Time out for the Arali update message of the day. I am not optimistic that Kristen Welker,

the NBC News correspondent, who is moderating tonight's debate in National Tennessee,

will ask questions important to voters. I hope she will, but I'm not optimistic. So here are some

suggestions from your humble correspondent who has interviewed seven presidents over my career.

Let's begin with Donald Trump. Now, I have interviewed him dozens of times. I was always tough,

but respectful. I did not try to hurt Mr. Trump or any other politician. So my question tonight,

my lead question would be this, Mr. President, in hindsight, should you have actively promoted

wearing masks to mitigate COVID? Should you have done that in a more aggressive way,

especially in the beginning? Second question. Mr. President, many of your subordinates do not like you.

Are you too tough a boss? And then I would have the names of people who didn't like him and

spoke badly about him and public if Mr. Trump would say, oh, no, no, they all like me, which you

might. The third question for the president, why do you think the corporate media just likes you

so much? And the fourth question, Mr. President, you could order Attorney General Barr to discuss

the Durham investigation about corruption in the Russian collusion situation. You could order him

to publicly discuss it. Why don't you? That puts Donald Trump on the spot because this

Durham report vital to American voters. And I don't know why it isn't being discussed in public

by the Attorney General. Only President Trump could answer that. Now Joe Biden has refused over the

year. Is my very kind invitations to chat. He told me face to face in Washington one time, he would never

interview with me. And he laughed, why would I do that, O'Reilly? Well, maybe you want to have a

lively back and forth. So the folks could get a measure of you. Mr. Vice President,

first question for Mr. Biden from me, your son Hunter made millions of dollars. Do you believe

you helped him do that? There would be follow-up questions to Biden's answer. If he said

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