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00:00Ceasefire, President Trump's special envoys and U.S. military leaders are on the ground
00:04in Gaza as dozens of hostage families wait for their loved ones to finally be released
00:09from Hamas captivity.
00:11I'm John Scott, and this is a brand new hour of the Fox Report.
00:14History will remember that when others doubted, President Trump believed he is the greatest
00:31president in American history, and we're here because of him.
00:35President Trump expected to head to the Middle East tomorrow to officially sign off on the
00:40historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas.
00:43He says the hostages are being retrieved now and that he believes the ceasefire will hold.
00:50Madeline Rivera has the latest live from the White House.
00:53Madeline.
00:53Good afternoon, John.
00:55Well, the president will have a packed schedule on Monday.
00:57He's expected to address the Israeli Knesset.
01:00The president is also expected to head to Egypt for the formal signing ceremony, and it will
01:05be a landmark moment that up until a few weeks ago seemed to be pretty elusive.
01:08The president is credited with placing maximum pressure on Israel and Hamas from playing hardball with
01:14Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to threatening Hamas with devastation if they
01:19did not agree to a deal.
01:20They knew the retribution would be tremendous, unsustainable.
01:27It would have been unsustainable.
01:29It would have been complete obliteration, and they didn't want that.
01:35And nobody wants it at this point.
01:38They want to get on with, you know, rebuilding the entire Middle East.
01:41Speaking about rebuilding, the president says he foresees wealthy Arab nations helping with
01:47Gaza's reconstruction.
01:49Under the plan, a so-called Board of Peace would be overseeing the transitional Palestinian
01:53government with the president serving as the board's chair.
01:57Despite the optimism, administration officials are pretty clear-eyed about the challenges
02:00ahead.
02:00The president himself indicating he wants to focus on part one of the peace deal for now,
02:05which is again this initial ceasefire, before looking to part two.
02:09But that is not stopping Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky from expressing hope that
02:13the president can use the momentum from Gaza to broker a peace deal in Ukraine.
02:17The two leaders spoke on the phone today in an interview with a Sunday briefing.
02:21He tells our Jackie Heinrich he may nominate the president for the Nobel Peace Prize next
02:26year if he's successful.
02:29I think that we will be very happy to nominate President Trump next year for Nobel Prize.
02:37If he will, because only him for today, only him can.
02:44So if he will pressure and stop Putin, if he will put Putin at the table of dialogue, negotiations.
02:55And this year's prize went to Venezuela's opposition leader, whom the president says he spoke to
03:00yesterday.
03:01He called their conversation very nice.
03:04Sean, back to you.
03:05All right.
03:05Madeleine Rivera from the White House.
03:06Thanks, Madeleine.
03:07You got it.
03:10Well, the Israel-Hamas ceasefire might be in its second day, but the families of Israeli
03:14hostages are now in their second year of praying for the return of their loved ones.
03:19That moment appears now to be just hours away, and U.S. military personnel are in Israel to
03:24help make sure everything goes according to plan.
03:27Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin is in Tel Aviv.
03:30I believe she has the latest for us.
03:32Jennifer.
03:34John, tens of thousands of Israelis poured into hostage square to join the families of the
03:41hostages.
03:42They spilled out into the streets of Tel Aviv.
03:45Thousands and thousands of Israelis after the sun went down here in Israel.
03:49They're hoping that this is the last Saturday night in what has been a two-year national
03:55nightmare.
03:55U.S. Special Chief Negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner addressed the emotional crowd
04:02and thanked President Trump.
04:03Thank you for showing that the future of this region can be built not on the ashes of old
04:12hatred, but on the promise of shared hope.
04:15I say working with President Trump on this, his commitment to seeing peace, to seeing the
04:21hostages return home, to seeing Israel secure and safe, and to seeing the entire Middle East
04:26stable and thriving is unmatched.
04:30The crowd erupted in cheers of thank you, Trump, every time the president's name was mentioned
04:39and booed when Witkoff tried to thank Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, who some of the hostage
04:44families believed did not do enough in the beginning to bring the hostages home.
04:49The president's daughter, Ivanka, praised the hostages and their families.
04:54And the president wanted me to share, as he has with so many of you personally, that he sees
05:05you, he hears you, he stands with you, always.
05:11Earlier today, Fox News obtained this exclusive image of Mideast Envoy Steve Witkoff visiting
05:21Gaza with the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, escorted by the IDF chief of staff and CENTCOM
05:26commander, Admiral Brad Cooper.
05:28They observed the Israeli troops who have now completed their redeployment to an agreed-upon
05:33withdrawal line inside Gaza.
05:35The U.S. military will establish a ceasefire monitoring base, a civil military coordination
05:40center.
05:41200 U.S. troops are already arriving in Israel as part of that mission, but there will be
05:46no U.S. boots on the ground in Gaza.
05:49Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians inside Gaza have begun streaming north in a mass exodus
05:55back to their homes, which are now mostly rubble, a reality Jared Kushner referenced while
06:00speaking in Hostage Square tonight.
06:02So, to see the suffering end for the people in Gaza, who for most of them were experiencing
06:12this through no fault of their own, other than being born into a situation that was horrific.
06:19We're not going to celebrate tonight.
06:28We're going to celebrate on Monday when the phase one gets into conclusion.
06:36The release of the hostages and 2,000 Palestinian prisoners should happen overnight Sunday at
06:42the latest Monday before President Trump arrives in Jerusalem to address the Israeli Knesset.
06:48He will then carry on to Egypt, where he will have a summit with other leaders about what
06:55comes next in Gaza and the rest of the Middle East.
06:58John?
06:58Jennifer, I'm not sure it's a question you can answer, but I've heard the figures that
07:02suggest 28 hostages are alive, 20 are believed to be dead.
07:07How do they know that?
07:08Is it just through intercepts?
07:10Is there any way of knowing?
07:14Well, John, it's actually 20 hostages are believed to be alive, 28 are assumed to be deceased.
07:21They know that through very good, they know that through very good intelligence.
07:25What we expect on Monday is that 20 of the living hostages will be returned back to Israel
07:31and many of the deceased Israeli hostages, but not all.
07:36They are already preparing the Israeli public for the fact that Hamas says that they don't
07:40know where some of these deceased hostages are.
07:45And that's where an international security force and investigators may have to help Hamas
07:50find those remaining hostages.
07:53So that may be a disappointment to some families here in Israel on Monday.
07:57Yeah, they took the hostages, but now they can't find them.
08:00Unbelievable.
08:01Jennifer Griffin, thank you.
08:05So as Jennifer just mentioned, the U.S. has deployed CENTCOM troops to the Middle East
08:09to help monitor the Israel-Hamas peace deal.
08:12CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper praised President Trump's peace negotiation efforts,
08:18saying, quote, America's sons and daughters in uniform are answering the call to deliver
08:23peace in the Middle East in support of the commander-in-chief's direction in this historic
08:28moment.
08:29This great effort will be achieved with no U.S. boots on the ground in Gaza.
08:34Let's bring in retired United States military general Dana Patard.
08:38General Patard, it was, you know, it occurred to me that as daunting as the prospects for
08:44peace between Israel and Hamas might seem, there was a time, oh, 60 or 80 years ago when
08:52peace between the United States and Germany or Japan would have seemed impossible.
08:58And look how things have changed.
09:01Well, good afternoon, John.
09:02John, I agree with you.
09:03I mean, this is really amazing.
09:05And it can only be done by, you know, the indispensable nation, that's America.
09:10And right now with President Trump, who, with his relations with Israel, his relations with
09:18allies in the Middle East, was able to really get this done and putting pressure on Israel,
09:24but also pressure on Hamas.
09:26It is amazing.
09:28And this is something that will go down in history.
09:32Yeah, he was pretty blunt with Hamas in saying that they needed to release the hostages now
09:38or face some pretty dire consequences.
09:41Apparently, they got the message.
09:44I think they did.
09:46Now, the ceasefire is just a start.
09:49And ideally, the ceasefire will be the foundation of a peace agreement, maybe even lasting peace.
09:56And that would be great.
09:57The right things are happening.
09:59First of all, the release of the hostages and then the hostage remains by Hamas.
10:06And then the release from Israel of the Palestinians that are currently incarcerated in Israeli prisons
10:14and those detained.
10:16And then looking at the broader picture as far as reconstruction and getting our Gulf allies
10:23and regional allies to be a part of that reconstruction.
10:28And then the International Stabilization Force, which the U.S. would be a part of.
10:34And the U.S. is going to be a key part of that with logistics, intelligence, civil military kind of operations
10:41and help with that overall.
10:44And ideally, that International Stabilization Force will be led by a general from the region,
10:52from Egypt or UAE or some other country.
10:56But it's my understanding that as the Israeli troops are pulling back, that Hamas is sending, you know,
11:04police officers, if you will, in uniform into those areas to sort of try to assert control.
11:10The whole idea is that Hamas is not supposed to be able to govern the Gaza Strip in the future, isn't it?
11:16I concur.
11:19However, there has to be some level of control and security in the region before or in Gaza,
11:27before the stabilization force arrives, as Israeli troops withdraw, or you'll have even more chaos.
11:34So to an extent that's understandable.
11:37It's a question whether or not they are Hamas.
11:39You can say that every part of what was Gaza was run by Hamas.
11:45But these are not Hamas fighters.
11:48These are the security apparatus and police that were there.
11:54But, you know, that's a slippery slope.
11:56The sooner that the International Stabilization Force can get there,
12:00and the sooner that there is some level of Palestinian control that's not Hamas is there in Gaza, the better.
12:07I want to play again Steve Witkoff, one of the president's envoys, talking about what brought us to this point.
12:15Listen.
12:17In the worst of times, he refused to accept the idea that peace in the Mideast was out of reach.
12:25He showed the world that strength and peace go hand in hand.
12:30They are not opposites.
12:32They are partners.
12:32So, as you say, the president carried a pretty big stick, really, with both sides in these negotiations.
12:41Oh, absolutely.
12:42And we've seen that historically.
12:44You know, Pax Romana, when the Roman Empire had peace for centuries.
12:51Pax Britannica.
12:52Now Pax Americana.
12:54Pax Romana, which, it goes hand in hand, strength and diplomacy, if you're going to really have peace.
13:01Yeah.
13:02If they can achieve it in the Middle East, maybe Ukraine is next.
13:07Get the Russian invasion over with.
13:10General...
13:10That would be great.
13:11Yeah, it would be.
13:13All right.
13:13Thank you, General.
13:14Thank you, John.
13:45with her loved ones surrounding her.
13:48No cause of death is given.
13:50She's survived by two children.
13:52We will continue to bring you updates as we get them.
13:57Meantime, the Northeast is bracing for some severe weather this weekend.
14:02We will have the latest on what's coming.
14:04Plus, a massive and deadly explosion in Tennessee.
14:08Madison Scarpino is live on the ground there.
14:10Madison.
14:10Yeah, John, we knew that 18 people were missing after yesterday's massive explosion here.
14:17And now, officials are confirming they did not find any survivors.
14:21I'll have all the latest next.
14:23Authorities in rural Tennessee, west of Nashville, say they have found no survivors of a huge explosion
14:29at a munitions factory west of Nashville yesterday.
14:3218 people had been listed as missing.
14:35Madison Scarpino, live in McEwen, Tennessee, with more on that.
14:39Madison.
14:41John, the local sheriff here says that they're presuming anyone who was inside of that building that exploded is now dead.
14:49They say that the families of these victims are obviously distraught over this.
14:54So now the priority is identifying remains.
14:59We are doing the DNA, but we're going to have to slow walk that because of the scene,
15:04the way that the scene is and as devastating as it is for any type of true confirmation.
15:09People felt yesterday morning's explosion from miles away.
15:15And some doorbell cameras like this one, even capturing the vibrations of the blast.
15:20And this is the result.
15:21The explosives manufacturing building that is now rubble.
15:25This all happening at Accurate Energetic Systems, which makes explosives for military
15:29and also demolition purposes.
15:31So the building was likely filled with bombs or ammo.
15:35Officials say the highly skilled ATF National Response Team is now on site.
15:40They'll be helping the several other federal and local agencies in this active investigation,
15:45which experts say will be very methodical and will likely take some time.
15:50But meanwhile, the surrounding communities are trying to make sense of all this.
15:54People in a nearby town gathering for a vigil last night, lighting candles, praying,
15:59and hoping for any signs of survivors, which we unfortunately now know is not the case.
16:05We've been doing a lot of prayer today.
16:09I think that's the only way that we can process it.
16:11I mean, there's, you know, the unthinkable happened.
16:15There are several more vigils planned for the days to come in surrounding communities here.
16:19And we are expecting yet another from the ATF this time later.
16:24At the time, this explosives company says it.
16:29Madison Scarpino there in Tennessee.
16:32Madison, thank you.
16:34Well, a powerful nor'easter is forecast to slam much of the East Coast this weekend,
16:41involving heavy rain, strong winds, and coastal flooding.
16:44Officials warn evacuations could be needed in some areas as high tides push water inland.
16:50Major travel delays also expected.
16:53Fox Weather's Robert Ray in Ocean City, Maryland, with more.
16:56Robert.
16:58Yeah, John, when you think of a nor'easter, you think of blizzard conditions, right?
17:02Well, that's not the case.
17:04But nonetheless, impacts all up and down the eastern seaboard.
17:08And here in Ocean City, Maryland, look at the video from this morning.
17:12A beautiful place with thousands of tourists still flocking to here as they do up and down these areas.
17:18So from Charleston, South Carolina, to the Outer Banks that have been really hit hard by these offshore hurricanes in the past month and a half,
17:27and homes falling into here along the Maryland-Delaware border, even up into New Jersey, Long Island, and New England.
17:35People need to be prepared for heavy winds.
17:37We're talking about wind gusts well above 50 miles per hour that we'll experience here in Maryland.
17:44That will begin tonight, somewhere around the stroke of midnight.
17:48And we're also going to see several inches of rain and the waves in the Atlantic.
17:52Well, anywhere between 10 to 20 foot swells and even more if you get a little further out.
17:57So what are they doing?
17:58They're shoring up the area.
17:59They've got a seawall here, permanent one.
18:02They've blocked off with this door here.
18:05They don't want people out there because of riptides and rip currents.
18:08And the boardwalk here that was very busy this morning, John, it's really subsided.
18:13People are beginning to take shelter in their hotels or get out of here and go over the inlet and start to get back home before these conditions deteriorate.
18:23It's all going to get very nasty tonight and then tomorrow and Monday in the northeast up in Long Island, New Jersey,
18:30and then make its way up into New England.
18:32And we're going to continue monitoring this.
18:34Fox weather has teams up and down the entire eastern seaboard and a Philly fan walking by.
18:40Too bad for what occurred the other night.
18:42Anyway, John, dangerous situation.
18:44Everyone should be very aware and keep tuned in to Fox News and Fox weather.
18:49Yeah, watching out for falling trees and tree branches, a big part of what's going to be coming ahead.
18:55Robert Ray.
18:56Robert, thanks.
18:57The Democrats, every single time, voted for them not to be paid, not to pay TSA agents.
19:06If your flight's canceled today, you can blame it on the Democrats.
19:10They are the ones that are making sure that air traffic controllers have shortages.
19:13We don't want planes falling out of the sky, for heaven's sake.
19:16They're making a mockery of this.
19:18And it is outrageous to us.
19:20That's House Speaker Mike Johnson blaming Democrats for flight disruptions at airports across the country this week.
19:27Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says half of the delays are because of short staffing caused by the partial government shutdown.
19:35Air traffic controllers and TSA screeners are considered, quote,
19:39essential employees now working without pay or getting reduced paychecks.
19:44Let's bring in Anthony Roman, a commercial-rated pilot and president of Roman & Associates.
19:51So a lot of these people are calling out sick even though they are supposed to go to work.
19:55Is that correct, Anthony?
19:57That is correct.
19:59Unfortunately, it's creating a lot of problems.
20:02First, it's illegal for them to call in sick if they are, in fact, not ill.
20:07Second, they're creating greater stress levels for the reduced number of controllers who are showing up for work,
20:15which affects the safety level in which they can operate.
20:203,000 or so flights were delayed this past week alone.
20:29470 canceled.
20:30That creates a greater stress level for the pilots in the cockpits that are delayed, waiting, or timed out.
20:39They get tired, a little frustrated.
20:42All of this combination creates a huge safety factor.
20:49I'm very, very concerned about it.
20:51I have to be honest with you.
20:52I've been in the air for 40 years, and it's the worst you can see.
20:58Sean Duffy is the Transportation Secretary.
20:59He is angry about what's going on.
21:02Listen.
21:05I can't have people not showing up for work.
21:08And I want to be clear.
21:0990, 95% of them are amazing, beautiful, wonderful American patriots that show up to work every day.
21:16Even though they may not get that paycheck on time, they show up.
21:19It's a small fraction of people who don't come to work that can create this massive disruption.
21:24And that's what you're seeing rippling through our skies today.
21:27I think we saw in the Washington, D.C. midair crash that the control tower there was understaffed.
21:34That was before the government shutdown.
21:37So if you've got understaffed control towers now because people are calling out sick, all kinds of chaos could ensue.
21:44Without question.
21:47In addition to the controllers who aren't showing up, there's about a 3,000 air traffic controller shortage as a result of the layoffs during the pandemic.
21:59It takes years for them to become retrained or for new candidates to come on board and work.
22:09And I have to be honest with you.
22:12This problem is going to continue for numerous years if we can't get a handle on it.
22:19In addition to which, the computer systems used by the current air traffic controllers are a bit old-fashioned and need to be upgraded.
22:28When you fly as a pilot through JFK, John F. Kennedy Airport, or Atlanta, or Chicago, Houston, Dallas, some of the major cities, they sound like auctioneers they're speaking so fast.
22:45And you can sense the stress level they're suffering and the stress level caused to the pilots who have to respond quickly and react appropriately to their instructions.
22:57This is just bad news all the way around.
22:59Nick Daniels is president of the Air Traffic Controllers Association.
23:04He says that this current situation is exacerbating an already bad one.
23:09Listen.
23:09What you're getting a front-row seat of is how short-staffed we are and how much of a difference one or two people can make on a daily basis.
23:18These delays and these issues happened before in hundreds of facilities, hundreds of times, and now you're getting the front-row seat to what we deal with day in and day out.
23:28Do you think there will be motivation in Congress to fix the shortage of air traffic controllers at least once we get this government up and running again?
23:36They're already trying, and it's not working out well.
23:42There's about a 35% dropout or failure rate for the three-month training period for air traffic controllers.
23:52And then they undergo an apprentice period, actually, in the towers or in the radar rooms underground.
24:00It's just this is not going to be solved quickly, in addition to which there's a pilot shortage, and there are additional training that's being done that's done on an accelerated basis.
24:17Whether or not that's going to work well with regard to the safety factor, big question mark in my mind.
24:24Anthony Roman, Roman and Associates, we appreciate your time today.
24:28Thanks.
24:28Thank you, John.
24:30Well, Democrats are still standing by Virginia Attorney General Candidate Jay Jones.
24:36Despite his texting scandal, the impact this could have on the governor's race in the Commonwealth.
24:43And both candidates in the New Jersey governor's race out campaigning today.
24:47The latest on this very tight race in the deep blue Garden State.
24:52Next.
24:53Last night in Mississippi, at least four people are dead in a mass shooting after a homecoming football game.
24:59It happened in the small town of Leland, about 110 miles north of Jackson.
25:04Police say people had gathered in the downtown area after the game, and that's when gunfire broke out.
25:09Sixteen other people were hurt.
25:11No arrests have been made.
25:12No suspects identified yet.
25:14The FBI is assisting local police, and they're also asking the public to help with that investigation.
25:20The FBI currently has brought agents in to assist in the canvassing, the interviewing, the evidence review, both video and physical evidence review.
25:30We ask the public to recognize that they have a role in this investigation.
25:37You will have seen something.
25:39You may have heard something or know someone who did.
25:42We ask you to share that information.
25:46Speak up.
25:47Share.
25:47Give us that opportunity to get these subjects off the street and bring peace and tranquility to the community.
25:53That FBI tip line is open.
25:56The number 1-800-CALL-FBI.
26:02Well, during Thursday's debate, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger was repeatedly asked about her support for the attorney general candidate on the Democrat side, Jay Jones.
26:14This, after texts showed Jones fantasizing about shooting Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert.
26:22Spanberger did condemn the violent language, but didn't clearly say whether she still supports Jones.
26:28Here's the clip.
26:29Watch.
26:30The comments that Jay Jones made are absolutely abhorrent.
26:35I denounce them when I learned of them, and I will denounce them every opportunity I get.
26:41Will you continue to endorse Jay Jones to be the next attorney general of Virginia?
26:46The voters now have the information, and it is up to voters to make an individual choice based on this information.
26:53Ms. Spanberger, I understand what you're saying about the voters, but for you yourself, do you still continue to endorse Jay Jones?
27:0015 seconds.
27:01Yes or no?
27:02We are all running our individual races.
27:04We just want to clarify, you know, what you're saying is that, as of now, you still endorse Jay Jones as attorney general.
27:12I'm saying, as of now, it's up to every voter to make their own individual decision.
27:17Let's bring in former Virginia Congressman David Bratt.
27:21You know, leadership, it seems to me, is about making tough calls when the situation demands it.
27:27She didn't want to make a call there.
27:29Yeah, no, that's right.
27:32There's nothing new here.
27:33She, of course, beat me eight years ago.
27:36She had people in the front row of the church lobbing F-bombs at the pastor while he was praying, hundreds of people in pink hat radicals.
27:44There's nothing new here.
27:45Her staff attacked my home and my family when my daughter was home alone.
27:50They denied it all until we had it on camera, and then they fessed up to it.
27:53And so it's a long story.
27:55The question is, you know, when she says things are repulsive, does the soundbites, whatever, what ethics does she share, right?
28:00What is her moral backbone?
28:02Like you just said, leadership matters.
28:04It's not good enough.
28:06This is going to be the chief law enforcement of Virginia who's saying two bullets for you, the speaker, and then one for your wife and one for your kids.
28:15And it was repeated, and it was a back-and-forth exchange.
28:18It was not a comedy moment.
28:19Every politician gets a little break, right, for a comedy moment.
28:23But the problem is this is the permanent revolution.
28:25The folks know what's going on here, right?
28:27She's not only not spoken on this, she hasn't spoken on the border invasion, 20 million illegal immigrants.
28:33She said she's going to put reverse Youngkin's thing so that local and state law enforcement can't work with ICE.
28:41ICE is Article II under the president of the United States.
28:44You don't get to do that.
28:45She said nothing about $37 trillion in debt.
28:48She says nothing about China.
28:50This is as a congresswoman, right?
28:52And she says nothing about the forever wars.
28:54She was in the CIA.
28:56There's a CIA agent out there, Sam Faddis, put out a report about her CIA.
29:01I wish I would have known about her CIA background.
29:05No one knew anything.
29:06I didn't want to question, you know, service to the country, but I wish I would have.
29:09There's a lot of stuff we don't know about Abigail Spanberger running for governor.
29:13All political views are my own, but this is just the left, right?
29:16They're at war with us in Chicago.
29:18They're at war with us in Oregon.
29:19It's a permanent revolution.
29:21What do they stand for?
29:23What does she want to build up?
29:25I think the only thing she's run on is like rural broadband or something like that.
29:28That hasn't happened.
29:29They say education.
29:30That sounds nice.
29:31Chicago literacy for third graders is 12%.
29:34This is on the record, right?
29:37And so we have wars going on.
29:38She's been silent on all the critical issues that Americans want to know about.
29:43I think she's in trouble here.
29:44And the main thing here is look at Charlie Kirk on the conservative side.
29:50Assassination and no violence from the right, right?
29:53Us fascists, right?
29:55They're calling us fascists.
29:56I'm a Presbyterian, Adam Smith, James Madison guy.
30:00And they call you a radical if you won't go along with the deep state, the administrative
30:04state and all this.
30:06And so I think times are changing because the young people are seeing all this on social
30:10media.
30:11And thanks to you guys for covering this.
30:13This is huge.
30:13It was very hard running as a congress member when the Richmond Times dispatch coordinated
30:18with the Washington Post, New York Times and all that.
30:20That's all.
30:21It's all documented.
30:22But now finally, people are paying attention.
30:26Her opponent, Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earl Sears, took her on and asked her about,
30:31you know, the endorsement of the attorney general candidate.
30:34Here's how that went.
30:35Yeah.
30:36Jay Jones advocated the murder, Abigail, the murder of a man, a former speaker, as well as
30:45his children who were two years, two and five years old.
30:48You have little girls.
30:50What would it take him pulling the trigger?
30:52Is that what would do it?
30:54And then you would say he needs to get out of the race, Abigail.
30:58You have nothing to say, Abigail.
31:03She wouldn't even look at her.
31:05What do you think?
31:07I think the smirk at the end is all you need to see.
31:11That little smirk at the end tells you the attitude, the conscience, the moral voice.
31:17It's just missing.
31:18Sears, she has called it out.
31:21She's just a morally decent person, served the country and the Marines and all this.
31:26And she called it out right there for everyone to see.
31:29And the silence is not good.
31:32That's what Spanberger is known for, crickets on public policy, on leadership, on the key
31:38issues of our day.
31:39And as I said, this goes way back eight years, but it's finally getting the attention it deserves.
31:47And I haven't even brought up the lieutenant governor is every bit more radical than Spanberger.
31:54So they got the AG, the lieutenant governor.
31:56The governor ran against me and announced her thing in the Atlantic, right?
32:03The Atlanticist, probably affiliated with other left-wing stuff.
32:09She announced her candidacy with Tim Kaine, Washington Post, New York Times.
32:12And so the American people are figuring it out.
32:14Thanks for covering all this.
32:16I would just say the Washington Post even requested responses from 100 Democrats running
32:22for the state assembly there in Virginia.
32:25Some flatly declined to speak.
32:27They say one of the 100 said Jones should end his campaign.
32:31A handful openly defended him.
32:34Dave Bratt.
32:36We have to leave it there.
32:37Thank you, Dave.
32:38Hey, thanks for covering the story.
32:40Great job.
32:40Well, polls show the race to be New Jersey's next governor are getting very tight in the
32:48blue state that's had only one Republican governor in 24 years.
32:51Now, GOP candidate Jack Cittarelli says he will sue his opponent, Democrat Mikey Sherrill,
32:57for defamation with Election Day just three weeks away.
33:01C.B. Cotton is live in New York City with the latest on that race.
33:04C.B.
33:04Hey, John.
33:05Well, days after a fiery final debate in New Jersey's governor's race,
33:09both candidates are out on the campaign trail this weekend, making several stops as they
33:13vie for the state's top office.
33:16As the race winds down, attacks between Democratic Congresswoman Mikey Sherrill and Republican
33:20candidate Jack Cittarelli have grown increasingly bitter and personal.
33:25But each candidate also appears to be doubling down on the strategies they've used since the
33:30beginning.
33:31For Sherrill, that seems to be tying Cittarelli to President Donald Trump in a state that's
33:36typically a Democratic stronghold.
33:38Some Democratic strategists say Sherrill has focused too much on the president.
33:42Still, she seems committed to that game plan.
33:45Here she is just today on the trail.
33:49I got to tell you, at every level, we see my opponent, Jack Cittarelli, who says he's going
33:55to do everything Trump wants him to do.
33:57Well, Cittarelli has got President Trump's endorsement, and for the most part, he has
34:02not shied away from that.
34:03In fact, he needs Trump supporters in deep red counties along the Jersey Shore to turn
34:09out and help him flip New Jersey red for the first time since 2013.
34:14Last night, he campaigned in Wildwood, New Jersey, calling it his largest rally yet.
34:20GOP strategists are hoping Cittarelli can ride the momentum created by President Trump
34:25last year.
34:26Trump also touted Wildwood, New Jersey, as his largest campaign stop.
34:30As affordability and utility costs remain among the top concerns for New Jersey voters,
34:35Cittarelli's consistent game plan, well, is to tie Sherrill to the outgoing governor,
34:40Phil Murphy, and his Democratic policies.
34:44Nobody wants four more years of Phil Murphy.
34:47Nobody wants Murphy 2.0.
34:49If all this seems to be tame, well, the blistering attacks happened during the final debate this
34:56past Wednesday when Democratic Congresswoman Mikey Sherrill accused Republican candidate
35:01Jack Cittarelli of killing millions of New Jerseyans when he owned a medical publishing company
35:06that she says printed propaganda downplaying the impact of opioids.
35:11Cittarelli fired back on stage, calling it a lie.
35:14And now, as you mentioned, John, his campaign says it plans to sue for defamation this coming
35:20week.
35:20According to a Fox News poll, Cittarelli is trailing Democratic, is trailing Sherrill by
35:25eight points, but some Republicans actually think the race is much closer.
35:28Back to you.
35:29The polls have been wrong before, as we've seen.
35:33CB Cotton.
35:34Thank you, CB.
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