Halls last night replacing what would have been their second president ial debate with just 18 days to go until election day. 18 days. Today is friday. Trace, good morning. Good morning, everyone im sandra smith. Trace good morning to you. Im trace gallagher. The two events starkly different. President trump sparring with nbc Savannah Guthrie. Biden was pressed on several issues but not on the report about his son, hunters business dealings overseas and today the two candidates head for key battleground states. President trump goes to florida and georgia with a combined 45 electoral votes while Biden Campaigns in michigan for its 16 electoral votes. Sandra fox team coverage. Byron york is standing by with the analysis and Griff Jenkins and we begin with john roberts live on the north lawn. What were the big differences between the two town halls we all watched last night. Whats the reaction this morning . Good morning. First of all it wasnt the big headtohead event originally planned. If you were quick on the draw with the tv remote or like some people you had two televisions or a couple of ipads set up next to each other you could get a sense of what was going on in both of them. In terms of the differences, the biden events according to owe observers far less adversarial. At the biden was not asked about the new controversy involving his son, hunters emails but he was asked about a hot button issue that is Court Packing. Biden saying he will reveal his position after the vote on Amy Coney Barrett takes place in the senate. No matter what answer i gave you, if i say it, thats the headline tomorrow. It wont be about whats going on now, the improper way theyre proceeding. Dont voters have a right to know where you stand . They have oh right to know where i stand before they vote. You will come out with a clear position before election day . Yes, depending on how they handle this. President trump asked to denounce white supremacy. Why hasnt joe biden been asked to denounce antifa . You always start off with you didnt ask joe biden whether or not he denounces antifa. I watched him on the same show with lester holt and he was asking questions like biden was a child. Well, are you listening . I denounce white supremacy. Whats your next question . President trump has been hammering joe biden on his support for the 1996 crime bill. Biden admitted it was a mistake to do that last night. Was it a mistake to support it . Yes it was. Here is where the mistake came. The mistake came in terms of what the states did locally. Black folks went to jail a lot less than they would have before but it was a mistake. On the issue of some 400 million in loans that the president owes for his real estate projects the president not acknowledging the exact number, not denying it, either. Playing down its significance. Listen here. Are you confirming that yes, you do owe some 400 million. President trump what im saying its a tiny percentage of my net worth. Any foreign bank or entity. President trump not that i know of. It is easy to solve. I will let you know who i owe. The president with a busy day today. He has three events. A seniors event in fort myers and a rally in ocala and then in macon, georgia. Joe biden will be in michigan. He has an event with faith leaders of the Africanamerican Community and healthcare event and early voting event in the evening. They both have busy weekends as well. From here until november 3 it is pretty much flat out, sandra. Sandra looking forward to all of it. Thank you. Trace. Trace fox news obtained two more emails overnight allegedly from hunter biden that raise questions about his dealings with a Chinese Energy firm. House republicans call on the f. B. I. To reveal if it had a biden laptop. Twitter has announced policy changes amid renewed complaints about censorship. We could see twieter ceo on capitol hill pretty soon. Twitter is revising its policy on posting hacked materials after the backlash of claims of censoring that post story theyll label questionable tweets instead of blocking them and will no longer remove hacked content unless it is directly shared by hackers or accomplices. The Senate JudiciaryCommittee Lindsey Graham said he will subpoena Ceo Jack Dorsey to get up on capitol hill and explain what he has to say about it. Well, ted and i along with senator hawley will have a markup tuesday of next week to issue a subpoena to the head of twitter to come in and explain this. This as fox news obtains new emails in addition to the ones we reported yesterday purportedly between hunter and the Top Executive at the Ukrainian Energy firm burisma involving an alleged meeting with his father. A may 2017 email that included payments for six people one called the big guy. Another from august 2017 hunter is seeking some 10 million in a deal that would be interesting to me and my family. Now, Hunter Bidens attorney released a statement taking a shot at trump confidentiant Rudy Giuliani saying we have no idea where it came from and cannot credit anything that Rudy Giuliani provided to the New York Post. What i know for certain this meeting never happened. Homeland Security Committee said they are investigating the emails and those 19 House Republicans sent a letter yesterday to f. B. I. Director chris wray demanding answers whether or not the f. B. I. Knew about this information back as far as the impeachment. Sandra lets bring in byron york from the Washington Examiner and the never end being war on trump book. Fox news contributor. Were tired from flipping channels last night to get ahold of these dueling town halls. What did you make of what you saw . Big takeaways . Well, they were very, very different sort of town halls. They were different because the journalists who conducted them chose to run them differently. Nbc town hall. A lot of controversy inside nbc. A lot of nbc talent said the network should never have given President Trump the opportunity to be in a town hall. Savannah guthrie, nbc anchor was very adversarial, went into some issues that probably is not a real voter interest like what did the president say and think about qanon. They went nearly 20 minutes in a onehour town hall before they got to any voters at all. On the other hand the abc town hall run by George Stephanopolous got to the first voter question in the first minute. Voters the end to ask more policyoriented questions. They dont the end to ask questions about what the raging controversy of the day that obsesss sojourn allists is. There was a lot of substance in the biden town hall. Asked about taxes, asked about fracking, asked about packing the court. He was not asked about the New York Post story about his son, hunter. Sandra i hear you describing guthries performance as adversarial. A few examples of her multiple interruptions, listen. President trump again, the doctors do it. I dont ask them. I test all the time. Did you take a test on the day of the debate its the 2 million figure if you did absolutely nothing. Put it out there. People can decide for themselves. You are the president not like someones President Trump it was a retweet. I do a lot of retweets. Some have criticized the number of interruptions and combative style. Did she get anywhere with those things . Did he take a test the day of the first president ial debate, his response to covid and how he has taken credit for saving so many lives. Did she make any news with her pressing of the president last night . Not much. The president still was not clear about when he last tested negative for coronavirus before he tested positive for it. But remember these were billed and planned by the commission on president ial debates as a town hall debate. So obviously there was no facetoface debate. By the way, both candidates conducted inperson town halls making you wonder why there count have been an inperson debate. Anyway, it was supposed to be a town hall and that is the one opportunity of the three planned debates in which voters could actually ask questions. And there was a lot of that on abc and not as much on nbc. Sandra Ari Fleischer over 50,000 likes on the tweet. I switched to nbc, guthrie has interrupted trump, nbc is an interrogation, abc is a picnic says Ari Fleischer last night. Your thoughts on the twitter story and where things stand. Twitter making some changes. Too little too late . You have these senators in the middle of that confirmation hearing yesterday saying theyll hold a vote to subpoena the leaders of these Technology Companies. What is your thinking on all this this morning as our brain room says that you still cant find the original tweet to that New York Post story on twitter. That has still not been put up there. Other tweets on the same topic that havent been taken down but the original tweet is still not reposted. Well, twitter is backing off the policy that led them to censor the New York Post story. But they havent changed their policy for the New York Post story in particular. So it is still banned on twitter. But they clearly got a lot of heat, a lot of blowback not the least of which is from capitol hill and they have theyve earned a trip to capitol hill, the ceo has next week to be grilled by republicans on capitol hill. They clearly backing off. But remember, there is an actual story here, which is that the New York Post alleged that these emails showed that hunter biden introduced this burisma executive to his father, joe biden, when biden was Vice President of the United States. And we havent seen as much investigation in which journalists try to confirm or disprove that story. Sandra well have more on that coming up when the Trump Campaign joins us in a moment. Byron york, thank you, great to see you this morning. Trace he would have moderated last nights debate if it had happened. Instead cspan has suspended steve scully after he admitted lying on a tweet on his account. The trump team taking on twitter after the social media giant briefly shut down their campaign account. Trump 2020 Senior AdvisorMercedes Schlapp on that next. We intend to get to the bottom of this. We cant have these platforms which are essentially Public Forums now censoring political speech especially in the runup to an election. When joe biden wants an update on the virus, he calls on the nations top health experts. Working together, for all americans, is what joe does. When writing his healthcare plan, joe biden worked with both doctors and patients to make healthcare affordable by lowering premiums, reducing drug costs, and protecting people with preexisting conditions. Joe listened to both Small Business owners and workers to create his economic plan that cuts taxes for middle class families, creates 18 million new jobs in his first term, and raises wages by as much as 15,000 a year. Joe bidens plans will help working families immediately by making the super rich finally pay their fair share. For joe, its never been about ego. Its always been about the work he can do for working families. Its what hes always done. Joe biden brings everyone to the table and gets it done. Im joe biden, and i approve this message. With the ninja foodito intelligesmart xl grill. Ing just pick your protein, select your doneness, and let the grill monitor your food. It also turns into an air fryer. Bring outdoor grilling flavors indoors with the grill that grills for you. Trace cspan as suspended steve scully after he lied about a twitter with a Questionable Exchange with former trump aide Anthony Scaramucci. Trump 2020 communication director responded that said in part the news shows the Debate Commission has done the bidding of joe biden every step of the way. Sandra twitter has announced policy changes following the controversy over its handling of the New York Post story about Hunter Bidens emails and locked the Trump Campaigns account briefly for sharing a link to a video about Hunter Bidens overseas business dealings. The director of social media for the trump team retweeting an image showing the campaigns account was indeed suspended. Mercedes schlapp is a trump 2020 Senior Advisor. Great to see you. Thank you for being here this morning. Give us an update on what is the correspondence between the Trump Campaign and twitter on all of this . Whats the latest . Look, i think that the fact that twitter took such draconian measures to suspend our account and the press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany and really not allow for this conversation to happen on twitter. Twitter, which is supposed to be a place where you should have an exchange of ideas, an exchange of conversation, not permitting that because they themselves are policing what is being put on twitter. Remember, twitter has spent a lot of time promoting the russian hoax conspiracy threey. They didnt stop the liberals on that. For the campaign to know that theyve not only suspended in the past conservative social media and special interests but now the campaign for a period of time . Thats troubling. First it will be the campaign. Next it will be the average american who just wants to express their opinion and if twitter doesnt agree with that opinion theyll shut you down. You know, to know that twitter is moving in a different direction in changing some of their policies well see what happens. So far what weve seen is election interference coming from these big social Media Companies. Sandra as you know jack dorsey came out and responded with a statement said the company essentially botched this whole thing blocking the New York Post article. You mentioned the changes that have been made. This is the twitters legal policy and trust and safety on their policy changes. Exactly what it looks like. Well no longer remove hacked content unless it is directly shared by hackers or those acting in concert with them. We will label tweets to provide context instead of blocking links from being shared on twitter. So mercedes, is that enough or too little too late . Well, its too little too late. Weve seen this when President Trump said he was immune to covid. They put that as misleading. Labeled it as misleading. When a harvard study came out basically saying if you get covid you would be immune for about four months. They wont call the harvard study misleading. They are being very selective as to what theyre deciding as to which content to approve or fact check or not. Obviously when it comes to the New York Post story it is a reputable paper, they had the information that was given to them. They shared it, sourced it and verified it and it was twitter that ended up deciding they were going to have to fact check it and not allow for any of our accounts to share this information. It is a double standard. A double standard when it comes to these stories that maybe the New York Times puts out versus lets say the New York Post. Sandra just to be clear even the senators who are calling to vote on subpoenaing these tech nom gee leaders saying even if the New York Post report is true or false. The Biden Campaign is denying the story. They never asked the Biden Campaign about the critical elements of the story. Weve reviewed joe bidens official schedules from the time and no meeting as alleged by the post ever took place. I want to move onto the town halls we saw last night. We just talked to byron talking about a lot of the reaction not just to the candidates, joe biden and donald trump, but to those that were asking the questions at the town hall where eventually some undecided voters were able to ask some questions. You tweeted this out got a lot of attention. Abc town hall feels like im watching an episode of mr. Rogers neighborhood. You have gotten so much reaction. Some people said wait, he is a beloved man, mr. Rogers, whats wrong with that . What did you think of that we love mr. Rogers. But i have to tell you those puppets were always a little freaky when i was growing up. Here is the deal. It was literally like just a therapy session between George Stephanopolous and joe biden. There was no in any way tough questions that were asked. You know, it was a lot of the softball questions. There was really no strong followup. No questions on hunter biden. So yes, i could technically hear the little song play of mr. Rogers neighborhood during the joe biden town hall and then when you switched the channel and you saw savannah interrupting the president. Being hostile to the president. It was the tale of two town halls. Dont get me wrong. President trump, of course, is unafraid and willing to take on the difficult questions and i have to say the questions that the people asked at the town hall were very informative, very inciteful and i think the president reaction and the people were incredible. Savannah kept interrupting. Sandra do you think it helped or hurt the president . Oo it absolutely helped him. The president , it shows his strength and character. It shows his willingness to answer the tough questions unlike joe biden that we still dont even know his position on Court Packing. It looks like he is open to Court Packing. And as well as just not answering very specific questions. Especially we know that when it looks like the tax plan that he is pushing forward will lead to tax increases on americans, on Small Businesses, and it is something they should have asked tougher questions. Sandra joe biden says well know more after the vote happens for Amy Coney Barrett and before election day. Great to have you this morning. Trace joe biden appearing on abcs town hall last night saying he will share his position on packing the Supreme Court before election day. After the confirmation hearings for judge barrett. But will the answer satisfy voters . If i say no matter what answer i gave you, if i say it, thats the headline tomorrow. Not about whats going on now. The improper way theyre proceeding. Ok everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. Whoohoo great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health. 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Sandra in colorado the largest wildfire in state history with over 167,000 acres burned since it started in early august. It depends on how much they rush this. You are open to expanding the court . Im open to considering what happens from that point on. Dont voters have a right to know where you stand . They have a right. They will have a right to know where i stand before they vote. Trace joe biden getting pressed on Court Packing. The former v. P. Says he will share his opinion before election day depending on how judge barretts nomination is handled. Marie harf and guy benson. Thank you for joining us, marie, were having a tough time getting a straight answer from the former Vice President. Last week he said voters did not deserve to know how he felt about Court Packing. Last night he said well, maybe they do. It is interesting because back in 1983 the same joe biden side it was a bone headed idea Court Packing. Last night he said this. Watch this. So you are still not a fan . Not a fan. How it turns out. How its handled trace is he afraid he will disappoint democrats and why he isnt giving us a straight answer on this . Well joe biden actually has said more recently than 1983 he is not a huge fan of this idea but also making the point, trace, that so many factors go into whether we would even consider this conversation. It is a hypothetical that is impacted by a number of Different Things that we dont know how they will play out right now. I also think the point joe biden should be making more, quite frankly, this is a congressional action that congress would have to take. During the obama administration, for example, we saw republican senators introduce legislation to try and take away judicial sets so barack obama couldnt appoint people to them. The president matters certainly and i think joe biden will come out and Say Something probably more forceful on this. It is actually congressional action determine whether it happens or not. Trace a fair point. Why cant the Vice President say its a hypothetical. The votes arent there right now. Instead we get the back and forth. Voters dont deserve, they do deserve. It seems to me like its not really the right answer. Well, he has called it not just bone headed by a terrible mistake and corruption and it would be something that supporters would rue the day they did it, right . He said this over the course of decades. It is not just a small thing lets see if we have the votes. It is an absolutely enormous thermonuclear event if they try to do it. Yes, congress would play a significant role in passing the legislation. If he was president he would actually have to step up and say im for this and going to nominate people for these brandnew seats that they are going to pack the court with. He is an equal player as he said recently the leader of their party. I am the Democratic Party he said right now. If he took a strong position, the same position that he has had frankly for many, many years since before i was born, i think he could put an end to this. He is not doing it. He has punted again. I dont think it was a flipflop. He was buying himself more time punting it further down the line and my guess is his clarification, if and when we get it, will be somewhat vague and noncommittal as well. Trace bill mcgurn a wall street journal columnist and Fox News Contributor said this morning he thinks this is the motivation. Watch this, marie. Its very radical and he doesnt want to let on thats what he would do. If he were against it he would say im against it. He is trying to play games. Trace play games, marie, look, he wants to go left, he wants to join the Bernie Sanders coalition but for now he is kind of playing games. What do you think . The idea that joe biden is radical is so laughable, trace. I actually think the more likely answer is that he continues to believe that it would be a tricky thing to do and that it should only be considered under the gravest circumstances. Look, there is a reason also the framers didnt unnooum rate in the constitution the actual number of justices. They did that very purposefully. This idea that republicans think joe biden is a secret vessel for the left is a, news to the left. But also, i just dont think its borne out by his record and how he ran during the primary. He is open to progressive ideas and very progressive on certain issues but he is not some aoc in hiding. He is the leader of the party. Trace its amazing to me how you talk about this like its standard operating procedure, right . Conforming and changing an entire branch of the government. Court packing. Well get to it. You would have to blow up the senate to then expand the court with new seats. It would be stunning. It would be completely radical. These are not extraordinary circumstances under which were currently living. The republicans what theyre doing right now is obviously constitutional and the overwhelming historical precedent. I think marie might be on to something when she says there is an even case to saying maybe he is planning on Court Packing and dont want to tell us or maybe he doesnt want to let down a large, significant and passionate element of the base by telling them ahead of time guys, were not going to do this. The point for voters who are not on the hard left or on the hard right, the point is we shouldnt have to guess what is motivating him. We should get an answer on this and it shouldnt be this hard. Trace guy benson and marie harf, good debate. Thank you both. Sandra a new report that one major city now wants to change the names of 44 schools that it finds inappropriate including washington and lincoln. Plus joe biden President Trump facing tough questions on their economic plans last night. Will you race your offer above 1. 8 trillion . President trump i would, look. This was not caused by our workers and our people. This was caused by china. I would absolutely i would. I would pay more. I would go higher. Sandra Stuart Varney after his interview with the president yesterday will join us live next. My father always reminded me, a good education takes you many different horizons and that sticked to my mind. So, when 1 a day came out, i said, why not . Why not just utilize that resource. And walmart made that path open for me. Without the 1 a day program, i definitely dont think id be in school right now. Each week for me in school is just an accomplishment. I feel proud every step of the way. Trace at least 44 schools in San Francisco could have their names changed according to the San Francisco chronicle. A Committee Recommended that schools honoring people like george washington, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson be renamed because of their connections to slavery, genocide and oppression. A school named after Dianne Feinstein is on the list. An incident back in 1986 when she replaced a vandalized confederate flag. My 1. 3 trillion of the 2 trillion in tax cuts went to the top half of the 1 . Not all the tax cuts. If you raise the Corporate Tax so you can raise a lot of money. President trump we created more jobs than ever created. Companies are pouring into the nation because we reduced the taxes. Sandra that was the theme last night at the dueling town halls as President Trump and former Vice President joe biden were pressed on their economic plans. Biden says he is open to raising taxes while in stark contrast the president is again teasing a call his call for a middle class tax cut. Joining us in just a moment as we do the simulcast Stuart Varney will join us on his show on fox business and well join his from the Fox News Channel. Good morning. I was trying to be sneaky. Everybody knows Stuart Varney. Good morning to you. You had a big interview with the president yesterday. First to the town halls last night. Both candidates pressed on their economic plans. Joe biden says its okay to raise taxes, he intends to do so. President trump said you have a big beautiful tax cut coming for the middle class if reelected. I simply dont believe you can raise taxes dramatically as you are trying to come out of a nasty recession because of the virus. If you start raising taxes the way biden wants to raise taxes and you do that the very first thing do you when elected the economy is in serious trouble. He will raise the Corporate Tax rate from 21 to 28 . Thats a huge tax increase on corporate profits, the stock market would suffer. He is going to raise all kinds of taxes. Raise income taxes on people making more than 400,000 a year. Raises state and Capital Gains taxes to the tune of 3 trillion or 4 trillion. When you take that kind of money out of the private sector and you give it to the government or its forced out of your wallet to the government, that is redistrib boous and not good for the economy. Thats my view on joe biden. President trump the other way around entirely. We need more tax cuts to stimulate this economy. No harm done. Americas middle class coming out of this nasty pandemic could really use a nice middle class tax cut. We could use less regulation, it worked last time and got us to a world leading position as far as our economy is going and i think it would work again. There is my answer. Sandra very good. I have to tell you while the hearings were going on yesterday i had a split screen myself during this show yesterday as i watched your interview with the president. It was around 10 00 a. M. Eastern time and you and the president made news when you discussed another round of stimulus for the American People. People are still struggling. You keep referencing the trump economy precovid, we know so Many Americans are still struggling. The president indicated and made news on your program that he was willing to go above the 1. 8 trillion mark. It moved markets. What did you think of that moment and what are we seeing as a reaction to that . Thats exactly what the president said and said it before. He said go big. He has offered 1. 8 trillion of stimulus in his package. The one he likes. He says he will go above that. Speaker pelosi is having none of it. Politics plays a role here. I think the speaker believes that if she were to give in and allow trump to go with 2 or 2. 2 trillion then he would get the political credit for stimulating the economy and the speaker would not. I think the basis of her opposition to President Trump is entirely political. What the president really wants he wants the stimulus but what he really wants to get this economy going is to open up the economy. Especially in those big democrat states new jersey, new york, illinois, california. Thats where the restrictions are most severe at this moment. If you lifted those restrictions and get those economies going, they have 100 million americans living in those four or five states. You would get the economy going and expanding even more. Im with the president both on lowering taxes and on opening the economy. Look, i do varney and company. Its an opinion show. Thats my opinion. Sorry about that. Sandra you made clear when talking to the president yesterday you said this is a financial program. You pressed him on a lot of those issues. Because i used to join you on your show every morning i know you have a segment its my take. You give viewers your take every day. Final thoughts on your take on last night. That dueling town hall. I have a couple of seconds left. It was terrible. A clearcut evidence the network fix is in. Beat up on trump, go soft on joe biden and thats exactly what we saw. I really didnt like the endless interruptions and the caustic debate from Savannah Guthrie against the president. It was just that was almost a debate between a socalled moderator and the president. Exact opposite with George Stephanopolous with joe biden. Long rambling answers and he never raised the issue of hunter biden. Thats ridiculous, im sorry, thats a major league scandal which he should have addressed. Sandra that is Stuart Varney with his take on Fox News Channel this morning. We appreciate it. Always good to have you. Thank you. Trace. Trace stuart was saying President Trump and joe biden taking question in dueling town halls instead of the canceled second president ial debate. We break it down with Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace coming up. And coronavirus impacting the campaign trail as Kamala Harris cancels inperson events after two people working with her test positive for coronavirus. They want to just be cautious because thats where weve been in the campaign to take this seriously. Hopefully model the kind of behaviors we should all be engaged in. Im on the road virtually as you can see. [announcer] welcome to intelligent indoor grilling with the ninja foodi smart xl grill. Just pick your protein, select your doneness, and let the grill monitor your food. It also turns into an air fryer. Bring outdoor grilling flavors indoors with the grill that grills for you. Joe biden was raised with middle class values. Joe doesnt need to be the center of attention. Or see himself on tv. He has always focused on getting the job done. Joe led us out of the 2008 recession, and increased Health Coverage for millions. As president , joe will focus on getting us out of our crises. Hell listen to experts, work across the aisle. And put the American People first. Ff pac is responsible for the content of this ad. Ff pac is responsible vo im a verizon engineer and today, were turning on 5g across the country. With the coverage of 5g nationwide. And, in more and more cities, the unprecedented performance of ultra wideband. The fastest 5g in the world. It will change your phone and how businesses do everything. Im proud, because we didnt build it the easy way, we built it right. This is the 5g americas been waiting for. Only from verizon. So im voting yes. Nineteen allows seniors and all homeowners 55 and older to transfer their homes low tax base to another home. It also protects the right to pass my family home to my son. Weve all worked hard for our house and we should be allowed to give it to our kids without a tax penalty. Its time to limit taxes. Vote yes on 19. We got word that two of the folks involved with our campaign, one who is a flight crew staff. He doesnt work on our staff but works on the flight, and my Communications Director liz, they contracted covid19. The last time i saw them was seven days ago. I had many tests now and theyre all negative. Trace senator Kamala Harris sidelined from in person campaigning this weekend including her top aide test positive for coronavirus. Dr. Nicole saphier is a new york city physician and Fox News Contributor. Always great to see you. What she is saying Kamala Harris there is that she had no contact with any of these people. These two staffers two days prior to when they tested positive for coronavirus. Therefore she does not have to quarantine for 14 days. Does that sound right to you . Well, its a little more complicated than that. Kamala harris was saying the last time she was with them was on the 8th, last thursday. They tested positive on the 14th. She said also while she did come in contact with them on the 8th. She was never more than six feet closer than six feet apart for more than 15 minutes. According to the cdc it wasnt necessarily one of those close contacts with a positive. Anything is possible when it comes to covid19. Weve all realized that. What is probable is what we should be looking at now. The fact that Kamala Harris has continued to test negative since she had the last contact with them eight days ago while its possible there are still false negatives, it is not probable. At this point she said she was wearing an n95 mask and did not come in close contact with them. It is unlikely she is high risk for exposure, the crew member and her staff, they go on personal outings. Not that they are locked down with her. They said after that travel day on the 8th with her they went to personal events. Trace the reason i ask, you go back to the white house and what happened there. It wasnt just this flood of positive tests. It was a domino effect. We had one, two, three, four, it was just over several days there. So is it your assessment is it appears the Biden Campaign appears to be for the most part Kamala Harris, joe biden and Kamala Harriss husband have tested negative and appear to be in good shape right now. And it is still the domino effect when it comes to the Biden Campaign. Through the Contact Tracing with harriss contacts there was a positive aviation administrator. The Biden Campaign said they were never in close contact. They were always more than 50 feet away and also Wearing Masks. When it comes to covid19 because it is so highly contagious there does seem to be a domino effect which is why its important to continue that some level of social distancing especially when you are in aircraft and tight spaces. Trace the joe biden hasnt had any connection since october 8th with Kamala Harris. Do you think joe biden is out of the woods in this round of the coronavirus outbreak in that camp . From the information they have provided it seems there is an exceedingly low probability that Kamala Harris or Vice President biden has real highrisk exposure to the virus. Trace always good information. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Sandra announcing policy changes as the Company Faces allegations of censorship over how twitter handled the New York Post bombshell report on hunter biden. Is it too little too late . Well talk about that next top of the hour. We took a bad economy that was falling and turned it around. Trump took a good economy and drove it back into the ditch through his failure to get covid under control, his failure to deliver real relief to working people. Does he not understand and see the tens of millions of people whove had to file for unemployment this year, so far . The people who lost wages while the cost of groceries has gone up dramatically. Donald trump has been almost singularly focused on the stock market, the dow, the nasdaq not you, not your families. My plan will help create at least five million new, goodpaying jobs and create them right here in the United States of america. Lets use this opportunity to take bold investments in american industry and innovation. So the future is made in america. Ill be laser focused on working families. Im joe biden, and i approve this message. Sandra new hour. What is happening inside americas newsroom. A tale of two town halls, joe biden in philadelphia, President Trump in miami for simultaneous prime time events. Why arent you asking joe biden questions about why doesnt he condemn antifa . Why does he say it doesnt exist . This president embraces all the thugs in the world. Cspan has suspended its Political Editor steve scully indefinitely after he admitted to lying about his twitter feed being hacked. Twitter is reversing its policy of posting hacked materials after the backlash about censoring the post story. Sandra more on those stories throughout the hour. President trump and democratic challenger joe biden back on the campaign trail visiting battleground states after the dueling town halls last night. Welcome to a brandnew hour of americas newsroom. Im sandra smith, hi, trace. Trace im trace gallagher. Last night was originally scheduled to be their second facetoface debate. Instead we had two events with the candidates facing moderators instead of each other. Here they are talking about the pandemic. Watch. President trump the cure cannot be worse than the problem itself. We did the right thing. We were expected to lose two,200,000 people and maybe more than that. Were at 210,000 people. One person is too much. It is the president s responsibility to lead. He didnt do that. He worried if he talked about how bad it could be then in fact the market would be down. Trace with 18 days until the election the president is campaigning in florida and georgia and the former Vice President is in michigan. Peter doocy live for us in michigan with more. Joe biden, who recently said voters dont deserve to know his position on Court Packing before the election, now says they will know right after the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation vote. Right now looks like they have a vote around halloween. If they vote before the election, you are open to expanding the court . Im open to considering what happens from that point on. If an election dispute makes its way to the Supreme CourtPresident Trump says he doesnt know how Amy Coney Barrett would rule. President trump believe it or not. I never asked her about it. Didnt talk to her about it. Didnt talk about any of the obvious things you can talk about. A lot of people in my position might. The two town halls displayed the two candidates different styles last night. Bidens answers much longer than trumps but one man who asked what biden can offer black Americans Still wasnt fully satisfied. We can change so much and we can do so much to change the circumstances to give people a real opportunity. Did you hear what you needed to hear . I think so. There is a lot more if you can hang around afterwards ill tell you more. President trump complained what he felt was harsh treatment from the moderator. He looked surprised when this happened. I have to say you have a great smile. Thank you. You are so handsome when you smile. Biden is on his way here to the detroit area. His schedule has not been disrupted and he doesnt need to quarantine the Campaign Says even though on monday and tuesday he took several flights with a charter Flight Company employee who is infected with covid19. Trace. Peter doocy live in deer born, michigan. Peter, thank you. Sandra cspan has suspended steve scully who was supposed to moderate last nights president ial debate that was canceled. The suspension coming after he admitted he lied about his twitter account being hacked after sending a controversial tweet about President Trump. Chris wallace joins us now. It was directed at Anthony Scaramucci for a short period of time worked in the Trump White House and then he left and he now supports joe biden. Where is all of this this morning, chris . It was about this time last friday that a lot of news on this story was breaking and you brought it to us. Well thats right. The commission on president ial debates i have some contacts there and they said that scully had told them that that controversial tweet with scaramucci had been hacked. That he hadnt sent it, somebody else had sent it. And we talked about the fact that scully seems like a straight shooter. Karl rove and sean spicer all said the same thing. Unfortunately as we all learned in our professional lives and sometimes in our personal lives, people do things you dont expect them to do. They turn out to have told you something that turns out to have been a lie. It is very sad. And he is going to pay a price for it. Ultimately the commission pays a price for it because they chose him as a moderator and he turned out, you know, to have claimed something and it wasnt true. It is a sad story. Sandra i want to finish off by making sure i get the entirety of the news in there. The tweet i was mentioning the controversial tweet was this steve scully sent to scaramucci. Should i respond to trump . Scaramucci did respond to that tweet. Scully said he was hacked and that was why that tweet went out. Here is the new apology statement. Out of frustration i sent a tweet to scaramucci. When i saw the tweet created a new controversy i falsely claimed my twitter account had been hacked. I apologize. Last night instead of the second president ial debate there were dueling town halls. What did you think about what you saw . Remarkably different. The trump town hall much more combative. The biden town hall much more as kind of a quiet policy discussion. And you know, there is a theory in politics that people when they choose a president are basically choosing the tv series theyll watch the next four years. The trump show is more exciting and more exhausting. The biden show is maybe more boring and more relaxing. So like we did when we were kids you are going to when you vote, whether you vote early or voting on november 3 you are choosing your own adventure. Sandra there was some news made last night as you just saw that exchange with stephanopoulos and joe biden on his plans for potentially packing the Supreme Court. Ill play the exchange and well talk about it on the other side. If they vote on it before the election, you are open to expanding the court . Im open to considering what happens from that point on. They do have a right to know where i stand. They have a right to know where i stand before they vote. Youll come out with a clear position before election day . Yes, depending on how they handle this. Sandra did we learn anything from that moment . We learned it was a bad answer. If biden thinks that voters have a right to know where he stands on Court Packing, 20 Million People have already voted, sandra. If he wanted to do that he should have done it a month ago and told us where he stood. I dont understand well ill see how they handle it. If they confirm he will say one thing, if they dont. Is it how they handle it on the floor . You know, were talking about i think stephanopoulos talked about it being the ind of the month just before the election. By this point tens of millions of people will have voted. Look, here is whats going on here. Joe biden doesnt want to answer this question because if he says yeah im going to pack the court and by pack the court it doesnt mean fill a vacancy like the president is doing with Amy Coney Barrett. It means increasing the number of justices which has been nine since the 19th century for more than 100 years to 13 for instance and there would be seven democratic appointed judges on the court and six republican. He knows that will please the left and turn off a lot of people in the center. Conversely if he says im not going to pack the court it will please a lot of people in the center and turn off people on the left. He would like to finesse this as long as he could. Yesterday was another exercise in trying to finesse it. Sandra on we go to the third president ial debate. This will now be the second. The Trump Campaign put out a statement saying the president is ready to go and be in nashville october 22. Chris, anything you are hearing about that and Going Forward any changes of what that will look like . By the way, the debate moderator Kristin Welker from nbc has deleted her twitter account in the days leading up to that debate. No reason why. You talk about how you dont have a twitter account and you dont want to look at the feedback or warnings leading up to such an event. What do you know about that day . Nothing more than the public knows. It wont be a town hall. The town hall that was supposed to be yesterday has just been eliminated. It will be a traditional debate like mine. I do know that kristin is going to come out with her six topics today and it will be like my debate six topics, two minutes each uninterrupted for each to answer the same question at the beginning and 10 minutes left in the 15minute block to deal with those. The one going back a little bit to scully and going back to putting that together with kristin, being a moderator in one of these debates now, you are out there as a high value target. You get a lot from the left and right. The advice i have clearly it is a mistake that steve made, you have to turn off the noise and you have to do what you are trying to do to the best of your ability and not listen to all of the pressure and all of the criticism you are getting from both sides. I have every reason to believe that kristin will do that just fine and i wish her good luck in the debate on thursday night. Sandra always great to talk to you, chris, thanks. Zbloou bet. You bet. Trace former new jersey governor Chris Christine is recovered from covid and regets not wearing a mask. His recent Coronavirus Infection should be an example to others who need to follow cdc guidance and that quote i was wrong. I was wrong not to wear a mask at the Amy Coney Barrett announcement and i was wrong not to wear a mask at my multiple debate prep sessions with the president and the rest of the team. Sandra a developing story in denver where prosecutors say this man will face a Second Degree murder charge in the shooting of a demonstrator at a patriot rally last week. He was working as a Security Guard for a local tv station covering a standoff among protestors. He opened fire after a confrontation with one demonstrator. His Attorney Says he acted in selfdefense. Trace a Stunning Development in one of the most infamous crimes in recent memory. Ahead what the california Supreme Court just ordered in the case of Scott Peterson convicted of killing his pregnant wife and unborn child plus those reported hunter biden emails and the crackdown on sharing information online. Is there a media double standard for articles about democrats and republicans . 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Twitter said it limited sharing of that story because of its rules against hacked material and what it called a lack of authoritative reporting on the origins of the emails. New york post columnist is calling out twitter saying that same standard does not apply to antitrump stories. Good morning, thank you for being here. What is the case that you are particularly writing about when it comes to this twitter story . There are a lot of angles to it. Well, it is quite simple, sandra. This is a story of National Importance published three weeks out from an election and it is more solidly sourced and reported. All your viewers can find it on ny post. Com. All of our coverage of the hunter biden story. This is solidly reported more than any number of antitrump stories that appeared over the last four years. Perjury from Michael Cowan to the dossier to any number of them that collapse under factual scoout nee. Not one of those stories was censored. The double standard is glaring and more blatant than any action of this type in the past in some cases overtly democratic, andy stone staffer at facebook but before that he was a staffer at senator boxers office and the Democratic Congressional campaign committee. Overtly partisan people limiting the story and damaging to the Public Square. Sandra i want to get in some of your piece. Well put it on the screen. You write in is what Silicon Valley removing from vast swaths of the internet a damaging expo on they are preferred president ial candidate. Twitter says we view materials as violations of our hacked materials policy. We dont want to incentivize hacking by allowing twitter to be used as distribution for possibly illegally obtained materials. What did you think when you saw that . Sandra, i laughed. The notion that the only journalism that is acceptable is material that people in power authorize, that wouldnt be journalism. That would be public relations. Every the business that you and i are in is the business of trying to uncover things and powerful people and influential people dont want disclosed. We were transparent about the providence of the material. It was a recovered laptop that was brought to us and so im sorry but the pentagon papers would have been counted as i guess unauthorized materials because people didnt want them released. I guess we should censor the story. How about the trump tax story . Sandra you saw jack dorsey the founder of the company say they botched the handling of this. He put that out there. Now they are announcing changes. Here they are. No longer removed hacked content unless directly shared by the hackers or those acting in concert with them. Well label tweets to provide context instead of blocking links from being shared on twitter. Is that enough . The process that we went through with this story. We havent even addressed facebook censorship goes to show we need legislative or regulatory action from congress or from the Communications Commission and others because these entities are too powerful, too monopolys they can with a click remove Vital Information that our democracy needs so people can make up their own minds. With a single click they can remove it. Disappear from the Public Square. Our Public Square is what they offer are the platforms. Free speech lives or dies on these platforms and we cant let them act with such impunity and such an unaccountable way. Sandra appreciate you coming on the program this morning. Thank you so much. Trace President Trump and joe biden back on the campaign trail today after dueling town halls last night looking for votes in key battleground states with the election now 18 days away. More unrest in the pacific northwest. A Police Car Set on fire in seattle with an officer inside. That officers condition next. 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Sandra senior white house advisor hope hicks returning to the campaign trail after testing positive for covid two weeks ago and traveling with the president on air force one. Trace President Trump and joe biden talking at the same time last night. In dueling town halls. They were in different cities. Both campaigns claiming their candidate had a good night. Sandra this developing story now the california Supreme Court ordering a judge to consider throwing out Scott Petersons 2004 murder convictions for the deaths of his wife and unborn son. His trial riveted the nation 16 years ago. Laura engel covered it back then. What is the dramatic change now . Well this all hinges on jury misconduct. Where one juror didnt disclose that she experienced abuse while pregnant. The california state Supreme Court, the jury foreman on the case he feels peterson is guilty and exactly where he belongs. 2004 he was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and son and given the Death Penalty. This week the Supreme Court sent his case back to be heard by a Trial Court Judge where his original trial was held to decide whether he should get a new trial. As the claim of prejudicial jooury misconduct and his attorneys have worked to get his client a new trial. The high Supreme Court agreed that there could be a problem with the juror that didnt reveal she once filed for a restraining order while pregnant saying she feared for the life of her unborn child during that Domestic Abuse two months after petersons Death Penalty was overturned while his conviction of guilt remained in play. A spokesperson for the District Attorneys Office that prosecuted the case told me last night this is one step in a very long and complicated appellate process. Well respond in court but this will probably take years to fully resolve. Lacey peterson disappeared on Christmas Eve 2002 from her home in modesto and were waiting for reaction from laceys family on this Major Development and will pass it along as soon as we get it. Sandra laura engel. Thank you. Trace twitter announcing policy changes late last night after accusation it censored a New York Post story on hunter biden but blocking retweets to it. The ceo said the handling was unacceptable. Is it too little too late . Carley shimkus. Great to see you. Twitter now decided theyll change the rules but not allowing the New York Post article to be retweeted. Kind of like saying you know, we messed up but were standing firm. Your thoughts. They are still going to limit the New York Post story because it contains some private information, email addresses from hunter biden and the burisma advisor. But to answer your question too little too late. It is definitely an admission that they were wrong. Regarding this twitter policy change they are now going to only block hacked material if its directly posted by the hacker because if they were forced to follow this rule and block every story like the hunter biden story that contains information obtained without authorization it would have to block almost every story from the first lady complaining about Christmas Decorations to President Trumps tax returns. Thats what is so frustrating about this, trace. The New York Post did absolutely nothing wrong and yet they were punished for it. Trace and you go back and what you were saying there, carley, you look at some of the stuff they have said which is fine. You are talking about iranian material and chinese material and the russia, the unverified russian collusion stuff. It was all over twitter for years and years and now you have democrats who say that republicans are always claiming bias, always screaming bias. Well, when you see Something Like this it is kind of telling. Yeah, if the shoe fits. Trace, i really dont see this as a political story. This is really a story about censorship. A story about a few executives at facebook and twitter making a decision between the two companies three billion monthly active users that they arent allowed to see a story because they dont want them to see it. It sounds a little too chinese comeist party for my liking. I understand government versus private company. If you have any appreciation for freedom of speech or freedom of press this should grind your gears. I know there will be a subpoena likely handed to jack dorsey to answer some of these questions later this month. And i would be very curious to hear what he has to say. Trace you talk about jack dorsey and also Mark Zuckerberg. Some say they should also bring him before congress. Regardless how it transpires it will have a major impact on all social media platforms Going Forward. Absolutely. You know im glad you brought up facebook. I feel like twitter is taking a lot of the heat especially in the media. But facebook they limited the story because they said they wanted to fact check it. They limited people from seeing the story to fact check it. Thats such a round about it is usually the other way. You fact check the story first and find out if there is something wrong and then you pull it. So that is a very confusing piece of this puzzle to me as well. Trace fact check and then you can censor it. Not the other way around. Always good of you to joins. Thank you. Thank you. He is walking down the alley. I saw the white smoke and dark smoke. The cop car was engulfed in flames. The whole car went up within minutes. Sandra a suspect set a patrol car on fire yesterday with the officer still inside. The officer was responding to reports about a man Walking Around with a torch. Police say he threw a burning piece of lumber into the cruiser setting it on fire. The officer inside suffered minor injuries. The suspect was found a short distance away and has been arrested. Trace prosecutors in wisconsin have now charged a man with firing a warning shot in kenosha during protests over the Police Shooting of jacob blake in august. They say that man admitted to detectives he fired the shot. This could be significant in the case against Kyle Rittenhouse who has been charged with killing two people and wounding another in those protests. His attorneys say the new charge means rittenhouse did not file the first shot and they also say he acted in selfdefense. Sandra candidates hitting the campaign trail in three battleground states today. A look at the latest polling and the key issues. In florida, georgia and michigan with just 18 days left before election day. You can cut your familys mortgage payments by 3000 a year. The va streamline refi is a benefit your spouse earned. It shortens the refi process so veteran families can save money by refinancing. There is no income verification. No appraisal. No out of pocket costs. All time low Mortgage Rates have now dropped even lower. They traveled thousands of miles together, visiting troops overseas. And they developed the kind of friendship you dont see too often. In the senate, they disagreed on almost everything. Theyd fight like hell on the floor, and then theyd go eat lunch together. Because they always put their friendship, and their country, first. Now more than ever, we need a president who will put service before self. A president who will lead with courage and compassion, not ego. A president who will respect the sacrifices made by our Service Members and their families. A president who will honor our fallen heroes. And a president who will bring out the best in us, not the worst. Joe bidens dedicated his life to this country and working across the aisle to get things done. Joe will always fight for the American People, just like john did. Im joe biden, and i approve this message. Sandra u. S. Army making changes to prioritize missing soldiers after disappearances like that of some from fort hood in april. Her remains were found once after she was missing and a fellow soldier accused of murdering her. Another soldier went missing from for the hood last year and his remains were found in june. The army will now list soldiers who fail to report for duty as mention and take immediate actions to locate them. You say you dont know if you got a test. Shouldnt the white house no better than to hold an event like that . President trump people can decide for themselves. I dont get that. You are not like someones crazy uncle. How can you contain the pandemic without crushing the economy . Nbc and abc holding competing town halls for President Trump and joe biden. What were the key differences . Howie, i was like much of the country flipping between the channels. I didnt have a computer in front of me at the time. Adjusting the volume for each channel. What did you make of the moderators or the hosts different approaches last night . Well, i watched both simultaneously. It is like night and day. Nbc Savannah Guthrie came out like a boxer trying to draw blood. George stephanopolous like a polite round of golf. Deferred to the audience a lot. They were mostly asking biden friendly questions as well. Look, guthrie came on with 20 straight minutes of in your face questions. Im a big believer in aggressive interviews her tone was such it sounded often she was debating President Trump. Dismissive of some of his answers and Savannah Guthrie was under pressure from the left and some at nbc and liberals at msnbc, actors at the show runners at the broadcast network who didnt even think nbc should give the president a town hall. Trace the second question. All the pushback from nbc employees saying the president shouldnt be given this time and it turns out like this, right . Very combative town hall. Flip side no problem with the abc doing the joe biden town hall. Difference in tone when you hear republicans spout this whole bias thing, do you kind of get it a little bit or do you think its overplayed . Well, this is exhibit 527 of a very uneven playing field. Different networks, different styles i get that. By and large. George stephanopolous was better than the cnn and nbc. He didnt ask anything about the recent hunter biden story. The only time he followed up repeatedly is when biden continued to be evasive on the question of Court Packing and plans for the Supreme Court. So when you talk about the culture clash here i would say that it was Good Morning America as a Friendly Tea Party and the today show on steroids. Trace to your point about the hunter biden New York Post story. How does the twitter and controversy, how does that not come up . Example a, story one yesterday. One or two all day, howie, how does it not come up in the joe biden town hall . I cant imagine why stephanopoulos chose not to ask a question or two. I understand not wanting to spend 15 minutes on it. Lots of questions about the validity of the New York Post story. You have the two social media giants engaging in censorship especially twitter, you would think that biden would want a chance to weigh in on that and part of holding him accountable. The difference with Savannah Guthrie who pressed the president about White Supremacists and qanon. The president made more news that bidens low key style. 90 of the clips are about the president. Savannah guthrie made more news but the contrast in these two town halls which most people couldnt watch at the same time was really striking. I think nbc made a big mistake, trace, in putting on its town hall at the same time as abcs scheduled time. It divided programming for a divided country and very controversial within nbc. Trace lastly people talked about joe bidens performance and how he did and the hill wrote the following quoting bidens answers were not always chris ip or clear but had no memorable missteps to upend the Political Landscape a few weeks out from election day. Theyre saying no major gaffes. Victory for joe biden. Your final word. Well, you know, he took questions for an hour and a half and displayed a deep policy knowledge of somebody who spent 36 years in the senate but he has a very sort of rampling style. I would say jump in because he gave five minute answers. He didnt make much news. That may be by design. I dont think biden wants to make a lot of news. He is trying to sit. Trace always good to see you thank you. Sandra another busy friday on the campaign trail. 18 days left to election day. Were going to take the touch screen for a spin and take a closer look at three states the candidates are visiting today. 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Founder and ceo of real clear politics. You look at where the president is first heading. He will be departing miami next hour heading to ocala, florida, Marion County spending time. You look back at the 2016 results, in a county he solidly won in the last president ial election. Why does the president want to spend time there other than hoping for a repeat . Well because i think the president needs to make sure his base is energized and excited. The latest poll in florida shows he has about a 17point advantage over joe biden in terms of the enthusiasm factor who is excited about turning out on november 3. So thats one of the reasons florida critical to his reelection. He cant win the white house again if he doesnt win florida. Sandra you look at the results in 2016 in Marion County. A solid victory for the president there. If he out performs past gop candidates in that county. To have the president spending more time there today is interesting. Meanwhile he will head up to macon, georgia. A bit later on. These are both maga rallies that the president will be holding. He is heading to a blue county that Hillary Clinton won in 2016. 60 of the vote there. What does it say that the president what are we 18 days out from election day . What does it say he is spending time in georgia this close to election day . Well, georgia is one of those states that has been moving, trending more democratic over time. A state trump won by five points last time around. It will be closer this time. The polls show biden with a small lead in our real clear politics average. The trump folks feel good about georgia but again they arent taking anything for granted. They have to make sure they get their base turned out. To be competitive with the vote that biden will pick up in atlanta, and the suburbs. We showed a narrow lead according to real clear politics average that joe biden does have in that state. 18 days out. Meanwhile, while the president is traveling down south you have i shouldnt have gotten out of there. The president is traveling down south joe biden will head to michigan today. His first stop making remarks about healthcare in southfield, michigan hitting Oakland County. This has become a big battleground county, tom. What are we seeing there and what is the Biden Campaign strategy in Oakland County . Well, if its odd that what is biden doing in michigan . I think the Biden Campaign doesnt feel comfortable with the poll lead there and i think they think its closer than that. In 2016 donald trump was at 42 in the final poll of michigan and ended up with 47 1 2 in that state. I think the possibility for trump to over perform in michigan is something that has the Biden Campaign worried. They want to make sure they lock down their vote in michigan. Sandra speaking of checking all their boxes, after that he will hold a Voter Mobilization event in a county just south of there, wayne county. Home to detroit, michigan. 39 africanamerican includes the most pop you laos city. What would be the strategy there. You look back at the 2016 results for Hillary Clinton. She dominated in this county. What is joe bidens goal there . She dominated in that county but she didnt have the turnout she needed. Certainly not the turnout that barack obama got in those counties in 2008 and 2012. That was part of the downfall of Hillary Clintons campaign. In the urban centers like milwaukee, detroit, philadelphia she didnt energize the africanamerican vote. The Biden Campaign is concerned trump will do better with africanamericans. For joe biden to carry those states he needs to turn out africanAmerican Voters in the urban centers better than Hillary Clinton did four years ago. Sandra the trend in michigan you are saying joe biden worried about what youre saying the real clear politics average. 49. 8 leading the president who is polling just under 43 . You are saying there is worry there to spend more time on the ground in michigan. Final thoughts. If they felt the state was well in hand they wouldnt be spending time there, they would spend time in other places. You look where the campaigns are spending time and money. The most important things they have. It will tell you exactly where the race stands. The Biden Campaign wants to make sure and a littlener rouse about the fact they dont feel as comfortable in michigan as the polls suggest. Sandra perhaps seeing an opportunity with manufacturing jobs in michigan as well. Look at where they were in january 2017. The president touts his case for adding manufacturing jobs and in august of 2020 theyve gone down in michigan. Biden will take that on as well. 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Talk to your doctor about adding protection with vascepa. Sandra another big night for the candidates. President trump and joe biden going after each other on stage more than 1,000 miles apart and the battle for the white house goes on today with the president set to leave a short time from now for florida. Welcome to a brandnew hour of americas newsroom. Im sandra smith. He is in there and traveling to another spot in florida and on to georgia. Good morning, trace. Trace hello, im trace gallagher. A busy day on the trail. President trump heading to fort myers where he will attend an event for seniors and on to georgia while joe biden is in michigan delivering a speech on healthcare. Sandra we cover all this morning live from americas newsroom. Miranda devine has brandnew reaction to the hunter biden email report and Griff Jenkins with an update. It could spell trouble for the Biden Campaign. We begin the john roberts report being live from the north lawn. What was the reaction and what has it been so far to the debates last night, i should say the town halls . The kind of looked like debates. Good morning, sandra and trace. A lot of complaints from conservatives the president s town hall last night in miami was far more adversarial than the joe biden event. President said he got good reviews. The biden event which took place in philadelphia far less contentious. Biden not asked about the latest controversy about his son hunters emails but was asked about Supreme Court packing and he said he would reveal his position after the vote on Amy Coney Barrett. Listen here. If i say no matter what answer i gave you, if i say it thats the headline tomorrow. Not about whats going on now, the improper way theyre proceeding. Dont voters have a right to know . They have a right to know where i stand and they will before they vote. So youll come out with a clear position before election day . Yes, depending on how they handle this. Trump asked if he could accept a peaceful transition of power if the election didnt go his way. The president saying he will if the election is honest. Listen here. President trump they spied on my campaign and they got caught and tried to take down a duly elected sitting president and then they talked about were will accept a peaceful transfer . The answer is yes, i will, but i want it to be an honest election and so does everybody else. In philadelphia joe biden asked about his tax plan and pulling out crib notes. Sure. People making over 400 grand pay 39. 6 you would raise another it goes up to let me get the exact number here, excuse me. 92 billion. On the issue of some 400 million in real estate lows the president reportedly owes for his projects the president not accepting or acknowledging at least the exact number. Not denying it either. Playing down the whole issue as insignificant. Confirming you do owe some 400 million. President trump what im saying its tiny percentage of my net worth. Any foreign banks or entities . President trump not that i know of. It is easy to solve. I will let you know who i owe. The president waking up at his golf resort in miami this morning had time to get in a quick 18 if he wanted to. Off to fort myers for a seniors event and ocala, florida for a rally and macon, georgia and finish with a rally. Joe biden in michigan and a Virtual Event and early voting event. Both candidates busy today. Sandra as it should be 18 days out. Trace fox news has obtained two new emails linked to a New York Post report on Hunter Bidens over seas business dealings dating back to 2015. Griff jenkins. New emails appear to involve Chinese Energy executives. Fox news obtained the new emails different from the ones yesterday involving hunter biden from the burisma firm regarding, of course, the alleged meeting with his father. The new ones i want to show you from may 2017. Correspondence with Chinese Energy executives that lays out remuneration packages including payments for six people. One called the big guy. Then there is this one from august 2017 seeking 10 million a year for hunter in a deal that would be interesting to me and my family. Now fox news has not independently authenticated this emails emanating from a hard drive that Rudy Giuliani from a blind Computer Repair shop owner. So my lawyer went down there. He vetted him for two weeks, actually. I emphasize how it is authenticated. I and my lawyer today. I came to the New York Post and held them for a week and authenticated. Bidens attorney said we have no idea where this came from and cannot credit anything that Rudy Giuliani provided to the New York Post. What i can do know for certain that this purported meeting never happened. Joe biden was not asked about this last night at the town hall and not spoken about it. I dont think its going away. Trace the story has caused a social media mess and twitter is changing its policy. How about that . Twitter revising its policy posting hacked materials over the backlash after censoring the New York Post story. Now theyll label questionable tweets and no longer removed hacked contents unless its directly shared by hackers. Lindsey graham plans to subpoena them. Watch. The social Media Companies have a lot of control over our lives. I think they are a threat to democracy when you can shut down the flow of information. Trace, i think twitters intention was to limit the eyeballs on the New York Post story. They seem to have only increased it. Sandra every other social media company. Griff, thank you. Our next guest is a columnist for the New York Post. The first to break the hunter biden story. She argues the response from facebook and twitter reveals the companys true political colors writing this. Big tech is in the tank for biden, democrats. Here to talk about New York Post columnist miranda devine. Good morning to you. Here we are. This is still a stop trending story right now on twitter. Where does this story stand this morning . Well, we have more revelations today about Hunter Bidens dealings with chinese companies, mainly linked to the Chinese Communist party and the amounts of money are eye watering. And again more indications that this is a biden family cash influence scheme. And again for the third day running now we have no comment from joe biden. I think its extraordinary that last night in his town hall George Stephanopolous of abc news did not ask a single question. It is also extraordinary the big tech giants have censored our story in the most egregious way. Sure theyve shown the spotlight on the story and also pointed the public to the fact that there are very significant revelations in this story that havent happened before and that do require an answer from joe biden. Shortly before the election. These are very serious pieces of evidence which points to corruption. And so there needs to be an answer. Sandra the New York Post obviously has been doing a lot of reporting on this and well put up just some of the New York Post covers weve seen in decent day. Twieter must sing. The senators were very specific yesterday when they stepped out of that hearing room for the Supreme Court confirmation process. We heard from ted cruz, josh hawley and Lindsey Graham yesterday. They firmly said regardless of the reporting on the story, whether the story is true or false, this is about censorship and now they are going to take a vote to subpoena the leaders of these Technology Companies to come talk to them and answer the tough questions because people want to know are these Tech Companies determining what you and i and anyone for that matter sees when they log onto these social media platforms . Millions of americans who do so. Yes, they are determining it. They control it. They have a monopoly on the distribution of news. There is no doubt about it. I actually think that these senators are talking tough but they are completely impotent. Theyve shown it in the past. Just last october there was a Senate Judiciary report, weve seen it before. They have the monopoly not just in the distribution of news but theyve always been siphoning money from news creators, newspapers like mine and they just are too big to be reined in. The only way of doing this is not about section 230 and all the flaccid spankings that the senators claiming they want to do. I dont know whether they are scared of google and facebook and amazon, twitter. This is a wider story than just the censorship of our newspaper yesterday. Thats a big issue. These Big Companies need to be broken up. Sandra theyre saying these senators will have a chance to explain why an open Society Matters to those tech leaders in their piece they write a free society cant survive if its people arent committed to it and willing to justify anything to get power. Silicon valleys partisan interference flies in the face of american instincts about democracy, fair play and first amendment. A successful hearing next week will expose the ideological ugliness taking place and what is the risk if they limit american political debate. What do you think will happen when they subpoena if they all agree to subpoena those executives and do come in and face the tough questions, miranda . Well see what happened a few months ago when Mark Zuckerberg and others were subpoenaed and sat in their homes and batted away anything that might be slightly uncomfortable. Zero. Nothing will happen. I dont think we have any faith that anything will happen. The current crop of politicians need to be as courageous as historys crop where they broke up the railroads. There was a monopoly in the oil companies, a monopoly in the railroads. And our forebears decided they would do something about that. And i dont know whether the big tech lobbyists have compromised some senators or what is going on. But when these companies are so big that they are able to close down the twitter account and limit the story distribution of the oldest newspaper in the america. One of the biggest newspapers in the country on a legitimate news story, this is a news story with actual evidence. Not conjecture. These same companies did nothing to the New York Times when they were distributing hacked tax returns of the president or hacked phone conversations, private conversations by melania trump. They are in the tank for the democrats. It is election interference pure and simple and i dont see how this country can stand for it. Sandra you make a lot of those points in your piece in the New York Post this morning. Miranda devine, thank you for joining us. Trace President Trump and nancy pelosi have anniversary today. Dont expect any gifts to be exchanged across the aisle. What happened one year ago that could show why its so hard in d. C. To get things done and it has been a bad couple of weeks for one news anchor. First he lost the opportunity of a lifetime moderating a president ial debate because of coronavirus. Now he could be losing his career. Joe concha gives us his take. How will we do it, at a time like this . Weve been asked that before. And through pandemics, and depressions, wars that split a nation, and fractured the world. Americans have always found a way to vote and make their voices heard. So stand with the National Council on Election Integrity and help make sure every vote is counted. No matter who you vote for, or how. Because while this election may feel different, we all call america home. With the ninja foodito intelligesmart xl grill. Ing just pick your protein, select your doneness, and let the grill monitor your food. It also turns into an air fryer. Bring outdoor grilling flavors indoors with the grill that grills for you. Trace joe bidens team confirming at least three People Associated with the campaign have tested positive for coronavirus forcing senator Kamala Harris to cancel travel at a crucial time and highlighting a stark difference in Media Coverage compared to what we saw when hope hicks was first diagnosed with the virus. The headline of the article in salon. Com saying the audacity of hope hicks and her boss getting covid19. Joe concha is a media reporter for the hill. Always good to see you. I was looking at the coverage and doing some history and going over what happened a couple of weeks ago when the white house outbreak happened versus now. I find it fascinating. This is alternate, a left wing publication. Their headline here are four ways bidens teams response to positive covid test shows the breadth of trump worlds incompetence. Amazing only when you have an outbreak of covid in the campaign can some blame the Trump White House. You always have to bring trump into the conversation even though its a story about joe bidens campaign and Kamala Harris being taken off the trail. I dont know if anybody will notice the senator being taken off the trail. Ive never seen a more invisible candidate ever run for office of the stature in terms of the vp since joe biden. She has yet to do one press conference, one gaggle with reporters, she has yet to do one remotely tough interview in all this time. So yeah, Kamala Harris will be taken off the trail but will anybody really notice . Trace are you curious at all about the lack of scrutiny that the positive tests in the Biden Campaign and People Associated with Kamala Harris is getting in the media now . You read the articles and state that she has her Communications Director and someone on the plane and somebody else but there doesnt seem to be a lot of deep dive looking into it the way you would think one would want to kind of Contact Trace this in the media. Yeah. Thats just the deep dives, but the condescension, the snark we see related always when it is something about the Trump Campaign in terms of blaming people for getting covid19 automatically assuming it was reckless behavior in terms how they contracted it. Its a dicey thing. You are blaming the millions of people who tested positive. Maybe they did everything right and maybe we dont know about how to get it. If i were teaching a zoom class it was selective outrage 101. With trump very different and what were hearing about now with the Biden Campaign and Kamala Harris. I want to move into the steve scully controversy. He was going to moderate the second debate that was canceled. He said his twitter account got hacked last week and didnt send that tweet to Anthony Scaramucci. And now he is saying i did send it. I apologize. Chris wallace last week when the whole thing broke. We had him on a few minutes ago. He said look, he got hacked and looked like he was not guilty and today chris said this, watch. Unfortunately as weve all learned in our professionals lives and sometimes in our personal lives, people do things you dont expect them to do. They turn out, you know, to have told you something that turns out to have been a lie. Its very sad. And he is going to pay a price for it. Ultimately the commission pays a price for it because they chose him as a moderator. Trace whats the price in your estimation, joe, for this media bias . I think its permanently damaged reputation unfortunately in this case, trace. I understand Chris Wallace has been in the News Business more than 50 years. Steve scully 30 years. Somebody who he knows gave the benefit of the doubt. I was on last week and i was skeptical. I found two things odd. Scully didnt put out a statement that i was hacked. Silence was telling. If you hack a president ial debate moderators account is your first order of business to send the scaramucci tweet and your only order of business and it goes away . The Debate Commission here canceled that debate t second that was supposed to happen last night so much about the president having covid and the risk factors. It was the fact that if steve scully moderated the debate and there was something fishy if you imagine that debate went off last night. There is an f. B. I. Investigation. It is the coverup thats the problem for steve scully. Trace this is Anthony Scaramucci speeng of can sefmgt he said this. He was the one who got the tweet. He said i get he got suspended meaning steve scully for the lie. The punishing cancel culture is over the top. Is it over the top, joe . No, it is not because again if you have the f. B. I. And twitter investigating this after he lied, that should have been enough. All he had to do is say i was joking around, sent something to scaramucci, nothing to see. It would have probably gone away. Instead by covering it up it led to him probably not working for cspan a long time. Once you look at steve scully its the first thing that youll think of and thats a shame. A shame. Sandra its anniversary of sorts. The president and House Speaker nancy pelosi today marks exactly one year since the two of the most powerful figures in the nation have spoken with each other. Chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel is live in washington on that. President trump was asked by Stuart Varney yesterday about the lack of conversations with Speaker Pelosi in the context of trying to cut a covid relief deal. Would you pick up the phone and call Speaker Pelosi . President trump i would. I know my people. I know life. She has a lot of problems. A lot of mental problems. It will be very hard to do anything with her. She wants to wait until after the election. The conversations on covid relief are between pelosi and mutschin. She has gotten asked awkward questions about the lack of dialogue with the leader who signs legislation. When was the last time you spoke to the president about this . I dont speak to him. What makes me amused if it werent so sad is how you all think that you know more about the suffering of the American People than those of us who are elected by them to represent them at that table. The last conversation was one year ago today at the white house. Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer were there to discuss the president s decision to withdraw troops from Northern Syria when things blew up. He was insulting particularly to the speaker. She kept her cool completely. But he called her a third rate politician. If that was bad things got worse at the state of the Union Address on february 4th when Speaker Pelosi publicly ripped up her copy of the president s speech for all to see. There are no signs that that relationship thawing any time soon. Sandra. Sandra mike emanuel on that for us this morning. Hard to believe but thats the case. Thank you. Trace judge Amy Coney Barrett coming under scrutiny after refusing to specify her stance on landmark rulings regarding abortion and gay marriage at her confirmation hearing. Did her silence reveal more than she intended . Plus a cordial moment between colleagues stirring up outrage. Why senator Dianne Feinstein is now facing criticism. Perhaps some good Bipartisan Legislation we can put to put this country back together. Thank you so much for your leadership. When joe biden wants an update on the virus, he calls on the nations top health experts. Working together, for all americans, is what joe does. 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He suspects a white house event suspected of spreading the virus. Trace a new casualty of the cocacola wars. It will stop making tab. It lasted six decades relegated to the bottom of store shelves until getting killed by its younger brother diet coke. The folks at coke are a bit choked up saying theyre grateful that tab broke into the diet soda area. Im asking your legal position, not your morale position. When you ask me about whether a case is correctly decided or not i cannot answer that question because i cant suggest agreement or disagreement with precedent at the Supreme Court. Sandra a tense moment between Richard Blumenthal and amy barrett. Some are noting inconsistencies in her answers on previous cases. Some pointing out places where she flat mri weighed in with her opinion and other cases she shared her thoughts on what would be inappropriate. In both instances barrett tried avoiding revealing her stance on key hot button issues including abortion and gay marriage. Our next guest sums it up. It plays a starring role in amy barrett confirmation hearing. James hohmann joins us now. Good morning to you. Here we are four days of her confirmation hearings are behind us. It all goes to a vote next week. You look at some of the ways that she pushed back on senators who tried to dig into places where they thought she did share her opinion on these issues. Yes, sandra. Because they changed the rules a few years back you no longer need people from both parties voting for a nominee. It was clear even before the hearing started that every republican they need with two exceptions will vote for her. She didnt have to make an effort to sort of persuade the democrats to get behind her. Because of that she didnt have to commit to endorse certain precedents like griswold versus connecticut, a case from the 1960s related to contraception and roberts, thomas and alito all said they accepted. She didnt need to. She wasnt trying to win over democrats. There were somewhere she said she had written about them in the past which is why she was comfortable doing it but she was able to get through the hearing in the same position that she went into it. Sandra last night President Trump was asked about his stance on roe v. Wade and what would happen if he wins another term in office and here is how he responded. President trump i did not tell her what decision to make and i think it would be inappropriate to say now. I dont want do anything to influence her. I want her to get approved and i want her to go by the law and i know she will make a great decision for our country. Sandra what did you make of that response . We did a National Poll earlier this week. The Washington Post and found only 1 in 4 americans want to throw out roe v. Wade. There are a lot of people who would be okay with more restrictions on abortion but dont want to get rid of roe all together and why you are hearing the president modulate that position and what we heard just now from the president from a lot of republican senators and Senate Candidates as well because they can see the polls as well as we can. Sandra then there is this moment in the confirmation hearings this week. I didnt know what to make of it when i saw it was getting all this attention. The hug between the Ranking MemberDianne Feinstein and Lindsey Graham there. I thought at first when i saw it that it was because they werent Wearing Masks but no, it was because how could a republican and a democrat possibly be hugging each other in that Committee Room . What was the reaction to that . Well, sandra, liberals are angry looking for someone to lash out against. Theyre mad that Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be replaced by a conservative and there is nothing that the committee could have done differently. The democrats on the committee to change the outcome of this hearing. But this gives them a chance to gang up on a woman in her 80s and its just they are looking for someone to be angry at, i think. Sandra a former clinton aide on twitter said this is a link to an article about them hugging without masks. It was explored. Dianne feinstein must step down. We demand Justice Group on twitter say there is a progressive movement, fighting to protect the courts. Time for senator feinstein to step down from the judicial committee. Got a lot of attention as we look back on this friday morning. Final thoughts. Yeah. I think that that group wasnt very effective in changing the outcome of this fight and so they are looking to blame someone else and try to deflect responsibility for their own inability to move the needle on public opinion. Sandra as we move to next week with first of the votes taking place and into the senate for a full vote your expectations for the week and what it will look like . It will be pretty seamless. Democrats feel like they scored the points they wanted to make and were now only 2 1 2 weeks away from the election and i think were going to see big protests around the country on saturday from womens groups but then i think it will get done before the end of the month. Sandra all right. Appreciate your time this morning. James hohmann, thank you. My pleasure. Trace republicans are accusing twitter on censorship and calling on twitters ceo to testify. Edward lawrence live in washington with more. Edward. The story is having a Multiplier Effect as we call it on fox business network. Now its grown beyond the allegations in the New York Post about Hunter Bidens business dealings and possible links to former Vice President joe biden while he was still in office. It is also about big tech and censorship. Twitter making change to its hacked materials policy overnight. It will no longer be locked unless shared by hackers. Second the tweets will have a label to provide context instead of blocking them. All other policies remain the same with materials directly from hackers that could include personal information like email addresses. The head of legal policy and trust and safety says the changes stem from significant feedback about how twitter enforces the hacking materials policy. Included in that feedback a subpoena that twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey is expected to get next week for a hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary committee on october 23. In a statement twitter said were trying to act responsibly and quickly to prevent harms but we are still learning along the way. Trump campaign Senior AdvisorMercedes Schlapp earlier on this program says it does not go far enough. In fact, she is saying that basically twitter is not Fact Checking other things other than the conservative stuff thats out there and the New York Post is a news outlet that should be able to share the news that they gather. Now, it appears we will have a hearing next week on what the twitter ceo says about all of this. As of right now you will only hear about the allegations against hunter biden in connections with his father in the New York Post right here on Fox News Channel. Twitter makes the changes in a few days on the new policies and regulations and you still may not be able to see the link because the story contains what twitter calls personal information. Those email addresses. Therefore it could still be blocked. Back to you. Trace they would like Mark Zuckerberg to pay a visit. Sandra most people probably wouldnt want to be locked together in an airtight airplane, thats for sure. A study found your chance of getting coronavirus on a plane is next to nothing. There is just one thing you have to do before you get on that plane. Well have that for you. Plus can President Trump defy the polls in 2016 and why democrats worry about another electionnight shocker. Anew study fines coronavirus exposure on an aircraft is virtually nonexistent. Study by the department of transportation and United Airlines conducted 300 tests over a sixmonth period. The one catch to avoid contracting the virus in flight, you have to wear a mask. The feds found that when masks are worn there is less than a 0 chance of particles entering a passengers breathing space. Trace despite polls showing their candidate in the lead, Many Democrats are getting a familiar feeling of election anxiety. The headline in the Chicago Tribune reading like this time in 2016 trump looks doomed to defeat. Thats why democrats are worried. Here to talk about it Fox News Contributor richard fowler. Great to see you. It was four years ago today that the Monmouth University poll, cbs news poll, nbc wall street journal all had Hillary Clinton up by double digits. Republicans are saying we have you right where we want you, richard. Are you concerned about the polls this time around . Listen, ive said and always continue to say the only poll that actually matters, trace, is the poll on election day and how people show up to vote. Now here is some of the head winds going into this sort of in the teens now. We have 18 days left, right . It is this. Donald trumps biggest problem here is he doesnt have a Closing Argument. In 2016 the Closing Argument for the president was crystal clear. Build the wall, drain the swamp, and were going to fix trade in america. Those are his three Closing Arguments. Everybody remembers them. If you talk to voters who voted for him in 2016 theyll point to one of the reasons why he did that. In this closing election with 18 days left, the president doesnt have a clear message for the American People. And you have to look at where the white house is campaigning. Where do you see donald trump . He is in iowa, a place he won by double digits in 2016, right . If you look at the clock, the clock says tick, tick, tick. For the president he is trying to find his momentum and trying to find the closing message and he is trying to wooh back suburban voters that he lost after election day on 2016. Trace as we all know it comes down to the Electoral College in the battleground stage. In the battleground states the president is doing better today than he was four years ago. I want to put this on the screen. In 2016 Hillary Clinton had a battleground the rcp average 5. 4 percent lead and now in 2020 President Trump has joe biden has a 4. 5 5. 4 percentage lead. Youve got pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, florida, north carolina, arizona. It shows well, there is a little bit of bad news there for democrats if you are just looking at the battlegrounds and Electoral College. Thats a great point, trace. I think its worth pointing out this. For donald trump to win this election he has to win all of those states. He has to carry all the states he carried in 2016 and he has to avoid joe biden picking up any of the tossup states. If you look at it now, if the election were happening today. In many parts of the country the election is happening today. The number one issue facing the American Voters is how the president will handle covid19 in contrast to joe biden. If you look at that, donald trump has a tough road ahead of him. He has to win all the battleground states he won before and if you talk to folks on the ground in pennsylvania, you talked to folks on the ground in michigan and talk to folks on the ground in wisconsin. Ive talked to folks from all three states. Momentum lives on joe bidens side, one. Two, unlike Hillary Clinton joe biden is more popular and actually competing in these places. Hillary clinton didnt go to michigan. Joe biden is in michigan, wisconsin and forcing the Trump Campaign to spend money in places like iowa, texas, georgia, places that werent even competitive in 2016 which is the doomsday for donald trump. Trace i want to put up the Chicago Tribune quote number two. A lot of what you are saying they filter in this richard but they end by saying the animating issues and National Mood are quite different this year. Im not saying history will repeat itself. Im not saying dont for a second think this race is over. Issues are different. Looks like joe biden is way ahead but really nobody is counting chickens at this point in the race. Last thoughts on this, richard. Thats absolutely right. Like i said the only poll that matters is the poll that happens on election day. If you talk to folks watching this, you talk to folks at what is happening in the battleground states you see the head winds are moving in the democrats direction and if you look at down ballot races. Never a time in recent history where you would say South Carolina is a competitive primary. If we were talking about this 11 months ago we would not think that Lindsey Graham might not be in the United States senate. Right now if you look at the fundraising numbers in South Carolina and the polling, that is a dead heat. Same goes for iowa where joni ernst is in a dead heat as well. It boils down to donald trump being able to have a Closing Argument that republicans with rally around. Right now that Closing Argument is missing and i think the voters are starting to see that which is why voters are late breaking for joe biden and we only have 18 days left. It cant get any better than this. Trace good to see you. Thank you, sir. Sandra social media giants could be facing a crackdown that would strip away some Legal Protections allowing censorship of news outlets and the president. What you need to know about section 230 and what it means for big tech. They could face sanctions up to and including being broken up. [announcer] welcome to intelligent indoor grilling with the ninja foodi smart xl grill. Just pick your protein, select your doneness, and let the grill monitor your food. It also turns into an air fryer. Bring outdoor grilling flavors indoors with the grill that grills for you. Joe biden was raised with middle class values. Joe doesnt need to be the center of attention. Or see himself on tv. He has always focused on getting the job done. Joe led us out of the 2008 recession, and increased Health Coverage for millions. As president , joe will focus on getting us out of our crises. Hell listen to experts, work across the aisle. And put the American People first. 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The fccs republican chairman is launching a review in light of bipartisan criticism coming from capitol hill, white house and Supreme Court about overly broad interpretation that some cases shields social Media Companies from Consumer Protection laws in a way that has no basis in the text. Lets take a look at the crux of the matter. The provision reads no provider or user of an Interactive Computer Service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. So basically the statute protects the social Media Companies if they want to against when their users say upload content thats racist or violent but protects the companies if they want to take the content down as long as its done in good faith. Judge Amy Coney Barrett was asked about this section 230 at her hearing and this is what she said this week. About respect to section 230 just in general the danger of doing that is to subvert the will of the people. You represent the people. The next step is to hear from twitter and facebook and maybe instagram and a couple of others. As you know, sandra, the senate is poised to subpoena the exec next week. Sandra thank you. Trace new details on the New York Post reporting on hunter biden and his business dealings in ukraine. Well show you the emails that fox news has now obtained. boy reading find the nonpartisan facts behind the real stories at usafacts. Org 18 days to go, we are being told both President Trump and joe biden are running late to their Respective Campaign stops throughout the day. So a bit behind schedule. Florida and georgia for the president , michigan for joe biden. Well see you here next week. Outnumbered starts right now. Harris we begin on this friday with a fox news alert, new fallout now over the release of emails suggesting hunter biden introduced his father, then Vice President joe biden, to a Top Executive to Ukrainian Energy firm burisma. Now 19 House Republicans are demanding that the fbi reveal whether it was in possession of that laptop said to contain Hunter Bidens emails during the impeachment of President Trump. In a letter to fbi director, those House Republicans wrote this. A large portion of the president s Legal Defense case revolved around strong evidence that former