If Donald Trump goes in and does what he does exactly with Joe Biden, that is let the opponent talk, it is the best night of his life because Kamala Harris cannot speak extemporaneously. She needs to hit the mark. You need to talk about policy and the economy and she needs to give people what they need to hear from her and get to know her better. He has a history, she has one, and the problem for her is she is running from hers and he is running toward his. It is an easier position to be in. The expectation has always been that she is punting above peered she will have to punt above her weight and she was the underdog and this debate is no different. She will appear to do better during the debate but the problem is you will take whatever she says during the debate and compare it to all of those platforms that you just listed it that she already flipped on. John moments are now the White House will hold its first briefing of the week as Vice President harris prepares to defend the administrations policies during tomorrows highstakes abc News President ial debate. What a week it is going to be. I am John Roberts in washington. Sandra good to be with you and glad to start a week with you. Im Sandra Smith in New York and this is america reports. Better late than never Vice President Harris Campaign has finally posted a Policy Platform on her Campaign Website exactly seven weeks since she jumped into the race. John to fight the flipflopping and backtracking on the far left policies she wants promoted, vermont Senator Bernie sanders said she is still a progressive at heart. I dont think she is abandoning her ideals peered i think she is trying to be pragmatic and doing what she thinks is right in order to win back the election appeared her views are not mine but i do consider her a progressive. John our esteemed panel here to weigh into that. Sandra Fox Team Coverage with Alexandria Hoff looking at how former President Trump is preparing for the big night. John to Jacqui Heinrich live at the White House. You are brilliant to join us. Good afternoon to you guys. New york times Poll Shows the Vice President might need to make up for those seven weeks that she spent without a clearly articulated agenda. That Poll Showing 31 of registered voters say they still need to learn more about the Vice President and in her new Policy Section of her website curiously she spends a lot of time defining herself and defining trump in each section tying him to project 2025 which he has repeatedly distanced himself from and although harris is framing herself as the agent of change, 56 of people in that Survey View her as more of the same while 51 see trump as representative of major change. Harris seems to be focusing most on what trump might say in this debate. Theres no floor for him in terms of how low he will go. And we should be prepared for that. We should be prepared for the fact that he is not burdened by telling the truth and we should be prepared for the fact that he is probably going to speak a lot of untruths. Harris Campaign Today said the Vice President will continue to make it clear where her Policy Stand but Bernie Sanders calling her a progressive this weekend it doesnt chafe against her newer more modern identity and republicans are seizing on it. You got me to say something ive never said before. I agree with Bernie Sanders. And by the lake, kamala is right. She says her values have not changed. Her Voting Record is to the left of bernie and it is to the left of elizabeth warren. I serve with Bernie And Elizabeth and its not easy to get to their left. Theres not much space there but kamala happily occupied it. We will see how much she talks about her own positions in the debate versus talking about trumps but trump is looming large according to a New York times article even in her Debate Prep one of her advisors is reportedly standing in for practice sessions on a Mock Stage with Tv Lighting wearing a boxy suit and a long time. John Jacqui Heinrich for us. 1600 pennsylvania, jackie thank you. Sandra good details to know. Continuing coverage on former president Donald Trumps Debate Prep. Alexandria hoff is live in philadelphia where the two nominees will square off Tomorrow Night. What are we learning . Hi sandra. We are here beyond the secure perimeter. You can see the Constitution Center behind me just a block away from independence hall. The Liberty Bell and inside candidates will not have access to notes, they wont have a live audience and the Trump Team said that its fine by them because while the former while the Vice President was kneedeep in preparations and pittsburgh for former President Trump, he was in wisconsin this weekend where he said this about the current administration. We are run by stupid people. Stupid, stupid people. And we found that out at the debate with joe. How did that work out . We will find it out again on tuesday night. Is anyone going to be watching . A lot of people will be watching that. When the Trump Campaign was asked about what Debate Prep looks like, they asked fox what is Debate Prep implying that the former president is comfortable winging it but of course he wont be truly winging it. Congressman Tulsi Gabbard who shared the Debate Stage with harris in 2020 said she is helping out with what she knows. It is it sharing the experience i had with her on that Debate Stage and the kinds of tactics i think she will try to use to perhaps get under his skin or to try to deflect. In a preview of her new book first Lady Melania Trump said it life, crisis, and safety have suffered under the Bidenharris Administration adding the nod to free speech which she thinks is in jeopardy. It has become increasingly apparent that there are significant challenges to free speech. As demonstrated by the efforts to silence my husband. This weekend It Trumps last standing competitor Nikki Haley said it she is willing to campaign on behalf of the former president but said she has not been asked to yet. Sandra Alex Half on us. Thank you. John richard failure. Richard, we will get you to start is off your. New york times poll has Donald Trump up by one point. What some people including Nate Cohen from the New York times are saying is this a shift now toward trump . He writes today at new polls suggest harris support has stalled after you euphoric august peered what do you think. Our colleagues at a couple weeks ago that this race will be as tight as a tick and hes right. There is nobody in Delaware Or Maralago that does not think this will be close and Tomorrows Debate gives it Vice President , here is an opportunity to tap into one thing that the Poll Shows us which is americans want to know more about her. This will be her largest audience and she will be going against Donald Trump who was a wellprepared debater. This is a seventh president ial debate. She will have an opportunity to say heres a clear contrast and heres why im different. American people, meet me, get to know me, give me a review and hopefully give me your vote. John a former colleague of mine used to say this election will be as tight as a two tight Bathing Suit and a too long Car Ride Home from the beach and it might be but heres the other Nates Probability of winning peered trump at 63. 8 , Kamala Harris at 36 . He has been right, he has been wrong in the past. What do you think . What stood out to me is theres a lot of ink about their republican problems in the Gender Gap and a democratic Gender Gap. They are losing men by more than they are winning women and that is a recipe for a republican win and that carries over to election day. You talked about this a little bit earlier. She has been talking for the last month or so about how she is the change agent, how she is mainstream. Both findings and that Poll Show that is not the case according to the respondents who talked with the people doing the poll. That is an objective for her Tomorrow Night. She needs to do what she has been trying to do for the past month. Show that she is in Theory A Change agent. John and that Poll Show overwhelmingly people thought that trump was. We are sticking with the New York times a lot at the beginning of this. Heres what the New York times said about Kamala Harris February 6th of last year. Dozens of democrats including some that helped put her on the parties 2020 ticket said she had not risen to the challenge of proving herself as a future leader of the party much less the country. She has had 18 months since that time but did you build Winston Churchill in 18 months . This is been a very short Campaign Period for Kamala Harris and i think we see that reflected in the slow rollout of her policy but lets be very clear sense she has gotten the nomination at the beginning of the month of august she has raised over half A Billion dollars, we have seen volunteer Numbers Uptake and a new excitement in the democratic party. A democratic party that after the last debate was almost at an internal Civil War with each other. There is a Gender Problem on the republican side and on the democratic side. But i think for republicans, they know they need to win women which is why you saw a week ago Donald Trump move more and more to the left on the issue of abortion because this is going to be a Crowning Issue for Kamala Harris and governor tim walz. They will be able to tell the american people we want to make sure the decisions we make are between you and your doctor and republicans know that is a big issue for them and a loser for them. Thats why you see Donald Trump moving to the left each and every day to the chagrin of folks on the right. John you have Donald Trump saying the leftleaning New York times did not think you were letting for leadership but at the same time Harris Campaign is running this ad ahead of Tomorrows Debate. Take it from the people who knew him best. Donald trump is a danger to our troops and our democracy. We cannot let him lead our country again. John in that land, the longer version of which adds comments, i wouldnt say testimony, from pens, marx, esper, and Mark Milley saying trump is bad from that job. No disrespect to any of those guys. They can vote for whoever they want and support whoever they want but when it comes to policy that people are voting on, you look at the New York times poll of the economy and immigration, its no Contest Trump is the better pick for those policies and again, if you want to more people are concerned with their own lives and who is best for their own pocketbook. They are worried about endorsements left and right. If you are banking on endorsements you will lose. But if his former Treasury Secretary, his former Vice President. John has Treasury Secretary didnt say anything. His former economic advisors. Theres a litany of former Trump Cabinet members who said we want nothing to do with this guy. We dont want anything to do with this guy and we dont think he is right and we dont think he is fit to serve. The former Vice President who is probably one of the most conservative Vice President s Dick Cheney said im not voting for this guy. This is indeed a problem for republicans. When the republican base, longtime republicans, this is not our candidate, this is problematic. Democrats are not saying that. Tulsi gabbard. Axes repaired Tulsi Gabbard. John the curious one to me is saying horrible things about Kamala Harris. The proof is in the pudding. John tune into our special coverage of the abc president ial debate simulcast. It begins at 5 00 p. M. Eastern. We have gotten all wound up and ready to go. Its hot here. Sandra a great example of the debate happening all over the country and we will see a lot happen on that stage Tomorrow Night. We will see if anyone on the stage it changes any minds. John. John we will see. I think it could go one of two ways. Trump can do well and she does poorly or she does better than people think and It Trump shoots himself in the foot. He hasnt done that recently but it will be a for all the marbles debate Tomorrow Night. Sandra Judge Jeanine Pirro will join us at the top of the hour and she will talk about leading up to Tomorrow Night and we will talk about Karl Rove now arguing that former president Donald Trump has a harder job on that Debate Stage and we will ask her about that. John everyone has an opinion. This is a highstakes game tomorrow, no question about that. Now this. 30 they went up. The biggest increase in history. Sandra your member that moment. The father of Kareem Nicoli reminding President Biden of his Sons Death at Abbey Gate as we await State Department Reaction to the new Report Outlining Key Failures of the Bidenharris Administration in that chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan. Steve nicoli will be joining us with more on his son and that new report. John looking forward to that. 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The Antitrust Trial getting underway today as the Tech Giant faces a potential breakup. But he trembles at the court in alexandria, virginia, europe. It is google accused of here . Unlike the last trial which had to do with Google Search and which google lost, this time around it is about those Display Ads that you see almost every time you open up a Web Browser and go to a website and the department of justice alleges that google has an illegal a monopoly over the technology and the tools needed to place those advertisement. I want to show you an image that gives you a process of how it goes when you visit one of those publishers websites. This is the dojs complaints and they have been pulling up a similar image repeatedly in Court Today and they say it shows googles control over the multibillion Dollar Ad Tech industry. Google provides tools to add sellers which are publishers with websites and buyers which are advertisers looking to post ads on those websites and google also has an exchange where the transaction occurs. One Witness Today said the entire process you just saw takes about 800 milliseconds before you see the add on a Web Page. In the opening statement today, the Justice Department Lake into Googles Position to jpmorgan. A big Investment Bank owning the New York stock exchange. Google naturally denies the allegations. Its attorneys argue there is plenty of competition and googles products are just better. In fact, during crossexamination of one of the dojs witnesses, googles attorney referenced his own quote in a 2017 article in which he said we are entering the world where three major titans are going to be competing for ad dollars. Not one. That particular witness that the doj called said he does not remember saying that. A few logistical notes about this trial, john. It is a Bench Trial meaning it is just a judge that will make the final decision. There is no Jury And Part of the reason for that might be because some of this stuff is so complicated and because of that we expect it to last a pretty long time potentially weeks, maybe even more than a month. John. John we will keep watching that. Thank you so much. Sandra as we mentioned we are monitoring the State Department for a reaction to the scathing 350 Page Report on the chaotic and botched withdrawal from afghanistan. It specifically calls out failures by the Bidenharris Administration arguing their decisions lead to the tragic deaths of 13 american service members in the Abbey Gate terror attack. Including marine lance corporal Kareem Nicoli. His father joins us now. Welcome to you sooner and thank you for joining us. Thank you sandra. I appreciate you letting us have a voice. Sandra you are joining us live from Capitol Hill as we are learning the details of this report. It hit the front page of the New York post this morning, sir. My way to hell with a picture of Joe Biden on t