Themselves from president obama but will that make any difference come mid term . Keep the conversation going. Log on to our Facebook Page keeptalking. Fox friends starts right now. Have a great day. Good morning to you. It is wednesday, october 22. I am ainsley earhardt. Im filling in for elisabeth this morningng. We have two weeks until election day, can you believe it . This is a debate like you have never seen. This candidate takes on an empty chair when his opponent did not bother to show up. Why did kay hagan bail . A live report straight ahead. Election politics, its a new low for this year. A new campaign flier urges voters that they can avoid another ferguson if they vote democrat. Huh . Shes an Academy Award winning actress, but this morning can you even recognize her . Who is this hollywood
alister and why is she looking at me like that. She had you at hello. You just gave it away. Mornings, i guess, are better with friends. Hey, this is peter from kiss and youre watching fox friends. I give a big kiss and hello to everyone out there. How nice. Can you calm down . Here it is gene simmons is coming up, wrote this great book about marketing and marketing yourself in business but you have two hours and 50 minute to wait. In the meantime, a fox news alert this morning. Two weeks until the election day and a debate like you have never seen. The g. O. P. Candidate takes on an empty chair in gnarl. His opponent didnt bother to show up. Doug, why did kay hagan bail . Were getting so close here to this election and were going to talk about two races in particular here that are going to be
very closely watched. One is the Gubernatorial Race in florida but were going to begin with what could be a very Pivotal Senate race in North Carolina and that is where this now infamous debate took place last nate and were talking about the race between democrat kay hagan and republican tom tillis. Tillis ended up talking by himself to moderators. Hagan ultimately did not show up for that debate. The other race were watching very closely, Charlie Crist and rick scott running for governor in florida. This thing has gotten very personal very quickly. Listen. Youre somebody like rick scott and you have a private jet and you fly 30,000 people above people all the time or you live in an oceanfront mansion, youre out of touch. What im going to fight for every day is what ive done the last three years and nine months, im going to fight for families like mine growing up. I think everyone was watching Charlie Crist last
night to see if there were beads of sweat because the last debate they had that big issue of whether crist cost fan he likes crist could have the fan he likes mounted underneath his podium. Did he have a fan . I dont know. He looked pretty refreshed so maybe he did. It was kind of interesting. They evidently kept going back and forth about how bad each others childhood was and how rich he was and how he got the money he has. I dont know how much the people of florida benefit from that. Char had i Charlie Crist is now a . Is he a democrat now . He is a democrat. Harris is a republican. He had to defend his allegation that republicans are racist by the way they attacked president obama. Lets talk about politics. Looks like they hit a new low in the great state of georgia. There was a flier put out, and it was by the Georgia Democratic party. This is some noname group
trying to get traction. They put out a nier that says if you want to prevent another ferguson in their future, vote democrat. What does that have to do with voting for michelle nun or jimmy carters grandson . Nothing. It is offensive. It is such a stretch. Comparing ferguson to georgia and if you dont vote democrat what happened in ferguson could happen here. The story behind the story is if hispanics and blacks do not go out and vote for democrats theyre going to get routed in two weeks. How do you do that . By making ads and taking risks. This ad seems over the top to those on the outside but what resonates to those on the inside, brit hume
yesterday. That is ridiculous and a very crude piece of literature. I cant imagine it will work. You can see whats happening, megyn. The Democratic Party has got nearly everything lined up against it in this upcoming election. The one thing many believe that could save it is another turnout miracle of the time that the Democrat Party was able to amass and the Obama Campaign was able to put together for the 2012 president ial election. A couple of days earlier in fayetteville, North Carolina there was a flier put out by one of those noname groups and it warned, it said kay hagan doesnt win, obamas impeachment begins. Vote 2014. So our question of the day on facebook is were playing politics with ferguson will playing politics with ferguson backfire . You can email us and tweet us as well. The white house yesterday as you know, in an effort to get out the
africanamerican vote, in an effort to get hispanics motivated, the president did a bunch of interviews with black radio hosts, including al sharpton. One of the things he said which i think stood out is when he said listen, i know certain people in is en states im not going to be popular but im there to get the vote out to get the turnout for the mid term elections. These people in democratic states, they support me and my policies. That doesnt jibe too well with what josh earnest said yesterday. Take a listen to what he said. The success of many of these Democratic Candidates will depend on their own success in motivating voters that strongly support the president in 2012. Ultimately those Democratic Candidates will have to develop their own strategies in their states for figuring out how exactly to do that, and there are people running in red states that have a strong track record. It should be their
decision. It is ultimately their campaign. It is their name thats on the ballot. Was the decision not to invite the president of the United States to go ahead and campaign for these redstate democrats . He was not asked to help out in arkansas or alaska, colorado, louisiana or North Carolina. And so the white house essentially was saying look, if these guys had the jackpot of the president to use as a resource and they didnt and they lose, dont blame the white house. Charles krauthammer, who is a doctor, says this has got to be hard for the president to take. Look, this is a guy who six years ago had a Worship Service at a denver stadium, being cheered by people while he was behind greek columns. A few weeks earlier he had been the hero of 200,000 germans in berlin. This is a total humiliation for him. He cant take it, so it
pops out. This is a way of saying, you know, i transcend the party. Im bigger than the party. I still am. And im still here. Hes not going to go out and campaign in these states obviously. But this is hard for him to take. I would extend a little bit of sympathy to the man. Hes under stress. A psychiatrist. Right. It is unbelievable these candidates would pretend like you say i disagree with the president on this or that, on this policy, i get it. But to not answer the question it happened again last night, jean shaheen of New Hampshire, do you support the president , what policies do you not support . And they pretend as if they didnt vote for him. They dont answer the question. That makes you look dishonest if you dont do something that your record reveals you already did. Theyre all distancing themselves from him. In other news this morning, heather has got a lot of headlines to share with us. Good morning, gang. Hope everybody is off to a good morning. I bet these ladies are in trouble with their parents. Three teenagers arrived home in denver. The f. B. I. Says they tried to join isis in syria. The girls are just 15 and 16 years old. They are somalian sudanese descent. They boarded a flight out of florida to germany. That is when their parents realized their girls were gone but they never made it to syria. The f. B. I. Grabbed them in frankfurt, germany. The jihad lured them online. They will not be charged yet. An american locked up in north korea for nearly six months is on his way home to ohio. Jeffrey fowler was taken to guam before heading to the United States. He was arrested in may for living a bible in a nightclub. In the meantime negotiations to release two other americans are still underway. Welcome back. Another ebola scare. A passenger landed at a Newark Airport with a fever is in isolation at the
hospital. This happeninas we get a bit of good news. Doctors in nebraska just declared that nbc news photographer free of ebola, and he can now head home. An icon in the world of journalism has now died. Benjamin bradley, executive editor of the washington post, guided that news room for more than 25 years. Reporting done by the post, shed light on the entire watergate scandal. Bradley died of Natural Causes at his home in washington. He was 93 years old and what a life he lived. Those are your headlines on this very rainy day in new york city. Going to rain all day. Ten minutes now after the hour. Straight ahead, caught on camera, a womans farm invaded by the government. Youre looking for evidence of whether or not this is being used as a residence. You need to look in closets . Why dont you look in the refrigerator too. The owner not backing
down. She will join us live next. If you thought paying tax dollars to watch a shrimp on a treadmill was bad, it got worse. Wait until you hear how washington is using your tax dollars. The new list has been released. When laquinta. Com sends him a ready for you alert the second his room is ready, ya know what salesman alan ames becomes . I think the numbers speak for themselves. Im sold a selling machine ready for you alert, only at lq. Com. Imy body doesnt work the way it used to. Past my prime . Im a victim of a slowing metabolism . I dont think so. Great grains protein blend. Protein from Natural Ingredients like seeds and nuts. It helps support a healthy metabolism. Great grains protein blend. Big day . Ah, the usual. Moved some new cars. Hauled a bunch of steel. Kept the supermarket shelves stocked. Made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. Whats up for the next shift . Ah, nothing much. Just keeping the lights on. laugh nice. Doing the big things that move an economy. See you tomorrow, mac. See you tomorrow, sam. Just another day at norfolk southern. A Virginia Farmer claims an Environmental Group is trying to drive her off her property with overzealous zoning enforcement and invasive inspections as well. We are looking for evidence of whether or not this is being used as a residence. That was an easement. You need to look in closets . Why dont you look in the refrigerator too. I dont want to get in an argument about it. Im asking if i can look in the closet. That seems a little odd. This has been going on for eight years and now martha benita, the woman whose voice you hear on that video fighting back is joining us from this nations capital. Good morning. Youve been on before and talked about your plight here. When you bought this farm for your family, you agreed to an easement. The condition of the easement was this group,
the Piedmont Environmental Council would come in every once in a while and make sure you werent breaking the law; right . My family acquired the farm. It was my childhood dream to be a farmer. We acquired a conservation easement that permits residential, agricultural, commercial and even industrial uses on the family farm and we never dreamed in a million years that we would encounter so much abuse of power. You know, small family farmers need as much opportunity as they can to be viable on the land, its been heartbreaking to have eight years of abuse of power on my family farm. I know at one point somebody suggested lets have video cameras, surveillance cameras so we can see what martha and her family are doing on that property. What else have they done to you . Thats chutely chilling to think thats absolutely chilling to think about that. Its been eight years of invasive, abusive inspections that go far
beyond whats reasonable. Small family farmers need all the help they can get. What we have here is an organization that has the power over thousands of acres of American Farm hand and yet there is no accountability whatsoever to the american people, to the American Voters or to the democratic process. You know, we are conservationminded, sustainable farmers. We produce vegetables and raw honey, herbs and hay. To have this type of overabuse of power on a small family farm is devastating. Is this a land grab . Are they just trying to get your land back . Sadly, we discovered that this environmental land group entered into a private top secret, confidential agreement with realtors concerning my family farm. We know how that ends up in the maw vis. They put out a statement,
the Piedmont Environmental Council says the reality is p. E. C. Spent a total of thee hours per year on this property since 2007. That is respect of mrs. Boneta and her property. Obviously you disagree. The video speaks for itself. Theres mountains of evidence that the Piedmont Environmental Council lobbied my local county government to find us in violation for engaging in farming practices that have been in existence since forever. Now as i understand it, martha, youre going to take your grievance with its outfit before somebody who is going to essentially arbitrate and say whos right; right . Right now we are going to pursue a legislative relief and judicial relief because there needs to be something in place to protect small family farmers and give them yef opportunity to be viable and not have to live in
fear of these types of abuses. Martha boneta talking about her family farm in the commonwealth of virginia. Thank you so much. It is exactly 19 minutes after the top of the hour on this wednesday. Coming up, drunken college kids create chaos at an annual pumpkin festival but watch what happens when a reporter tries covering the story. You think that inciting these people is a good idea . I am going to pull the plug on you. When you report the news, when you report the reality, the people in charge want to shut you down. That reporter threatened for doing his job. Hes going to join us live coming up next. She is an Academy Award winning star but this morning can you even recognize this Hollywood Alister . Who is that . I have a cold. I took nyquil but im still stuffed up. Nyquil cold and flu liquid gels dont unstuff your nose. Really . Alkaseltzer plus night rushes relief to eight symptoms of a full blown cold including your stuffy nose. breath of relief oh, what a relief it is. Thanks. Anytime. Twith available forwardd collision warningigned. And new blind spot monitor and a 2014 top safety pick plus rating. Cost of entry . A fortune. Until now. Hey sarah, new jetta . Yup. Can i check it out . Maybe at halftime . Introducing lots of new. The new Volkswagen Jetta. Isnt it time for german engineering . Theyve earned in life
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a former member of the Harlem Globetrotters van ishes without a trace, he disappeared while driving from seattle. Cops found his car abandoned in a park with no sign of the 37yearold. Game over for the coach embroiled in a football
scandal in sayreville. Police arrested seven players accused of Sexual Assault in high school. The high School Canceled their entire season. The season is over for michael sam, the nfls first openly gay player. Overnight we found out he was cut by the dallas cowboys. The reason . Some of the injured players are ready to play and now there are too many players on the roster and he is going to go. Thank you, steve. Drunken college kids creating chaos at an annual pumpkin festival but when a reporter tries to cover that story, this is what happened. The festival coordinator is on site here. She is not letting me do my job and report to you. She would not like me to tell you what is going on at keane state college. If you think inciting these people is a good idea i am going to pull the plug on you. He a signed you this i as signed you this spot. You heard it here first everybody. When you report the news, when you report the reality, the people in charge want to shut you down. This is against freedom of the press, folks. Wow. That video going viral. On our show Jared Goodell is the local reporter. They threatened his job now. He joins us. Jared, way to hang in there. Were you surprised that she came after you like that . Good morning. Yes, i was. I mean, look, we were doing, you know, live coverage throughout the pumpkin festival and for someone to storm on the set this was wicked surprising. We didnt expect this at all. Whats interesting, what is ironic here is shes saying there is no violence happening if he festival. She wants to ceap the peace but yet shes basically assaulting you, pulling
that microphone out of your hand and trying to look at this video. Clearly there is violence there. Dozens were arrested, 20 were hospitalized, cars were turned over and burned and bottles thoan at police. She was angry because this is your original live shot. Take a look. We heard a number of beer bottles and beer cans were thrown at Police Officers sometimes and we also he