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Trump hits San Antonio, the FBI says it stopped an ISIS-inspired Mall of America plot, and a former CIA official admits a gold-bar scheme. Damon Roberts, Rick Delgado, Rick Ammirati, and Paul Nolan break it down live from Studio 6B. MIDTERMS President Trump rallies at Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio with Senate nominee Ken Paxton. It is his third Texas trip in a month. Recent polls show Democrat James Talarico ahead in a race Republicans expected to hold. The FBI says it arrested Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, of Richfield, Minnesota, after an undercover sale of an inert AK-47, magazines, and ammunition. Prosecutors say he planned a mass shooting at the Mall of America around an Oct. 24 event and expressed support for ISIS. Former CIA official David Rush pleaded guilty to wire fraud and agreed to forfeit at least $194 million. Agents found about 298 gold bars at his home. The plea also covers Florida properties, luxury watches, and vehicles. From the Acropolis, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Europe the West is at an inflection point. He urged allies to defend Western values, reject managed decline, and strengthen the alliance with the United States. New York is skipping its planned 2027 minimum-wage increase. A job-count drop from January to July tripped a statutory off-ramp. The rate stays $17 downstate and $16 in the rest of the state. Scores, headlines, and what else is moving tonight. Question for the chat: Does Trump's San Antonio rally move the needle for Ken Paxton, or is Texas already slipping?

LIVE FROM STUDIO 6B with Damon Roberts, Rick Delgado, Rick Ammirati, and Vin Butta. Guest: Nate Dressel, founder and operator of Frontier Coffee. The drive-by media is selling a Blue Wave for the midterms. Not so fast. Damon breaks down the battleground math with one month to go. A new Harvard-Harris survey finds broad, cross-party support for photo ID and proof of citizenship to vote — 82% and 79% overall — as the SAVE America Act fight continues. President Trump approved Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's recommendation: convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan to face a U.S. Army firing squad. If carried out, it would be the first military execution since 1961. Officials are still seeking answers after a worker at Siberia's Irkutsk anti-plague institute died of pneumonia of unknown origin. Contacts were quarantined. Rubio says Moscow must share more. The threat to the U.S. remains unclear. About 3,100 Maricopa County ballots went out six days early after a Runbeck vendor error. The county says the ballots are valid and any early returns stay sealed until processing starts. Trump called the county dishonest. On video, a James Talarico field organizer says most of her coworkers are Marxists and calls the Democrat nominee "the vehicle" for their policies in the race against Ken Paxton. Nate Dressel of Frontier Coffee joins the desk. Should Nidal Hasan face a firing squad — and is the Blue Wave real, or media spin?

LIVE FROM STUDIO 6B with Damon Roberts, Rick Delgado, Rick Ammirati, and Paul Nolan. AFFORDABILITY AND THE MIDTERMS Damon's First Word: Democrats are the last people in America who ought to be lecturing anybody about high prices. Taxes, grocery bills, and who voters blame heading into November. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says a suspected infection at a Russian anti-plague lab could "quickly spread" if it gets out. A lab worker in Siberia died after a reported exposure. Russia has put contacts under observation. Rubio says it is not cause for alarm, but it is cause for focus. Washington is watching. U.S. B-1 bombers have been pulled from RAF Fairford back to American bases after fresh threat warnings tied to an alleged Iran-backed plot. JD Vance called the move an abundance of caution. Downing Street says the base is safe. Harry Enten's read: since 2016, Republicans have beaten September polls in Iowa, Ohio, and Michigan, often by 5 points or more, including in the 2018 midterms. Democrats are ahead or close in some of those Senate races. The leads are smaller than the old miss. Runbeck mailed about 3,100 Maricopa County ballots on Oct. 1, six days before the Oct. 7 start. Recorder Justin Heap says the ballots are valid and went to the right voters. President Trump called Maricopa dishonest and rejected the "error" explanation. Trump is rallying in Grand Island for Sen. Pete Ricketts and Gov. Jim Pillen, a month out from Nov. 3. Ricketts faces independent Dan Osborn. Ranchers are also pushing back on beef imports. Oddsmakers, lines, and what the numbers say heading into the week. Question for the audience: Is Rubio right to treat the Russia lab death as a focus, not an alarm, or is Washington underplaying it?

Storms grounded the helicopter and the plane, so President Trump refused to cancel and rode from a Peterbilt rally in Denton, Texas, to Durant, Oklahoma. A press van in the motorcade hit 98 mph. Trump said The Beast was going faster than it ever has. He arrived about two hours late and stayed on the midterm trail. An Omani flydubai co-pilot stabbed the captain on a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight. The jet dropped more than 17,000 feet before passengers and crew stopped him. Netanyahu says the attacker underwent Islamist radical indoctrination and was likely trying to down the plane. Israel is pushing for extradition. The suspect is in UAE custody. Unsealed documents show Cornell ran 50-plus interviews after a former student said she was drugged with ketamine and gang-raped at the Chi Phi house in October 2024. Gov. Hochul named Letitia James special prosecutor. The county DA has reopened the case for a grand jury. Treasury says automatic enrollment is done. More than 60 million eligible children now have a Trump Account. Parents still have to claim it. The $1,000 seed requires a claim. Trump speaks at the Mitchell Center at the University of South Alabama. Doors opened at 2 p.m. CT. Program at 6 p.m. CT. Tommy Tuberville introduces him. Midterms are 32 days out. Oddsmakers, weekend boards, and what the books are watching. QUESTION: Should Trump have taken The Beast at nearly 100 mph, or should the Oklahoma stop have been scrubbed?

Hope is what happens when policy finally lines up with common sense. Tonight Damon Roberts opens with Bruce Blakeman's New York tax plan: wipe out state income tax on the first $50,000 for singles and $100,000 for couples, cut middle-bracket rates, and argue affordability is the fight that decides November. Blakeman is selling the largest income-tax cut in state history while Hochul's camp calls the math unfinished. Damon's First Word: relief people can feel, or a campaign promise that still needs a funding map? Israel says a bloody cockpit fight on a FlyDubai flight from the UAE to Tel Aviv was a thwarted hijacking. One pilot stabbed another, the jet plunged thousands of feet, Israeli jets scrambled, passengers and crew retook the cockpit, and the plane diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Netanyahu says the attacker tried to crash a plane full of Israelis. CENTCOM says the last U.S. troops completed an "orderly departure" from Erbil, ending the Iraq chapter of the anti-ISIS mission. Baghdad calls it sovereignty. Washington says Iraqi forces now own the threat—and Iran-aligned militias are watching. Senate Democrats blocked a House-passed bill to limit lawmakers' stock trades after Republicans attached a voter-ID provision. 53–47. Short of 60. Dems call the trading rules toothless and the ID language a poison pill. GOP says both are what voters already want. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announces a deeper cut to general and admiral billets—doubling last year's target to 20% by January. He calls it accountability. Critics call it a purge in the middle of a shooting war. Plus sports and the rest of the board with Damon Roberts, Rick Delgado, Rick Ammirati, and Paul Nolan. Would you take Blakeman's tax cut as written, or do you want the pay-for spelled out first? Drop it in the comments.

Damon opens with a First Word on the stretch run to November: do not go quiet. House and Senate maps are tightening, turnout is the whole game, and Studio 6B is not treating this like a spectator sport. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says a "foreign actor" was clearly involved in the weekend incident near RAF Fairford, the UK base used by U.S. bombers. Five British men were arrested, then released on bail. Police found no explosives in the vans. Iran denies any role. Rubio and President Trump both called it serious and unfinished. Former special counsel Jack Smith sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee and defended the Trump probes. Republicans hammered phone-record subpoenas, alleged partisanship, and even a disputed basketball-game timeline. Smith said he would bring the same cases against any president on the same facts. Lindsay Clancy holdout juror Michael P. Desronvil is out in a new video after the mistrial. He says the focus should be on the three children, not him, and that he never had the doubt other jurors described. Nicki Minaj lays out why she lost faith in Democrats: ignored after swatting incidents, industry pressure to stay quiet, and a party she says got captured by pop-culture pettiness. She is telling fans the midterms are the test. Scores, studio chaos, and whatever breaks before 10. Hosts: Damon Roberts, Rick Delgado, Rick Ammirati, Vin Butta, and Beni Rae Harmony. Is November already decided, or does turnout still flip the board? Drop it in the comments.

Gas is still running hot near $4.48 a gallon while crude sits around $105 Brent. Before pinning it all on one man, follow the barrel: Strait of Hormuz disruption, Iran war supply shock, diesel records, and refining math—not just Oval Office talking points. Five UK nationals arrested near RAF Fairford (a U.S.-used bomber base) after suspicious vans were spotted have been released on bail under tight conditions. Police are still probing possible foreign-state proxies. Iran denies any role. Trump says he would not have let them walk. The Supreme Court stayed a lower-court block and cleared a modified DHS SAVE system so states can run citizenship checks against federal records. Mass purges are limited by the 90-day federal quiet period before the Nov. 3 midterms; individualized checks can proceed. Feds also face tighter scrutiny of election machines. Trump announced Mesabi Metallics' plan for a roughly $15 billion steel mill in southeast Iowa—touted as the largest in U.S. history—fed by Minnesota iron ore, aiming at 7.5–10 million tons a year, thousands of construction jobs, and about 1,750 permanent Iowa jobs, with production targeted around 2030. Tonight's Guest Don Neuen drops in with an update on his new Real America's Music release. Hosts: Damon Roberts, Rick Delgado, Rick Ammirati, and Paul Nolan. Would you rather see citizenship checks tightened before November—or keep the current system and risk the mismatches both sides already fight over?

Tonight on Live From Studio 6B with Damon Roberts, Rick Ammirati, and Vin Butta. The Supreme Court just cleared Trump officials to use an expanded immigration database for voter citizenship checks ahead of the midterms. Jack Smith is slated to sit before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week as Republicans press oversight of his Trump probes. Ben Bergquam on his new book Step Into Fear—addiction, recovery, faith, and reporting from cartel country and the Darién Gap. Don Neuen on the new RAM track I Married A Liberal. Netanyahu walked into a walkout at the UN and delivered a defiant speech that supporters are calling a win: no genocide, Iran in the crosshairs, and a direct shot at critics in the hall. Want fewer RINOs? The argument for handing GOP conventions more real power over candidates and platform. Sports, oddsmakers, and whatever else blows up before 10. Would you let states run voter rolls against a federal citizenship database—or is that a purge waiting to happen?

The American Dream isn't dead. It was priced out of reach by people who never wanted it common. Damon opens on who locked the door and why. Trump banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. A judge ordered them back. Chaos hit as Xi arrived: outlets still blocked at first, then a noon scramble. TV pool stayed dark. The U-turn was messy and public. Trump's citizenship-list and mail-ballot executive order has election officials on edge. Lists, prosecutions, and funding threats are colliding with midterms. Courts have already blocked pieces. At the UN, Netanyahu went straight at NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani: antisemitism charge, "Jews no longer feel safe," Hamas associations, and a reversal of the genocide claim. Mamdani fired back. Tables turned on camera. Lines, lock-of-the-night talk, and the usual Studio 6B chaos with Rick and Vin. Hosts: Damon Roberts, Rick Ammirati, Vin Butta. Was the media ban a First Amendment fight or payback that blew up at the worst possible time? Drop it in the comments. #LiveFromStudio6B #RealAmericasVoice #Trump #Netanyahu #Mamdani #WhiteHouse #ElectionIntegrity #AmericanDream Live From Studio 6B is heating up with explosive headlines and unfiltered truth! Hosts Damon Roberts, Rick Delgado, Kevin Downey Jr., and Vin Butta dive deep into the biggest stories shaking America tonight. Watch Damon Roberts and the gang cover news, politics, sports, and everything in between, weeknights from 8:00-10:00 PM EST.

Damon Roberts opens on President Trump's UNGA address: America is back, will not ask permission, and will not shrink from threats. The UN crowd that prefers managed decline just got a lecture on sovereignty. Trump is heading to Knoxville for the No. 1 Texas vs. No. 14 Tennessee SEC showdown at Neyland Stadium. College GameDay is already on site. Midterms are six weeks out. This is not just football. DOJ criminal lawyers charge aliens for illegal registration and voting. At the same time, DOJ's Civil Division tells a court that states cannot verify citizenship on the rolls. Trump's election-integrity fight just got knifed from inside the building. Sunny Hostin brags she was the holdout juror who kept Daniel Rakowitz — the "Butcher of Tompkins Square Park" — from prison by pushing an insanity verdict. She describes dismemberment, boiling, and feeding remains to the homeless. Then she says that's how much she believes the defense. SEC chaos, midterm heat, and the rest of the night with Damon Roberts, Rick Ammirati, Paul Nolan, and Kevin Downey Jr. Should a Justice Department that prosecutes illegal voting also argue that states cannot check who is a citizen?