So youll come out with a clear decision before election day. Yes. Depending on how they handle this. A lot of people is have asked you will you accept a peaceful transfer of power. They spied on my campaign and they got caught, and they spied heavily on my campaign, and they tried to take down a dulyelected sitting president , and then they talk about will you accept a peaceful transfer. And the answer is, yes, i will, but i want it to be an honest election, and so does everybody else. Paul this as Senate Republicans called on twitter and facebook to testify on capitol hill following the social media platforms decision to block reporting by the New York Post about joe biden and his son hunter, prompting new accusations of big tech bias and censorship in the closing weeks of a campaign. Lets bring in our panel, wall street journal columnist and deputy Editorial Page Editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and Editorial Board member kyle peterson. Dan, lets start with you and, dan, i guess the big news is donald trump is back postcovid, hutting the campaign trail hitting the campaign trail every day with an event and the town hall on thursday. How do you think he looks . I think he looks bent, ill say that. This looks like one of the better recoveries from covid that ive seen, no question about it. Maybe that drug cocktail he took worked. The town hall the other night, i tuned it in, im sure a lot of people did. It was a gross discuss disappointment. I was sitting there watching Savannah Guthrie badger and interrogate the president. After 15 minutes i sort of looked at the bottom of the screen where it said town hall, i wondered what was going on. She spent almost 20 minutes badgering him about coronavirus and trying to him a him agree with her. Savannah guthrie was under a lot of pressure from social media and the left inside of her own company, and she had to show that she could stand up to donald trump. I think, ultimately, she blew up her own program and, frankly, i thought the president got a little hot under the collar, but i thought he held up pretty well under it. I wish more time had been spent answering peoples questions, which was the point of the program. But that was not to be. Paul kim, what about the president s message here . Hes got a little more than two weeks to, i think, make up a lot of ground in the polling. Is he focused enough on the policy choice differences between the two candidates that youve one many times is essential written many times is essential to win this thing . Is he focused enough on that . No, hes not. And you saw from that town hall hes still very backwardfocused. And part of that is because the press wont let him look forward, as dan was correctly pointing out. Everyone wants to keep going ten rounds over, you know, coronavirus. But the prime minister, hes got the president , hes going to have to make this discuss 2006 himself because the press isnt going to do it for him. If you have to say, look, my agenda is economic restoration, you know i can do it because i did it before, point to that record and legacy and point out the differences with joe biden, which are very, very stark on tax policy, on judicial appointments. And the president s been given an opportunity, given the appointment and confirmation hearing of Amy Coney Barrett to talk about some of those big, fundamental choices. And thats going to have to be the Closing Argument for him if he wants to win reelection. Paul kyle, lets turn to joe biden. He had a dueling town hall. I watched him for the most part, i thought pretty softball questions for the most part. But i guess overall, and some stumbles, rhetorical stumbles as weve expected. How, how do you think he did overall . Well, i think he did fine. I mean, there were points where he was talking about small pieces of his agenda, and he talked about building charging stations for electric cars, he talked about a 15,000 tax credit for down payments for firsttime home buyers. But the thing to keep in mind is that this is just the tippy tip of the iceberg of bidens whole agenda. I mean, you go on his web site, and you can read the whole Green New Deal and see all the other parts of it that he doesnt want to talk about. But his message is, essentially, let trump get the ratings, let him suck you have the airwaves, and ill sit here, and you can think about whether youre ready for a boring president again. [laughter] paul yeah, dan, i think that is, that is the biden message. Hes trying to reach out now to the middle. Hes saying, look, im going to be the calm one, return to normalcy. Lets not talk too much about what my party wants. This is just about me and trumps, you know, personalities. And, oh, by the way, id be better on covid. Yeah. And im beginning to wonder, paul, whether this may start to work against him even in the last three weeks here. Joe biden again, looking at that town hall hes really not giving people a clear reason why they should vote for him beyond that hes not donald trump. I mean, his description of his policies is so circuitous, god, he almost like trump sound like damocles compared to the way he talks about these things. The only argument is that he is not donald trump, and i think as we get closer to election day people are going to start wondering what exactly am i voting for in joe biden . I mean, his answer on packing the court was basically hes going to wait to see how the vote for her confirmation comes out, which makes no sense whatsoever. Either hes going to come out for it ahead of the election, or hes going to wait til afterwards. Paul yeah. Its a preposterous answer. Kim, the hunter biden revelations, that email trove that the New York Post came up with, what did we learn thats new about Hunter Bidens business dealings overseas, ukraine, china, etc. , and what joe biden knew and said he knew about them . Well, i think what it does is it fits a pattern that we have had from the Senate Report that we got last month that shows that joe biden appears to have known far more about it, about his sons business dealings and that this raises some very serious questions about conflicts of interest and what a biden presidency would mean in terms of that old somewhat stinky beltway influence out there. And the issue now is americans, are they going to get an airing on that issue when you have social Media Companies that are trying to suppress that story and a Democratic Media trying to protect joe biden. Paul do you think, kim, its going to make a difference in the election . I do. I think this is a big lastminute issue that could really matter especially now that republicans are subpoenaing these social Media Companies, because a lot of americans are already very unhappy about what they see in bias in those platforms. Paul all right. When we come back, as the president ial candidates make their Closing Arguments, is the race for the white house closer than many of the polls seem to cell phone repair. Did you know Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need . Just get a quote at libertymutual. Com. Really . Ill check that out. Oh yeah. I think i might get a quote. Not again aah, come on rice. Do your thing. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Adapting. Innovating. Lsetting the course. But new ways of working demand a new type of network. One thats more than just fast. You need flexibility to work from anywhere. And manage from everywhere. Advanced technology. With serious security. 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The latest real clear politics polling average shows the president down about 9 points nationally, but that gap anywhere rows considerably narrows considerably in the battleground states. Just how close is the race as we enter the final stretch, and is there still time for trump to close the gap . Lets ask mark penn, president and managing director of the stagwell group. Mark, thanks for coming on begun. Is how do you see the race . 9point arm, is that where we are average, is that where we are right now here . Well, it is looking pretty good for joe biden. You know, you look at this, and there is not a single poll in america that i know of that shows donald trump winning. Now, hes someone who has defied the odds before. Hes in the business of defying the odds. But these are pretty tough odds going into the final swing here. Paul you know, your recent poll was an outliier a butt. A couple of weeks a bit. A couple of weeks ago was showing it closer, 2 points. What was the difference in the sampling there, or was this a matter of timing . I think that was a matter of timing. I think that was right after the debate. I think the days after that the president lost the spin on the debate really badly. I think that poll shows his ability to come back. We have some polls now with the show coming out that really showed him having made a lot of advance in florida but having real problems in the midwest. I think elderly in the midwest, last time he was a surprise midwestern candidate. Today i think democrats see it coming, and theyve poured a lot of money into there. Paul one of the polling numbers, maybe the most startling number ive seen all of this cycle, i want to ask you about it, and thats a Gallup Survey that shows 56 of americans asked if theyre better now than they were four years ago, they say, yes. 56 . Thats higher than george w. Bush running for reelection are, higher than for barack obama, even for ronald reagan, and yet donald trump is trailing by what hes trailing by. Explain that dichotomy. Well, see, it took a gallup poll to discover that fact [laughter] when reagan was running, he told you that. [laughter] and i think the biggest failure of the Trump Campaign has been its failure to just fox on the economy focus on the economy and that fact. He is winning the economy in every poll that i have where hes losing to joe biden, hes winning on the economy, but hes losing on the virus. And i think that if he does lose, its most likely really going to be because people decided he did a bad job on the virus. Paul well, but wouldnt the response to that be then talk about the virus, talk about what your successes are, talk about how youve done better than biden . And, by the way, biden doesnt really have much different answers other than he likes lockdowns and he wants to mandate masks. Whats the difference on covid . Well, yes. But people are angry, upset and afraid about the virus paul right, right. And theyve got to take it out on somebody. But youre right, the president has to do or can do, has to do a better job defending on the virus and pushing forward his economic record and say, look, this virus will be over in six months one way or another. But for four years youre going to be living in the economy. Thats his strongest message. But he goes out there and, i think, almost talks about anything but. Paul yeah, i have to agree with you. The other thing i hear from republicans is the enthusiasm gap. They say they have an enormous enthusiastic base, going to turn out in record numbers. Democrats not so enthusiastic about biden. Do you agree with that . Yes. I i find that there is at least a twice as big enthusiastic base for donald trump over joe biden. But what joe biden has a are swing voters, my if favorite kind of voters, right . Those folks in the middle. So theyre done a great job theyve done a great job cultivating and making an enthusiastic base but a poor job of getting these swing voters, and thats why joe biden is leading. Paul the and trump, i guess, has to go see if he can get some of those swing voters back, or is this just a game right now of just generating more, even more turnout among natural trump voters . Well, look, really trump needs a one in the debate, he needs needs a win in the debate, he needs to drive home some of these issues from the New York Post, and he needs to close on the economy. And joe biden he needs to, i think, do what hes doing which is keep his coalition together, let people know that hes not donald trump, and so far, you know, he won the i primary by being not bernie sanders. So it has been a Winning Strategy for him of being not donald trump, which is all he has to do. Paul and very briefly, mark, the shy trump voter, people who dont show up in the polls because they wont answer or just arent surveyed, is that a real phenomenon . How large is it . Well, thats where this race gets within 5, i would give it a high level unpredictability because of that. I think at 9 or 10, where it seems to have opened up since the last poll we did, its outside what i call the shy trump voter, you know, victory ring. But if this closes another 5 points, then trump will have momentum. If it doesnt, its going to be a good day for democrats. Paul all right, thank you very much, mark penn, appreciate it. When we come back, amazon cancels shelby steele. The historians new documentary on the 2014 Police Killing of Michael Brown rejected by the streaming service. Well talk to mr. Steele about his film and amazons decision to censor it next. Before voltaren arthritis pain gel, my husband would have been on the sidelines. 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His killing sparked nationwide protests in scenes that have become all too familiar in the years since. Now in a new documentary by shelby steele, whether historic racism was to blame for browns death. Americas original sin is not slavery, it is the use of race as a means to when truth becomes the lie and when the lie becomes truth. If Michael Brown valued his life, he wouldnt take the chance of risking it. Was it really racism that killed Michael Brown . Paul amazon announced this week, just three days before its release, that it will not stream the film on its platforms. Shelby steele is a senior fellow at Stanford UniversitysHoover Institution and the writer, their ray editor and producer of narrater and producer of what killed Michael Brown. Welcome, shelby. Good to see you again. Let me ask you why you and your son decided to make this film. We thought that there was somehow it encapps alated the real encapsulated the real story of race in america, where we are today, where things have evolved to. And we were fascinated by, again, by the fact that this young teenager was shot and killed. And instantly there was this huge reaction that this was the result of racism, this was the result of systemic racism, structural racism, so forth when the facts just didnt add up. And as time went on and there were many grand jury investigations, Justice Department investigations, it became clear that there was not a single shred of evidence that suggested racial animus had anything to do with the killing of Michael Brown. Well, then whats the story . Paul thats the question. We wanted to see what look into that. Paul well, and youre the title is provocatively phrased, right . You dont say who killed Michael Brown, you say what. So what did kill him . Right. The kind of liberalism that i emerged from the 1960s when america had, in a sense, confessed to centuries of racism, of having colluded with the evil of racism to oppress black people. My feeling is we have overlooked the profound significance of that confession. And that confession, in a sense, then set off all sorts of other things. Whites since that time have been preoccupied with reestablishing their innocence of racism in order to have legitimacy, in order to Lyndon Johnson right away in the mid 60s, the war on poverty, great society, school busing, public housing, all sorts of things to try to one back enough moral authority to have legitimacy. And i think what just happened to me, in a sense, is an outgrowth of that what i call white guilt. Amazon paul i want to talk about that. All right. Paul give us the, give us the story of what happened here with amazon, because my understanding is that they were, theyd agreed the stream it and then changed their minds. What happened . I dont know what, you