presidential debate. >> will you shut up, man. >> mr. vice president, i did not create the rules tonight, and your campaigns agreed to the rules for tonight's debate on the commission of vice presidential debates and aim here to enforce them. >> he interpreted me and i would like to finish, please. >> and a lot of people are talking about something that happened at the end of the debate and it is when a fly landed on the vice president's head and remaining there for about two minutes, and the vice president didn't react to it, but a lot of people on social media did, and the fly has a number of twitter accounts. the biden campaign fund-raising on it and with a selling is of fly swatters with truth on it, and just so you know that it is what you can't prepare for that gets all of the attention. >> and now joining us is claire mccaskill and rich from the west coast, and so we have breaking news this morning, and forget about the vice president debates, the presidential commission wants to hold the next debate of the president and joe biden virtually and the president has said, thanks, but no thanks. i'd rather not debate. rich, is that a smart move? >> a in-person de

the 2020 vice presidential debate here at the university of utah. i'm janet brown, executive director of the commission on presidential debates. we are delighted you are here. in the next few minutes, you are going to hear thanks that her own a lot of people for making tonight possible. we will also cover some housekeeping rules for this evening's debate, which start with please make sure your cell phones are turned off on all functions. cannot make any noise, and please open your programs and take a look at some of the many people that we owe a huge debt of gratitude to for this evening. i would like to start with pentagram, which is of thoughtful -- which is responsible of the new book of s andommission's name cover. with ankle for the support of our work for years and the state of federal communications, which has just come on board this year. we thank you all. as we speak, there is a washington filing center being hosted at the national press club for members that could not come here as they normally would to cover this debate. we are exceedingly grateful to them for providing this additional place

both of you headed a presidential commission to look at the election.s that your view, both of your views that there's a lot of voter fraud or there really isn't? >> let me take that one first. i've spent four decades actively involved in republican election day operation which means, that go to look at problems that arise in polling places, to get all the reports from individual jurisdictions. both parties in every polling place they wish to staff, to look for irregularities, resolve problems, and intra-goal part of the system, in all the times that people have been in polling places looking for fraud, there is not evidence to sustain charges of voter fraud. there is occasional voter fraud, it is corrected, but it is occasion. >> you agree with that? >> it is surpassingly rare. suppose it is rare but suppose he wanted to vote twice. the system works pretty well. how would you be able to vote twice, they wanted to break the lies officer of the court, but suppose you vote twice, how would you vote twice? >> haven't given a lot of thought but i am about t

chris also served as commissioner on the presidential commission on election and administration was a long time election director for the state of michigan for it think it all the panelists for joining us. with that let me jump to my first question i will ask ricardo who is entitled action security advisor and i want to start talking about the press conference last week held by the director of national policy and the fbi director about election interfering. what are the greatest risks remaining in the last few days before election day on election day and in the days that follow? >> thanks so much for having me with you today. yes, i think the announcement last week was big news but for me one of the biggest parts of the news was that the federal government identified an issue and made the public aware of it that made election officials where of it quickly which is a big change from where we were four years ago in this process and so i think heading into the election i mean certainly there are some risks to the system still in a lot of the issues that we anticipate heading into next we

presidential debate commission's surprise announcement that the next presidential debate will be virtual, not person, and then, all hell broke loose? i can say hell on tv, right? the standards have changed? carla, walk us through what happened? >> president trump immediately said he is not interested in a virtual debate. he feeds off that audience. this is supposed to be a town hall debate, by the way. so he might have gotten a set of questions that is far different than what he is getting from the mora joe ben said, okay, i will do a town hall that night on abc, and now, the trump side is coming back with another proposal for two more debates within one week in the last week of october. and the biden camp is saying the last week of october as originally planned. and trump has to decide which way he has to go, and biden says, he changes his mind every five seconds. so we will see how it plays out. >> all right, well, lonnie, why do you think mr. trump opposing the virtual format? >> i think he believes he has an advantage in person. he can force him off balance, do the things you saw in

presidential debate. here's the schedule. commission on presidential debates will open the doors and turn on the light and welcome viewers to the debate. a little after 9:00, the debate will begin. it begins a few minutes after 9:00 so the networks can introduce coverage. c-spans up at 10:30 and will get your calls and reaction. that is what is coming up tonight. joining us is greta. what do you have? greta: let's start with a closer view. this is from the c-span twitter feed from yesterday set up at the university of utah. you can follow our coverage on twitter. lee from the new york times reported senator harris was prepping for tonight with hundreds of index cards and a mac -- a mock debate with pete pence andplaying mike an effort to lower expectations. the wall street journal reports that harris tried to lower expectations coming describing pence as a formidable bader. she says -- debate her. she says she will make this about leadership during the pandemic. that is what democrats plan to do. they plan to make it about all pandemic,

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both of you had a presidential commission to look at the election. is it your view both of your views there is a lot of voter fraud out there or there really isn't? >> let me take that one first. i have spent four decades actively involved in republican electionca day operations which means i've been part of countywide deeds that go to look at albums that arise in polling places. i've been part of nationwide boiler rooms to get all the reports from individual jurisdictions. both parties have the right to have whole watchers in every polling place if they wish to staff. to find fraud and look for irregularities and resolve problems is an integral part of verse system and the simple fact is that in all the times that people have been at polling places looking for fraud there simply is not evidence to charge systemic voter fraud. >> not systemic but occasional. >> there is occasional voter fraud. it is occasional. >> bob do you agree with that? >> it's either the in-person variety or the absentee voter. >> but suppose you wanted to break and then show t

amid that criticism, this was the statement put out by the commission on presidential debate yesterday. the commission sponsors televised debates to the benefit of the american electorate. last nights debate made clear the additional structure to be added to the remaining format -- added to the format of the remaining debates. will be carefully considered -- considering the changes that it will adopt and will announce that these measures shortly. the commission is grateful for chris wallace for the professionalism and skill he brought to last nights debate and intends to ensure the additional tools to maintain order. both asked about this issue and talked about it while they were on the campaign trail. we start with joe biden yesterday. >> last night was i think a wake-up call for all americans. what i tried to do last night, i tried to speak directly into the camera to the american people. to talk about their concerns, talk about one's on their mind, and talk about what i would do if i were president. plan, no ideas, didn't express a single plane he had about how he will move forward,

the presidential debate commission announced yesterday that they intended to change the presidentiale rules in order to control donald trump's outbursts that derailed the first debate. there will probably be no more debates between joe biden and donald trump. and the change that the presidential debate commission is going to have to make is the location of the vice presidential debate. it is unconscionably reckless of the presidential debate commission to force the presidential and vice presidential candidates to fly around the country to these scheduled debate locations. the next debate should be in washington, d.c., so the vice president, and senator harris and their staffs are not subject to the dangers of travel during the coronavirus pandemic, something that the presidential debate commission should have considered in the original scheduling of these debates. but now that the president of the united states is in the hospital for the foreseeable future, the vice president should not be leaving washington, d.c. the very first presidential debate occurred -- televised presidential

both of you headed at presidential commission to look at how the election is done. is it your view that there is a lot of voter fraud out there? or maybe there really isn't? benjamin: let me take that one first. i've spent nearly four decades actively involved in republican election day operations. that means that i have been increasing, been a part of countywide teams that go to look arise inms that polling places, and i have been a part of nationwide boiler rooms, to get all of the reports from individual jurisdictions. both parties have the right, poll watchers and every point place to say that they both wish to staff and find fraud and resolve problems. an integral part of our system. that in allact is of the time that people have been in polling places and looking for fraud, there simply is not evidence to sustain a charge of systemic voter fraud. david: not systemic, but occasionally echo -- occasional? bob: it is caught and corrected benjamin: but it is occasional. bob: it is surpassingly rare. surpassingly rare. david: let's say it's rare, but let's suppose

first the news this morning the presidential debate commission has now decided that next week's presidential debate, the second one of three, will be completely virtual, not in miami as planned and the president moments later on fox business saying he will not debate virtually. dan. >> i'm sorry, sandra. i think the debate commission did blindside the candidates on this with this sudden announcement. let us not forget donald trump is the author of the art of the deal. and any such statement should, i think, be taken as an opening negotiating position on this. i'm not certain that mr. trump will, in fact, not show up anywhere next week for a debate. he and his team are going to discuss this and negotiate this with the commission. having said that, i think it would be a bad idea if the president were to forego any kind of debate format next week. the fact is he is behind in the polls. and the election at this point has about 90% of the electorate already decided who they will vote for. the battle is over 5 to 7% undecided voters and the president needs to find a way to move those voters into h

ended up tting joe biden and donald trump at least initially on the same side against the presidential commissiont, however, donald trump wants two more debates. that is the bottom line. he needs two more debates to try to turn things around. the bidens do not -- the biden camp does not wrut to be seen ing away from debates altogether. >> the world health organization is reporting the biggest crease inobile coronavirus cases in a single day. it has posted this on its website. figure is 338,007 hundror 39 cases rd in the last 24 hours. biggest increases -- the figure is38,739 cases reported in the last 24 hours. pubs and restaurants will clo, overnight stays away from home will be banned. l ataid, no announcements will be made until monday. >> we currently are consideng what steps we should take. obviously, taking the advice of our scientific and medical advisors and a decision will be made shortly. i able to right now give you what exactly is going to happen, but we will continue to take a proportionate and localized response, i think is the right thing to do significant in england, fromery over

joined frank, janet, and inlow board members welcoming you to the 24th presidential debate, sponsored and organized by the commission on presidential debates and the second hosted by belmont university. as the newest cochair of the commission, i am proud to work alongside dedicated board members and a talented staff and crew who, against uphill oughts, have built a nonpartisan institution since the commission was established in 1987. our sole mission continues to be the holding of debates that serve and inform the american people. please bear me a moment to explain the commission's efforts. debates have evolved over the past three decades. , thetransparent criteria trend toward a single moderator in order to focus greater attention on the candidates, and the allocation of time for different subject areas are but a of the many changes that have been made. many of the details for organizing the debates are left to agreement by the candidates themselves. the commission hasn't selected the times and places for debate, the moderators, and debate formats. based on experience, these are issues that if left in negotiations

his discussion comes just moments after the presidential debate commission changed unilaterally the format the next debate without consulting president trump or his team. this commission is out of its mind. it said next thursday's town hall style debate would all be virtual with the candidates appearing in separate locations, entirely different from what the candidates had agreed to, and their decision would allow, of course, joe biden to stay in the comfort of his basement with a teleprompter or more teleprompters, earpiece and who knows what. and all of his handlers, of course, would be around to help him. president trump says there's no way that will happen. >> no, i'm not going to waste my time on a virtual debate. that's not what deweight's all about, you sit behind a computer, that's ridiculous. and then they cut you off whenever you want. we learned it the same way you learned it. they called up two minutes ago, and it was announced. they're trying to protect biden. i don't want to do a virtual debate because a virtual debate is a joke. there's no reason. i'm in great shape. i just,

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the presidential commission on debates says it wants the debate to be virtual, considering the presidenturrently has the coronavirus. the president is refusing to debate virtually. his campaign say it is commission is trying to protect joe biden and distract from what it is calling mike pence's complete victory in last night's debate. the president's aides on the other hand are urging him to participate and according to nbc's reporting they're arguing that ceding ground to joe biden would be a mistake. meanwhile, vice president biden is asking for the debate to be pushed back and his campaign accusing the president of only thinking about himself. as of now it is not clear if the debate will go forward because, again, the president has a highly contagious virus. a diagnosis that the president now deems was a blessing from god, a week after that diagnosis he claims he has been cured. in a new video he goes as far as to say that the antibody treatment made it so that he could have left the hospital immediately but dr. fauci said while he is optimistic about the president's health it is simp

the presidential commission on debates owes us that. otherwise they are complicit in giving a platform for this president to pollute this election. >> one of the reasons that tom friedman is not an alarmist, why? history, covering lebanon's second civil war, i see things happen in otherwise fairly stable, understood democracies, does this really smack of that for you, tom? >> you know, chris, can i tell you a joke? this is a joke about elections. we all could use one. >> this is a joke they used to say about syrian elections. there's an election in syria, and president hazalof won 89% of the vote. his aids came to him and said you won 98.2% of the vote. that means only 2.2% didn't vote for you. what can i get for you? he said, their names. this is not maybe, this man is laying the basis to delegitimize this election. if i win, i won. if the other guy wins, he didn't win. and we are going to either go to the streets, we're going to go to the courts, we're going to muddy the outcome, in a way that we will not be able to have a legitimate

first, he started a presidential commission, which you guys covered a lot. that was meant to establish the sense that there's pervasive voter fraud. they that commission floundered and fell apart. that moved to the dhs. the dhs picked it up and it was hard to see a lot of what they are doing because a lot of documents we have gotten are redacted. they studied this, ideas like national voter i.d., and then the effects that presidential influence can have in the postal service, and of course, his department of justice, now all eyes and certainly in the democratic party and in the civil rights community is watching the department of justice to see what it does and potentially in tandem with trump's poll watchers in november. >> so all that groundwork that was laid in 2016 and 2017, and that presidential commission on voting that kris kobach was leading it, i remember having kris kobach on the air with me and he was making absolutely no sense, trying to say that not only did we not know that hillary clinton won the popular vote, but we couldn't even really know

no one knows a lot of people are very uncertain about what's going on and the presidential commission that president obama started was moving people to early voting and that's just been a real success this year. i think that success is going to play out on election day mostly positively and those are certainly instances of voter intimidation that is noter widespread and most people are going to experience, have a good election experience. >> a another question coming from one of our viewers f larry barnett and i'll give this one to tammy. what is a safeguard in place to prevent people from voting in different states in the same election? >> there are a couple of safeguards. one of them is eric which is the electronic legislation registration center and eric is a proportion that compares the voter registration lists with the motor vehicle list with the social security death list and a wide variety of other state sets to compare one set of registrations from one place and that has been around for a numbereg of years. i don't know the exact number or the latest count that we have more th

president trump and joe biden return to the campaign trail after a contentious first presidential debate. >> commission on presidential debates plans to make changes aimed at preventing a repeat. >> reporter: president trump and democratic presidential nominee joe biden returned to the campaign trail a day after the contentious debate. >> last night i held joe biden accountable for his 47 years of lies. >> i describe it as a president doing everything he could to avoid talking about issues. >> reporter: more than 73 million people tuned in to watch. the two candidates had several sharp exchanges but it was notable for how frequently the president interrupted his opponent. >> i want to make sure. >> graduated last in your class, not first in your class. >> mr. president, can you let him finish. >> there were at least 70 instances of president trump cutting off or speaking over the former vice president. biden interrupted less than 20 times. >> will you shut up? >> organizers are promising to make changes for the last two debates. a source says commission on presidential debates may lock microphones to b

the us commission on presidential debates has announced that next week's second presidential debate has been dismissed by president trump. the fate of the third presidential debate still remains unclear. 0n america's gulf coast — evacuations are under way in the state of louisiana —as yet another hurricane hits the shoreline. delta is a category two storm — with winds blowing at more than 100 miles per hour. it's on track to hit the city of lake charles.

. >> on thursday it's the final presidential debate. the commission on presidential debates announcing changes to the structure candidates will be given two uninterrupted minutes to answer the question. the opponent's microphone will be muted during that time and thursday's debate will not be about foreign policy, about a number of domestic issues. the president not happy with the debate rules but says he may try to turn them to his advantage. listen here. >> president trump: these people are not good people. this commission. a lot of funny things go on with them. but there is a chain of thought that there are a lot of people that say let him talk because he loses his train. he loses his train and mind frankly. but look at yesterday. he walks out of a store and the media standing there and they asked him what flavor ice cream did you get? think of this. they never ask me a question like that. >> "fox & friends" asked the president what flavor milk shake he would like. he said i'll answer that question after i've finished the work of being the presiden

listen, i think that some of these problems might have been avoided with the commission of presidentialebates if they were going to change the format of the debate consulted and negotiated with the campaigns ahead of time. but the problem is that we are running out of time. if there is no debate at all on october the 15th, and there is one on october 22nd, then the next week october 29th is less than a week before election day. we have never had a debate that close to an election. most campaigns would be very hesitant to go forward with a debate with only days before election day. >> jon: you know a thing or two about running a campaign, would you not be a little ticked if the presidential commission said we are going to make it a virtual debate, no more in person event? >> this is a very disruptive season. to the president was diagnosed less than a week ago with the coronavirus, we all know that we should put the health of the public and the health of the candidates ahead of anything else. i don't see the problem with a virtual debate. i teach classes online, i do seminars, i do a lot

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so, i mean, these presidential commission debates that are run by the commission on presidential debatesrved the country reasonably well. i know there are people who criticize this or that aspect of it. but these are events, three presidentials and one vice presidential, every four years in which the format is designed to let people make some judgments, both about where these candidates stand and who these candidates are. on where these candidates stand, we did not learn that much. on who these candidates are, i think we did learn a lot last night. judy: sewell chan, should the debates continue? i mean, is there more the american people can learn from these debates? the commission is saying today it's going to change the rules in some way. what do you think? sewell: i think as senator kamala harris said yesterday, it's unlikely that vice president biden would choose not toarticipate. it will remain an important opportunity for him to communicate directly to the american people and the voters and he is unlikely to pass up on that airtime. that said, the commission on presidential debates

. >>> the commission on presidential debates is a bipartisan commission that for 32 years now, it's 32 years old, for 32 years, that commission has been co-chaired by a former head of the republican party. the debate commission has been successfully staging every presidential debate between the democratic and republican nominees since 1988. every single one of them. every presidential nominee of the democratic party and the republican party, since 1988, has agreed to and complied with the rules of those debates as set by the commission. until tonight. donald trump refused to comply with the commission's rules for the debate that was scheduled for tonight, and he became, donald trump became the very first presidential candidate in the history of the commission to drop out of a debate scheduled by the commission on presidential debates. and after donald trump dropped out of that debate, joe biden became available for and agreed to doing a 90-minute town hall on abc that was scheduled for tonight at 8:00 p.m. several days after that, donald trump reached an agreement with nbc to appear at

how long he's going to be have to be in court teen or how long he's going to be sick so the presidential commission said we'll do this like united or we're going to do it on zoom and donald trump's or not i'm not going to waste my time online so what happened they had to town halls 73000000 people watched the 1st debate. the total for the next 2 debates right one of the 2 town halls rather was $27.00 you have 1000000 compared to $73000000.00 so already it cut it by a 3rd how many people could watch and then he was on 3 networks n.b.c. emma's n.b.c. and see n.b.c. and he got fewer rating fewer people than joe biden did on one network a.b.c. so he lost the biggest audience he could have had and he lost the t.v. ratings the job that was that done stupid mistake on donald trump's part. time campaign advisor jason miller says he thinks trump will give joe biden a little bit more time to explain himself on the issues how might that or. well if his marty will. you know here's here here's the big question so it's going to be. there is the night right the 22nd and everybody now they're saying we're going to

we're talking about what was supposed to be the next presidential debate that's coming up. within the last hour, the commissionesidential debate said it would hold a virtual debate with president trump and joe biden in different locations. but president trump was quick to fire back on live tv just a short time ago saying he won't do it. >> i heard that the commission a little while ago changed the debate style and it's not acceptable to us. >> well, you're saying you're not going to participate? >> i'm not going to waste my time on a virtual debate. that's not what debating is all about. you sit behind a computer and it's ridiculous. >> now, for now, the debate is still scheduled to be held next thursday october 15th town hall style from miami. as for last night's vice presidential debate, we'll have the complete break down and analysis in just 15 minutes. in ten minutes. >>> all right. even as more and more people work from home, if they're lucky enough to still have jobs, google still plans to build its massive new development in downtown san jose. it is a plan that is now called downtown west. today in the

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presidential transfer of power procedures. >>catherine heenan host of inside bay area politics explains. >>pelosi is introducing a bill to set up a commission on presidential capacity. but first as she was talking to reporters about the coronavirus today. she suddenly said this. >>what are we talking about here. tomorrow by the way. tomorrow. come here tomorrow, we're going to be talking about the 25th amendment but not to take attention away from the subject we have now. >>you think it's time to invoke the 25th amendment. i'll talk about that tomorrow. attachment to monitoring that today except to tell you. if you want to bet that we'll see you tomorrow but to take me back to my point. mister president. when was the last time you had a negative test. before you tested positive. why is the white house not telling. the country. >>pelosi later said the president might be and what she called an altered state of mind because of the drugs he's taken to treat covid-19 of course to actually remove the president from office through constitutional amendment pelosi would have to convince senate republicans to agree and the vice president would have t

just a few hours ago the presidential debate commission announced new rules. a candidate's microphone will be muted while their opponent delivers their initial two-minute answers to each debate topic. mikes will be on during the so-called open discussion segments of the debate. with two weeks to go now the president today seemed to be campaigning against dr. anthony fauci. it started this morning with the president on a conference call to his campaign headquarters that journalists were on as well. >> people are tired of covid. i have the biggest rallies i've ever had. and we have covid. people are saying whatever, just leave us alone. they're tired of it. people are tired of hearing fauci and all these idiots, these people -- these people that have gotten it wrong. fauci's a nice guy. he's been here for 500 years. every time he goes on television there's always a bomb, but there's a bigger bomb if you fire him. but fauci is a disaster. >> the president's dismissal of the pandemic comes as a third spike of coronavirus now threatens our country. at least 38 of o

. >>> also developing this morning, the commission on presidential debates announcing they'll mute the mick phones to limit interruptions during the debate. president trump does not like this but he will still debate joe biden. >>> more than 58,000 new coronavirus cases were reported overnight. that say very hiis a high numbe counts tend to be lower. all the states in red or orange are seeing a rise. the beige states are static. look at that map. 14 states had seen record numbers of hospitalizations in the last week. more than 220,000 americans have now lost their lives. this very well might be it. the exact moment the public health officials have warned about. the big cold weather wave. it's at this exact moment the president is denying the numbers, ignoring the trends, and instead attacking the doctors. a full day of attacks and insults on dr. anthony fauci, probably the most respected authority on infectious diseases in the country. so the less significant question is, why is the president doing this? the more important question is, how does this help save lives? public health exper

former senator, bob dole, sent this out weeks ago about the commission on presidential debates. is a -- it is supposedly bipartisan. i know all of the republicans and most are friends of mine, but i am concerned that none of them support donald trump. a biased debate commission is unfair. has the commission always been a part of the story on the debate since it was formed? >> no. in recent years, there's been a perception linked to media more than the debate commission. conservatives and republicans generally have been critical of who is moderating the debate. of course, there's the overall theme that the media is overwhelmingly against president trump and leaning more toward the left. that the moderators you choose, you will end up with moderators who people perceived to be more on the left, may be less in favor of the candidate who was the republican on the stage. perhaps, they will word their question a different way for that candidate, perhaps they will fact-check that candidate, which we saw during the romney-obama debate. the last election cycle. provokes anger amongst rep

guys, maybe it's because we made it but it looks very promising. >> this guy -- >> the presidential debate commission has heard your concerns about how the last presidential debate went. >> fewer interruptions. i'm appealing to you, sir, to do that. >> well, and him, too. >> that's why we've made small tweaks to the process. the next debate will feature stricter time limits, more moderator controls, and the president will be required to wear a muzzle. >> he got thrown out of the military and didn't have a job until you became vice president. >> this has 15 pounds of reinforced concrete to reduce disruptive interruptions. we've also heard your concerns about the lack of fact checking which is why this muzzle comes equipped with a sensor which releases helium gas if it detects falsehood. >> this is going to be a fraud like you've never seen. >> and will activate a voice filter that makes donald trump sound more presidential. >> in many cases radical left. ( obama voice) there is not a liberal america and a conservative america there is a united states of america! >> the presidential debate muzzle, the