when he went into policy, very substantive. some of those answers were very, very long to the questions. this issue, the crime bill coming up in his own party and the split on his support. he says he's not for it now. >> shannon: well, politicians sometimes evolve, as he has on many things including the hyde amendment and others. the president, i don't know but post covid. he was very fired up and energetic. he likes

dueling town halls. joe biden right here answering voters questions, while the president doing the same at the same time on another network. despite being up in national polls, joe biden's team is taking nothing for granted. his campaign manager tweeting, there is still a long way to go in this campaign and we think this race is far closer than folks on twitter think, like a lot closer. david? >> all right, mary bruce tonight, mary, thank you. the abc news town hall with joe biden just a short time from now. george stephanopoulos with biden and voters and their questions, that's tonight, 8:00 p.m. eastern, right here. >>> certainly, the questions tonight will include handling of the coronavirus, especially with this country now seeing a spike in cases in 38 states now. with the colder weather and more people indoors. and tonight, news coming in, a third person in the u.s. now confirmed to have been reinfected with the virus. and tonight, you can see the red on the map right there, those are the states wh

tonight's town hall is at the same location where lester holt moderated a town hall with joe biden last week. the network offered president trump the same opportunity and he accepted. nbc news issued this statement saying, quote, we share in the frustration that our event will initially air alongside the first half of abc's broadcast with vice president biden. our decision is motivated only by fairness, not business considerations. the statement continues, quote, we aired a town hall with vice president biden on october 5th at 8:00 p.m. if we were to move our town hall with president trump to a later timeslot, we would be violating our commitment to offer both campaigns access to the same audience and the same forum. we hope voters will watch both discussions. ours will be available at any time, free and on demand, youtube, peacock and all our digital news platforms, end quote. >>> with 19 days left until election day, one national coalition is mobilizing women of color to get involved and vote. it's called she the people. the founder is amy allison from oakland. marcus washington spoke

president trump participated in a town hall meeting at the same time joe biden was involved in another on a different channel. chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight. >> today it was a day of policy and politics, the two things tend to blend in president trump's world. early voting begins on monday and polls show a race that's up for grabs. president trump began a busy day of campaigning with a seniors event in fort myers telling them he's living proof a senior citizen can beat that coronavirus. >> we reached a point with a fatality rate is reduced by 85% since april and now it's up to 91%. i'm here, i'll tell you. >> the president again promising to fast-track vaccines and medicines like the anti-buddy cocktail he swears all but cured him. >> i wasn't feeling great and the next day i'm waking up and saying who can i fight today? >> there may have been no one to fight today but last night saw an adversarial town hall in miami, the president again pressed whether he will accept a peaceful transition of power should he lose the election. >> they spied on my ca

first let's get to tonight's town hall.lmost every question to donald trump was combative or in some way adversarial. savannah guthrie acted as if she were trump's debate partner, not the moderator, not an interviewer. she clearly had to prove her liberal bona fides tonight. i think in general, she seems like a nice person but at times she came across just as another angry liberal hack. her interjections seemed like sad attempts at, i don't know, it was political point scoring. not done for clarification purposes. still even with these constant interruptions and what was obvious bias, i think the president delivered a strong, confident, and very likable performance. now, contrast that with joe's town hall where almost every question was a softball or gave him an easy out. stephanopoulos did, he did occasionally interject with follow-ups, but even when he did that, the total was always quite tender and the framing was ever so gentle. in biden's performance, it was okay. at times it was uneven. he lapsed into his comfort zone

and a member of the rock and roll hall of fame.- i mean it was a rough summer, but, you know, now we're back to school not bad. >> seth: yeah, it's not bad to try to bring a little semblance of normalcy into our lives a thing that was very abnormal for me is when we met. we met on an amtrak train in 2011. we were both on our way to that white house correspondence dinner >> i remember. i remember meeting you that was a great joy because i'm a fan. but what an epic night that was. what a crazy -- you called out, you shot down -- you called out donald trump and then -- and then your follow-up was obama calling down donald trump and who might have guessed where that would have gone >> seth: i know. it would have been a lot nicer if it has just been a footnote of history instead of a tipping point. >> exactly i mean, that's the point where he was -- so he started as, what, a failed mid-town real estate developer, then became a successful reality tv star, which is where this happened and now we get this bloviating, puff adder, sack of li

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instead they'll compete for voters ease attention in dueling town halls. right now president trump is holding a rally in north carolina, which is a state where coronavirus cases are on the rise. cnn's ryan nobles is at that rally for us. are we getting a preview of what he'll say tonight? >> reporter: it certainly seems that way. north carolina an enormously important state for president trump in this election. he won here in 2016 by only four points. there's a new poll from the "new york times" that shows the trump campaign trailing by four points. to your point about what he's going to talk about tonight at the town hall, you have to imagine the coronavirus will come up, his own infection and his response to it, but also his relationship with dr. anthony fauci. president trump just talked about dr. fauci here in north carolina. listen to what he had to say. >> my friend -- and he's a nice guy, tony, tony fauci. he's a nice guy. he said this is not a threat, this is not a problem, don't worry about it. there was a problem, that's the craziest thing. he sa

donald trump and joe biden are beginning separate town hall events on the night they were supposed to face off in a 2nd presidential debate. yemen's largest prisoner swap finally takes place it's being described as a milestone in efforts to end the 5 year old act. recorded corona virus infections have reached a new daily high of more than 380000 worldwide numbers also take lehi in europe italy set a one day record for infections and its highest death toll in months. germany also saw an unprecedented spike with 6600 new cases in france 12000 police have been deployed to enforce curfews in paris and other large cities where infections are rampant and from saturday more than half of england's population will again be subjected to strict rules on where they can go and who they can meet and from saturday more than half of england's population will again be subjected to strict rules charlie angela reports from london. this city of 9000000 is moving into high gear to have a 3 tier system meaning no one can meet indoors with anyone outside their household is the government's latest attempt to

joe biden's town hall, tons of policy substance. taking his time. answering every question, afterwards. trying to, you know, critiquing the president's management of the coronavirus pandemic, as is the thrust of his campaign message. but doing the gambit on taxes, on race, on criminal justice. he sort of just went through a whole litany of policy positions. donald trump's universe was what we have seen from donald trump for three and a half years which is stoking the base, sending out signals, qanon, not totally denouncing that as the nutty, conspiracy theory that it is. instead, acting like he doesn't know about it, which makes no sense, obviously. >> he also said he didn't know when his last negative test was. but go on. >> exactly. and he's still questioning science around wearing masks. he's throwing his fbi director under -- i mean, this is just -- we got the regular, trump show. we did not get an incumbent president, who is behind for his battle for re-election, trying to use this platform, tonight, to really upend the trajectory of this race.

this evening's town hall president trump made multiple false claims. he said the cdc said 85% of people who wear masks get coronavirus. give us a fact check. >> so, the cdc study, don, did not even look at the percentage of people who wear masks that get the coronavirus. that was not what it was about. what it did find was of 154 people it was studying in july who had the coronavirus, about 71% of those people said that they always wore masks in the previous 14 days before their illness came on and about 14% said that they often wore masks. so that is not what the president said. in addition, there's lots of problems with asserting this says masks are bad or something. number one, we don't know how often those people wore it. number two, a bunch of those always people admitted they had eaten at restaurants those 14 days. you can't eat at a restaurant with your mask. the purpose of mask is to prevent other people, not yourself. it does provide some protection. even if some of those people did get infected while wearing masks, it doesn't mean masks don't

in an nbc news town hall. at the same time, joe biden participates in a competing town hall on abc. president trump musing on what's in store to him compared to nbc's recent town hall with joe biden. >> i just want to see the tone of the way they treated this character and the way they treat us. >> by appearing in competing town halls, viewers will get a chance to watch both candidates tonight. ultimately, bragging rights may go to the candidate who gets the best ratings this evening. bret? >> bret: john, thank you. i will be watching both and i will be on janet's show tonight. meanwhile, the presidential campaigns as vice president nominee kamala harris is suspending in person events until monday after two people associated with the campaign tested positive for coronavirus. also learned this afternoon biden himself has been around someone infected. correspondent peter doocy reports tonight from wilmington, delaware. >> joe biden war two masks at once on the flight and there was someone sitting in the first well that was infected on covid-19 and one to ohio on monday. but joe biden

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both in town halls. now, these town halls were held on the condition or the town hall for the president, i should say, is held on the condition that he take an independent test for covid to show that he's in the clear. and he's done that. there were two experts who had to review that test. one of them was dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci had a warning for people who were placing too much stock in the president's recovery. listen. >> when people say, the president beat it, i'm not worried about it, what's your response? >> well, that's sort of like saying, somebody was speeding in a car at 95 miles an hour and didn't get in an accident, so i can go ahead and speed and not get in an accident. we're very, very pleased that the president did so well when he was infected with coronavirus, but there are also a lot of people who are his age and his weight which did not do as well as the president did. >> reporter: now, the president is expected to have a busy day today, besides this town hall in miami. he's also su

biden town hall was already scheduled.hird party, independent firm to vet voters, to make sure that these are voters that are potentially very undecided. but it certainly raises questions if this benefits the american public at all. also it makes me think of a lot of undecided voters i've been interacting with in the last few weeks. i was in a focus group watch in undecided women who voted for trump in 2016. they don't know how they're going to vote this time. they appeared to be leaning toward biden. so i would assume that they would tune in, actually, more to the biden town hall versus the trump one. >> i've seen some people suggest on social media, sabrina, that savannah guthrie or one of the attendees of the town hall on the nbc town hall with trump should ask him about the fact that he has been pushing this nonsense, deranged conspiracy theory that s.e.a.l. team six, heroes that killed osama bin laden didn't actually kill osama bin laden. it's a bizarre and ludicrous conspiracy theory tha the president has twice retwe

what can we expect for joe biden's town hall tonight? >> steph, this is a format the biden campaign has been vocal about. they feel that this is a good format for joe biden. it was supposed to be a town hall-style debate tonight between biden and trump. we know now that that has been canceled. and instead we're going to see a split screen but not from the same stage. instead from two dueling battleground states. biden doing a town hall here in philadelphia with another network. trump doing a town hall down in miami with nbc and our own savannah guthrie. so we're still going to get that contrast, but at the same time, the town hall format is something that the biden campaign isn't just doing tonight but they're signaling they're hopeful it might be what voters see next week. we know there's another debate set on the calendar. it's going to be in nashville, tennessee. the biden campaign has said they hope the town hall format, questions from voters, will be on that stage instead of what a traditional debate might look like. so unclear at t

instead, dueling town halls. >> these twin town halls were a poor substitute for an actual presidentialay? >> the words of a president matter. good, bad, or indifferent, they matter. >> new warnings this pandemic is taking a devastate toll on rural areas of america. >> each region is seeing an increase in the number of hospitalizations and that is what you see before you see an increase in the number of deaths. >> this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is "new day" and this is the day when president trump is speak i speaking fawningly of a group that the fbi warns like motivates domestic terror. that's what jumped through the screen is that millions of americans watched with a little more than two weeks left to vote. but with a pandemic that is clearly in a new, dire phase, it's what h