Breaking tonight, it should have been president ial Debate Number 1 here on fox but Kamala Harris took a pass. So Donald Trump decided to go it alone, holding a live Town Hall and marking his ticket tickets 36 interview in the past month. Meantime after just one interview last week, Harris And Walz continue to play dodge the media. Governor, are you going to take any Policy Questions . [ inaudible ] madame Vice President , how is debate prep going . Trace more on that in moments but we begin with the former president taking questions for more than an hour with a fired up crowd in battleground pennsylvania. Live in harrisburg with the details on this. Reporter good evening. In that Town Hall, the former president also of course making his first comments about the upcoming president ial debate and talking about the rules, the rules changing backandforth. Those rules were just announced by abc News Today and that includes that the microphones will be muted, there will be no audience and no notes allowed for the candidates. Trump was doubting that the network will be fair as he went over the backandforth between the two campaigns. Listen. Did her campaign, when they said that they wanted to change the rules that they had agreed to, did they ask for notes kicked did they ask they wanted notes. They wanted you to be seeded and they wanted your microphone hot. They wanted a desk. I said you have to do a standup. After theyd agreed to the other. But they wanted a desk from the beginning. So did sleepy joe. Reporter Trump And Harris are in a fight for the Battleground State, the two our Neck And Neck in the Keystone State as harris returns to pittsburgh on thursday. Trump Morning Pennsylvania Voters Tonight not to believe harris is flipflop on fracking. Even if you dont like it, you can sit there and say i cant stand that guy, but theres no way im going to vote for her. You have to have fracking. You are the biggest in the country for this. You have two of the biggest sights in the world, its a massive business for pennsylvania and you cant take a chance. She will not allow fracking. Reporter the Town Hall tonight was yet another opportunity for the former president to show his willingness to take questions on the campaign trail. Vice president harris actually taped a Radio Interview today. That will air on friday. It will be her second interview since becoming the nominee and can you believe this, early voting in some counties in Pennsylvania Begin as early as september 16th, thats less than two weeks away. It is fully game on right now. Trace indeed it is. Aishah hasnie live in harrisburg, Thank You. At Spring And Axiom Strategies Erin Perrine and former house oversight chairman, Fox News Contributor Jason Shea fits. Welcome to you both. I like to light a little more sound from the Town Hall. Heres the president saying regardless of what you think of me, you need to vote for me. You cant take the chance. You have to vote for me. You have to vote for me. [ Cheering And Applause ] even if you dont like me. Even if you dont like me, you can sit there and say i cant stand that guy but theres no way im going to vote for her. Trace erin perrine, your thoughts on tonights Town Hall . I think this was a great opportunity for Donald Trump to contrast Kamala Harris. She does not do these longform interviews, she doesnt take freewheeling questions, and tonight he did. When he was talking about you may not like me but you should vote for me, thats a lot of the argument youve been hearing, will this be personality focused or policy focused . Donald trump is saying when you look at these policies, the economy, the border, the geopolitical disaster, everything is worse under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. You remember how it was, lets go back to that. Its a really winning argument. Trace and on the other side of the coin, jason chaffetz, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz running away at every chance they get from the media and i think it really is a stark contrast. Donald trump is the best retail politician, best Streetfighting Politician if you will that weve ever seen. That was Donald Trump at his best. You dont have to like me but do whats best for america, do whats best for your own interests, to whats best for pennsylvania and these other states because you know im right on all of these issues like Energy And Fracking and safety, security, the border, dealing with israel and overseas, all of these things are going in Donald Trumps favor so get over the fact you may not like me, i think it is a winning message. Trace meantime now to some of the poles, Nate Silver posted this On X today, quoting pennsylvania, michigan has become an issue for harris going onto right, in addition to pennsylvania, michigan has become an issue for harris, National Poles and polls of other Swing States mostly decent for Harris But Erosion in pa, am i hurts a lot in the model. Why the erosion in Pennsylvania And Michigan . Will you saw this initial Bump And Bounce and harris is polling not only when she came to the top of the ticket but when Tim Walz joined. That was more of a coalescing of the base of the Democratic Party. But now that voters, independent Swing Voters and even those that sit in the democratic Voting Base are hearing more from Kamala Harris which is im more of Joe Biden and more progressive than that on a lot of these things. Not only is not offputting especially to that voter in michigan who says thats not what they want. For independent Swing Voters, if they are hearing they will get more of the same economic disaster, that will be a turnoff as well, thats were you see some of the softening. Trace a lot of the issues shes not talking about, but reparations is now kind of back on the front burner. We wanted to play some of this sound, this is Kamala Harris in the past talking about reparations. Should black people get reparations . I think there has to be some form of reparations. You are for some type of reparation . Yes, i am. A bill to form a commission to study how to do reparations. If you are elected president , would you sign that built for came across your desk . When im elected president i will sign that bill. [ Cheering And Applause ] its a good point to make that Hurt Campaign is not talking about this. No surprise. But 68 of americans are against reparations. I think she was pandering at its worst. I think she was just doing that. Look, shes been in the senate, one of the most liberal senators catches been the Vice President for three and a half years. If she felt strongly about this, she should have done it. But i think her answer is just, its fake. Shes just pandering, thats who she is. And again, it just goes to her credibility. Thats who she is. Trace and her phoniness has been called out from the phone and the year earplug, its been called out a number of times over the past couple of days. Thank you both. Now lets see how the media is reacting to trump answering voters questions and how Kamala Harris is avoiding questions from just about everyone. Senior national Correspondent Kevin Corke is live in dc with the new information on this. Reporter before we unpack some of the exchanges at tonights Town Hall i want to share a bit of context. While the former president and his running mate, ohio senator jd vance, have conducted a combined 35 plus, 36 if you count tonight, interviews over the last month, yeah, the vp and her running mate, minnesota governor Tim Walz, theyve managed just one. One single interview and that was done together on cnn. Of course shes been interviewed by ricky smiley, that coming out friday, Riqui Whos known for his Radio Show pranks. Meantime while Harris And Walz are dodging basic questions about their plans for the country, if elected, ignoring voters who count on reporters to ask questions for them, the former president continues to face the music in so much as hes taking questions from all corners, including at tonights Town Hall in pennsylvania in which he said this about the vp. She loses her Train Of Thought a lot. She goes thats why she doesnt want to do interviews. Can you imagine her during an interview like this or like any of them . Reporter Mister Trump and his democratic rival spent a lot of time in the Battleground State of pennsylvania over the last several weeks and for good reason, because since 2008 the candidate whose Won Pennsylvania went on to win the presidency. And the Battleground State bonanza continues. Thursday harris back in pittsburgh. On friday the former president makes his way down to North Carolina for a fraternal order of Police Speech and on saturday hes in the Badger State of wisconsin. Trace many believe she has to win pennsylvania or shes not going to win. Kevin corke live in dc, Thank You. [ ] [ ] trace the Fox News Night Commonsense Department just read an Opinion Piece in the liberal outlet called the new republic. It makes a very simple argument saying Kamala Harris should skip plans and policies and stick with the vibe. But just so commonsense is clear, the advice is not just for harris to keep the joyride going, no, the advice is to shut down any and all information about where Kamala Harris currently stands on everything. Heres the key sentence in the oped, theres no indication that harris needs to offer specific potentially divisive policies on any issue. So the people who support the Person Running for president are not just telling her to Zip It, they are telling her to Zip It because whatever she says will offend somebody. And why offend when you can blend, when you can morph, when you can be all things to all people . And lets face it, most people are not paying attention so why not keep your options open . You want to cater to conservatives . Adopt trumps policies. You want to placate progressives, say your agenda has not changed. And in between, say nothing. Or even better, say the same thing again and again in different accents. Commonsense thanks harris will soon reveal a brandnew slogan, make america great again, except she will pronounce it mawgaw. Lets bring in one of americas great former news anchors dee sarton. Welcome to you both. Dee sarton, this is Tim Walz avoiding again all the questions. Watch him. Governor, are you going to take any Policy Questions . [ Crowd Noise ] governor, what are you Governor Walz. Trace i mean i guess im in the media so i dont get it. I wonder why this strategy, because its now a pattern. Why are they avoiding everybody like the plague, why not answer questions and get yourself out there and get your message out there . Well i think that oped was up to something there because ive been asking myself that question all day. When i was in the media, i love to the fact that i got to see candidates in action. I got to meet them, i got to talk about vibe, you got a feel for their vibe, but i got to see who they really were. We are not seeing that in this cycle. What disappoints me is we have such an opportunity as voters. President trump is maxing out on podcast, hes doing podcasts with everybody. Podcasts have exploded in the four years since the last election and thats where you really get to see a candidate for who they really are. I have to say, trump sat down with such a variety of podcasters and hes the same person in every podcast. I would like to see if Kamala Harris could do the same thing. Trace its a great analysis because even if you dont listen to that podcast, the word gets out and thats an important part. The problem here, this is a reporter from Fox 43 telling fox digital about the tim Walz Event saying, a reporter from the local Nbc Affiliate shouted out question after Governor Walz was finished speaking to volunteers and we were told by the campaign to not disturb the interactions between Governor Walz and the volunteers, telling the media dont disturb Tim Walz . Hes running for office. The open disregard with which errors and walz treat the media makes a mockery of our press because if we had a Functioning And Selfrespecting press, they would have so much more coverage about the lack of interviews, access, transparency with his campaign but we dont have a functioning press, we have a Propaganda Press and Kamala Harris team knows that, they know they can throw out 20 Minute Interview and a few Press Releases and The Press will still give the best coverage in the world. Its really unfortunate for the american people who depend on The Press to get answers to those tough questions 60 days out from election. Trace and being scolded at a rally because you are being too loud . The New York Times rights this about the debate rules, these just came out, Vice President Kamala Harris campaign has begrudgingly agreed to have her and former president Donald Trumps microphones muted when they are not speaking, a position top harris officials tried to change last week to give themselves an advantage when the candidates meet on stage next tuesday. I mean they wanted to kind of go to the former president into talking over her so that she could scold him a few times during the debate. What do you think about the rules . I was glad when i saw how they were going to operate this particular debate because im afraid its the only one we will see. I would love to hear how they are both going to address the issues and Each Other, but i really dont like the talking over Each Other. I dont think anybody does. I do think that that whole concept of goading Each Other is minimized by that. I thought that was a good move and im glad to see it and i cant wait to watch the debate, but i hope that it wont be the only opportunity we have to see kamala outside of the edited, all the produced ads that are out there. Trace we are going to see it here next week. Joe, Philadelphia Eagles then had this to say very quickly. Thats what im concerned about, the fact that they are spreading lies, that the eagles endorsed Kamala Harris as a candidate for president in the united states. Trace eagles did not endorsed Kamala Harris. Its this fake promotional stuff. About 30 seconds for you. Look, this is a fake ad and it goes perfect for a fake candidate. Im a harris is a manufactured candidate by the media. People have no idea why they support her so having a fake at endorser is great when you are a fake candidate. Trace Thank You both. Meantime a horrific tragedy at a georgia high school, at least four people killed in a shooting, many more sent to hospital with injuries. A 14yearold Suspect is now in police custody. Senior correspondent live in georgia with the latest. What are we learning tonight. Reporter Law Enforcement revealing some new details and its likely the numbers will stay the same. Four dead, nine wounded. Those nine wounded with Shotgun Wounds in hospital. They are likely all to survive. Likely to stay up four dead but sadly among those four, two students killed just aged 14. Weve learned the weapon used was a rifle by the shooter, ar15. How the 14yearold Suspect got access to that rifle, how he got it into school still not known. We are learning more too about an Fbi Tip about the suspected shooter. One year ago he was living in a different county, there was not enough information to take any action on that tip but certainly some Red Flags early on the suspect. A lot of the relatives of students inside The School learned about the shooting as it was happening, including a Text Exchange between this grandmother and her granddaughter inside The School during the shooting. My oldest granddaughter texts me and said i love you. It was strange and so she text back and says come and get me now, somebody is shooting at The School. And when she said that, my heart to just dropped. Reporter there is a lot of heartbreak and there was a lot of panic here earlier today. Authorities say that that 14yearold Suspect will be charged with murder. They also say they expect to try him as an adult. Back to you. Trace live for us on the ground, Thank You. Lets bring in former member of israel special Operations Counterterrorist Unit and Fox News Contributor and former nypd inspector. Thank you for coming on. The 14yearold Suspect in Today Shooting made online threats apparently last year. The fbi released a statement saying, the Jackson County Sheriffs Office located a possible suspect, a 13yearold Male and interviewed him at his father. The father stated he had Hunting Guns in the house but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them. It seems like this is a Red Flag and this is the first thing you look at when the same stuff starts to bubble up again a year later, Aaron Cohen. I agree with you. I think that weve seen enough active shooters in the last 25 years since columbine for a couple of significant changes to happen between federal and local Law Enforcement. One, there needs to be greater Threat Assessment rules implemented the moment a kid like this is flag. That needs to generate some type of an immediate alert. The second thing is the protocols between the fbi and local authorities for increased monitoring. Its real simple, special operations, we call this intelligence. The longer you have eyes following this case, the better off you are at preventing the shooting from happening. Im not saying we need School Security measures and lets start checking bags, we arent there yet but we are getting close. A Plug Couldve been put in this hole had those measures be