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8 00 pm in los angeles and this is americas late news Fox News Night. Breaking tonight, its ago. Two president ial debates between joe biden and donald trump now officially on the books after months in limbo. Donald trump lost two debates to me in 2020, now hes acting like he wants to debate me again. Make my day, powell. Lets pick the dates. Im hearing your free on wednesdays. Trace deciding its in the president s best interest to faceoff with trump although with a long list of demands. And if brandnew fox polling isnt the indication, the debates are President Biden could be make or break. So mark your calendars, debate one june 27th. Matt finn is live with the details on the upcoming president ial showdown. Good evening. Reporter trace, you know well the possibility of a debate between former President Trump and President Biden was fervently speculated about for quite some time. The offer was always on the table from trump. Today it became a reality with biden agreeing. Donald trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then he hasnt shown up for a debate and now hes acting like he wants to debate me again. Make my day, pal. I will even do it twice. Lets pick the dates, donald, i hear you are free on wednesdays. Reporter that free on Wednesdays Line was a job that trump whose current 17 day trial in new york is scheduled off on wednesdays. Trump and biden have agreed to two debates. Cnn announced it will host the first debate in june. Abc will host a the second in september. Former President Trump posting to truth social today, i would strongly recommend more than two debates and for excitement purposes a very large venue, although biden is supposedly afraid of crowds. Lets get ready to rumble. Biden agreed to these debates with a list of restrictions, including no in person audience. He argues the debates are more fruitful without jeers and interruptions from a crowd. Candidates microphones are cut off when the other is speaking and no thirdparty candidates, which includes longshot rfk junior. And only networks that previously hosted debates with both trump and biden can host again. Left only a few. Former President Trump agreed to a debate on fox. Biden steam did not. Trace matt finn live for us, thank you. Lets bring in erin perrine and spectator usas washington editor amber duke. Eighty thank you to both of you coming on. I think peter doozy had a fair question today that he asked about bidens sudden decision to debate. Play that and i will get your take. This sudden offered from the president to debate, is it a Signal You Guys realize you need to change the subject after some really [ inaudible ] i dont want to get into polling, any more details on polling. Trace no details on the polling but they have to do something because the polls are not good. Its true. Polling is very weak for President Biden at this point. But both sides can kind of claim victory tonight when it comes to this debate. One, donald trump gets at least two debates against joe biden when there was a serious concern he could get none. Joe biden can say that he gets the terms to which is going to meet the former president for the two of them to have this out. The conversation they will have been that debate is going to fall to two groups they are trying to win. One, those persuadable voters. The good thing the trump team can hang their hat on his these debates will now fall before voting begins. Under the president ial Debate Commission, they were not going to happen that way. For them, that Persuadable Block still exists. For those people who many call the double haters, those who will never it neither support biden or trump, who will they be able to pick in these debates . This Debate Calendar now allows for them to both go after those core demographic voters. Trace wall street Journal Editorial Board said the following mr biden may have more to gain given welldeserved public concern about his mental and physical capacity. He is so protected by his staff and so scripted at events that americans are right to wonder if he is up to the job. A pair of debates will help voters judge. I mean it is going to be very instructive for a lot of people, these debates. Right. And i think the one thing that biden has going for him is the bar is set so unfathomably low that all he has to do is get through this without basically collapsing on stage and that will be seen as a victory. But ive actually im not convinced that these debates are actually going to happen. I think biden did something pretty sneaky here by separating this out from that commission because he now has to negotiate oneonone with the Trump Campaign and at any moment he could throw a wrench into the plan by introducing a restriction or a, you know, a new rule that is unacceptable for trump, forcing trump to back out or vise versa. Biden says that trump is being unreasonable and he can walk away from the debate and say see, look, i tried but we could not make it happen. Trace theres a lot of stuff up in the air. The fox pole when it comes to debate, how important is it that biden and trump debate . You see right there extremely 41 very 23 . Thats a big number. About 43 in the extreme lean very if rfk is included so it looks like voters are okay with a headtohead. They are. They very want very much want to see this headtohead but it helps both candidates are not have rfk on stage. If you go into polling and look a little further right now, you see that it really splits on who rfk is taking votes from as of this point. Keeping this headtohead certainly gives joe biden one thing to focus on instead of having to focus on two and that for them is something that is going to help joe biden. But for the American People seeing these two front runners, the ones who really have the opportunity to win, rfk is going to continue to make noise and say that he should be on the debate stage and he has every right to say that but these two front runners, this gives them the opportunity to make their best case and amber is correct, the bar is so low for biden if im donald trump and his team im raising the bar right now and making sure that joe biden has a mountain to clear. Trace two way president ial matchup with voters who say trump a better handle the economy and immigration. Look at the numbers supporting trump. Eightyseven and 84. That is disastrous, that is a big blow to biden, amber, 30 seconds to wrap us up. And thats why its so mind blowing how badly the Biden Campaign has manage this by actually coming out and coining bidenomics when it was clear that it was in the tank, according to american voters. Continuing to talk about that issue, now trying to talk about immigration against the former president , running against him on that issue, it just boggles the mind what their exact strategy is here. I dont think they really have one. Trace amber, aaron, thank you, we appreciate it. [ ] the Fox News Night Commonsense Department agrees with michael buffer, lets get ready to rumble. There are now two president ial debates set and more could be coming. And if you did not hear joe biden accepted the challenge, Clint Eastwood style, saying make my day, pal east with that punk not powell but maybe hes just been president ial. Although can you sound like Clint Eastwood and then act like don knotts giving scaredycat demands, no audience, only from the tv outlets and cutting candidates microphones when their time expires. If commonsense has this right, trump has agreed to let cnn control the volume. The very same network that refuses to ever let trump speak live. The same network that allowed biden to rattle off 15 lies in a 17 minute interview, unchecked, is now controlling when trump can and cannot speak ring the debate. Maybe trump should demand a button to cut off the moderators so they dont end up fact checking, also known as like lining a preferred candidate. Otherwise it is christmas in june for biden but instead of cupid, comment, donor and blitzen, we get cooper, tapper, acosta and blitzer. Still commonsense thanks trump should have responded with another eastwood line, do you feel lucky, punk, because even in friendly territory, Biden Debating is a big gamble. Lets get Media Analysis from news busters Managing Editor curtis houck and the host of a home that heals podcast, the queen of idaho television, former tv news anchor dee sarton, thank you for coming on. To you first curtis, because you dont think that cnn moderators will give trump a fair shake. Explain that for us. I think you have to watch out for shenanigans, trace. We at news busters said this when there was that infamous cnbc debate during the 2016 election cycle. Jake tapper received awards for pushing the Collusion Case so as you point out in your commonsense, the demands that President Trump is willing to meet, yes, you want to see these debates happen but do you do that at the expense of a fair show for you . Trace and it was written, trump along with every other republican should at least have a guarantee that there wont be any more Chris Wallace moments where the moderator takes liberty to run interference for the democrats. I mean we have learned that moderators can really sway the jury. I mean you have worked at the debate so you know whats going on here, de. If you were advising trump, is there anything you would advise or add . Oh boy. My stomach turned when i heard who the moderators were going to be. Its a tough situation. I feel like he came out so strong and said anyplace, any time. That was sort of his power play and now theyve turned the tables a little bit with this. So i am a little bit worried about that and i guess my advice would be you have to really think about the americans that im around all the time who would really love to see these two men sidebyside, you maybe are still a little bit undecided in this, what do they need to here to cut through that . But that has to be tough. I cant imagine when youve got all of that going against you how that happens. But the guy is pretty smart and i think he can figure it out but its going to take a lot of work to be ready for that night and in a way that his message will be heard. Trace it seems that the biden team once this debate to be as controlled as possible. You control as much as you can and hopefully you can contain any errors or any, you know, bad looks. Yeah, exactly. I mean and then theres the question as you pointed out about life fact checking. s daniel dale going to be there. I saw someone on x argue that maybe tapper and davis on abc should not be wearing earpieces so they are fed things in their ears, they could have clocks there like we do in our studios if we are keeping time but other than that i mean it should just be freeflowing and who knows about snarky chirons. We really have to watch out for it. And real quickly on substance back peter do see is right, its very clear this is to distract from the issues concerning considering biden has been dragged on issue after issue. Trace and it really is a big gamble because you look at this and think they can control this, they can cut the microphone to donald trump and cut bidens microphone and maybe even limit the moderators. But the bottom line is, theres no teleprompter and if you are an 81yearold president who is known to kind of speak out of turn, this is something that they cannot control and its not the State Of The Union speech. I mean you can do whatever you want to but you have to speak off the cuff for a lot of this. You really do. I was thinking about this earlier today. Its a situation where people ive heard some people say today trump, he feeds off the audience, he needs that audience. Im not sure i agree with that. I think he can bring it without an audience, even though obviously it helps, ive done debates when the room is empty and it really doesnt sock all the life out of the room. But i do think its going to be tough. From what we have seen of President Biden, i just kind of cant imagine what thats going to be like. And not having those Support Systems in place for him, i think that will be the Achilles Heel for him. I dont think the lack of an audience will be nearly as damaging to President Trump. Trace yep. You are the president , you are alone and flying blind for a short time there. Dee sarton, curtis houck, thank you both. Meantime the prosecution and Donald Trumps Near Criminal Trial expected to rest its case tomorrow after the former president s defense team has finished crossexamining Michael Cohen. The Senior National correspondent kevin corke is live with a peek at tomorrows trial headlines. Good evening. Reporter good evening trace. When court resumes on thursday Michael Cohen as you pointed out will be back on the stand under crossexamination. And yes, he is expected to be the last prosecution witness. Meanwhile attorneys for former President Trump are expecting to finish questioning mr cohen by tomorrow afternoon. Cohen as you know dirt pushed out heard by now has described payments he made to actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 as cash for silence about an alleged encounter with his client mr trump, something mr trump of course denies. Cohen has since racked up a criminal record after pleading guilty to federal crimes. However amid cohens cross, a new name could surface in court soon, a lawyer by the name of robert costello. Emails show to the jury depicted mr costello as a bit of a back channel of comms for cohen while he was under investigation. In Effect Somebody who can relay messages to than President Trump by way of his attorney rudy giuliani. Now costello today said he had recently received a call from mr trumps lead attorney to ask if he would be called as witness. He told cbs maybe. The plot thickens, trace. Trace it does thicken, kevin corke live in dc, thank you. Lets bring in the former dod Chief Of Staff under trump kash patel. Great to have you on the show. As kevin was talking about bob costello, a former Legal Adviser to Michael Cohen, former federal prosecutor and he testified at a House Hearing today about what cohen knew about trump. The soundbite is 31 seconds, a little long but its worth a listen and i will get your take. The way this works is, if you have truthful information about donald trump, thats clearly what they are looking for, i can have all of your legal problems solved by the end of the week. s response . I swear to god, bob, i dont have anything on donald trump. I said michael i want you to think carefully about this. I probably came back to this subject ten or 20 times during the two were period. Every time i brought it up, every time he answered i swear to god, bob, i dont have anything on donald trump. Trace and throughout the entire hearing he kind of went over that team again and again which could be damaging to the prosecutions case. Great to be with you trace. As a former federal public vendor who tried 60 criminal trials to verdict in front of juries, Michael Cohen is not the last witness you called to build a case on, hes a witness you never call. One live from one witness is rehabilitation in of itself is possible but when you have the former lawyer for the lead witness for the prosecution saying he had no information on donald trump, lets review the track record. Michael cohen lied to the United States District Attorneys Office for the Southern District of florida. Michael cohen when lie to the Department Of Justice. Michael cohen when like to a federal judge. Michael cohen when lied under oath to multiple congressional committees. Those are all felonies Michael Cohen has not been prosecuted for. Then Michael Cohen when went on to lie to the world, the media and trump himself most importantly and most consequentially, and now this office who air mailed in a Department Of Justice Career Prosecutor to wreak the case and forces prosecution is saying you now have to believe Michael Cohen, a 15 time convicted lawyer, a 15 time convicted felon . This guy has no business in port court and they are incinerating Donald Trumps Due Process Rights along the way. At the travesty of justice. Trace and as much as he took on Michael Cohen, it was interesting he went after the judge. Was into this. Theres no coincidences here. The fact that the judge has had all of these cases, and by the way when he finishes with a donald trump case, steve bannon is next. Of all the judges in new york county, somehow they keep coming up with the same judge. Coincidence . I dont believe in them. Trace you talk about number 3 at the doj and then juan merchan. Theres something that these guys who have been in this, they know this district very well, are like yeah, somethi