NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Oct. 20)

Welcome to NTD Evening News. Our top story tonight, the White House is offering cash rewards to whistleblowers who expose fraud. President Trump and Vice President Vance launching a new incentive program from the Oval Office. Whistleblowers could get 1% of the taxpayer money recovered through fraud tips. And the Social Security Administration conducts its most comprehensive database cleanup in history, updating tens of millions of files. What they're updating and how it contributes to crackdown on fraud. After four years, a Guatemalan man responsible for the smuggling deaths of 53 of his own countrymen gets a 30-year sentence, Marlene Richards reports. French officials want the military to replace police officers to combat nationwide riots and violence. Erin Pazdar reports how France is preparing for yet another weekend of unrest. And as early voting begins across the country, some counties are seeing record-breaking voter turnout nationwide, over 10 million ballots already cast. Fiona Gha has the midterm update. This is NTD Evening News, live from our global headquarters in New York City. Here's Carrie Dunst. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. The White House is taking a new approach to tackling government waste, paying Americans for exposing fraud. NTD's Washington correspondent Jack Bradley now joins us live. Jack, what's the president announcing today? Well, Carrie, the Trump administration is offering cash rewards for tips that expose taxpayer fraud. Now, President Trump and Vice President Vance from the Oval Office today announcing what's being called the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program. It will allow those who uncover fraud and report it to the Justice Department to receive 1% of the amount of the taxpayer money that's been recovered. Take a look. If anybody turns anybody in a billion dollars, $5 billion, $100 billion, you get a 1% commission. So since I came into office, we've already uncovered $260 billion of fraud. Tax dollars are being stolen from programs that help feed the needy, that help ensure that a young mom who can't afford a doctor can get access to a doctor for her kids. People were getting bribed, moms were getting bribed $1,500 a kid to lie that their child had autism. And Dr. Oz there, the CMS administrator, also announcing from the Oval Office that they're now withholding $1.2 billion in federal Medicaid funding to California over what he calls the impossible growth in spending on personal care services. Take a look. The growth of personal care services in California, just that one little area where you're paying someone to carry groceries upstairs for your mom. California has been growing that program 24% in the last three years. That is twice the rate of every other state average in the country. Impossible. Independent journalist Nick Shirley was also present at the White House. Being given a cash reward for his work exposing fraud in Minnesota, Shirley went viral last year after publishing this video, among several others, exposing alleged fraud at Somali-run daycare centers. White House officials say that his reporting led to a number of new federal investigations and cases, including the guilty plea of the CEO of the Future Leaders Early Learning Center. Take a look. When I expose fraud, instead of the mainstream media investigating the fraud, they investigated me. These fraudsters take from the poor and needy who actually need the services that we all work hard to pay for, and we take that, and they then buy Mercedes. They then send that money overseas. Americans with information about fraudsters can send tips for a potential reward to fraud.gov. All right, Jack, and President Trump also weighing in on the war in Ukraine. He's saying that the ball is in Zelensky's court. What's the president saying about a potential deal, and why does he believe Ukraine may be running out of time? That's right, Carrie. President Trump says ending the war now comes down to whether Ukrainian President Zelensky is willing to make a deal. Trump's warning that the longer Zelensky holds out, the less favorable the terms could become for Ukraine. Here he is. We want Zelensky to make a deal. He can make a deal. He could have made a deal two years ago when we had our little chat in the Oval Office. He could have made a much better deal then, probably, possibly, that he can make now. But he's going to have to want to make a deal because I don't think his people are going to stand for it any longer. Now, this comes after repeated attempts for President Trump to get both Ukrainian President Zelensky and Russia's Putin to stop striking each other's energy infrastructure. Repeated attempts that have not gone well, at least on the Ukrainian side. President Trump is set to speak in Greenville, North Carolina tonight, part of his midterm campaign blitz. He's announcing today also that he'll spend $400 million for the midterms, which are now less than two weeks away. All right. Thank you, Jack. And the Social Security Administration says it has corrected tens of millions of its files in its database cleanup. This comes as part of the Trump administration's effort to prevent fraud in the benefits program. The SSA has added 17 million dates of death to records that previously lacked this information. It has also updated around 25 million records that previously had missing citizenship information. After receiving data from DHS, combined, those changes mean that the agency has corrected records for nearly 15 percent of all active Social Security numbers. Now, the SSA says this is the most comprehensive cleanup in its 91-year history. The agency is currently in the process of correcting an additional 8.5 million records that have inaccurate citizenship status. SSA Commissioner Frank Vizzignano commenting, quote, accurate Social Security and records or SSN records, prevent fraud across federal programs, and support the proper administration of benefits that the SSA has undertaken in an effort of this scale. And an alien smuggler sentenced in Texas. Federal Guatemalan officials have said that joining today at a press conference minutes after a Guatemalan man was sentenced for his involvement in the 2022 mass casualty smuggling event that happened in San Antonio, Arlene Richards has more U.S. and Guatemalan officials gathering on Tuesday to announce the sentencing of a human smuggler we're here today to announce the 360 month sentence ordered today by Judge Garcia against Rigoberto Miranda Orozco, Miranda Orozco was part of the alien smuggling organization that was responsible for the deaths of 53 illegal aliens in San Antonio back in June 22 aliens who died in the back of a tractor trailer in the sweltering Texas heat in June of 2022 law enforcement was called out to what appeared to be an abandoned trailer on the west side of San Antonio but what they found were the remains of 53 illegal aliens Simmons says the extreme heat lack of air conditioning and proper ventilation led to them basically cooking to death. Of the 53 who died, 32 were from Mexico and Honduras, 21 were Guatemalans. Rigoberto Miranda Orozco was extradited from Guatemala to the United States in 2022. He confessed to working with other human smugglers to transport four illegal immigrants from Guatemala to the United States. The evidence in this case showed that each alien that died in this case, and even the ones that didn't die, paid $12,000 to $15,000 apiece to come across. If you do the math, millions of aliens enter in the United States over that four-year period equals billions of dollars to the cartels. He says the cartels use the money to terrorize their countrymen, but they also use it to move thousands of kilos of dangerous drugs into the United States, including deadly drugs like fentanyl. He cautioned others to think twice before paying to come to the U.S. Don't trust your life to these people because they simply do not care about your life. They do not care about your hopes and dreams. They only care about your money. At the sentencing hearing this morning, the judge really focused in on the fact that right after this event occurred in June of 22, within a couple weeks, this defendant was already setting up trips for other aliens. Simmons thanked the Guatemalan Attorney General who attended the conference for partnering with them to bring Miranda Orozco to justice, as well as President Trump and U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche for their leadership in essentially shutting down the border. Arlene Richards, NTD News. French officials want the military to replace police officers to combat nationwide riots and violence. This as the country is preparing for yet another weekend of unrest. NTD's international correspondent, Aaron Pasdar, has the latest. French police is seen enforcing a nightly curfew in cities across the country. The measure applies to three categories of people. Unaccompanied minors, people using personal protective equipment and those concealing their faces. This move comes after violence took control of multiple French cities over the weekend. French officials are already preparing for another weekend of unrest, with the interior minister now proposing to replace police officers. We will deploy military forces, obviously, in order to free up police officers to carry out public order duties. The Prime Minister wants to deploy the military sentinel soldiers, which act as a deterrent and a first line of defense. They're sometimes used in times of civil unrest. Police arrested over 2,000 rioters over the weekend. Hundreds of them appeared before court on Tuesday. In Paris alone, four courtrooms and a courthouse were being used for hearings linked to the riots. President Trump blames illegal immigration for the chaos in France. President, France has free healthcare, free childcare, a 35-hour work week and five weeks paid vacation. Despite all that, people are looting and burning down parts of their cities. Do you think spending a little more on education is going to stop this? No, it's not about education. It's about immigration. about illegal people coming in who basically hate France, they hate the people, they hate everything. They hate the architecture. You saw the building from the mid-1800s that fell down yesterday, that burned down to the ground. French officials already said that far-left extremist groups are behind the violence. And a new Fox News investigation published on Tuesday found that 54 organizations, including communists and labor unions, are behind the chaos. And an investigation shows that a network of communist groups is facilitating the riots in France. What are the motives behind the unrest? Tune in for analysis tonight on Capitol Report with Steve Lance at 7 p.m. Eastern. And next, the State Department has issued an alert to Americans in France after that weekend of violent protests. Partial curfews are in effect in several cities, including the city of Lille in northern France, with additional restrictions possible in Paris. The U.S. Embassy in Paris now advising Americans to avoid demonstration areas and they should exercise caution if they encounter large gatherings. The embassy also recommends checking public transport updates as well as flight schedules and monitoring the local news for any new restrictions, as well as allowing extra time when they're planning to travel. And Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in Ohio today, in an effort to get warfighters the equipment that they need before they need it. Hegseth also made an unannounced trip to Israel, where he met with the country's prime minister over the situation with Iran. And Didi's Jason Perry has the details. We're rebuilding our military with the best equipment and leadership to ensure that our warfighters have every advantage and they're never in a fair fight. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaking in Dayton, Ohio on Tuesday during the Department of War's Arsenal of Freedom Tour. The tour aims to highlight the urgent need to rebuild America's defense industrial base, which the Pentagon says is linked to national security. Speaking to employees of the Sierra Nevada Corporation, Hegseth says their expertise and efforts help expand America's defense industrial base and, quote, ensure absolute dominance. For example, during the height of the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, our troops faced, as you know, an asymmetric threat from improvised explosive devices, IEDs. Moving at the speed of those conflicts, SNC rapidly developed life-saving devices to counter and disable roadside bombs, roadside IEDs, scaling from early R&D to active production in just two years. Hegseth explains that process would normally take about 10 years, and that he's doing what he can at the Pentagon to speed up the process so that warfighters get what they need before they need it. Hegseth also made an unannounced visit to Israel the day before. Senior Israeli security officials tell Epic Magazine Israel that Hegseth met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss tensions with Iran. Netanyahu saying this on Tuesday. I am personally committed to finishing the job. Finishing the job means toppling the terrorist regime in Iran. As long as this regime survives, even if battered, bruised, and beaten, its fanatical nature will drive it to attempt once again what it tried a year ago, developing nuclear bombs and rebuilding the Axis. The Axis, meaning Iran's proxy terrorist groups across the Middle East. Jason Perry, NTD News. And up ahead, President Trump promising billions in relief for farmers facing the rising diesel costs during their harvest season. 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President Trump is announcing $8 billion in relief for American farmers to help address the rising diesel costs, which is hitting right during their harvest season. President speaking yesterday alongside a senator from Kansas, Dr. Roger Marshall. Tonight, I'm also pleased to announce that the Department of Agriculture will be launching a new harvest fuel relief program providing our farmers with $8 billion in support to offset diesel costs during this harvest season. And Roger Marshall is the leader who fought for that to happen. Roger got it to happen. Good job, Roger. The Harvest Fuel Relief Program will provide one-time payments to help offset the higher input costs and the temporary market disruptors. The program will use a formula which is based on planted acres, production costs, yields, and prices, and that'll help to calculate payments for these eligible producers. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the $8 billion investment is intended to provide certainty for farmers during the harvest. The USDA says payment rates for major eligible crops will be released in November, with details for other commodities to follow. And Texas sees high voter turnout after early voting started in the state yesterday. As a Republican, Ken Paxton is running against Democrat James Tallarico for that U.S. Senate seat. Meanwhile, Democratic strategist James Carville, he gives his take on the midterms and U.S. Senate nominees debate in Kentucky. We have NTD's Fiona Gee with a midterm update. Early voting in Texas started on Monday and voter turnout is already breaking county records. According to the Dallas County Elections Department, a preliminary number of over 76,000 voters in the county have already cast their ballot. That's almost 20,000 more voters than the first day of early voting in 2024 and almost 44,000 more than back in 2022. And that's a trend we're seeing across the country. According to voting data, over 10 million Americans have already cast their midterm ballot. That number is expected to climb as five more states begin early voting Tuesday. Those are Hawaii, Louisiana, Missouri, Utah, and Wisconsin. Meanwhile, Kentucky saw its only scheduled U.S. Senate debate Monday evening. That's an open race between Republican Andy Barr and Democrat Charles Booker to replace Senator Mitch McConnell. When I am the next U.S. Senator for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, I will work to bring down prices to put more money in your pocket. My opponent would support massive increases in spending, including just one item of a socialist agenda, Medicare for all, which would cost $32 trillion. Over the weekend, longtime Democratic strategist James Carville also weighed in on the socialism debate. On the Bulwark on Sunday podcast hosted by Bill Kristol, Carville says he'd rather see a Republican victory than a DSA-led Democratic Party. I would rather the Republicans keep the House by five than the Democrats win by five. Because if that happens, they're hostage to the DSA. Carville has been outspoken against the rise of DSA ideology within the Democratic Party. Meanwhile, President Trump posts on Truth Social that he will spend over $400 million by Election Day to boost Republican prospects. The money will be spent on, quote, advertising, direct and indirect voter contact, rallies, rally arenas, tele-rallies, get-out-the-vote programs, election integrity and more. We are in the final sprint of this midterm season. At this point, for both parties, it's all about getting out the vote. President Trump is returning to Texas next week for two rallies back-to-back to mobilize voters, and this is on top of his already very busy rallying schedule. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Fiona Gee, NTD News. Thank you, Fiona. And in Michigan's Senate race, Republican nominee Mike Rogers, he says his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, is losing support among voters who usually back his party. He was speaking on Fox News. We should be listening to the people who know him best. The chairman, the past chairman of the Democrat Party in Michigan, just came out this week and said, I can't support Abdul El-Sayed. The finance, yeah. The finance chairman of Alyssa Slotkin's campaign, the finance chairman, came out this week and said, I can't support Abdul El-Sayed. We are into non-traditional Republican coalitions like I've never seen before. It is shifting the landscape in a huge way. The reason he climbs on a bus and goes up north, he can't go into southeast Michigan. Those folks are, and by the way, they're not turning to Republicans, but they're open to Republicans, and many of them are taking Rodgers for Democrat signs, putting them in the yard, saying, I'm voting for Mike Rogers. At a town hall last night, Rodgers named two groups. He said dozens of black pastors and neighborhood leaders in Detroit have told his campaign they want to change. He also cited Michigan's roughly 70,000 Jewish Democrats, saying many are uneasy with El-Sayed's criticism of Israel. Rodgers believes half of them could vote for him. Former President Barack Obama is set to campaign with El-Sayed in Detroit on Saturday. With control of the Senate at stake, both campaigns are competing hard for Michigan's swing voters. And a potential buyer looking to spur growth in downtown San Francisco. Could a data center be built into a vacant shopping mall? NTV's David Lam has more. After being shuttered for months, the shopping center behind me in San Francisco could be turned into an AI data center. KG Growth Partners, a Maryland-based firm working with an unnamed AI lab, is showing interest in the downtown SF Center. The firm has inquired about permits to convert the former Bloomingdale's space. I think that it's disappointing because I feel like San Francisco and most major American cities, you really need that third space where you can just be and maybe feel a sense of community where it's not, you know, everything's eaten up by big tech or AI. The mall has been closed since January, citing a change in people's shopping habits. I think a lot of it is, you know, Amazon, of course. It's the convenience of shopping from home and online and the next day delivery. KG Growth Partners says the project is different than a regular data center. Technology operations would be upstairs and public spaces would be open on the lower floors. It's really sad to watch it slowly die as I was a shopper there when it first opened as a teen. And coming to Market Street growing up in San Francisco was like a treat. You know, you would go back to school shopping or the holidays. And now it's just like shuttered up like all the other storefronts out here. The potential buyer has not submitted any permit applications as the proposal is still in its initial stage. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie says that there's a 45-day moratorium on AI data centers being built in San Francisco. David Lam, NTD News. And coming up, France will deploy the military to reinforce police forces for the upcoming Saturday protests. But who's behind the violence and what lesson can the U.S. learn? We have the discussion. And Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in India with Ukraine interceptors and Venezuelan oil on the agenda. He's also addressing some rumors. It's time for the nation to decide. 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President Trump attributes these riots to communists and illegal immigrants. He's saying France and other European countries should immediately close their borders. I want to get your views on that relationship between illegal immigration and these riots. Sure. Well, it is a confusing grouping of different kinds of categories of people that have gotten involved in this, trying to exploit it. It did start with immigrants, with the children of immigrants, first, second and third generations living in these communities with the schools and the complaints about the schools. But it has definitely expanded to a whole litany of other issues to include, for example, the fact that state law requires no showing of cultural symbols or Islamic symbols at school. extreme anger and frustration over that, and also a heavy-handed police presence in these neighborhoods where the Islamic Muslims and the children of them are involved in the drug trade and gangs, a lot of violence, a lot of theft, and they want those police moved out and to take their tech with them. There are people that are still coming over the border. Those people, I think, are not involved in this. They keep them separately. They live in different areas, different facilities. So I don't really agree with the president's contention that these are brand new border crossing immigrants, illegals coming over the border. They're going to be the more established ones with their beefs and issues. And Todd, you have spent a lot of time in Europe investigating mass migration, both legal and illegal. Can you explain the different forms of migration into Europe, particularly Western Europe and its potential role here? In recent years, especially the last 10 years, it's almost all been illegal immigration, forcing themselves over the border. The French government, the German government, 10 years ago, said, yeah, we're going to let them all in. We're an empathetic government. We're going to let people in until terrorist attacks started up. And you started having, you know, bloody mayhem from one end of the continent to the other. They closed the borders. They got together the EU countries and managed to shut down a lot of that illegal immigration. But starting in about 2023, 2024, one or two of the countries elected liberal governments that were, again, the empathy, the empathetic virtue signaling and started letting them in, Slovenia primarily, Austria as well, and they just started pulsating through again. So I think a lot of the people that are involved in this might be more recent immigrants who crossed the border. But they've got horrible backlogs on their asylum. They're not deporting them quickly. Very tiny percentages of people that don't get asylum are left to stay there and fester. And I think a lot of that is true. I don't think it's happening right now with very recent border crossers. And you mentioned just now it's not the recent border crossers, it's those who've already come in illegally. So for them, is this an issue of ideology, failure to assimilate, lack of jobs? What's causing them to go really AWOL and commit violence and looting? I mean, I think some of they do have it started out with legitimate complaints. They're trying to keep it with those original complaints about the schools. You know, they've got a fiscal crisis. They've never really invested heavily in the schools in and around these migrant communities. They're kind of low income housing, subsidized housing, very overcrowded from all of the illegal immigration. And I do think that there is an assimilation problem. those communities do not tend to assimilate. They maintain their ways from generation to generation and are not really assimilating very well into French society. That's a complaint that you heard long before this. And so you have, you know, crime and, you know, some Sharia law activity and you have forced militarized policing going on to kind of keep a lid on things. But that lid is popped off now for sure. And when you dig into the ideology, we've heard a lot about this red-green alliance in relation to the riots. That's communists and radical Islam whose values seem very opposite each other when you start to look at it. But here it seems like they're pairing together. So where does immigration fit into that red-green alliance? Yes, that is definitely true. It's here in the United States. It's all through Europe, the red-green alliance, the far left, progressive liberals, communists, socialists have found common cause with Muslims, with Muslim immigrants, with all of their causes, anti-Israel, anti-Semitism, and all of that, Uh, because, uh, it dates back to the late 1960s when the PLO reached out and started training and some of the, you know, uh, the Western, uh, German, uh, domestic terror groups also, you know, linked up with the PLO and it's just kind of has generationally, uh, lived on into the present time. It's just one of those things that it doesn't make any sense because, uh, you know, if you're you know queer for Palestine uh and you go to Palestine uh as a gay person uh bad things are going to happen to you so uh but you know they just deny that or explain it away uh these are very illiberal uh countries that the muslim immigrants are coming from uh so you know your guess is as good as mine as to the logic uh that in reasoning that goes into the this thinking on especially on the red side. But the green side, they'll take anyone they can get. And I think that they're finding that that side of the aisle, they're a bunch of useful idiots for their causes. Yeah, the useful idiots, of course, a big component of Marxist ideology and how to turn sort of passive people into doing things that are useful to those who are trying to usurp power. Now, it's hard to see how opportunists could exploit the disorder, but French President Macron, he is blaming the far left groups for the riots. So what is the far left's role being that, you know, there were students and immigrants that you said make up the mainstay of the protests? Well, you started really seeing violence, riots by what we call anarchists or Antifa and using black block tactics, which is if you see the guys that are like dressed from head to toe in black, that's black block tactics. you can't identify the perpetrators, and they feel more emboldened to go out and commit these kind of crimes, arson and looting and the rest of that. We saw that exact thing happen here in the United States in 2020 for seven or eight months straight. Riots and looting on the left, black block led, but there were plenty of regular leftists that are not anarchists that joined in happily, uh, who were probably more motivated by a profit motive. Uh, there are, they're looting stores. They're, you know, stealing merchandise. I mean, if you're really not interested in materialism, why are you stealing Gucci handbags, uh, you know, from, from the fancy sack stores or whatever. So, uh, I think that it's grown beyond the black bloc beyond Antifa to just regular uh people who are taking advantage and exploiting uh the chaos yeah and as we have about 30 seconds left i'd love for you to comment on what lessons you think american take from what we're seeing over in france and starting to spread to other parts of europe well i mentioned 2020 the riots we had here and i think it's generally agreed that those riots were uh perpetrated by orders the police to stand down, to disengage, to not quell riots and looting. And we just saw that happen throughout France. The police started to take a heavier hand, but there was definitely a break going on. There was a foot on the brake. And now I think you're starting to see the results of that, it's just going to keep going and going until you call out the military, which I think they're about to do now, or they're preparing to really put the crack down. The point is, is that if you allow this kind of misbehavior and disorder in the streets, it will continue and get worse and worse until you finally decide you're not going to put up with it anymore. And I think that's the lesson. You can't put up with it. You've got to crack down. I'm sorry if it's politically unpopular or get you in trouble in the upcoming elections. France has an election coming up, but, you know, this can't go on. Yeah, well, Todd Bensman, so many great points in breaking down what is actually happening over there. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. And a ban on China's superintelligence model, DeepSeek, expands to include non-military federal agencies. The move was publicly announced on Monday, but has been in effect since July. We have NTD's correspondent Jason Blair with the details. Last December, Congress banned China's DeepSeek from Pentagon and intelligence community systems in the annual defense bill. Now that ban has expanded to include civilian government agencies. Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen signed the order on July 24th. The announcement was just made public on Monday. DHS says DeepSeek servers are in China and it warns that using the app, quote, may result in the transfer of sensitive data to the PRC. China's Commerce Ministry says it firmly opposes the order. The Chinese Communist Party has a long history of using superintelligence models for malicious means. In September, Anthropic announced that users linked to the Chinese regime used its AI model, Claude, to build profiles of overseas dissidents and religious groups. Targets included Tibetan Buddhists, Catholic cardinals in Asia, Presbyterian church leaders in Taiwan, and practitioners of Falun Gong. In a statement, Anthropic wrote, We banned the cluster of accounts responsible for this activity and enhanced our detections to disrupt and reduce the risk of future misuse. Anthropic says the users combed Chinese and Western platforms for birth dates, birthplaces, immigration dates, and social media profiles. In March, a House Homeland Security Subcommittee held a hearing on the national security concerns of DeepSeek. And DeepSeek is not just a competitive concern. It is also a data and influence concern sitting on millions of American devices. Every interaction is stored on servers located in the People's Republic of China, where authorities can demand access to that data under Chinese law. Rep John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Committee on China, backed the move, saying DeepSeek is a dangerous AI model that has no place in the federal government and the Trump administration is right to put these common sense AI guardrails in place. The ban was effective immediately when signed in July. Reporting in Washington, D.C., Jason Blair, NTD News. And diplomacy in Mumbai. Secretary of State Marco Rubio began a two-day visit to India today. Speaking to reporters, he said much of the recent coverage of U.S. support for Ukraine has been inaccurate. Rubio pushed back on accusations that President Trump cut off intelligence sharing with Ukraine, saying the president wants a negotiated end to the war and he is not trying to harm Kyiv. Even this talk about, I think on the 13th and again on the 18th, there were airstrikes in Ukraine that were not detected. That is not because America did not provide information. I saw somebody associated with the Ukrainian government say that people in Ukraine are dying because the U.S. is denying them information. That's scandalous. That's outrageous. That's just simply not true. That's not accurate. Among others, one of the reasons why this war needs to end is because too many people are dying. One of the reasons why this war needs to end is because Ukraine's electric grid is being devastated. One of the reasons this war needs to end is because every month 20,000 or 25,000 Russians are slaughtered as they try to advance in Ukraine. All of these are bad. Rubio says Zelensky has been trying to buy air defense interceptors, and Rubio called them the most in-demand product in the defense field, with Saudi Arabia and Israel and the U.S. all seeking them as well. On another topic, Rubio also says India could play a key role and bringing more Venezuelan oil to the market. I think what a lot of people have become experts in the energy field over the last few months, just learning because of these conflicts, refining capability is a key part of it. And India is a refining superpower. And they have the ability to do that. They have companies that know how to do that. They also, by the way, have pre-existing oil concessions in Venezuela that can produce more themselves. So all these are positive things. And I'm not claiming to you that Venezuela alone can fill the hole that could be caused by some of the things that are happening around the world. But I think over time, it most certainly can. And in the short term, it can certainly provide relief. And tomorrow, Rubio meets with Reliance Industries. That company runs the world's largest refining complex and is chaired by billionaire Mukesh Ambani. The visit comes as the two countries near a trade deal that officials say is almost complete. Last week, President Trump waived potential tariffs tied to India's purchases of Russian oil. And Rubio said the trade talks were a factor, and he said that India has been diversifying its energy sources. And Britain is sending fighter jets to help protect Saudi cities and critical infrastructure from attacks by the Houthi terrorist group. Britain's defense minister announcing the deployment following a request from Saudi Arabia. Britain will also deploy a transport plane and military advisors. The additional support comes after Britain announced last month it would provide assistance including an air-to-air refueling aircraft but not fighter jets. Houthi attacks against Saudi oil facilities and other infrastructure have intensified in recent weeks as this conflict in Yemen escalates. Yemeni authorities said yesterday that a Houthi strike on a training camp for Saudi-backed government forces killed 73 people. And just ahead of the midterms, the Trump administration has been escalating its efforts to stop non-citizens from voting in federal elections. Are everyday Americans concerned about the integrity of our elections? NTD's Sam Wong was out on the National Mall in D.C. to hear from the people. President Trump has been honing in on the message of election integrity. Do you echo President Trump's concern here? Oh, 100 percent. If you're letting, let's say, a hundred million Chinese come over here illegal and vote, what do you think is going to happen? So we just got to let them come over and do that and then you don't have a country. That's vitally important. We've got to make our votes count. That's where he's headed, for sure. I think we have some of the safest, free elections in the world. I think we should continue to admire that. As long as we leave the states in charge of it as well, it's not about the federal government trying to take it over. I think he's absolutely right. California takes forever to count their votes because they're too busy doing things they shouldn't be doing to the vote box. Absolutely. They need to rectify some of these, like waiting two weeks to get ballots in and counting them and whether to end fighting it. Just have it all done on election day so we know the results that day. Are you concerned about non-citizens voting in our elections? Yes because that disenfranchises me like my vote didn't count in the last election when all the other stealing was going on. That's stealing my vote. That's stealing your vote. That's stealing your children's vote in the future. It's a very rare event and I think that that's completely overblown so I think that that's not my concern. 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Ordering your prescription glasses is as easy as one two three with Select Specs at SelectSpecs.com Martin, Dave, we're in that very unique time of the sports year where baseball is overlapping with the other big three sports but the NBA set the kickoff or tip off I should say this evening it's like the the perfect storm you got the World Series going on NFL in full swing and now the NBA but yeah we got we got a triple header tonight with the NBA going Knicks meanwhile raised their championship banner tonight with LeBron James and his star-studded Philadelphia 76ers in town. That game starts in just a few minutes here, 7 p.m. Eastern time. And this, much like those NBA Finals games a few months ago, a very hot ticket. According to ticket data, the get-in price, which is the lowest price available for tonight's game, upwards of $1,500. Now, obviously, the New York Knicks' first title celebration in more than 50 years is the main attraction, but the Sixers should be a good draw as well as the road team this season. And the team not only signed LeBron James, they traded away Paul George for Boston's Jaylen Brown. And they already had All-Stars Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey. So this matchup actually could be maybe an Eastern Conference Finals preview. But that's not the only game on so far. The Pistons already came back to beat the Celtics earlier this afternoon, 121-113. Boston led by 13 at the break, but Detroit had a big second half. Then later tonight, we've got the Spurs and the Thunder, the two teams who met in the Western Conference Finals last summer. facing off tonight in San Antonio. That game starts at 9.30 Eastern. So we've already got one NBA game done. One's going to start soon, and then we've got another big one tonight. Yeah, literally two blocks from here, the Knicks will be raising their championship flag, which is really exciting. But I think we're going to be talking about these Sixers all year long. LeBron taking the league minimum. He's got plenty of money. He wants championships. and the Sixers, I mean, that entire starting roster looks like All-Stars. It does. I think the big key here is going to be the health of Joel Embiid. It usually is. He's had some injury problems in years past. But when he's at his best, I mean, he's an MVP player. He won MVP a few years back. He's a very dominant center, kind of a throwback center still, kind of a rare thing in the league, but you're right. They've got a very talented lineup. Of course, if you looked at the Knicks lineup, You wouldn't actually think that this is going to be a championship team either. The Knicks seem to be much greater than the sum of their parts. Somehow they get it done. Well, if anybody can teach Embiid the tricks of keeping his knees and other parts of his body healthy, it would be the longevity of LeBron James. There's got to be some wisdom and methods to his madness to have the longevity that he's had. So I think that having that coach on the floor for him could really provide some counsel there. I've never seen a guy in his 40s this good, you know, in the NBA. I mean, we had Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reaching that point, but he was not quite the center of his team anymore. Even Michael Jordan late in his 30s was not quite, I mean, you wouldn't expect him to be the same scoring champion, but I've never seen someone this good at this age. He's about 41 now, so it worked for him 42 this season. Yeah, I know we're chewing up all the time here, but it is fascinating. But I have to say, Embiid did one of the most freakishly athletic moves I've ever seen in an NBA game, and I think he got hurt in the playoffs because of it, but he ran out of steps, so he just threw the ball against the backboard, and then he went and got it and dunked it, so I think it's going to be an exciting season. A 7-1 guy doing that is pretty special. All right, let's talk about the World Series. All right, yeah, the World Series is now set. The Tampa Bay Rays advanced to the World Series with a 7-3 win last night over the Cleveland Guardians to win the series four games to two. Junior Caminero and Yandy Diaz both hit late-game two-run home runs for the Rays. There was actually a pitcher, Freddy Peralta, who won ALCS MVP, getting the win last night, allowing just one run in five-plus innings. That was actually his second win of the series for Peralta, who's really been proven to be an excellent pickup at the trade deadline after fixing whatever issues he might have had with the New York Mets. So now he will be part of the team advancing to face the team that traded him last offseason, Milwaukee Brewers in the World Series. Now, this will mark the first time since 1920 that both teams in the World Series have actually never won the World Series before. Now, for Tampa Bay, this is their second World Series appearance overall since starting as a franchise in 1998. For Milwaukee, also their second appearance ever. They started as a franchise back in 1969, actually as the Seattle Pilots. Game one will be Friday night in Milwaukee. All right, baseball fans, the World Series, nothing quite like it. We were talking about injuries with Embiid. Now let's move to the NFL, which is even a gorier game. You know, they're dropping like flies. And unfortunately, Washington Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin out for the rest of the season. Yeah, McLaurin tore that patellar tendon in his left knee in last night's game. We'll miss the rest of the regular season. That's according to Commanders coach Dan Quinn. The 31-year-old McLaurin led the team, actually still leads the team, with 230 receiving yards in the season. He was injured in his first quarter play, just running his route, carted off the field, and his commanders ended up losing the game 23-17. Now, elsewhere in the NFL, multiple reports had the NFL not punishing the Philadelphia Eagles for how they handled quarterback Jalen Hurts' blood clot injury and treatment, mostly last week. Hurts was diagnosed with a superficial blood clot in his calf before the Week 5 game about a week and a half ago against the Jacksonville Jaguars in London. Hurts ended up playing that game, but the Eagles lost. Last Wednesday, a follow-up ultrasound revealed the blood clot had actually moved to his lungs. After further consultation, he was ruled out for Sunday's game against the Panthers. Now he will reportedly miss the rest of the season. Eagles are now 2-4 on the season after losing Sunday to the Panthers without Jalen Hurts. So, yeah, like you said, a rough game, probably even rougher if you have to play with a blood clot, I would think, but some other guys do. Absolutely. Well, we wish him well and a speedy recovery, even though he will not be suiting up again this season. And great updates. Thank you, Dave. Thank you, Kerry. And that is all the time we have for today's evening news. But for around-the-clock coverage, you can always visit us at NTD.com. For Dave Martin, I'm Kerry Dunst. Be true, kind, hold the line. We'll see you tomorrow.