and so part of the story, the nra, the nra is like an arms dealer. they to it's not like they're tied to one side. they want they one side to buy, the other side to buy. and so after the murder of george floyd for example, there was a very targeted a very targeted campaign at black and latino populations to say the police aren't going to protect. in fact, they might harm you, so you better carry a gun. and then when a of black owners started buying guns, then they went back to the white and hers and they're look, all the black people have guns. you guys buy some more guns. and so, in a way, cycle is very conscious and now my fellow, after october 7th, they l.a. -- are rushing out to get guns, you know, so this is not happening randomly. so i just want to i just want to highlight that there is a conscious market here, but i would also say that that idea of there are all these binaries that i played with and because health is the foil of the book it's the it's the argument that's the convincing to the people should be convinced by this. and i say this

has powerfully told people and trump said it again at the nra convention last friday nobody is goingto come take your gun and when you see guns as your protector, the idea that somebody will come take away your protection is a mobilizer. for me every time there's a new variant of covid early on i probably bought 500 masks every time. it was like a new thing, maybe my old mask is not good enough. i saw people who were not like the crazy people on twitter, who were like somebody is going to take my protection and but they put purchase 5 more guns in case that would happen. that narrative is a provocation. construction of a particular market but it also goes hand-in-hand with the kind of dk of all the other things that keep us safe or connected in society but the interviews i've been doing i did the interview before i came here, the interviewer kept saying conservative gun owners, let me tell you, the fastest growing bun gun owners are black women, there are black gun club is forming across the south for example. part of the story, the nra is like an arms dealer, not like they are tied

what we did not see is the nra was doing a lot of work during the time of the band. what the effects of the ban was places that were doing gun research in place in blue states that want to support or liberals like me who are tenured in a bubble. people doing the gun work for liberals in places like boston. the people who were going to be impacted by the policies they were proposing for these already resentful red state people. there's all this research i show before the ban was lifted it was kind of like a blue state public health people in the red state people were supposed to follow the rules. it made it to easy odyssey for the nra to come inse and say ths is big government and that liberals telling yount what to o and we just had no counter to that.ni we don't just happen for a long time under the band that's kind of the story itself. and has his unintended consequences is the stage for red state americans to blue states and government we did not seew it coming. we felt like everyone's going to follow the rules is an oversimplification. that is part off the story.

i want to be clear on this the nra's organization i grew up with it was about gun safety.e nra went especially on things we can even do research on with gun violence. i've made it clear that sitting with the sandy hook parents and with some of these kids that were in schools with the school shootings and having friends that are around these things, he have a profound impact on me but look, i will defend the second amendment. there is nothing with the extreme risk protection orders or background checks that will stop you from owning that. i think we're talking about things like trigger locks and things responsible gun owners do these things anyway so look this is a red herring issue we can own guns and protect the second amendment and then our first responsibility is protecting our children and society. i know we can do that. i think this idea of just brushing it off saying well this is just the way things are, why would we not research what's causing this? why would the gun manufacturers oppose understanding exactly why america is so different than other going -- gun ownin

we have requested that that nra individuals who were surreptitious stay involved in the preparation of this hearings. and there is new york times story, which i think you would wish to address, because it goes directly to your involvement. gentleman is not stating, i am parliamentary mind. parliamentary inquiry. we were told by the chairman yesterday and by you that you will consult with your leadership before you respond to our request that nra officials involved in the preparation of this hearing be invited and testify under oath. my inquiry, mr. chairman, is at what point will this. we will. we discussed discussed with the leadership the decision that we made relative to that request. and they have concurred with our judgment. we are not going to have subpoenas of either mnre or other outside groups. we're really here to get at the bottom of what happened at waco and that's what we're going to do. mr. chairman, i have not used this term until now, but now i'm afraid we are confronting a cover of the cover up of the involvement of the national rifle association in the preparation of

harris, as far as we know, is not speaking to the nra. so i think in terms of the people that probably vote on the second amendment, you know trump still has an edge there. >> yeah, yeah yeah, i almost forgot. there's questions about trump's gun ownership because he's a convicted felon he's a convicted felon. >> but the conviction is not final yet until he goes through all appeals. so as of right now, he's still lawfully able to possess a firearm. >> this is why we have you at the table. >> thank you very much for that. >> thank thanks to our joining us. i'm kasie hunt. don't go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now

this follows a number of other cancellations, even an event with the nra. what is going on there? what is his strategy? >> i think it is interesting. the most important at tribute for president is looking for strength. harris looked strong on fox. she's been doing all kinds of forums and podcasts and trump meanwhile has been -- he canceled 60 minutes. he canceled the cnbc appearance and he canceled the second debate and an nra rally and the shade room podcast with black voters. so that shows that he's -- i mean, he's looking weak. he's the one that looks defensive and week and harris looks confident and strong and that is why i feel like the physics of this race have changed in the last 40 to 48 hours. it looks like she's balling and he's stalling an falling. >> got to leave it there. i appreciate you both. thank you so much and happy friday. >>> still ahead, the profiting president. new allegations that donald trump was overcharged secret service agents to stay in his hotel back when he was in office. >>> and in a year that brought us everything from heat waves to hurricanes, a l

i'm proud to stand with the nra to protect the rights of sportsmen and gun owners. >> when he was inis constituency really supported the second amendment. there were a lot of hunters and fishermen and women in his district, and he was one of them himself. >> tim stood up time and time again for the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen. it's why the nra gave tim an a rating. >> throughout his time in congress, he had taken liberal votes. he had taken moderate votes. but he had an a rating from the nra the entire time. >> breaking news tonight-- the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history. >> narrator: in the midst of the campaign, the gun issue kept forcing its way into the news, first in las vegas, and then in parkland. >> ...that they are responding to an active shooter at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. >> guns become a core issue for the democratic coalition. anyone with an a rating from the nra is considered to, you know, have a scarlet letter. >> narrator: walz was under pressure politically and personally, especiall

the nra.tead he's isolated in his right wing media bubble taking softball interviews that includes the fox town hall that was meant to feature trump speaking with women voters. they are now reporting that the room was filled with republican supporters. considering the rambling and incoherent things he said, it's easy to understand why he's staying inside the safe bubble. >> i was so amazed that harvey weinstein. lincoln was a great president, but i always said, why wasn't that settled? i love cows, but if we go with kamala, you won't have any cows. this one here. ,. >> his cognitive decline on further display friday in detroit. all those interviews we mentioned that he had canceled, listen to what he told a reporter just yesterday. >> what event of i canceled? she doesn't go to any events. >> she does not go to any events. we saw her in michigan and tonight she's in atlanta with usher not to mention she's continued her media blitz since going into unfriendly territory with brett baier. and she

i mean, and nra event, anyone? what is safer for donald trump to attend than that? and we should point out, in case you don't remember, this is only noticeable change in just four years ago. because just four years ago by the end of october, trumpet done an interview at 60 minutes and grilled by savannah guthrie, and he had already debated joe biden twice. but now, in 2024, he pretty much just hungers down among friends in safe spaces like fox news. which even that, according to fox trump news isn't friendly enough. >> i'm going to see rupert murdoch and tell him something very simple. don't put on negative commercials for 21 days. and don't put on their horrible people that come in life. i'm going to say, rupert, please do it this way, and then we are going to have a victory. >> i love the scratching of the head on the side of that couch. even though a very comfortable looking couch for trump is not comfortable enough. all of this raises two very big questions -- why is trump backing out of so many things? less than three weeks out from the election? why is the onl

event, so it's not even just that he's kind of dodging maybe tough interviews and the nra is a very friendly crowd interviews. but what he's not dodging our actual campaign events, he's had except for the 21 he had 21 campaign vince last month compared to vice president harris 13. that's a significant number. i went on his website today to just see what events he has upcoming over the next five days, i counted 89 events where the former president will be governor walz, had seven events last month compared to jd vance is 14 events. so the trump jd vance ticket, they're out there they're talking to their voters. maybe they're skipping a couple of interviews, i think is less important to sit down with journalists and more important to be out there rallying your base. this is going to be a turnout election. i think they have the right strategy. >> if it gets a little tired when a man gets to a certain age, you gets charged if you want to swap him out there, days left, we've done this. you can just put in president vance, but look at the the end of the day, what she's doing is a mastercl

guns and i am a big protector of the second amendment and if you think that is easy, not easy but the nra gave me total endorsement, i assume you got total endorsement and we have no choice we have to have it especially when we have you know it is amazing these radical left lunatics, they want everybody to come into our country, many of the people are criminals and then they also want to take your guns away simultaneously. so you need it for protection. you know somebody knows that you have a gun in your house, they say, let us go after somebody else. people put signs, this gun or we have, some of them actually even spell the kind of gun we have, we have an ak-47 inside and people say you know what, let us just, i know an ak-47 firm a few weeks ago and i know about the ar-15, but you know what, you have a lot of bad people out there and you can't you know can't just be a one-way street and you know one thing because she wants to take your guns away, if you take them away the dead guys are not giving them up, that is the only thing. i do not think the good people are giving them up, either

we need leaders that can stand up to bullies and that can stand up to the nra. i would support a ban. and i support extended and universal background checks. i would support a ban on extended ammunition clips. mr. garvey was asked a few weeks ago if he would support any gun control measure and he said no. californians want a leader like dianne feinstein that will stand up to the nra. moderator: last week temperatures in the bay area were 30 degrees above normal. san francisco hit 97 degrees. that is the highest october temperature in some 30 years. these conditions have become more common across california and they increase the threat of wildfires. what specific policies would you push to make our state more resilient to climate change and devastating wildfires and other disasters? rep. schiff: i have been meeting with people around the state that can't get insurance for their homes or businesses because of the threat of fire. communities that have been wiped out and lives lost. we have had tragic accidents recently involving california firefighters and the loss

i'm a member of the nra and i'm always packing. >> but now michael oher claims he was blindsided by theovie. so many of us know and love. >> when you go into a locker room and your teammates don't think you can learn a playbook, you know that weighs heavy in an epic plot twist, no one saw coming or now suing the family who took him in the former nfl star in court this week alleging the celebrated tuohy family owe him millions. >> the case now in the hands of a judge, the retired nfl star questioning everything he thought was true or doubting his once close relationship with the tuohy family. >> he thinks i birthed him. it's gotten to the point where i think i birthed him. >> they just consistently referred to michael as their son and sometimes as their adopted son. and so that's what the world believes, you know, that they adopted him in coming to terms with the damage he says the movie did to his life and career. the movie is something that will shadow michael or for life. >> people don't know anything about me. i mean, you might see something on tv and think, you know, but you got to

ramone has been taking money from the nra. need to prioritize people and making sure everyone is safe. in an advanced society we don't have weapons of war that can be brought to school. i will do everything in my power to keep our children safe and that includes additional gun regulation. tom: that concludes our time available for questions. i want to give both of you a chance to offer concluding thoughts. >> we will leave the last couple of minutes of the delaware debate but you can watch it at c-span.org/campaign. we take you to grand rapids, michigan for a rally with democratic presidential nominee, vice president kamala harris. ♪ vp harris: good afternoon, michigan! good afternoon! give it up for brian! [applause] good afternoon, michigan. [laughter] [cheering and applause] it's good to be back. [cheering and applause] good afternoon. [laughter] oh my goodness. ok. [laughter] thank you. let's get to business. thank you, thank you. thank you all. it's good to be back. thank you, thank you, ok let's get to work. let's get to

cancelling "60 minutes," cancelling an appearance on cnbc, cancelling a number of media availabilities, nracancelling a second debate. what are advisors saying about this new strategy? >> i think whether it is because donald trump is tired by the end of the campaign -- i mean, he has been an angrier version of donald trump for the last couple of weeks. apart from the dancing, which was just bizarre, the events have gone a little haywire for him. is there a thinking that if he is going to do more of the dancing on stage and not want to abc questions because, he tired? is he elderly? at 79, he'd be the oldest president ever elected in the united states. multiple news organizations questioning his mental acuity at the moment. is this the best time to have him out there? the rallies are tricky for him because of security concerns. what are the formats in which he is not going to do exactly what we're looking at right there, that becomes the butt of a joke instead of something that will convince voters? >> you are back from a sold out arena tour of the uk, your oasis. this is all for your politi

look what he's canceled, cnbc, "60 minutes," an nbc interview, an nra rally. and meanwhile harris is going into the lines on fox, charlamagne tha god, call her daddy podcast. she's going everywhere and suddenly she looks strong and confident and he looks weak. the most important attribute people are looking at is that. that's obama level performance, right? >> i do -- i agree with park. the fact that people are looking at both these campaigns, dan, and they're saying oh, harris must be desperate because she's going on fox, at the same time trump is canceling a number of high profile media interviews, which to me suggests he's not that confident or the campaign isn't thatth confident. do you think, you know, in hind set she got what she needed to get out of that fox interview? >> absolutely. she looked strong. she handled bret bair. 700 million people watched it, and you know what the market for that interview was pittsburgh, pennsylvania. so she got exactly what she wanted out it. you don't go on fox because you're desperate but because you're confident. his c

interviews left and right, including can 60 minutes, cnbc, nbc, and a rally with the trump friendly nraco reported today trump was also in talks to sit down with a social media outfit, the shade room, but like the others, that fell through. politico writes, a trump adviser told the shade room producers that trump was exhausted and refusing some interviews but that could change at any time, according to two people familiar with the conversations. vp harris responded to that report from the campaign trail. >> i have been hearing reports that his team at least is saying he's suffering from exhaustion. and that's apparently the excuse for why he's not doing interviewed and of course he's not doing the cnn town hall. he refuses to do another debate. and you know, look, being president of the united states is probably one of the hardest jobs in the world, so we really do need to ask if he's exhausted being on the campaign trail, if he is fit to do the job. and i think that's a question that is an open ended question that he needs to answer. >> do remember, this comes from the oldest nominee e

the nra. so i think in terms of the people that probably vote on the second amendment, you know trump still has an edge there. >> yeah, yeah yeah, i almost forgot. there's questions about trump's gun ownership because he's a convicted felon he's a convicted felon. >> but the conviction is not final yet until he goes through all appeals. so as of right now, he's still lawfully able to possess a firearm. >> this is why we have you at the table. >> thank you very much for that. >> thank thanks to our joining us. i'm kasie hunt. don't go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now potentially one of the most destructive storms on record, that's the new warning from the national hurricane center about hurricane milton headed for florida's west coast. >> tampa's mayor also not mincing words, saying, if you don't leave the evacuation zones, you're going to die. >> breaking this morning, a brand new poll shows good news for kamala harris as we are learning of a new plan, she is set to unveil today tha

he is doing some of the podcasts but look at what he his canceled. 60 minutes, cnbc, second debate, nra rally. meanwhile, harris is going in on fox. call her daddy podcasts, going everywhere. she looks strong and confident and he looks weak. in any presidential campaign, what people are looking at is the appearance and perception of strength in their candidate. i mean the trolling she did at the rally about the protesters go to the wrong rally, go to the smaller one down the street that is barack obama level performance, right? >> very good [ laughter ] i agree with mark. they are saying harris must be desperate because she is going on fox. at the same time, trump is, he is canceling a number of high profile media interviews. do you think in hindsight she got what she needed to get out of that interview? >> absolutely she did. she looked strong, handled bret, handled interruptions. seven million people watched it. you know what the number one market was? pittsburgh, pennsylvania. you do not go on it because you are desperate but confident. trump's is to hide him as much as they can from

the 78-year-old republican candidate canceled an appearance at the trump friendly nra next week due to campaign scheduling changes. in recent days donald trump has canceled an interview with 60 minutes, cnbc, and an interview with nbc news senior business correspondent christine romans. could it be because he doesn't want to answer questions about yet another stockmarket record close under the bid and administration? you can always count on fox delivered that great news. >> we have green on the screen here. dow is at a record, the s&p is at a record. this could change in five minutes, though, because these numbers are pretty close. the dow is up 38, s&p is up three. s&p needs a gain of 18. the major averages of the week are tracking their sixth straight week of gains. the dow and s&p, longest winning streaks of the year. >> or, is donald trump just suffering from exhaustion? today politico reports that donald trump has also canceled his appearance on the shade room, where earlier this week vice president harris sat down with the black owned independent media company. politico reports,

my god, if you're a republican, you can't speak to nra. you got a problem right?has canceled. >> say cnbc and nbc he's canceled 60 minutes. he won't debate he won't release his medical records either. so there's something going on when his billionaire buddies or so desperate, they got to throw around million dollars checks. that's telling me something as a strategist that his enthusiasm is down all right, let's listen to some of the closing arguments that are being made, both by donald trump and kamala harris first, some of what we heard from donald trump over the weekend but arnold palmer was all man when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there. >> they said, oh my god, you have to tell kamala harris that you've had enough that you just can't take it anymore. we can't stand you or your vice president i am curious me how you think these closing statements are going to help you gain the vote of suburban women that the polls have been saying that donald trump has been struggling to get on his side suburban women. >> suburban women probably aren't

he has cancelled interviews here from "60 minutes" to an nra appearance. he has verged on what media calls a blackout from any other than the most supportive cocoon likes fox. it contrasts kamala harris's media blitz, traversing households that watch fox, msnbc, cbs, any combination thereof and also reaching people who get more info on line like the audiences for howard stern and "the breakfast club" and podcasts. continuing with more discussions with journalists today, because as i just told you harris just spoke with nbc's peter alexander. that was by her rally, the one that just concluded you might have seen some of. we will show a little bit at some length and you can see what she's doing that trump is not. she is taking journalistic challenging questions, like pressing her on where she would actually specifically break with biden's policies, which is a fair, kind of real question for any candidate who is trying to distinguish what has been from what will be. she was asked about whether her campaign has lost any joy or momentum. here is that exchange.

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guest: the nra are tying brown to where democrats are weakest come on crime, on immigration, sort of tying him to national democrats, reminding them, you may have liked this guy in the past, but still a democrat. he's going to come after your guns. versus brown is saying, where i have worked across the aisle, here is where i have gotten things done. that sort of, by americans, that populism he has been able to tap into successful in ohio is where he is hoping -- because he needs a lot of trump-brown voters to win. 8:40 five eastern, taking your calls about the senate battlefield. let me give you the phone numbers. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 748-8000 free democrats. independents, it is (202) 748-8002. let's not skip over the governors races. right now it is 27 states with a republican governor, 20 three states with a democratic governor. where do you think that will fall come january? guest: we could end up with maybe one more republican seat that they could win, or it could -- the democrats could also pick up a seat. but actually it would stay the same, because -- sorry, l

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including an appearance at an nra convention in georgia in a couple days. that's been scrapped, too. it seems like his team is really trying to play it safe right here, trying to run out the clock. that's a mistake, i'd think, because polls suggest this is a complete toss-up race. democrats, mika, right now that i speak to the last couple days feel a lot better about things. yes, they know it's close, but they feel better than two weeks ago. they feel harris has room to grow at the end in the closing weeks. >> it turns out, i believe like 8 million people watched the fox interview. i've heard a number from 7 million to 8.2. they got to see everything all at once in one moment. i actually think it was one of -- a more important moment in political history, modern political history than we could have imagined when it actually happened. as i look back at it, what she was able to do in that one moment when she called out bret baier for showing the wrong clip, for misleading the american people, she was able to point again to donald trump's threat to go after hi

interviews and canceled what seemed like pretty easy events for him, including an appearance at an nraion in georgia in a couple of days. that's been scrapped too. so it seems like his team is really trying to play it safe right here, trying to run out the clock, and that's a mistake, i think, because polls suggest this is a complete tossup race, and democrats, mika, right now that i speak to the last couple of days, feel a lot better about things. yes, they know it's close, but they feel a lot better about things than they did two weeks ago. they feel like harris has room to grow here in the end in the closing weeks. >> well, it turns out -- i believe, like, 8 million people watched the fox interview. i've heard a number from 7 million to 8.2 million, and they got to see everything all at once in one moment. i actually think it was one of -- a more important moment in political history, modern political history than we could have imagined when it actually happened, but as i look back at it, what she was able to do in that one moment when she called out bret baier for showing the wrong

he has canceled interviews here from 60 minutes to an nra appearance. he has verged on what politico called a media blackout from anything other than just the most supportive cocoon like fox. and it just clearly contrasts kamala harris's media blitz. she is traversing and reaching household watch fox or cnn, or msnbc, or cbs, or any combination thereof. and also reaching people who get more info online, like these audiences for howard stern, the breakfast club, and podcasts. continuing with more discussions with journalists today, because i don't -- as i just told you, harris just spoke with peter alexander. we will show a little of this and some length, and you can see what she is doing that trump is not. she is taking journalistic challenging questions, like pressing her on where she would actually specifically break with biden's policies. which is a fair, kind of real question for any candidate who is trying to distinguish what has been from what will be. she was asked about whether her campaign has lost any joy or momentum. so here's that exchange.

congressman, you used to have an a rating or an f rating, i'm sorry, from the nra. and somehow between the years of 2013 and 2017, that f rating went up to an a-plus in so many ways, this issue to our young people is precisely why they don't trust government is precisely why they're frustrated with both parties because we have not been able to keep our children safe. we must put an assault weapons ban into congress. we must have universal background checks. we must have red flag laws. we must do things that keep that give law enforcement the tools they need to keep our communities safe. while speaker while speaker johnson has the gavel will be no legislation in congress to help get bad guns off of our streets. and, congressman, when you were in trenton, you were no fan and no friend of common sense gun legislation. i have received the endorsements of multiple common sense gun organizations such as moms demand and giffords and i will be a champion of protecting our children and our students when i'm in congress by getting dangerous guns off the streets. we're startin

week also canceled interviews with both nbc and cnbc reporters, as well as a planned rally with the nra. this in addition to refusing to have a second debate with vice president harris. so, from all know this, let's bring in alexi mcammond, host of the in sync podcast, and eugene daniels, co-author of the political playbook and msnbc political analyst. welcome to you both. eugene, you first, because your new reporting that after pulling out of an interview with the website the shade room, a trump adviser told producers trump was, quote, exhausted and rephrasing some interviews. but that could change. does this prompt more questions about his physical fitness, his stamina, and how might that we can trump's support for voters who like what they call his tough guy style? >> yeah, it definitely begs the question from us about how he is feeling, and then for voters, as well. one of the reasons that donald trump was doing so well when president biden was still in the race was because he felt like he had this vitality, though they are essentially the same age. they are three or four years clos

also then canceled a sit down with christine romans on nbc, and then he got rid of the rally with the nra. and you've written in there have reporting that trump is uncharacteristically buoyant, almost cavalier, can since that the victory is his, it's gone on yeah. >> i mean, i've been told from my sources inside of trump's camp that he is extremely confident he thinks that it's his two when they showed him a polling memo, his pollsters, tony fabrizio, and don gallagher, john mclaughlin, that showed him up just a point, a hair really within the margin of error in battleground states but he sees that as a decisive win. >> he thinks that he's going to win this. and the only reason he wouldn't want it is if his election integrity unit at the rnc somehow fails him, so he's been putting a lot of pressure privately on michael ward hotly, who is the cochairman of the rnc and has been shepherding this entire operation. and let's be serious, the rnc, when aren't when rona mcdaniel was pushed out, was basically stripped down to its bones to it's it's end. it's basically just an electron integrity un

bernie sanders carried an a+ rating for the nra for a long time and the issues in terms of finding corporate greed and monopolies play very strongly in the rural electorate as a recent poll from the rural democracy initiative attests. there is a populist ethos that can cut in the left-leaning direction or a right-leaning direction. what is different is we have candidates on the democratic side show up in rural vermont because they have to win rural voters. that dynamic does not exist in many other parts of the country. >> tyrone from minden, illinois, where is minden? >> on the boot, look by iowa and missouri, the middle of illinois, to the left side >> thank you. rural? >> we are. i am a business owner in illinois, small-town, 100 people. the one thing i don't like by democrats that corporations are wealthy people. that they need to give more money. a lot of small corporations, that is not true. the other problem we have in illinois, we have a power set up, most of the state is red, but chicago is blue, two counties make up the voting for illinois that mexico democratic. -- that makes it go

we know that next week he was actually supposed to talk to them nra at an event in savannah, georgia that was recently canceled, the trump campaign told me it was due to a scheduling conflict because they are adding more event but didn't really offer a specific reason you know, what events would be replacing that. >> he also i'd remind you, hold out of two recent interviews. >> one was seeing nbc, another with nbc news and then earlier, this month, he also pulled out of an interview with 60 minutes with cbs. and so he definitely has canceled events, but look, i do want to talk about what he is trying to do here in michigan because obviously this state is incredibly crucial to the trump campaign. not only because it has 15 electoral votes wealth, but because when i talked to the trump campaign, they tell me that out of the three blue wall states, they're actually the most competent now michigan. so he is going to be here aggressively already has been here about at least once a week this past month. and so we'll see what he says tonight and if he tries to continue to joe or shore up so

safety is important to us which is why the range was set up and run by an nra training counselor butandle weapons you need to be prepared and we acted quickly and were glad the reporter was okay and able to keep reporting according to the local news outlets while the reporter was checked out at a nearby hospital his injuries were minor and he was released. with reaction we have a senator with us and they put up a post online that says missouri law requires any person who causes injury with a firearm to file a report with law enforcement immediately. can he do that -- did he do that? >> i don't know if he did to be honest with you but i tell you what we have this guy setting up a fake range in order to get a photo op and he shoots a reporter. it's the old adage don't allow liberals to play with guns somebody always gets hurts and that's what happened here. he may have violated missouri law in the process it's crazy. >> after your post window he did go to law enforcement so you might have encouraged him and save your opponent nice job. >> listen there is no saving him from this kind of

i was an nra guy long time the use to teach gun safety him of an age where my shotgun was in my car likeotball practice. >> the bottom line is he didn't answer the question they sit anymore resource officers and better protection for our kids and they are friends with school shooters they are friends with iran and russia it's absurd it doesn't work and here's the reality is they running for them like crazy and they don't want to talk about the marxism they push in our kids they wanted tampons and boys bathroom to minnesota talk educate our country and the rally's president trump and dicenso parents rights to the classroom and they will run from that like crazy the left-wing media and he's one education debate and they don't want to talk about anymore. >> it's interesting as you ran against him for governor so you know what them about to put on the screen this is number 19 real clear politics came out talking about education in minnesota. when he took office as governor of minnesota 59% of minnesota students were proficient in reading, 55% in mast. four years later the numbers fell to 49

[applause] the report say that the majority of nra members agree on universal background checks. what is a universal background check? common sense. it just may want to know, where someone can buy a lethal weapon whether they have been found by a court to be a danger to themselves or others. you just may want to know. it is common sense. we need common sense gun safety laws. i will continue until i've done it throughout my year, working with all of our colleagues across the aisle. i know that we can make progress i'm not trying to take anyone's guns away from them, but we need reasonable gun safety laws. >> i want to come back to the issue of public safety. first we want to go to martin. thank you very much. martin, former republican member of the michigan house of representatives. he is here with the question about national security. >> thank you both of you for being here this afternoon. i really appreciate your coming to the state of michigan to be here. i would like to ask, what can the u.s. do politically, economically or militarily to deter russia from continuing its war on

this group has branded themselves as the christian version of the nra.ave been training for possible election threats, but there is an irony here. there are now growing concerns that given their intimidating black voters, they might actually make people feel unsafe. since the largest police unit in this country has endorsed donald trump and the issue of timing. how long we, as a country, will sit in anxiety over who will take the white house? they needed days to count all the votes to determine he's the winner of the 2020 election, taking advantage of that delay every day, spreading theories that the election was stolen. and after they went to biden. of course, now he has been tracking this closely where we have spoken before about how the republicans are softening the ground ahead of the election and believing that is the only way she could win if she cheats. they may not be aware of the specific legal challenges that i just outlined them recently in the efforts of south carolina and mississippi. but how is this lack of attention dangerous, especially a

i sop set in the office with sandy hook parent i become friends with school shooters but as in the nrao teach gun safety i'm of the age my struggles in my car so i confess it hot after my football practice preheat misspoke and said i became friends with school shooters. i think he meant to say i became friends with the families of the victims of school shooters. he went on to talk about that. but is now become a meme there's a trump/vance yahrzeit not friends with school shooters. that is just the social media environment that's just going to happen after these debates. you have the gaffe when he is being asked why did july about being in the square during the protests in 1989? he had a really widening i grow up in a small town they tried to deflect and it wasn't working. he finally just said sometimes on a knucklehead. that's going to be in a lot of trump ad campaigns you can bet. >> jason there in wisconsin. what are your main takeaways in the debate? >> greetings from the nice midwest. but everyone is nice on this panel. i know you all very well but i would equate this to a baseball

up 15 arizona election officials asking them to do due diligence under voter registration nra to cleanls., wh and allegedly waited too long. i now we are six weeks out from the election and this is what s they find.ry m >> laura: breanna, we will stay on this, thank you very much. fox news alert, israel has started a ground invasion of auranon. fox news national correspondent kevin corke with all the latests cabin. >> very interesting expansion ongoing battle in the middle east and by the way, this is parallel to and separate from ongoing battle in gaza under way. we just received word that you mention from israeli defense forces they have expanded their battle into thea southern part of lebanon.o what we have seen is a post on x and it reads in part "in accordance with the upper political echelon, they haved begun limited localized and targeted ground rate offensivece against very specific hezbollah targets in southern lebanon. now this will target not just individuals but also terrorists infrastructure in the area.hi what the israelis are saying in. the statement is specific and base

i have seen a peerage of the nra i was in for a long time. >> laura: what?i >> friends of shooters.last night an d i thought i must be dreaming. this h connection would be happening. but heha was asked about thavett night and this is what he saidc to. >> you saiyou d you became fries would shooters of schools. >> can you clarify what youu meant when you said you befriend the school shooters? >> if i keep staring at thenis pepperonis long enough, they will stop asking a question. i don't know why, laura go to if you just misspeak, say that.ant why did he have to wait a whole day to clarify this. he meant he was friends with victims of school shooters, not the school shooters.shoo but to say that.s but i don't know how long he cae keep repeating this to get a himself out of trouble's vandalize. >> perfect. i am a knucklehead at time as bt it's always been about that. >> [laughs] after he said that, that is the headline, vice president knucklehead at your service! how was that reassuring tot ma america questioning. >> they keep saying, thely vice president doesn't matter. in a day and

it's expected to drive straight now central nra, the straight direct hit for areas like tampa in more than a century. the mayor of tampa issued this stark warning to his residents. if h you choose to stay in one these evacuation areas, you are going to die. now, ineven in less extreme circumstances, preparing for a natural disaster is always a challenge. the government has to coordinate between state and local and federal agencies. thosera agencies then not only have to prepare for the physical impacts of the disaster, they have to effectively communicate to the media and to the public how they should prepare and respond. so coordinating all of that is a really, really challenging task. and now thanks to donald trump, thatld task has gotten even harder. we are barely a week past the destructionek hurricane helene wrought in six states across the country destroying thousands of homes and killing at least 223 people, and already donald trump is lying about it. here's how trump's narrative about hurricane helene and the federal response to that hurricane compares to what republican leade

i was an nra guy for a long time. >> laura: what? with school shooters. >> laura: i thought i heard that last night. i must be dreaming. this can't actually be happening. he was asked about this last night but this is what he said. >> governor, you said you have become friends with school shooters during the debate. can you clarify what you meant by that? >> can you clarify what you meant when you said you befriended school shooters? [no response] >> raymond: if i keep staring at the peperonis long enough they will stop asking. if you just misspeak, say that but why he had to wait a whole day to clarify this, he meant he was friends with victims of school shooters. >> laura: just say that. >> raymond: not the school shooters. just say that i don't know how long he can keep repeating this to get himself out of troubles and lies. >> perfect and i'm a knuckle head at times. but it's always been about that. >> laura: that's the headline, knuckle head. vice president knuckle head at your service. how is that reassuring to america? >> raym

the nra for a long time and they used to teach gun safety. i'm of an age where my shotgun was in my car after football practice. >> and with that, they were only 34 days until the election. >> carley: we are in the final stretch and despite that all happened, the most simple debate in modern history which the biggest plot twist of them all. brooke singman, thank you so much more death florida congressman, i thought this was funny from congressman byron donalds and i think tim walz is voting for donald trump and j.d. vance and he agreed with j.d. five times and kept nodding in agreement. to add that it was clear from the opening moments from the debates tim walz was nervous and j.d. vance in complete control and even fact-checking the moderators in real time. what are your top takeaways when it comes to this debate and does it move the needle in your direction questioning. >> it is good to see you all this morning. didn't move the needle? probably not but what it did do is give the american people a look at j.d. vance and tim walz and who has