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Now or never, just five weeks until election day. Ohio senator j. D. Vance and minnesota governor tim walz about to come facetoface for the first and only time. Stakes could not be higher. Major crises have broken out here at home and abroad. Good evening everybody, i'm margaret brennan. And i'm bret baier coming to you live from fox news headquarters in new york martha maccallum the debate moments away. You can see it all right here live on fox. Tonight the two candidates to get out on the national stage in the middle of a turbulent and consequential new cycle. Here in the united states ameri...

Really ever describe president trump as taking the high road but -- >> bill: you just said you were surprised he went there. >> we'll see what the next tweet is. we'll see how he responds to speaker's pelosi counteroffer that she will give later today to his proposal from saturday. on the state of the union i think it is a side show. part of a larger game over the shutdown and the wall fight. >> sandra: you think the state of the union is a side show? >> the fight over it has been a side show piece to the shutdown conversation. i'm glad it has been postponed and glad he will give it after the ...

Rosenstein that his reasons for his firing of comey were russia. if you're a russian operative, you're not bragging that your reason is russia. can i say i've never understood this part of the story. >> maybe he needed to let somebody know that he was doing it for that reason. that's the thing. with trump, you just don't know. i'm going to pause it here. we've got some shutdown conversation to talk about as well. so when we come back, we're going to get to that. but first, not long ago republicans loved calling democrats liberal. they didn't mean it as a compliment. for a while it was effectiv...

I just want to show you this quickly. we talked so much in 2017 and 2018 about that dynamic of democrats. remember, ten democrats in 2018 in the senate had to run for reelection. ten democratic seats in states that trump had won, trump country. senate democrats. their biggest challenge. how many of those are there going to be in 2020, by the way? just two. doug jones in alabama and gary peters up in michigan. of course michigan a state trump barely won. only two. so that landscape for democrats looks very different in 2020 than it did in 2018. so, again, we'll have a lot more time between now ...

That could maybe change the thinking of mitch mcconnell, republican leadership. by the way, the flip side. i just want to show you this quickly. we talked so much in 2017 and 2018 about that dynamic of democrats. remember, ten democrats in 2018 in the senate had to run for reelection. ten democratic seats in states that trump had won, trump country. senate democrats. their biggest challenge. how many of those are there going to be in 2020, by the way? just two. doug jones in alabama and gary peters up in michigan. of course michigan a state trump barely won. only two. so that landscape for dem...