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Feed on attention. and it would be -- here we are, and i understand why, but were talking about them. and they are loving it. and, you know, and this is trumps inspiration. you know, if you start a dumpster fire, people are going to stop and watch. and so there is this push and pull, you know. do you want to shine a light on all of this, or do you turn away? >> but, look, theyre going to be covered on newsmax, oan, fox news with viewers that completely, you know, are buying into what they are ...

Suffer the consequence of his failure to make a responsible plan. >> reporter: as for biden, hes keeping a much lower profile. his only scheduled event today was in his home state of delaware, a covid briefing with health officials. after that, he went out to vote. >> all right, so, lets get right to jon karl live with us in washington tonight. and jon, you mentioned there in your report, the president facing really two opponents here, joe biden and this virus, given this disturbing surge and it...

We know youre not going to succeed at that. shes a lot tougher than you. >> you know, generally it is the case that the majority is in each house controls that house. thats always been the case for the house. its increasingly been the case of the senate as the senate rules have sort of morphed over years and partisan polarization taking hold. given the fact that you dont have a majority, what is the strategy here? >> right. >> i understand you can impress upon the leader. you can try to shame th...

Throwing so much information, so much jumping into the system that nobody seems to be knowing whats true, what they want us to do is throw our hands up and say, well, both sides are lying, therefore, there is no truth. when, in fact there is truth here, this narrative is created and promulgated by people who should know better. >> how do we figure this out? >> defector after defector before and after has come and told us their goal is to undermine us from within. theyve created stories during th...

Times. but i was at the armistice celebration in paris back in november. and that was when president macron got in front of all the major world powers that were involved in world war i and criticized nationalism. it was a strong rebuke. it is a very big and worrisome trend in europe. they are worried about this taking hold in other parts of europe and obviously brexit is an extension of that. and president mack common ron it on the same team as president trump is when it comes to that issue. he ...

President by nine, ten, 11 in the polls, so i agree its bad news, and get its not really kind of taking hold. reminds me of what the wrap was about the caravans in the run-up to the 18 election. i think the public is past that stuff. thats my opinion. >> martha: to exist, by the way. let me bring in sean spicer. to get things warmed up here for the crowd. your thoughts on that assessment? he called joe biden feeble, by the way, which is the same word of the president is using for them, and i don...

Alert. kick things into high gear. >> trish: these states are especially bad. i understand colorado and georgia -- >> yes, they have high activity. a number of states have moderate activity. we are starting to see this wave of infections sort of taking hold. this is why we are talking about this is because it is really important, if you havent gotten that flu shot, you have to go get it now. >> trish: over 40% of americans say they are not getting a flu shot. would you recommend that they d do? ...

So hats off to them. i think the intelligence community is now well managed and the dni, the director of national intelligence, the joint commander across 16 agencies is the right organization, its taking hold, its had some good leadership. most people think that director clapper who served for six years did a good job. and interfering with the mission to speak truth to power has huge risks. we saw that movie in the bad intelligence leading up to the iraq war. i voted for the iraq war because i ...

Lets be realistic. >> that was pretty clear. >> in that moment, youre like, okay then. all right. theres one she doesnt like. good luck with that. >> but, you know, david. chuck brings up a good point about election year politics in japan. that right now theyre sort of taking hold, that everything the president is touching a failing. in foreign policy. we just dont really know. and we wont know for quite some time how all this is going to play out when the dust settles. >> obviously shes an intr...

finally, if you thought american debt was worthless, think again. ill explain. but first, heres my take. the american economy seems to have picked up. the dow jones industrial average is hovering around 13,000, the highest since the financial crisis began in may 2008. the nasdaq is actually at its highest level since the technology bubble burst more than a decade ago. now, stock prices around everything, but data from the economy on the ground is also slowly getting better. jobless c...