My angle in moments. But, first, in just two hours, you 8 see what will likely be the final debate of this long election season. J. D. Vance versus tim walz. It comes on a day of chaos around the globe. And more suffering here at home. With two major crises unfolding. A port strike that could end up costing the u. S. About $5 billion a day. And the human tragedy and infrastructure collapse from one of the deadliest hurricanes in american history. Now, the death toll has stood now, i think it's at about 159 people, tragic, entire communities flattened. Americans are still struggling to get the basic necessities, like water. And overseas, a significant escalation. Iran retaliated against israel's successful decapitation of hezbollah's leadership. And launched at least 180 missiles into israel, lighting up the sky. Virile prime minister benjamin netanyahu warning iran a painful lesson we attack back. Now, americans are watching all. This and they are wondering who is really running the country tonight? after all, you know, they dumped joe from the ticket because he presumably was not up to the task with you the vice presidential debate can you watch live on fox news will tell us a lot about the future. How either of these administrations could, perhaps, handle the next crisis. Let's go live now to the debate site where fox news senior white house correspondent jacqui heinrich is standing by. Jacqui, do we have any indication of how tim walz prepared for tonight? well, laura, all we really know is transportation secretary pete buttigieg has been standing in for j. D. Vance in walz's debate prep. And despite more help from two aides who also prepared the vice president for her debate, walz is reportedly nervous, scared he will disappoint harris. And even warned her that he is a bad debater. Now, that could be a standard play to try to lower exceptions. But one democrat from his state lent some credence to this saying that walz can be very that's it i'm done. So his temperament will be under the microscope tonight. The campaign has really kept walz out of the media circuit since joining the ticket except for one joint interview with vice president haste where he squirmed under questions about misrepresenting his military record. Today, the campaign ducked new questions about walz fudging the details on the time he spent in china and face nod questions about controversial bills he signed as minnesota's governor, like granting drivers licenses to illegal immigrants and making minnesota a sanctuary state for children seeking transgender surgeries. Tonight, the goal is to put trump in the room. One campaign source says walz wants to highlight that harris weapons a new way forward and not let vance make up for trump's bad debate. That's their view. They also view vance as a skilled debater. His last opponent, tim ryan said in an interview that vance can, quote, articulate the intellectual under pinnings of trump's rants. So walz's job is to not let him get away with that but certainly be very difficult for him to turn the attentions to the other side when really he has been left unexpected until tonight. Laura? laura: jacqui, very interesting. Now we turn to the other side of tonight's debate j. D. Vance who unlike tim walz hasn't spent the entire campaign hiding from the press. How is he preparing for the debate in for that we turn to fox news congressional correspondent aishah hasnie. Aishah? aishah: yeah, good evening to you, laura. That's actually what a lot of his surrogates are saying right now is that he has been out there doing a lot of interviews over 100 so far and that has really helped him prepare for tonight's big debated. And the preparation team, the debate prep team is saying that senator vance is, quote: prepared to wipe the floor tonight with tim walz. But the former president is already out there saying the debate will be rigged against his running mate, now, vance was smiling, looked pretty happy, cheerful, waived as he landed in new york yesterday looking like he is feeling pretty good today. The campaign is raising exceptions for governor walz, claiming that he is actually really good on the debate stage. But again they add that senator vance is prepared because has done so many interviews so far since becoming the nominee. The strategy tonight, laura, is to go after walz's military record, his time in congress. His far left woke policies as they say when he was governor. The ticket stance on illegal immigration and also their economic policies in creation that contrast tim walz kamala harris believe bigger government. Solution to everything. Donald trump, j. D. Vance, no tax on tips no, tax on overtime. No tax on social security. You get to decide what to do with your economic success. Aishah: laura, there will be a lotted of surrogates in the spin room tonight for senator vance. I want to show you around really quickly here including the manual who you could say is credited for getting him on the ticket in the first place and that is don jr. He will be here tonight as well as some of his senate colleagues, including senator tom cotton will also be here tonight. Laura? laura: all right. We will be watch. Aishah, thanks so much. Trump's last debate was basically 3 on 1 with the moderators taking him on almost as many times as kamala did. But tonight cbs says that its moderators will not do any live factchecking. They say that it's up to the candidates to factcheck each other but wait a second, not so fast. Oliver darcy is reporting that cbs news is leaving open the possibility that the moderators may step in and offer fact checks of their own joining us now jason miller trump senior adviser. Jason, politico is reporting today that you were part of a small team that helped prep for tonight's debate also congressman ehmer and j. D. 's wife who is brilliant in her own right. What can you tell us give us a little color before the debate? one thing to keep in mind tim walz is actually pretty good. I don't know who gave that tim walz is a pushover. Not the person up there doing jazz hands and flapping around like he does at the rallies. He will be sharp, he will be disciplined. Here's the thing on tim walz, he will lie through his teeth. I was watching one of his old debate clips earlier. He literally said in a debate you're not going to get a tax hike. I'm just going to roll back your tax cuts. That's the kind of nonsense he will say. No, you are going to raids taxes, so he is really good at looking the american public in the eye and lying. J. D. Vance is going to be ready. J. D. Vance is very sharp. He knows how to articulate's trump's vision when it comes to the economy and securing the border. Tim walz political politician. He has been doing this two decades, j. D. Vance two years. Laura: the problem with debates i will talk about this in the angle coming up. They are not designed to get they issues who is the better debater. It's to center from on likabilities. Can you relate to the mom of three single no, ma'am mom of three watching in ohio tonight. Can you relate to the hispanic family in arizona, what their issues and needs are? cutting through likability question. I think that's as big of a deal tonight as the substance. The debate has been won on the substance, i think on the border and the economy. The likability question, i think that's a bigger hurdle. Yeah. When j. D. Vance is talking about his humble upbringing, when he is talking about his military service in the marines. Is he very good. It's background people can relate to. Is he someone who is raised largely by his grandmother who had tough evenings. Laura: they used to love him during hillbilly egg i didn't. Juiced to like him. Don't like him anymore. Got the book and movie all the sudden they decide they had didn't. When j. D. Vance talks about background it connects with what president trump is trying to doin' 00 policy side. People are suffering when it comes to the economy. Look around today what is happening with iran and israel. The whole world gone to hell because kamala harris has made bad decisions. That's why this v. P. Debate is consequential. You see what kamala did at the border. We see what she did with inflation. She was the last room in the room with afghanistan. Gave joe biden the go ahead. That was disastrous, of course,field fueled iran and everything else. The vp debate is very important. J. D. Has an ability to connect with people because he knows exactly what it is like to struggle. Laura: we are learning tonight that kamala harris did not do the annual hurricane preparedness briefings that her predecessor mike pence did in the trump administration and most administrations do on an annual basis. You will could see that you don't want to just jump into a hurricane or prep for a hurricane if you don't know anything about it she according to the reports tenth had not attended a single hurricane preparedness briefing during her time in office does that matter. It doesn't surprise me. Look at the administration's terrible response with regard to hurricane helene this week. Look at how terrible biden and harris were to responding to east palestine. This is more of their m. O. Other thing kamala harris probably had a fund raisener san francisco or some other equally terrible excuse. That's the type of inept leadership they have right now. You will hear tim walz say turn the page. You can't turn the page when the book is about kamala harris. The entire book about kamala harris. They want to get rid of her. Put someone in there push normal common sense things like secure the border. Get our economy back on track the way president trump had it before. Laura: thanks so much for being with us. All right. The left is trying to build walz up as jason said to be the every man but is he really just a radical liar. My angle exposes him, next. laura: bursting tim's bubble wrap that's the focus of tonight's angle. All right. We're about to watch the first and only vice presidential debate of the election season and, know this. Tim walz is a congenital liar. He lied about his retired military rank. He lied about where he was deployed. And he allowed others to misstate those facts, giving the impression he was stationed in afghanistan and, of course, that he retired as a command sergeant major. He even lied about being a football coach. A high school football coach. He has an assistant coach. Okay. Who cares? so why lie? he has such a problem telling the truth that now we're wondering if he is lying about his lying. In an obvious attempt to blunt the coming vance attacks on credibility and it close ties to china, walz is now claiming that he had previously exsass gear rated the number of times he traveled to china. Try to follow. This in 2016, he said that he went to china dozens of times. That same year he said this: i lived in china and, as i said, i have been there about 30 times. Laura: 30 times? now he claims it was only 15. A big differential. Now, why would he do this? well, because most normal people would think it's really odd for a candidate for the vice presidency to feel so close, so connected with communist china. Of course, it's a brutal dictatorship minorities and dissidents. No biggie. James comer is telling us whistleblowers are coming forward to reveal more about their true nature of these trips. Hmmm, very disturbing. That's not all. We are learning about another walz lie courtesy of the washington free beacon. Now, walz is trying to burnish his resume. Don't you love people like that. Walz had claimed over the years to have been in china during the tiananmen massacre in 1989. I was in hong kong on june 4th, 1989 when, of course, tiananmen square happened. An opportunity to be in a chinese high school at that critical time seemed to me to be really important. It was a very interesting summer, to say the least. Laura: but the truth is, he was in nebraska where apparently it wasn't as interesting. Now, of course, there is another reason why they wouldn't let him do interviews, this is just obvious, and why he avoids reporters like the plague. The washington post reported that he is a surprisingly bubble wrapped campaigner. It's not surprising at all. The harris people know is he huge negative. Because apparently no ones know how to vet vp contenders, they can't let him do interviews because his background is so shady. Thus, all they can do leading up to this debate is lower exceptions. And it's been something to behold. First, walz supposedly let it be known that he was nervous about the vance matchup. Just what you want in a v. P. And now he is all of his friends at axios are claiming that some democrats are in a state of panic about how walz will perform tonight. They note that walz has a tendency when attacked and ramble and trim hi trip himselfn unscripted settings. Sounds like kamala. Is he a liberal blow hard rolls over for the far left and hates being questioned. What's your reaction to the gaza? thanks, everybody. Laura: thanks, everybody, have a vanilla malt, now what everyone needs to keep in mind highly unlikely the cbs moderators will challenge walz on any of the tough questions and go around the edges a little bit. I have a belief that they will probably work to protect him every chance they get. If the past is prologue, they will let him ramble on about all the good folks that he has had the chance to meet along the way and how washington needs a little minnesota nice. He'll attack j. D. Vance who came from nothing, of course, attack him as antiwomen. Antifemale elitist. And, after it's all over tonight, the new york times, the washington post, and other media outlets will all declare that exalz won because he was more relatable. But at a time of crisis at home and abroad, we need a vice president whose judgment and intellect is exceptional. We're not voting for an assistant coach or a best buddy or high school history teacher, as wonderful as all those positions are they are we a