Welcome to the big weekend show. The big story tonight and the debate a. New poll out today shows donald trump has a one point lead over kamala harris and that means this debate is crucial. Especially for harris. Those saying the economy and inflation are major issues. Jaire these states are looking for promising for her than they were for joe biden but she's not at the level democrats typically get with nonwhite voters. She's at her best. Balance she has to achieve. Reporter: hey, griff. The debate on tuesday and a couple more debates and hunkering down for debrate! how she'll take on former president donald trump and she did go out on a walk tonight and took at break this weekend from debate trump. Are you ready for trump? gave us a thumb's up. Ready. Kamala harris can her husband doug in pittsburgh. Reporter: how important the debate will be. Harris has to be in the signe zone. It'll take almost superhuman focus and discipline to deal with donald trump in a debate. It's not ordinary proposition. Not because donald trump is a master of explaining policy ideas and how they make people better off, he's a master of taking any form or format on television and to the best of your knowledge into a show that's all about him. Reporter: the harris campaign is not happy with some of the abc news debates for the upcoming debate including muted microphones and that'll help benefit donald trump because they were depending on that back and forth one. Democrat senator john fetterman saying trump and harris are both going to do well. It's going to be a straight up debate. She's going to do great, of course, but donald trump will be good too. I mean, we can all remember he swept all the republicans and he's a good debater but at the end of the day, i don't believe it'll be definitive and it's going to come down to choice. It's going to be close. Reporter: both candidates are preparing differently. Donald trump was in wisconsin in front of massive crowd for a rally and kamala harris went to a spice shop. That spice shop is infamous for attacking gop offering discounts when trump gets indicted in an email blast and trump's campaign adviser cory said kamala has been hiding out. What is kamala harris for? by my estimation, she's been the de facto nominee and 34 sit down interviews or press conferences and donald trump and jd vance answered questions and kamala harris and tim walz have done one. She spoke for just under 17 minutes. Let's dive in to one thing that was interesting in the polls as well and they were asked whether or not trump was too conservative or harris was too liberal here. It's what they found. 44% said harris is too liberal and the express peace and pressuring joe biden to get out in july and he's hearing back and the polling that proves one of you can beat donald trump outside of me. Not a single democratic candidate, not just kamala harris and gavin newsom and jd pritzker from illinois and nobody can beat him and that's playing out and polling in the swing states and nationally. In terms of state of play, this is one of the most important debates in the history of the country and giving the tran indicated nature of the race. We're less than two months till actual election day and we're already into the zone in terms of ballots going out and we have north carolina issue where they had to reprint some of that. This debate will matter for people looking at issues in the states with few undecided voters and kamala harris and donald trump. Sarah huckabee sanders was talking about playing harris in the 2020 debate with mike pence. A bit of what she had to say. It was very difficult to get in that mindset that was glad to be helpful in the process. And glad to see this debate finally take place for somebody that doesn't speak to the media and doesn't take questions and in fact at the end of the interview, john, i'll have down more interviews during this election cycle than she has since becoming the democratic nominee for president. This is actual a much more important night for her because it's so rare that we hear her take questions and governor sanders is absolutely right this is a very important night for vice president kamala harris and she's behind and new york times polls has her one point behind and freaking out about the poll and freaking out and looking out for biden in 2020 and up eight points in the very same poll at the very same time and that ended up being a tied election and she's, no matter the poll, she's five points behind where biden and clinton were and they were close elections and so much to do and donald trump, he's kind of got the situation where he's a known motty in terms commodity in terms of debate style and a worse situation than the first debate between him and joe biden which neither did very well. He's had very good debates and he can rely on that and just show people more than anything i think people will just be looking at comparing these two administrations, the effort to treat kamala harris like she's not the incumbent failed. That was widespread bamboozled effort. This president seizure disorders going with them on the border and foreign policy with the economy. Many voters and independent voters looking for who she is and the question of will kamala harris reveal her far left policies on tuesday night. Bernie sanders is saying perhaps the quiet part out loud here. I don't think she's abandoned her ideals but be pragmatic in doing what she thinks is right in order to win the election. What do you say about that, joe? best unintentional mom i did all day comedy all day and bernie sanders saying she's saying whatever it takes to win. Don't worry, progressives, she'll go right back to saying she wants to ban fracking and end fossil fuels and stop all offshore drilling. She wants to abolish ice and thinks ice really is the kkk. She doesn't want to build a border wall. She absolutely supports sanctuary cities and wants to raise the taxes and thinks men can get pregnant. All these thing at this point. Having anonymous sources on the campaign claiming that she changederer mind and anyway meaningful and needs to do interview after interview and explain why she changed her mind and more. Her values didn't change and told us that in the one interview. Only thing on the market is her values have not changed and i this i it's really important for people to take a look at administrative state and how she will use it. Everyone saying if they control the house and senate, give us a range of the items. There are lawsuits filed from the courts later and they've seen this in the biden administration and she'll do it herself. In terms of debate here and her flipflopping and i applaud harris fell to the bottom of the list coming to democrats options in primary of 2019/2020. She's the least donald trump on tuesday nailing her down and going for her with the only thyme time americans and they have really and one debate so far. She needs to change why she changed a 180 and implement the administrative policies. She needs to make the debate herself and going for them and meanwhile we got a big hour of the weekend show straight ahead. Including this, the media may be playing a bit of cya ahead of tuesday night. Golden state gaslighting and la times columnist blames blue state wars on republicans. We're driving down field. Democrats making a big play on football to get in touch for election day. Stick with us. ya know, if you were cashbacking you could earn on everything with just one card. Chase freedom unlimited. So, if you're off the racking. . . . . . Or crab cracking, you're cashbacking. 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No live audience and no notes. The rules are clear for tuesday night's debate and harris' team isn't happy. Fox news correspondent lucas tomlinson live at the white house with the rules donald trump and kamala harris have to follow. Lucas. Reporter: good evening, katie. I feel like i should have worn my zebra striped shirt for the rules. Donald trump won the coin toss and tails never fails in the debate with kamala harris and a week before the country celebrates or many americans celebrate constitution day. Take a look at rules. One of the big ones that stands out off the top, muted mics. Of course that's a big one. The harris campaign wanted to keep them on, perhaps hoping for a repeat with her debate four years ago and no live audience and no prewritten notes or props and paper, pen and water. Next slide, please. Two minute answers to questions, two minute rebuttals and one extra minute for follow ups and clarifications and responses and not clear for live fact checking for moderators and donald trump with sean hannity at fox news town hall. When i had biden, you and i had the same discussion and i let him talk. I'm going to let her talk. There are those that say biden is smarter than she is. If that's the case, we have a problem. Reporter: here's vice president kamala harris in the controversial spice shop. It's time to turn the page on divisiveness. Reporter: harris campaign says vice president harris, a: toker prosecutor, will be fundamentally dise advantaged y the format and serving to shield donald trump with direct exchanges with the vice president. Campaign wishes the mics were not muted, katie. We'll be watching, lucas. Thank you very much. Molly, we have the rules. This is a big topic of desecration for the last couple of weeks and harris campaign polling out of the pulling out if they didn't get what they wanted and thoughts on where to be on tuesday? i think kamala harris is disadvantaged by the rules and wanted to be interrupted to play the victim and say excuse me, i'm speaking here and did that with her debate with pike pence and the 2020 debate, she consulted her notes constantly and they'll be an increased challenge for her. I think the muted mics and the no live audience is worse for harris and looking back in 2019, early on she had a breakout with the line between audience and on stage set and won them over because she started talking about prosecuting donald trump early on. She can't do that here. There's no audience to breakthrough the fourth wall. The muted mics and no audience i think go together in terms of disadvantage to harris. Joe, so muted mics and no audience, is this going to be boring? not at all. These are the abc news debate rules and oh, kamala harris, she's handcuffed by this. These are the rules that the biden harris campaign agreed to. If i'm donald trump, i'd nail this over and over again. If you're going to fix all the problems in the country your administration created, why not do it already. The media is already trying to cover themselves if harris goes down in flames and infinite 5789s of joy during the dnc convention and harris reporters aren't being careful. As much as we want to criticize donald trump, he's a skilled debater and he's a guy willing to say anything at any time just to get through a question. He's a somehowman on tv before. The shift over the last couple of weeks. I don't know how many of a shift and official campaign and paid staff and has unofficial campaign and most of the press engaged in running her campaign and it's patently absurd going for this point in the process. Joe, shouldn't the trump campaign make this out of respect for the american people and voters earning on election day? three debates and one is the format on tuesday night and one is a town hall and one focusing on foreign policy and she was often a fox news debate and did not take that debate and they're they're going to ask jermaine and tough questions and the brass on this guy accident i'm sorry, donald trump will say anything to get elected and i believe it was kamala harris who said she wanted to abolish the private health industry and apparently does not was for mandates and is not. Apparently sending more police doesn't solve the problem as far as solving the crime. On the media thing, headlines of what they'll say and she did no harm. Outstanding and knocked it out of the park and it not what you'll hear from the headlines s and the campaigns are down playing her performance before it even happens. 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