Trump calls for death penalty for anyone who kills a cop as he visits Michigan in latest campaign stop: Live

During his appearance on Fox & Friends this morning, Donald Trump claimed that “a couple of people from Fox” helped him write jokes for his speech at the Al Smith charity dinner on Thursday night.

Fox News says none of its employees helped the former president:

“Joy” was a word used to characterize the early days of the Harris campaign. In Michigan today, NBC’s Peter Alexander asked Kamala Harris if perhaps that had dissipated.

PETER ALEXANDER: At the convention, you cast yourself as a joyful warrior, but in recent rallies, you've increasingly attacked over President Trump is an unstable and unhinged is closing is that an effective closing argument?

KAMALA HARRIS: I think that one is not to the exclusion of the other. I have a great deal of optimism, as do the people who are here about the future of our country. I think that's one of the things that is building the momentum that we have. People really do believe in what is the promise of America and our responsibility to fight for it, that is not in conflict, but also being clear eyed about the danger that Donald Trump poses based on the language that he has used and his admiration for dictators, his inability to really focus on the needs of the American people, in particular working people, he says, they not in conflict. They all exist at the same time.

PA: The critics who say the joy is gone, you respond:

KH: Oh, I’m having a great time.

Fans of the college football team the Texas Longhorns have started a petition to ban Ted Cruz from games, fearing the Republican senator’s attendance will curse their chances of victory.

The online petition states that the US senator is “just plain bad luck” and claims his “downright sinister energy” kept the Longhorns from making it to the NCAA football championship previously.

“That’s a risk we cannot take again,” the change.org petition states.

Mike Bedigan has the story.

In a brief stand-up interview on the sidelines of her rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this afternoon Peter Alexander of NBC News asked Kamala Harris about carving her own path outside of the Biden administration of which she has been part for more than three and a half years.

Here’s the exchange:

PETER ALEXANDER: Let me ask you if I can, Biden this week, President Biden said this week that every President has to cut their own path. What is one policy that you would have done differently over these last three and a half years than President Biden?

KAMALA HARRIS: I mean to be very candid with you, you, including Mike Pence, vice presidents are not critical of their presidents. I think that really, actually, in terms of the tradition of it, and also just going forward, it does not make for a productive and important relationship.

PA: He's now giving you that green light with his comments, that you can carve your own path. So now that you have this ability to say that --

KH: Going forward, there is no question that I bring my own experiences and my own life experiences.

PA: Is there a policy that stands out to you in particular?

KH: I mean, my approach to what we need to do around Medicare covering home health care, worn out of my experience of taking care of my mother, my priority on housing one because I know what it means, affordable housing, the ability to buy a home again. My own experience, my mother saved up. Not until I was a teenager was she able to do it. But also, I know that for so many young people who I speak with around our country, the American Dream, Dream is just really out of reach. So my policy about $25,000 down payment assistance to help them get their foot in the door, the work that I have been doing and will bring to the presidency around emphasizing small businesses as being part of the real backbone of America's economy. Those are the experiences and the ideas that I have that are about moving forward and really being a part of the next generation of leadership in America.

Donald Trump charged Secret Service agents protecting him while he was president “far more” than other hotel guests, a new report by House Democrats claims.

Democrats in the House Oversight Committee investigating how Trump benefited from his time in the White House assessed guest logs from the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC during an 11-month period from September 2017 through August 2018.

The report, released on Friday, says that the hotel at times charged the agency more than 300 per cent or more than the authorized government rate.

Kelly Rissman reports.

Donald Trump‘s team is pushing back against a claim that he is canceling scheduled interviews because he is “exhausted.”

Trump was reportedly scheduled to appear on The Shade Report for a sit-down interview, but that meeting never materialized. Politico’s Playbook reports that a senior Trump adviser allegedly told a producer that the former president is “exhausted and refusing interviews.”

Graig Graziosi reports.

Fox News host Bret Baier has said he made a “mistake” during his interview with Vice President Kamala Harris this week by showing the incorrect clip of Donald Trump speaking about “the enemy from within”.

At the bottom of his show Special Report, on Thursday, Baier explained to viewers that a particularly heated moment between him and the vice president arose after a clip was played of Trump defending himself for denigrating leftist Americans during a town hall.

“I made a mistake and I want to say that I did make a mistake,” Baier told viewers.

Gretchen Carlson isn’t impressed by his explanation as Ariana Baio reports.

Alex Woodward reports:

The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s election interference case in Washington, DC unsealed nearly 2,000 heavily redacted pages of evidence submitted by the special counsel’s office, with only handfuls of readable pages across four massive filings that trace the history of the former president’s election denialism.

The filings published on Friday included transcripts of Trump’s remarks, social media posts, interviews from the House select committee that investigated the January 6 attack, campaign emails, the so-called “coup memo” outlining the legally dubious attempt to reject the electoral college certification, and excerpts from Mike Pence’s book and his statement refusing to reject election results.

Trump called Judge Tanya Chutkan “the most evil person” and labeled special counsel Jack Smith a “sick puppy” as he lashed out at the criminal case against him during a podcast on Friday.

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A former NBC executive has apologized to Americans for creating a “monster” in Donald Trump via the hit show The Apprentice.

“I want to apologize to America. I helped create a monster,” John D. Miller penned in an op-ed for US & News and World Report.

Miller spent 25 years running marketing for NBC and NBCUniversal and promoted the reality show that pushed Trump into superstardom.

Alex Lang has the story.