and by the way, the fact that kristin welker is a radical left democrat or whatever she is. then ask why are you defending her? why did she delete her account? would you please have her put her account back? and it's not going to affect -- it's not going to affect me. i'm going to be there. but i told you about the last one, and i was right, and i told you about savannah guthrie, and i was right, and i'm telling you about kristin welker. she put all of her statements back on. she deleted her entire account. >>> should the moderator be able to turn off mike's? >> i have no idea. i'm doing this. what am i doing to prepare? i'm doing this. i've done very well in the debate and you do what you do. you just do what you do. the last debate, i had 211, usually have 211 at least, and i did well on the last debate ended well with savannah guthrie based on reports. but you go around, we do interviews, i call this debate prep. this is actually tougher than a debate if you want to know. >> would you do a test before the debate, a covid test. would you authorize your doctors to tell us w

great job by kristin welker. howie: i agree. interesting, chris wallace who presided the ca cleveland debate joked that he was jealous. the media largely calling the debate a draw, saying maybe the edge went to donald trump but it doesn't do enough to change the dynamics of the race in which he is behind. >> i think the president did a good job presenting things but i do think we have to note something here, which is this is probably going to be the last debate. the commission on presidential debates is in control. they're frankly a very old, long in the tooth organization. they've run these things for decades, since before the end of the cold war. and there's so much animosity towards them on the part of republicans in the way that they structured these debates, out of the entire conflagra tio of n thanhappened in the second deba. howie: a story for the future. briefly, did this debate fit the classic pattern of huge buildup by the media and afterwards each side, well, my guy did much better and it doesn't change anything. >> t

we're going to see kristin welker, who is a well-known and very seasoned white house reporter, somebody who has been in the scrum, who knows how to handle candidates who aren't answering the questions. i think she is only the second black woman to ever do a presidential debate. it's going to be interesting. she's already been attacked by president trump. but i think she's going to handle this well. so we're going to see if trump will be able to stay on target and not interrupt. that i think hurt him a lot in the last debate, most of the polls showed that. i think republicans want to see him give time to joe biden to answer some of those hot questions that they want to see him answer. >> and john, what would staying on focus, staying on message, mean for president trump? what would you like to see him focus on? karla mentioned the interruptions. it is factually true that the president did interrupt vice president biden three-quarters of the time, and it was the other way, one-quarter of the time. but i'm sure you would like that to stop on both sides. stay on message means what if you ar

but kristin welker is terrible. she is totally partisan. her father and mother are big supporters of joe biden for a long time, they're supporters of the democrat party, and she deleted her entire account. and i was the one that told you people about scully. scully was no baby either, and then he got caught lying with his famous, oh, they hacked my account. you know, every time somebody gets caught, they always say they hacked my account. here we go again, so he had a problem. but kristin welker is far worse than skull lu. i do it anyway. this is the way it is. it's is so set up. it's incredible that we've been winning for so long. when you get right down to it -- brian: you're a sports guy by trade, you've got to adjust to it. having said that -- >> that's not father. i mean, it would be nice to have a host that could be not necessarily a contributor to the campaign, the democrats. there are people out there that could be neutral. brian rune right. chris said he was neutral, but just moving on to this debate -- >> neutral for who in for hi

tonight's anchor, kristin welker, is far worse. so, know, donald trump is sometimes very transparent. i think that sets the stage. i think also, wolf, when you see a tweet like that, you have to remember that's what sends those down-ballot republicans that dana was talking about, it sends them running for cover. senior republican said to me that between remarks like that, attacking women and his attacks on dr. fauci, the strategy that david was looking for is just politically insane. it makes no sense at all, wolf. >> you're absolutely right. dana, you want to make a point? >> yeah. the point is that this is -- not only is it completely inappropriate, it's false. kristen welker -- i don't know leslie stahl but i've respected her for years i do know kristin welker. she's a class a journalist straight down the middle, conscientious human being. the fact that the president is trying to work the ref and rattle her, bully her, frankly, is ridiculous on her face but as jamie was saying, really bad politics. i've not talked to any of the

somehow johnson became convinced that people were being mean to last night's debate moderator, kristin welker of nbc. for no good reason. so who would do something like that? according to karen johnson, we would. watch. >> i want fox news to apologize to kristin for the nasty way that they have been treating her before this debate. i want them to apologize. i want tucker carlson to apologize to her. >> tucker: apologize? we would do that except no one here can ever remember mentioning kristin welker. never wanted to attack her. some of the questions were obviously loaded. she's probably liberal but far from the most unreasonable person. by current standards, she did a good job. she came off as more fair than some moderated debates. sorry, karen johnson. call us when you have a kardshian update. the original karen, it turns out. have a great weekend. see you monday. >> sean: welcome to hannity. the president continues to crisscross the country. joe biden is getting rest at home. he had a short event in delaware. we're 11 days away. you're the ultimate jury. jerry -- geriatric joe doesn't have

kristin welker, a respected journalist, and taking aim at hillary clinton, joe biden, and his son hunter. and the president registering his frustration with water pressure that does not meet his personal standards and apparently how it makes his hair look. governor gretchen whitmer, and andrew quoto of new york, who the president called a lowlife. last but not least, is republican senator ben sasse, who despite voting with the president 86% of the time and voting against his impeachment, is criticizing the head of his party in calls. now he's earned the nickname also ben sasse. joining me now is chief political correspondent dana bash. mark meadows says there's a high probability that president trump will release the interview with "60 minutes" before it airs on sunday. they recorded this, right? tell me what you make of that, but also what threatened to release it for so many hours now and not release it? >> because they're trying to keep the distraction going. i'm guessing that mark meadows is hearing from his boss, you know, that he wants to keep the pressure on, this distraction out

trump with 31 and joe biden with 28 and the follow-ups from moderator kristin welker 13 for presidenttrump and six for former president -- vice president joe biden. interruptions joe biden was well. here's a graphic from nbc news noting the breakdown of speaking time by topic this morning when he came to the issue of economy 19 minutes of speaking time in the debates. the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic picking up 13 minutes and 53 seconds of speaking time. health care six minutes and 41 seconds of speaking time. the issue of epic seven minutes and 42 seconds, race and race relations in this country nine minutes and 27 seconds, amount of time on that in nbc breaking it down by how much time each candidate on each topic. joe biden speaking more on the issue of race and health care then president trump president trump speaking more on the issues of the economy and coronavirus but nbc news.com is where you can find that. this from republican national committee chairwoman ronna mcdaniel. she points out keeping score at home the number of moderator interruptions for each candidate by kristin

steve skully became a huge issue in his tweets in the second debate and now kristin welker of nbc is the new york post power days ahead of the debate. and debate moderator has deep democratic ties and one can imagine the intensity on her, her questions, and then also, the leanings of herself and her parents at least according to the new york post article become an issue. >> the scrutiny of the debate moderators are definitely increasing. i think events of the last week, including what happened with steve skully are probably not helping anybody's concerns. >> has anything happened in the year to lower the temperature in america? >> i think that chris wallace's debate, look, chris made a very forcef forceful-- put forward a forceful performance in his debate trying to level the playing field and trying to give them equal time and giving them the same platform. and working with president trump and vice-president biden on that stage that night he did a remarkable job to at least give people good faith that these moderators are serious people, they're knowledgeable on the substance. i thi

clearly kristin welker was not intimidated. she is owed an apology. but i think she is owed congratulations by the country. i think if there was a clear winner from this debate tonight, i would argue it was, in fact, kristin welker, who did an incredibly professional, cogent, coherent job. i realize our bar is low. this is like, you know, going to go see a concert. you're like, wow, somebody hit the snare drum once and it made a sound. we were so excited it was actually a debate between two people where they talked about policy and had arguments and you could understand every word of what they were saying and there was very little talking over each other. i mean, it was a functional debate and one that involved donald trump, which kristin welker just broke the space/time con titinuum continuum. maybe that's the greatest take-away tonight. i want to hear from you guys desperately how you thought this went overall. i will say the format and the moderation was a very good success. before we get to much distance between us and what we just heard, in addit

the interesting thing today with him trying to pre-empt kristin welk welker. she's fair, she's neutral. what he's trying to do is set up if i do badly in this debate it's kristin welker's fault. i think the president feels himself on the defense now. of course the one thing ha tthae president didn't want to talk about in that interview in the clips he put out, he talked about the coronavirus and leslie stall was pushing back saying what do you mean the virus is out of the rearview mirror and things are getting better. the president made a lot of falsehoods i won't go through. he's lashing out at all the people around him while not focusing on the economy and the messages his campaign wants him to focus on. >> we're not able to show it, but tell us what the falsehoods are. >> the president in talking to leslie stall tied to make the case that the coronavirus is going well in the united states. 220 americans have died. it's spiking in all states including wisconsin and pennsylvania. you're seeing the numbers continue to rise in states. people are scared. i came

last night president trump attacked moderator kristin welker. >> when i found hershey's been screaming questions at me for a long time and she's no good. >> reporter: president trump says the change is unfair and that he also wants to focus more on foreign policy. the biden campaign said mr. trump is afraid to talk about his, quote, disastrous covid response. >> who voted today? >> reporter: vice presidential candidate kamala harris didn't let a downpour today. >> they know when we vote we win. >> reporter: they saw high turnout throughout the state. >> i came in person. i wanted to be sure the vote counted. wasn't sure there would be any trouble or problems with the mail system. >> reporter: long lines expected in wisconsin with the start of early voting. >> our biggest concern is with covid-19, making sure we limit as much congestion at polling places as possible. >> reporter: nationwide, more than 31 million people have already cast a ballot according to a tally by the university of florida. >> reporter: these are the topics that will be covered in thursday night's debate, fighting

. >> reporter: nbc news' kristin welker questioned the president about a recent "new york times" reportlaiming the president maintains a bank account in china. >> i have many bank accounts, and they're all listed, and they're all over the place. i mean, i was a businessman doing business. the bank account was in 2013. that's what it was. it was opened in -- it was closed in 2015, i believe. >> reporter: after months of unrest and calls for racial justice, both men asked if they understand the lived experience of black and brown americans. >> nobody has done more for the black community than donald trump. and if you look, with the exception of abraham lincoln, possible exception, but the exception of abraham lincoln, nobody has done what i've done. >> abraham lincoln here is one of the most racist presidents we've had in modern history. he pours fuel on every single racist fire, every single one. this guy has a dog whistle big as a fog horn. >> reporter: on one of the most crucial issues for voters, health care, president trump declining to provide any specifics about his plans for repla

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and even kristin welker who i thought did a fair job, a lot of people thought she was tougher on me but that we expect. i mean, she looked at him and she goes, because she's on his side, not his side. she's on the democrat radical left side but did a relatively fair job. she said why did you say that? [laughter] like why the hell did you say that? i'm protecting you all night and now you end the debate. can we keep it going another 20 minutes? no, i didn't want to do that. joe biden spent 47 years outsourcing your jobs, opening your borders. you don't have borders, you don't have a country.and sacrificing american blood and treasure in endless foreign wars. we're bringing them back home. many of them are home. very, very few left. we're bringing them home. have to fight the military industrial complex. eisenhower talked about it all the time. the military industrial complex. ney don't like them home. 19 years i think is long enough. we're serving as policemen. the greatest soldiers in the world. we're serving as policemen. they have to have their own policemen. we have our own. they hav

. >>> from nbc news, this is "today" with peter alexander, kristin welker and dylan dreyer. >>> welcome to "today." thank you so much for joining us on this saturday morning. it is so good to see you, peter and dylan. >> no doubt. you had a quiet week, right? >> it was very quiet. just a little debate. i have been carrying around so much anxiety for so many weeks, i think the relief is just starting to set in. dylan, it is so great to see you guys. >> it's so nice to see you too, kristin. i always knew you were good at what you do. you took it to a whole new level. congratulations, my friend. >> we all agree about that. most importantly, we're so glad it went well. if it discussed, we were going to start the show saying i'm peter alexander in washington and i'm kristin welker in siberia. >> fortunately i get to stay. thanks to both of you. i really appreciate that and to everyone. we do want to get to our top story though this morning. the coronavirus crisis and another really horrific milestone on friday. with the most cases ever since the pandemic began, the u.s. reported more than 79

todd: praise for kristin welker from republicans and democrats alike hailing her performance as strongther it was welker or the cute button interruptions dropped significantly from the first debate. joining us to react, beverly hallberg. i can't believe i am saying this. do you agree with the president that the moderator did a good job? >> i do. i was surprised by this, during the debate, he said she was doing a good job. do i think the questions were slanted towards the democrats favor? yes, that often happens but i thought she was pretty fair with how she designated the time. the time was trump had two minutes extra when all was said and done. she did and dropped trump a little more so the mute button didn't play much of a role. candidates on their best behavior, trump took the criticism to hard from last time when people said he was interrupting far too much, he came out very disciplined and acted very presidential when it came to his tone and demeanor. todd: you think welker helped the president stay on message and stay laser focused on what he wanted to accomplish during the debat

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nbc's kristin welker. that charges of partisanship on the moderators, "the new york post" reports welker's family donated tens of thousands of dollars to democrat candidates including biden and $20,000 to obama alone. critics are pointing to this hot mike moment from a 2016 interview with hillary clinton's director, jennifer palmieri.i. watch this. >> go right to kristin, kristin go ahead. >> okay, okay. i'm going to ask you aboutht flint. >> go ahead, you are life. >> laura: so she was saying what she was going to ask. >> i don't know if that's indicative of bias, but the whole picture is not an attractive one when you take it altogether. >> laura: i think it's really rude that that issue of donations is never brought up. that would never be brought upse if the shoe were on the other foot. never. oh come on. another topic that can't be discussed. raymond, thanks so much. congrats on the book. still ahead, if you thought racial segregation was dead, think again. c we discussed how racial retribution is now

kristin welker. she is a radical democrat. look at them, they are getting angry. she is a radical democrat. she deleted her entire account. everything is deleted. i've known her. she's been screaming questions at me for a long time. and she's no good. how did i do the other night against one that was worse? so i had savannah guthrie of the other night. she was like a crazed lunatic. she was literally rising out of her chair and screaming with questions. and how about the great woman behind me? she kept going. i love her eye don't know too much. i met her right after, she was great. i tell you, she was definitely a trump person. they made a big mistake. they forgot to check the audience. the audience was great. and how about the woman that came up and said, i love your smile. you are so handsome. you are so handsome. you are so handsome when you smile. i love your smile. she was so nice. and then what happened is, nbc, which which is the burst? it's comcast. i call it con. con. i talk about them. it wipes out the whole year of public relationships. they are dishone

discussion is all the mics are open and it will be done by an audio technician, not moderator kristin welkercampaigns have the option to be in the audio booth to monitor the technician but so far only the trump campaign is going to have someone there. donald trump weighed in on these changes. >> the mute is very unfair and very bad that they are not talking about foreign affairs. supposed to be talking about foreign affairs and i think the anchor is a very biased person. her parents are very biased but that is my life. >> reporter: system -- off the trail preparing for the debate, former president obama delivered his most searing rebuke of donald trump so far. >> we literally left this white house a pandemic playbook. we don't know where that playbook went. eight month into this pandemic cases are rising again across this country. donald trump isn't suddenly going to protect all of us. he can't even take the basic steps to protect himself! >> reporter: senator harris who has been doing much of the heavy lifting for biden hammer donald trump calling him an outright racist. >> he stood on that

i think -- i can't tell whether kristin welker will bring it up or not. it's getting critical mass. especially with the new information that we've been developing. i know for a fact that president trump will bring it up. the two minutes, they control. so just like vice president pence did last time, he would say i'll get to that in a second. but i want to go back to this other thing. the question is, how much time should, if you're a trump supporter, president trump spend on that. >> dana: right. >> as opposed to the economy where polls show he's leading. >> dana: yeah. i want to show you something about president obama yesterday. former president obviously in philadelphia, campaigning for joe biden. he's trying to zero in on a specific issue. listen to this. >> with joe and kamala at the helm, you won't have to think about the crazy things that they said every day. that's not normal presidential behavior. we wouldn't tolerate it from a high school principal. we wouldn't tolerate it from a coach. we wouldn't tolerate it from a co-worker. we wouldn't tolerate it in our own family exc

after the town hall, but preemptively criticizing the moderator for the upcoming event, nbc's kristin welker. >> that's exactly right. they're trying to pre-spin the debate attacking the moderator, that the president won't get a fair shot. they're really trying to lower the bar, lower the expectations, because this is the last national attempt that he will have to try to change the narrative of this race, and attacking the moderator shows they don't have a lot of confidence in his ability to do that, but it's clear that they want to tremendous to. eke out any advantage, and by attacking ahead of time seems to be how they're doing it at this point. vice president joe biden is hoping for some big assist if the former president barack obama, who will be hitting the campaign trail starting this week. how potential influential would that be at this juncture in. >> the vice president definitely needs support turning out the vote. we do sigh he numbers, but there's young voters who have not turned out at the level the vice president needs, so president obama does have a track record. he's going to

. >> we hope kristin welker will ask to you questions of joe biden. if she doesn't, the president will pose them to him. the american people deserve to know especially on this hunter issue, was there pay for play. are there concerns about being, you know, beholden to china in some way. we need answers to these questions. >> the biden campaign says it's nothing more than -- but the biden campaign is saying that it's nothing more than a fringe conspiracy theory. they put out a statement saying when donald trump goes over right-wing fringe conspiracieses he's forced to run away from his own record because his pandemic response continues to be a train wreck. a train wreck continue the first presidential debate. we'll see if that addition of a mute button can make any difference. neil? >> yeah, i'm wondering how that goes. the first time that is pulled. i don't know. we'll see. kristin the fisher in the middle of that. let's pull john's mic for the hell of it. john bussey for the "wall street journal." john how that would go. they're going over a little bi

this came up tonight but you can tell it was a topic that kristin welker preferred to get passed quicklyseem to want to talk about it, it's important to talk about i thought tony bobulinski did a good job of explaining why he's talking about it. joe biden says he never discusses bid business and has personal firsthand knowledge it's not true. he has not just emails but texts and company documents that show how hunter biden and james biden who is joe biden's brother how they viewed joe biden being involved in their family business. one of the things, there is another business associate who tells tony bobulinski at one point, you're not supposed to say that joe is involved in less you're in a face-to-face meeting, you say that for the face-to-face meeting. they are discussing openly how to talk about joe's involvement. this is interesting, you have a person on the record, this may be better and on the record, on video saying he has personal firsthand knowledge -- some of the texts describe a meeting he had with joe biden as part of this business deal that they were trying to get through. a

the third debate coming up on the 22nd is being moderated by kristin welker. i know her well.he is a personal friend of mine. she is a top grade journalist. i would have to do, to be honest, i wonder if i done the right thing by accepting the invitation to be a moderator. i know she will do the job to the best of her ability. >> neil: another week away for that one. john roberts, thank you. we are not hearing much from either campaign on the news and what this says about moderators going forward or the process by which we select moderators for these debates. jacqui heinrich with the biden campaign. have they had any response among the biden folks or the vice president himself to what happened? >> you know, i haven't had a chance to ask that question yet. i certainly will and we will get that right to you as soon as we know. in the meantime joe biden tested negative for the coronavirus. he will appear in a couple of hours. in the meantime, let harris is sidelined from the campaign after to individual associated tested positive for the virus. the campaign said she has not been i

the next one is in nashville moderated by kristin welker. >>> a somber mood for firefighters across the state. the firefighter jason cortez fell to his death during a training drill today. he leaves behind two young kids and is being reynold for his bright smile, big heart and work ethic. melissa? >> reporter: -- >> if i could clone him, i would. >> reporter: jason cortez left an impression on everyone he met. from his boss -- >> he was a go-getter. he cared about people. he loved his job. >> reporter: to the guys who worked at green apple market just steps away from where cortez worked. fire station three in the tenderloin. >> he always has a smile on his face. he's always interacting with people. >> reporter: during a practice drill wednesday morning, sources tell bay area news, he fell three stories from this training facility on 19th and folsom. he had one foot on a balcony of this brick tower and his other foot on a ladder. he was in the process of hooking up to a water whine sources tell our investigative unit, the gush of water likely caused him to lose his balance. >> we have to

whether it's abby philip or yamesh, i'm surprised he did not blow a gasket with kristin welker, he has time dealing with black women who have some level of authority. and i think that, you know, having kamala harris on the ticket is driving him crazy, day in, day out. he does attack men and white folk. but he really, really, really just goes after black women. he goes after their intellect. he apparently can't pronounce her name. he called abby philip basically stupid. april ryan, yamesh, it goes on and on and on. and you see this, this is, this is just something and i you know, i, my heart goes out the for mike and the rest of the republican party. one of the things we are realizing is that, the racism and xenophobia and biogtr is not a bug, it's a feature. and they will not be able to get rid of this after november 3rd. this is still donald trump's party for the next decade plus. >> i am simply pointing out that he pronounces everyone's name correctly. gives them a nickname, but he pronounces their name correctly and so there's something to be said theabout that. that was what i was

and the president gave him plenty of chances, so did kristin welker, by the way, gave joe biden plentyon, and he didn't. you know his denial, it's not even a denial. you know what's so funny? oh, did you take money from china, did you take money from none, well, it wasn't on my tax returns. okay. so if you're laundering money, if you're committing wire fraud, if you're the sitting vice president, you're committing crimes, do you think you'd put it on your tax return? of course not. so, yeah, he did not answer the question. only say it wasn't on his tax return. well, you wouldn't expect criminal activity to be on your tack return. elizabeth: yeah. it was interesting that he wasn't prepared for the question. joe biden claimed, you know, he just looked like he wasn't prepared for i. 3w50euden claims he learned about ma after the fact -- burisma after the fact. he claims, quote, every single solitary person who was going through with the president's impeachment testifying under oath that he did his job impeccably. george kent said, no, we have problems with conflicts of interest there. but

one of the most heated debates came over immigration when kristin welker asked about separating children at the border. >> kids were ripped from their parents arms and separated. now they cannot find over 500 sets of those parents. those kids are alone. nowhere to go. nowhere to go. it's criminal. >> they are so well taken care of, they're in facilities that were so clean. >> reporter: the president then transitioned to attacking obama era immigration laws. >> catch and release is a disaster. a murderer would come in, a rapist would come in, a very bad person would come in, we would take their name, we have to release them into our country. >> reporter: the debate was much less chaotic than the first one two weeks ago. there were fewer interruptions thanks in part to the debate commission muting the mics. the final heated exchange came on the topic of race. >> i am the least racist person. i can't even see who is in the audience because it's so dark, but i don't care. >> abraham lincoln here is one of the most racist presidents we've had in 34modern history. >> reporter: character was al

pressure, and combing your hair like this. [ applause ] i thought the moderate der a veg job, kristin welker handled them well. one of the reasons the president is so hard to wrangle is he just makes things up. trump has been averaging, someone counted this, up, more than 50 false statements a day. most people don't even make 50 statements a day. it would be almost impossible to lie 50 times. you'd have to start lying as soon as you wake up. but he's good at it. it's really what he does best. the president's advisers were tonight begging him to be more likeable, which it's like asking boba fett to smile more. i have to admit, he was funny, he did get off some good lines. >> as far as my relationships with all people, i think i have great relationships with all people. i am the least racist person in this room. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: all right, okay. give him credit where it's due. only donald trump can look at a half-black, half-native american moderator and say, i'm the least racist person in this room. he is an increasingly angry and belligerent man, we know that. the debate commission kep

only one of those seven i listed coronavirus was chosen as a debate topic by kristin welker.big boy and can transition the conversation to what he wants to talk about but i think you have to let these guys go at it more not to the point where the president interrupted during the first debate but to mute candidates? that's not what it is supposed to be about. >> sandra: this morning he said i do my own debating. i will do fine says the president. joe concha, great to have you this morning. thank you. >> trace: the world series kicking off tonight in texas. how the dodgers and rays are getting ready. ♪ ♪ load up the bases, fire up the crowd and clear out the dugout, we're going to get real loud ♪ ♪ throw me a fastball, smoke from the mound. we'll end this thing in just one swing ♪ can, like flip away. can, like flip away. the ninja foodi air fry oven, the oven that crisps and flips away. little things can become your big moment. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. do

he appears to focus his attacks pre-debate at least on tonight's moderator kristin welker suggestingl be far worse than the interview that he just had for 60 minutes. is that a good strategy going into this tonight? >> the president has had to deal with the biden debate commission changing rules on the fly, being stacked against the president. we have had moderators who are clearly democrats and i think it is good to put a marker down that the american people want to see fairness. they want to see tough questions asked of joe biden. he hasn't had any. we don't want to know what kind of milk shake he will have today. we want to know about the fact he will raise taxes, going tostantive issues and i hope the moderator this time won't play differently with donald trump than she does with joe biden. >> sandra: there are new developments this morning as you well know regarding hunter biden and his business dealings with his father overseas. how do you suggest the president handle it tonight and how is he preparing for that? we asked a surrogate from the biden campaign earlier how he will h

because of the likability and i think if the president thinks he will win this by tweeting out that kristin welker is biased and pensive -- if he does that tonight it just will not help him in any way shape or form. i do believe smiles do matter but i also believe numbers do matter. he's got to put the numbers out tonight. the numbers that are his ammo. we did 3.5 on appointment for hispanics and black that was the lowest ever and we do have a stark contrast in the fact that he let the economy keep trillions of dollars and joe biden wants to take trillions of dollars out of the economy and i would jump over all of that. i know there is no topic tonight and that is not a practice on the debate front about economy and jobs but one of them is american families and bottom line is american families need to have jobs, good jobs, good wages and we had it back before the pandemic. he just needs to jump all over that and again, let me repeat and i don't think it is sappy he needs to smile and show some charm. neil: interesting. let's look at how the market is handling all of this and i'm not savvy enough t

performance from president trump, pretty good counter punching from joe biden, more control by kristin wel welker views. >> you how would you lead the country during the next stage of the coronavirus crisis. >> i say we're learning to live with it. we have no choice. >> people are learning to die with it. >> if this is true, then he's a corrupt politician. don't give me the stuff about how you're this innocent baby. joe -- >> abraham lincoln here is one

kristin welker did a great job.hris wallace is going around saying -- did you see 91% for trump, 9% for sleepy joe. did you see that? [cheers and applause] a poll. that's when i like polls, you know, when i get 'em in my favor, i like them. when they come in my favor, i repeat them all the time. i say they're great. when they're not in my favor, i don't discuss that. but they are wrong. or they are so wrong. the worst follows are the fox polls, believe it or not. they're the worst. if you see that poll -- same thing i had four years ago. nine states guaranteed loss. i go into the election, i'm saying, man, this is going to be embarrassing tonight. darling, this is going to be a very embarrassing evening. i'm not used to losing. out of nine, i'm down all nine, i'm going to lose all nine. at the end of the evening, i won all nine. [cheers and applause] i was9 9-9. i was 9-9, and i said i think these polls are a little bit off. well, they do it on purpose. you know, it's suppression. they want to depress you. so that y

i have to say, kristin welker, black girl magic, did a fantastic job, let's get that on the table. >>dent said a that by the way. i saw him mouthing to her, good job, thank you. >> that tells you that he knew he to be on good behavior. and that attacking a black woman would not be a good look. i wrote for the daily beast that it was a thing -- tone does matter. he still lied, but it does matter that he on the face of it had a better performance. i agree with anthony, i don't think it changes the dynamics of the race and i don't think that particular hit landed very well. it's convoluded if you have not been following it and it's completely false and untrue. it's not a good look to be attacking people's children. i don't think that the voters who are, you know, still on the fence want to hear that kind of stuff. they wanted to hear a second term agenda and they did not get that before we go to sound about -- i am hearing from a lot of guys, who support the president, men and women, frankly. that this is who we needed him to be, tonight. mike? >> oh, i'm sorry. i thought you were going

i'm kristin welker of nbc news and i welcome you to the final 2020 presidential debate between as anonald j. trump and former vice president joe biden. atonight's debate is sponsoredy the commission on presidential debates. it'ss. conducted under health ad safety protocols designed by the commissions health security advisor. the audience here in the hall has promised to remain silent. no cheers, booze, or other interruptions except right now as we welcome to the stage former vice president joe biden and president donald j. trump. [applause] >> hi, how are you? >> i want to say a very good evening to both of you. this debate will cover six major topics at the beginning of each section, each candidate will have 2 minutes on interrupted to answer my first question. at the debate commission will then turn on their microphone only when it is they are turned to answer. the commission will turn it off exactly when the 2 minutes have expired. after that, both microphones will remain on. but on how he might be half of the voters i'm going to ask you to please speak one at a time. the goal is

. >> it has to come up tonight, and i don't know whether kristin welker, the moderator, will bring itve gotten past the point, stuart, where the mainstream media, the rest of the press can pretend this isn't a news story. it is news. we now have tony bobulinski corroborating much of the material that was on, suggested to have been on hunter biden's laptop, the one they found in the delaware computer shop. so this is news. and it has to be left to the american people to make a decision about what we are hearing. because joe biden, if he were to become president of the united states, will be dealing with an adversary in china. and the question put before the american people is did hunter biden have deals with this chinese company? did joe biden participate in those deals? did he know about them? did he approve of them or did he not? and i think, yes, i expect president trump tonight will put these questions directly to joe biden. he probably will try not to answer them. but certainly before november 3rd comes along, the american people are going to have to make some decision about wheth

email story is concerned, of course that's not on the list of topics from the debate moderator, kristin welker but it is up to trump to bring it up and probably the only time joe biden is really confronted with it. >> sandra: great to have you kick things off this monday morning. thank you. >> trace: shocking new viedio as a man throws a torch into a police car with an officer inside. >> seattle police, stop, dude. >> trace: what happened leading up to the attack. plus president trump and joe biden set to debate one last time before election day. will the president change up his strategy on thursday night? trump campaign press communications director erin perrine joins us with that next. >> president trump: sleepy joe biden has made a corrupt bargain in exchange for his party's nomination. we have the most energy in the history of politics. and he has got the least. look limu! someone out there needs help customizing their car insurance with liberty mutual, so they only pay for what they need. false alarm. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ trump took a good ec

. >> well the moderator of the thursday debate kristin welker intense scrutiny.p democrat ties coming from a family that has donated tens of thousands of dollars to democrats over the years. president trump racketed to the report and accused welker of being terrible and unfair. here to discuss media reporter for the hill joe concha. joe, good morning to you. good morning, steve, how are you? >> steve: i'm good. what do you expect thursday. >> i expect what i have seen already in town halls. a fixed fight going. in top issues according to pugh research in terms of a poll they did what voters care about most. economy, healthcare, supreme court, coronavirus, violent crime, foreign policy, gun policy, you will never guess how many of those topics were chosen by kristen welker going into this final debate a crucial debate. nothing on any of those topics whatsoever. which is amazing. including healthcare. instead we are going to talk about climate change again which occurred in the first debate and that's fine if you want to bring it up. for it to be in two debates and