martha? >> martha: thanks so much, ian pannell in beirut. joined now by white house national security communications adviser, john kirby. good to see you, admiral kirby. >> thanks. >> martha: this morning, hezbollah has had its leadership wiped out and hundreds, if not thousands of operatives wounded or some dead. so who has the keys to hezbollah now, and what changes? >> i don't think that's exactly clear, martha. exactly how they're going to figure out what the leadership structure looks like, and we expect it. somebody will be anointed and somebody will take mr. nasrallah's place. he's been in command of command of hezbollah for some 30 years. so we'll see who they decide to put in charge, and where this goes. i think to your point though, the command structure has been nearly decimated. thousands of missiles and drones destroyed by israel over the last few days. there's no question that the hezbollah today is not the hezbollah that it was even just a week ago. >> martha: but they still have capability. i mean, do you have any estimate of

>> yeah, martha, look.y of the case from the harris campaign was, if you bait donald trump, he will take the bait. i think their strategic goal here is to make the race, in effect, a referendum on trump, to turn him into an incumbent. there's a reason that the united states has not elected a former president in such a long time. it's generally speaking, a country that looks forward. now we're in the unusual position where harris is the incumbent vice president. we also don't have a habit of picking incumbent vice presidents, so whatever the outcome of the election is going to be very, very unusual in historical terms, but i look at those polls and i say, it's really notable the difference between how democrats responded to the defeat of their candidate, joe biden in june, with the full-fledged panic and pushing biden out of the race, versus how republicans have, you know, been confronted with, i think, some pretty serious questions about trump's age, his fitness for office, his ability to answer, to look th

things for joining us, on john roberts. >> i'm sandra smith, the story with martha starts now. >> martha: thank you guys, on martha maccallum and this is the story line from new york, we will take you to aurora colorado where something sandra: very frightening and remarkable is happening. a new report confirms that the venezuelan gang that you have hurt more and more about in this country tda is having a stranglehold on an entire apartment -- apartment complex. this video is from another video in aurora, the province -- police have not confirmed that these particular individuals are gang members. they are investigating that, but the violence of course no surprise has some people very afraid and moving out of these buildings. but first today on the story, a big win for former president trump. the judge in this case has delayed his sentencing, this is the new york criminal case sometimes known as the hush money or stormy daniels case. this decision will be made on sentencing, november 26. this moves it out of the election zone, the former president says he did nothing wrong, he wants this

hi, mark. >> hi, martha.nly going to intensify as hezbollah has endured another major setback. israel launched a targeted strike once again in beirut dr. neighborhood and now they say ibrahima barry to bc is dead. the idf that he was a commander of the -- he was killed alongside additional commanders, last friday israel struck an apartment building in the same neighborhood and killed hezbollah's number 2 abraham akhil as well as several hezbollah commanders. yesterday israel fired at and missed as well as third in command ally correctly at least six people were killed in the strike today. israeli fighter decks are not challenged in disguise over lebanon they have struck at some 1500 targets and their firing primarily at weapons storage and launch sights. in the process more than 500 people have been killed. prime minister benjamin netanyahu blames hezbollah for the violence. >> interpreter: but i'll tell you another thing, -- free yourself from the groups of hezbollah no, yourself from nasrallah' to grip for

. >> martha: okay. jacqui, thank you very much. let's go straight to democratic senator cory booker for the smoke from heart my home state of new jersey he's a member of the harris campaign nationally mattered alongside harris in the senate, the rent i get it started in 2020 democrat primary. senator booker sits on the foreign relations and judiciary committees, very important positions obviously. senator, thank you very much for being with us today. >> is great to have two dirty people together on fox. >> martha: exactly, good to see you, sir. who those stances did you heard an introduction on lowering funding for ice pack on even funding transgender surgery college under surgery for people who have come in to the country illegally or for prisoners, do those stances seem to be three extreme to you and for the american people? >> look, i've served with kamala as you said and let me just tell you in the senate she was a pragmatist and one of the things i really admire about her the most was her willingne

overall we finally got the already, right before an election martha, back to you. >> martha: thank you very much, kelly o'grady, david is here. your take on this half basis points, zero pointer five-point cut, first time in four years. we see other countries around the world do this and now the u.s. >> kelly said it in with one word, there is an election coming up. there is suspicion that what powell is doing is putting his finger on the scale, and making the economy perhaps a little more than it would otherwise. markets right now are going to down because a lot of people are worried, what is it jay policy and of the economy that may require a zero pointer five-point cut? we should let the viewers know, of there is a rate cut over half a point or more, it is usually right before a session. the question is, are those job numbers bad enough, remember we saw those downward revisions that kept coming in, spectacular races seem to be doing well. months later we find out it was only half that number are worse. so is powell really concerned that perhaps we are all nakusp of a recession? that

centres smith this story with martha begins now. >> martha: good afternoon everybody i'm martha maccallum and this is the story. we are waiting right now for hunter biden's tax trial to come back from a quick break-in los angeles. this is kind of bizarre the more we learn about what's going on here. this morning he offered to change his plea to guilty. his lawyer dropped that bombshell on day one of jury selection which was supposed to be today and tomorrow and opening arguments all set for monday as far as the group does government new. and then this. if charge the president's son with dodging more than a million dollars in taxes and a big no-no filing false returns. all that could add up to 17 years in jail the -- jail if convicted prosecutors say instead of paying taxes this period he spent his money among other things on adult entertainment and various women in adult entertainment. >> some of this is just raising quite a few questions. let's go first to our chief correspondent on the scene jonathan hunt live at the courthouse. what we're hearing from you and your producer raising a lo

martha. >> martha: make sense at this point and i think all of us would assume the extra protections would be put in place after butler, pennsylvania. thank you very much. with spring and stuart kaplan former fbi special agent in criminal defense and frank leverage former secret service special agent in charge. thank you so much for being here. frank i want to start with you. obviously everyone is relieved that this secret service agent saw that gun poking through the fence but the question is how was it possible that this perimeter was not completely covered, given that you have a former president, a current presidential candidate and a person who has been shot out in the last two months? >> thank you for having neon. the first thing i want to say is on a golf course, i've been on the presidents golf course with george w. bush and president obama, it's moving and we are moving with it as what goes hold a hole. it's very important you expand the perimeter to know when the president is on the hole you have to defend yourself against any attack from 360 around you and that was not done

. >> john: 's story with martha maccallum starts now. >> martha: thank you very much, good afternoon, martha maccallum and this is the story. right now former president trump, we have been watching, he is visiting a firehouse in shanksville, pennsylvania after touring the flight 93 memorial which is an extraordinary, moving experience. that is the flight 93 memorial obviously recognizing what happened there on september 11th, one flight 93 went down into the field and 40 lives were lost not a plane, remembers and passengers. we're waiting for former president trump in the current gop candidate for the presidency of the united states to speak, just a few moments from now, we saw him here earlier in new york city at the 9/11 ceremony which is a stirring an important annual event, lack commands the respect it and the presence of leaders in this country, that is why we saw former president trump, vice president harris, president biden and alongside former president trump was his running mate, j.d. vance. senator j.d. vance joins us live in studio to speak about his service, he joined the

so many differences of opinion, martha.n you are as dangerously liberal as she is, very easy to point out all of those flaws and she can run but she could not hide from her 10-year during the biden administration. when you look at what this debate will be, it will be the opportunity to see 2 candidates who have a fundamentally different through of what this country should look like. one believes we should not prosecute people who come into this country illegally and as a matter of fact we should have an open border, the only industrial country in the world that would have one. the other says let's build a wall, a big, beautiful wall and put americans first. there are clear policy differences. not to candidates who see the world in the same view. >> martha: i think that has been clear -- clear. she has inched closer on a number of things. we should get her a hat the other day, i don't know if we would hear that or if she would consider that going low. someone i just spoke with also a surrogate for the campaign, i asked him,

martha. >> martha: thank you very much.can national committee chairman michael whatley is here with me in new york. good to see a michael thank you for joining us. what do you make of those power rankings to start our conversation sliding georgia and north carolina to toss-up firmly in our? >> we have always known we would have seven to ten battleground states that would decide this election. it's not surprising to see that those states are going to be very close. they'll go up and down in the elections on an. we feel comfortable about where we are in georgia and about where we are in north carolina. what we are seeing in every single one of these battleground states is that on the same day in 2024 donald trump is doing better than he was in the same day in 2020 or 2016. we feel very comfortable about the trajectory of this raised and the direction of it. >> martha: i think that's so important to point out because i covered both of those elections and in 2016 hillary clinton was ahead maybe four or five points is something

do you tomorrow, "the story" with martha maccallum starts right now. >> martha: good afternoon everybody and martha maccallum and this is "the story". we have a very big hour ahead. it was speak to robert f. kennedy jr. this afternoon and also the white house john kirby both joining me here in studio. buffers, form president trump eking to "real and specific threats on his life by ironic ". he did that today in battleground north carolina just moments ago, he says he believes based on the briefing he got last night from u.s. intelligence officials that they will try to strike again. >> mr. trump: meanwhile we have the president of iran in our country this week, they have large security forces guarding him, yeah, that are threatening to a former president and leading candidate to become the next president of the united states break certainly as strange set of circumstances around the world, our enemies are desperate to prevent donald trump from returning to the white house because they know i will make america great again and they don't want that. >> martha: so now a scaving report on the

martha back to you. >> martha: steve harrigan thank you very much. fox corporation has made donation to the red cross hurricane helene relief efforts and if you would like to help with safe shelter, hot meals, emotional support and other resources for victims please visit redcross.org/fox were easy way just hold your phone up and scan it on the screen. make your donation and something easy that all of us can do to help our fellow americans that are so devastated right now in this country. >>> speaking of devastation israel has relayed a plan now for an imminent ground invasion of lebanon. as iran is weighing what their reaction would be for the killing of hezbollah's top terrorist. >> we stand firm against them, that make them regret their actions and cut off the hands and feet of the aggressor. >> martha: strong words. former navy seal sniper jack carr who has done extensive research on the reign of terror in lebanon, he joins us in moments and he wrote a book about beirut and we will get to talk to jack carr next. or ga. ga can be unpredictable—and

back to you. >> martha: thank you very much. cb. sources telling fox federal prosecutors have indicted multiple people tied to iran for the hacking of the trump campaign. last week u.s. intelligence officials said iranian malicious cyber actors in late june and early july sent unsolicited emails to individuals associated with president biden's campaign. an excerpt taken from stolen material from president trump's campaign. there is currently no information indicating those recipients replied. meanwhile the house task force on the july 13th trump assassination attempt in butler, pennsylvania, had their first hearing yesterday and the lawmakers on both sides of the aisle ripped the secret service for quote preventable failures in planning and communication. this comes after intel officials warned the trump campaign that he continues to have threats from iran. >> we also have to start looking at the adversarial challenges when it comes to iran who as you know the ayatollah himself posted a video that was alluding to the fact they want

>> martha: thank you very much. max gordon reporting. >> thank you. >> [bleep] [bleep] . >> bill: didn't see that one coming. freight train smashing into a semi truck carrying a mobile artillery vehicle in south carolina. check out that tank. bystander said the 18 wheeler got struck trying to drive over a train crossing. fortunately no one was injured. you don't see that every day, right? rarely, if ever, okay. we're onto that. friday morning we conclude hour number one. roll into hour two. we'll look at where the candidates are going today and give clues as to what we're seeing out there. they're reaching out directly to voters hitting swing states trying to build their base in political precincts that usually vote the other way to poach support from the other side or at least limit their numbers and expand the razor thin path to victory as we see it on the board. second hour begins now. dana has the day off. bill hemmer, happy to have our friend and colleague with us today. >> martha: great to be with you. so welc

martha. >> martha: trey yingst think he ran much.with that we bring erectile -- retired general ben hodges and commended u.s. troops in iraq and afghanistan general it's all was good to have you with us. thank you very much for joining us. there is continued respondents here is what the white house press secretary said let's watch. >> two days away through dizzily from securing a cease-fire. and will do speak general what's you're take on that? >> of course france was a part of this as well. france and the united states working with the israeli government. prime minister benjamin netanyahu had been a part of these efforts to come up with a cease-fire so his decision to back or walk away from the last few hours grow by those there is a loosely a lot on the line for our country and this is our closest ally in the middle east. what is our obligation as you understand it to protect israel, given what it's facing right now? >> well, i think the u.s. policy for so long has being obviously guarantee the survival of israel and that we will i

martha, back to you. >> martha: thank you very much. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: well, martha, aren'trs pitcher ohtani, now the first player in mlb history to hit 50 home runs with 50 stolen bases, it's called a 50/50 all in one season. watch here. >> ohtani sends one in the air, the other way, back it goes. gone! one-of-a-kind player. one-of-a-kind season. shohei ohtani starts the 50/50 club. >> dana: i didn't know what the 2020 club was earlier this week. the cincinnati reds. it's when you have 20/20, 30/30. >> martha: i didn'

martha. >> martha: nate thank you very much.at we bring in former cia covert operations officer mike baker hosted the presidents daily podcasts and has worked in 70 different countries around the world as a cia operative mike always good to have you with us that you're joining us. now we see these bombs going off in southern lebanon. are we at the beginning of an escalation of a war in the middle east? what do you see here? >> thank they've been redeploying their resources from the south from gaza effort up north for some time now. laying the groundwork for this. whether this turns into a major offensive into southern lebanon you have to ask but what they've done is essentially set the table for that. the pager operation, the walkie-talkies operation, really froze up despite what might have been said a really froze up the control of hezbollah and it creates that fear and paranoia they don't know who to trust in that moment. that support you could argue of setting the table for a further offensive. >> martha: i want to play this

. >> martha: good afternoon everybody i'm martha maccallum and this is the story from new york. we are about to hear from white house press secretary karine jean-pierre, there is a lot to answer to this afternoon. this is the first time we've had a white house briefing since august 14th, quite a bit has happened since then. after the hamas murder of american hostage hersh goldberg polin, that as a vice president biden has scolded president benjamin netanyahu for not doing enough to bring them home while leaving harsh words for hamas in a paper statement only. >> mr. president, you think it's time for prime minister benjamin netanyahu to do more what he think he's doing enough? >> no. >> martha: fox news chief foreign correspondent trey jinxed god reaction in israel to those comments from president biden. >> i asked officials for remarks from president biden, what did the president think about what's going on with american citizens in gaza while he is on the be beach? >> martha: four-star general jack keane is standing by, let's bring in danny dan in israel's ambassador to the un

. >> sandra: this story with martha maccallum starts right now. >> martha: we do expect an update it shortly and we will take you there live it, good afternoon everybody on martha maccallum and this is the story. keep an eye on this, vice president kamala harris is in new hampshire, we expect to hear from her shortly, she will be speaking on the economy and we expect to get some reaction from her regarding to this tragedy unfolding in georgia. five high school students killed at apalachee high school in winder aga georgia outside of atlanta. nine others in hospital, we saw some of them getting taken away on stretchers, this horrific scene playing out. the suspect is in custody and is alive, which happens but not often into these situations. we will learn more about who that suspect is shortly. senior correspondent steve harrington were -- reports live from outside of the school, good afternoon to you steve. >> good afternoon, the facts now as we know them, the numbers, five people killed by the shooter, at least nine wounded a serious enough to be hospitalized, money taken away by he

>> martha: okay.ly and, your reaction to the first question out of the gate for both of those candidates? >> is pretty typical. i found the vice president to be a little condescending if not rude to the moderators today when they dared pusher to actually answer the question that the asked and had every right to ask including whistle probably 30 minutes ago at question about handguns. she wanted to talk about assault weapons, the moderator tried to get her back talk about handguns. she doesn't like that and i think kamala harris takes the media for granted the way she takes for granted, you know, hardcore democrats who have never voted any other way, we'll are excited about her candidacy and a ring her hats, buttons and shirts. she already feels like she has their constituency so he or she already feels like she can back the media around a little bit and brenda -- when he went for the interview last week -- last month and i think that these moderators lose an opportunity to ask questions that people ar

martha, thank you.. >> martha: hemmer is sitting somewhere being bummed out. >> dana: here is harris faulkner. "the

right now it's still anybody's game, martha. >> martha: byron donalds is on deck but first let's go to bryan llenas from pennsylvania today. hi, brian. >> vice president kamala harris has spent more time in pennsylvania than any other battleground this campaign. it is a must-win. yesterday in north carolina while campaigning there, she made clear that having another presidential debate, she thinks, will help her chances in the commonwealth which polls show is a neck-and-neck tied race. president trump says he doesn't need another debate. he won anyway. >> i believe we owe it to the voters to have another debate. >> we've done two debates. because they were successful there will be no third debate. it is too late, anyway. the voting has already begun. >> in their first post debate campaign stops, harris and her running mate tim walz mocked former president trump's debate performance. >> do you remember? he has quote concepts of a plan. concepts of a plan. which means no actual plan. >> tell me you have this on your bingo card and they're eating cats. they're eating cats. >> meanwhile fo

the story with martha stretching out. >> martha: thank you very much. i martha maccallum. this is the story. how is it possible that 2 shooters came within yards of president trump in just the past couple of months. moments ago the acting secret service director ronald rowe tried to explain that. and he also tried to explain what he's doing to make sure that it cannot happen again. he did reveal some new details about what went wrong july 13th. including how the gunman managed to get up on that roof and then people in the crowds followed him and yet he was still able to fire shots. watch this. >> he's on the roof. >> we have people-- >> is on the roof. >> martha: that so chilling to listen to. here's the acting secret service director just moments ago. >> they should have been clearer direction about what we needed done at the aegir building. that was discussed during the advance but i think there is lack of follow-through based on the information i have now and what i'm seeing. there should have been better follow-through in some aspects of that about access control to th

martha. >> martha: so far. thank you. i don't know how these commercial pilots are going to be able to determine what israel and what isn't. they're supposed to be able to rely on the messages they're getting and the cockpit. is a stunning story and not thank you so much. former counterterrorist coordinator on the growing possibility that war is widening. in the middle east. and how it threatens to overshadow president biden's final moments on the world stage. that is next. the freestyle libre 3 plus sensor tracks your glucose in real time, and over time it can help lower your a1c. ♪ this is progress. learn more and try for free at freestylelibre.us ♪ ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy. even a term policy? even a term policy! find out if you're sitting on a goldmine. call coventry direct today at the number on your screen, or visit c

martha, thank you so much for joining us. well, thank you joe. i'm so happy to be with you, martha. i have so many things to ask you that it's probably not even possible to do it in 30 minutes, but here goes. so let's start with big pharma, and with the development of new drugs you wrote an important article in salon in which you said that these companies will issue a press release about some so called unrecognized disease bill. launch a tv campaign to quote, raise awareness about it. they'll send people to their doctors for prescriptions and then develop a 2nd drug to boost the 1st drug either because the 1st drug doesn't work or because people don't have this so called disease and the 1st place. so tell us about this vicious cycle and how the big pharmaceutical companies perpetuated. well sure, john, i'll you know, which is pretty apparent to anybody who watches tv that they really capture um, tv advertising, especially news media and, and there what we call the, the ads are dtc direct to the, to consumer advertising. is what was very insidious because my background is advertising

thank you, martha. so we're going to take a short break, and when we come back, we're going to continue our conversation with journalists, martha rosenberg about the things pharma and agribusiness in the united states. and about the effects that these the norm is. industries have on our health, the situation is not good state to the. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 the, the, the, the welcome back to the list of lawyers i'm going through yahoo. were speaking with martha rosenberg. she's a veteran journalist who writes frequently about the impact of the pharmaceutical food and gun industries on public health. her work has appeared in the boston globe, the san francisco chronicle, the chicago tribune salon and elsewhere. thanks again for being with us. martha. thank you. yeah, i'm so happy to meet you and be on your show. well, the pleasure is all mine. believe me, martha. i have a cousin with whom i'm very close. a few years ago she developed a heart condition and she required surgery to install a heart pump. she had t

thank you martha. or we're going to take a short break, and when we come back, we're going to continue our conversation with journalists, martha rosenberg about the things pharma and agribusiness in the united states. and about the effects that these the norm is. industries have on our health, the situation is not a good state to the. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 the, the way it slows alone is that he's got to see what we can send it to the most signal. supply the gracious to the task. ok. do you guys do you guys effect pacific? what's the real quick look at that more than enough storage air conditioning? well, the so total on the 15. yeah. well, the other stuff and i do see there with these reasoning, they don't put them in. yeah. well, the, as i said, i've had or the the, the, the welcome back to the list of lawyers. i'm just curious because we're speaking with martha rosenberg. she's a veteran journalist who writes frequently about the impact of the pharmaceutical food and gun industries on public health. her

yeah, she's great. >> martha: she's great because of bob.eroic actions reminded us of senior correspondent steve harrigan who did the same thing. pulled somebody to safety after hurricane ian hit in florida in 2022. reporting live from crystal river, florida, where officials say floodwaters from helene reached as high as 10 feet. you are a hero as well. sometimes when you are covering these stories you have to jump and as you have in the past. >> that's really good work by bob. modest as well about the whole thing. across four states other people have not been as fortunate. we have 35 dead from the storm and it's been going up each hour as far as the electricity goes we have more than 800,000 people still without power. when you talk to people decide to ride this out, many are simply stunned about what they see in front of them. >> i wasn't even expecting to be nothing like this. i thought maybe wind damage or anything. trees falling. i never expected this. this is beyond. >> as we walk into the home our whole entire home is completely ruine

. >> come on martha. she was impressed on single issue. that is why we see these dials and independent voters responding they are like i didn't really, i still don't know where she stands. >> she's going to turn 60 next month. let me answer. first of all martha you would do an incredible job as a debate moderator their guy would sign for you to be the debate moderator if they win again because smacked donald trump doesn't agree with you. >> he might change his mind. he changes his mind sometimes when it comes to media. he loves megyn kelly now and didn't love megyn kelly for a while either. so let's be clear. but look here's what i think is the essence of things. they didn't at all push back on her. she's going to turn 60 in october. that's not a young person. she now disagrees with every opinion she had when she was 55 or 56 and running for president. on some really significant things like whether or not we should build a wall at the border but also on some crazy things which anyone would with a function

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but, i didn't think martha and bret were good last night. i thought jesse was fantastic last night what he said. jesse really got it. jesse said trump won that debate. we won that debate by a lot. i wouldn't want martha involved. but i would sake some others. >> steve: mr. president, so these are the dates that fox offered your campaign and harris' campaign. october 9th in arizona. october 15th in georgia. october 16th in north carolina. of course the big question is would you want the microphones on when you are not -- you no, when the other person is talking you want both microphones on at all times. >> she wanted a moment like she did with mike pence i actually got that moment too. i won that, too. from she didn't know people were listening too much. but i was hearing her i had a little fun with that. when two firefighters fight and one loses the first thing they do ask for a fight or n case a debate. we had two people. they lost very badly the first thing they did is ask for a debate because when a fighter loses he says i want a rematch.

>> martha: how did you feel? after all of this, you hear the hunter biden is finally decided to plead guilty when basically he had nowhere else to turn at this point. he's deep into a corner. he has made it difficult for the doj, for his own attorneys, all the people who spent hours and time preparing for this, then he marches in there today. as you have pointed out, this story is not finished. we have to see if we agreed to this drama. not happy about the fact they didn't know this was coming. great to have everybody. we've had a lot of breaking news and we have showed you so much of the former president laying out his economic policy and that was good to watch. then all that's happening here we are all over the story. literally at 3:00 p.m. eastern with martha maccallum, as she also gets into the hunter biden news as well today. today. "america reports" now. >> for four straight years i

>> david: martha raddatz leading us off here. martha, thank you. one more question on this, i want to get to our chief foreign correspondent ian pannell, live in beirut tonight. and ian, we were both on the ground covering israel's war with hezbollah two decades ago now. what's the real concern tonight, after what we witnessed already here? >> reporter: i think civilian casualty rate is likely to climb, not at least because like hamas, hezbollah comes from these local populations. that is where they store and fire weapons from, and then that brings retaliation. and hezbollah has a lot more fire power, fighters, and external support than hamas. that means they can damage israel much greater. they are capable of hitting almost neitheanywhere in israel. israel's invasions of wars in the past ultimately didn't make the country safe or diminish hezbollah. so what can israel really do differently this time? david? >> david: ian pannell, martha raddatz, thank you. >>> meantime, back here in the u.s. tonight, the new tropical threat gaining strength, set t

martha was not there for george's inauguration either. but martha had written a letter at one point in her life to john which said that and fortunately how could they, the southerners, reconcile human bondage with the ideology of freedoms that america had fought for. and abigail hired a free african-american named james, who worked at their farm. and during the early days of the atlas administration, she wrote to her husband about a rather upsetting incident in which she was trying to get james educated. and she believed in education. she was part of a first education, first lady. and so she fought for him to attend to local school. but there was a neighbor who objected and she responds to that neighbor. and she told her husband with the question, is this the christian principle of doing to others as we would have others do to us? abigail eventually prevailed, not surprisingly, and james was educated after abigail. the next first lady, to show any interest in civil rights and equality for african-americans was mary lincoln, who had come f

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>> david: martha raddatz also live in the region tonight. martha, thank you. >>> to the news back here at home tonight. the federal reserve with the biggest interest rate cut in 16 years today. it's a sign the fed believes the u.s. has now turned a corner on inflation. the aggressive cut, a half percent. what this now means for car loans, mortgages, credit card debt. here's rebecca jarvis. >> reporter: tonight, welcome relief for millions of americans after the federal reserve moved aggressively to slash interest rates by half a percentage point, an unusually large cut, and the first decrease in four years. >> the u.s. economy is in good shape. it's growing at a solid pace. inflation is coming down. the labor market is in a strong place. we want to keep it there. >> reporter: the warren family has been trying to pay off over $15,000 in credit card debt. >> a reduction in interest is really kind of a breath of fresh air, because i feel like we can never get ahead. i just feel like this is going to help make a bigger dent in getting back on tr

saying you can do as you like with it. >> and apparently martha only ate half of the chocolate. maybe it didn't taste so good. the remaining chocolate, along with the tin, the note, and two medals from platt's time in the military, are actually set to go on auction for at least $1,000. i would think it would be more than that, wouldn't you? >> would take the tiniest little bite. i absolutely would not. >> are you crazy? are you? that's a no. absolutely >> andrea, break the tie. >> i would take a little, little. >> thank you. >> i'm an honest person of steel. i don't think chocolate goes bad. >> right? you don't have to refrigerate it. >> it's from a bean. it's natural. >> it was more than a century ago. let me just remind you that you would do it with wine. >> next. if leftover chocolate from more than a century ago won't turn your stomach. this will probably do it. >> a french daredevil known for vertigo inducing videos is now sharing his latest stunt flying down the flank of a mountain in the austrian alps. high speed in a paraglider. >> i can't even watch this. and in what ap

i'm martha raddatz. joining you live from philadelphia and across the globe with our powerhouse team coverage as kamala harris and donald trump are set to face off for the first time in a presidential debate in less than 59 minutes. >> and i'm jonathan karl. when kamala harris and donald trump walk on that debate stage in less than an hour, it will be the very first time they have been face to face. the first time the two have ever met. and the circumstances of tonight's meeting, beyond extraordinary. kamala harris is now the democratic nominee without competing in a single primary. donald trump, the republican nominee, stands indicted for his efforts to overturn the last election and has suggested he won't accept the results of this one if he doesn't win. joining us at the anchor desk, chief white house correspondent mary bruce, senior congressional correspondent rachel scott. both have been out on the campaign trail crisscrossing the country with the candidates, gearing up for what could be the most co

martha, thank you. >>> we turn to the race for president tonight. election day, of course, 47 days away. tonight, the key battle for michigan. vice president kamala harris with oprah winfrey tonight. win free, who says she's an independent, making the case that values and character matter most, in her words. former president donald trump, mean while, trying to win support from jewish voters after claiming vice president harris doesn't like jewish people. her own husband is jewish. here's mary bruce. >> reporter: tonight, vice president kamala harris touching down in battleground michigan, hoping to harness the star power of one of her most influential supporters -- oprah winfrey. >> together, let's all choose kamala harris. >> reporter: the queen of talk hosting a virtual rally with harris, hoping to reach voters in the critical states that will determine this race. the campaign touting that nearly 200,000 people are registered for the online event. oprah, a self-proclaimed independent, speaking directly to the sliver of voters who could make the di

>> david: martha raddatz in the middle east all week for us, martha, dhaung. >>> back here in the u.s tonight the acting head of the secret service blaming his own agency for a litany of failures in butler, pennsylvania that allowed a gunman to fire at former president trump. here's pierre thomas. >> reporter: tonight, a damning new internal report from the secret service revealing extraordinary communication and planning failures leading up to the attempted assassination of former president trump in pennsylvania. and a stunning admission of a lack of diligence by the secret service. >> there was complacency on the part of others that led to a breach of security protocols. >> reporter: acting director ronald rowe admitting agents never had a plan to secure the roof of a nearby building with a clear line of sight on trump. >> look, there he is. >> reporter: and never heard in realtime local police radio traffic that the suspect was identified with a gun on that roof. >> so there was a lack of clarity that that roof should be secure, period, full stop? >> there was discussion about how