federal agency and specific trump appointees, and the white house itself and this white house is going to find itself playing permanent defense for the rest of the trump presidency. >> the stakes could be as large as whether mueller can continue. this president may feel empowered to move filly, as we know he wants to do, to either fire bob mueller or fire jeff sessions or fire rod rosenstein, or find some way to shut this investigation down. >> mueller is not going to remove the predent of the united states from office. he doesn't have that power, and i'm sure he doesn't have that ambition. the way that the president could be removed, if that's the goal, is through impeachment and conviction by the senate or through elections. and both of those involve heavy doses of the involvement of the american people, either through their representatives in congress, or through elections. and that's why, at the end of the day, it's the amican people who are going to decide trump's fate. and th's why so much is at stake in the 2018, and especially the 2020 elections. >> a pension is a promise! >> t

she was married in the white house, a beautiful gown. george cleveland, the grandson of clover, was at this event. his sister found that actual address, the wedding dress that actively exists, in the white house first ladies collection at the smithsonian. it's just a powerful display of how wonderful and how elegant she was, and i think people will certainly learn from history from the. host: there was an enormous age difference between them? how does the family process that information? massee: i think it was a love story that was kindled by francis's father. he was a dear, dear friend of grover and upon his death, i hink grover felt the need to make sure frances was taken care f. he was a lot older, 25 to 30 years, but i think at that time she trusted him. he was the guardian for many, many years, even prior to mr. folsom's debt. they had trust they had a wonderful family. host: they didn't like life in the white house and tried to protect the family? massee: a lot of times, frances would take the children by cares to sites off campus

we will know what the white house told the fbi. >> abby, you've been at the white house covering this. you had it in your piece just there, i was surprised when president trump went out of his way to note how odd brett kavanaugh's depiction of his drinking was. you know, i'm paraphrasing what the president said there, but the president shined a light on how brett kavanaugh testified about his drinking. that was unusual. >> it absolutely was, but it was something that we always knew was a possibility that he would do because the president actually has very strong feelings about drinking personally on a deeply personal level. he doesn't drink, he never has. he had a brother who did have a drinking problem and that informs his view of that issue. so when he focused in on that like a laser, it was both something that was very true to who he is as a person, but also very problematic for the white house as they're trying to control the narrative around brett kavanaugh. brett kavanaugh did not acknowledge having a drinking problem as the president said, he did not acknowledge in his testimon

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>> reporter: at this point, the white house has authorized the f.b.i. to investigate sexual assault allegations. and that does not necessarily include any statements he made about his drinking, which has become a sort of political issue. it's unlikely that the white house would allow the f.b.i. to go down this path. now, this may lead some democrats to be unsatisfied, but ultimately the president and republicans will argue that how much kavanaugh drank 36 years ago is not a reflection of who he is now. >> glor: paula reid with the latest, paula thank you very much. the president hailed a new trade deal worked out with canada and mexico. he campaig afr trade agreement, saying it's cost the u.s. jobs. nafta is now the u.s.m.c.a. weijia jiang is traveling with the president in tennessee. >> it's a brand-new deal. it's not nafta redone. >> reporter: president trump took a victory lap in the white house rose garden, celebrating a trade deal to replace nafta called the u.s.-mexico-canada agreement. the president had been at odds with canadian prime minister j

, at the white house historical association. we are really delighted, i know you have been thanked over and over again by really delighted to welcome you to the 2018 presidential site summit, and as you are talking to each other it is a unique gathering of presidential leaders, site directors, education specialists, subject experts, and it is a have a convenient opportunity for all of us going forward, thank you for supporting us for being here, we are looking forward to talking with you all more, and encouraging you to talk among yourselves and i guess, above and beyond the digital library, doctor stephanie is over here who runs the digital library, we have historians, public programs, we have educators, we all should be talking to each other and the idea that we do things together in the future. now, our current session the reason we are in this room, and i am very pleased to open this, is entitled, the digitization of technology and it is extremely important to underscore that, you know, you will know that every cultural heri

. >> the white house runs as a function of his personality. aides are up and down, in and out, his constant drama and intrigue. >> but one advisor has so far survived. >> the president definitely listens to jared and soaks it in. he saw that jared continued to make smart decisions and i think through the merits of ivanka he saw ultimate loyalty. >> staff is expendable. jared kushner is not. >> kushner has stayed in the west wing despite a cloud of controversy. controversy over his business holdings and potential conflicts of interest. >> mueller's special prosecutor asking if kushner business ties influenced white house policy. >> his troubles in credentials. >> jared kushner, president trump's son-in-law and senior advisor has been stripped of his high level security clearance. >> his interactions with russian officials. >> jared kushner tried to sep up a back channel to communicate with the russians in december. that's before the iinauguration. >> through it all jared kushner husband steadfastedly remained a key player. >> he's managed sever

contrast that with the obama's white house. the second term of which we saw half of the administration departments headed by women as well as half of his top aides and many of colors. some of those working as women and minority, have been recently detailed in the new book "west wingers," stories from the dream chasers, change makers and hope creators inside the obama's white house. joining me now is heather foster, coauthor of "west wingers" and former white house's adviser and stephanie valencia, also a former obama white hou white house official. >> when you look at this house, you would have many years of worked and as well as you, stephanie, you see the lack of diversity. i don't think there is any blacks on the west wing. i think omarosa was in the department you were in, heather, and she left calling the president a racist. i mean it is almost when i was reading the book "west wingers" which is a really detailed book. it is almost like in two years we have totally flipped how the white house and the presidency is in acted

white house fertilizer. the other was to go back to all of the republicans that had worked through her to get really lucrative jobs through the system and basically say -- you owe me a percentage of your salary because you really would not have that job if it were not for me and for the president. neither of these plans worked. and of course, she felt, however, very strongly about her clothing. she felt she had to represent the prosperity of the union and of the union army. because you have to remember that in washington, washington was essentially a southern city and had been in cultivated -- inculturated that way. even though many southerners left at the onset of the war, there was still a southern spirit. and people were really -- the stories are legion, people were very nasty about mrs. lincoln. everything she did was criticized and attacked. you do begin to see for the first time very detailed descriptions of what mrs. lincoln war and at this time you also see for the first time in the weekly illustrate

we do not agree that the white house should tie the fbi's hands. >> shepard: the white house pushing back against those claims. >> the white house accommodated the senate's request. anybody that pushes back on the fact that dr. ford wasn't given ample opportunity to make her case and state her case has opinion living in a cave. >> shepard: sarah sanders this afternoon. the feds were looking to dr. ford's claims that kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, covered her mouth and tried to take off her clothes at a high school party in 1982. ford is one of three women accusing judge kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. kavanaugh denies it all. it's all about the math now. republicans hold a razor thin majority, 51-49. they can lose one vote if every democrat votes no. the senate minority leader -- the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, schedule add preliminary vote for tomorrow, which means lawmakers could make a final decision by saturday. the sexual misconduct accusation against judge brett kavanaugh have polarized our nation weeks before the mid-term elections which will decide who controls t

house and the dim kardashian visit to the white house, kanye's wife. she met with the president widely privately, pictures released after and you didn't have a grand show that you had today with kanye west and kim kardashian was able to get something substantive. got the president to pardon alice marie johnson in prison for a nonviolent drug crime serving a life sentence. kanye west's visit, however, was completely jumbled. thereto was no central theme to it, nothing that he was trying to accomplish as far as initiative. the stated goal was to talk about jobs in chicago, you know, criminal justice reform, but none of that was really the focus, and you don't get the sense coming out of this that there was actually anything substantive, and frankly it just comes back to the idea that the president at the end of the day likes to promote people who likes him and that's what kanye west has been over the last several months, particularly a black person who likes him and the president is the willing to put that person up front. >> and same with jim brown, fro

house and we should point out some of the preceding white house this is well and the kingdom the saudi arabian kingdom so it appears that donald trump has at least responded to that in terms of the initial appeal saying that he would like to meet with the fiance that he would like her to come to the white house. whether or not there are further details about what they hope to discuss we're still waiting for that information but certainly it has advanced in terms of the story that the white house is giving the indication given the high level of interest not only from the american public but also on capitol hill many congressional members pressuring the white house to take an active role in this that the president at least is giving indications that he is responding and that this is advancing that the united states is using both its app economic as well as diplomatic leverage and kimberly we are hoping to hear from the president himself he did speak just a few minutes ago and we are hoping to get that video and one of the things that he was addressing of course was the threat of hurrican

the white house says it is the senate, the senate says it is the white house. the white house orders all of this. at some point we'll find out, but we do know it was very limited. >> the white house is the client. and it seems that while they keep playing no, they decided, no, they decided, it seems that in the end the president is the client, don mcgahn. and if was limited, it was limited -- >> we know it was limited. >> and the president said i'm giving them free rein. >> that was nefver true. >> what would have been the down side of interviewing kavanaugh? i know he has been on the hill, but what would be the down side given all the questions about his lack of candor, all the con pictures. what would have been the down side in having him go once agai. what would have been the down side in having him go once again before agents. >> and the question i hear more anything, why didn't they order this up initially. the day the "washington post" story came out. had they done that initially, it would have taken and you issue off the table for democrats and they woul

first, straight to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, the white house is defending the president's mockery of the woman who says kavanaugh sexually assaulted her decades ago. >> that's right, wolf. the white house is not only defending trump's obvious mocking, aides to the president are calling the falsehood that the president wasn't mocking her to begin with. it's just the latest example of the white house playing fast and loose with the facts. it was a stunning moment. a crowd of supporters laughing along, president trump incredibly mocked christine blasey-ford, the accuser who says supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh assaulted her. how did you get home? i don't remember. how did you get there? i don't remember. where was the police? i don't remember. how many years ago was it? i don't know. i don't know. i don't know! what neighborhood was it in? i don't know. where is the house? i don't know. upstairs, downstairs, where was it? i don't know. but i had one beer. that's the only thing i remember. and a man's life is in tatters.

the white house deputy press secretary tweeting the white house has received the fbi supplemental background investigation into brett kavanaugh with mitch mcconnell's cloture filing, senators have been given ample time to review the second background investigation, the white house is fully confident the senate will vote to confirm brett kavanaugh, the wall street journal going so far as to report the white house found no corroboration of sexual misconduct in the fbi report. this all comes after mitch mcconnell filed for cloture. what is cloture? it is a vote to end debate on the nomination which if passed would move the nomination on to a confirmation vote by the senate. 16 senators must sign the petition to invoke cloture then the petition is ignored for a day, 24 hour period known as the legislative day where senators will review the fbi report. after that there is a vote on cloture which can be held no sooner than friday morning once those 24 hours have passed. if that vote passes with a simple majority then debate on brett cavanagh is limited to just 30 hours and that means democrats can

warehouse the white house -- without the white house dictating judge couch and dr. ford were not to be interviewed. in fact, one of my constituents came forward with relevant information about a potential outreach with judge kavanaugh, potentially witness tampering, trying to constrain or urge one of his former classmates to speak on his behalf. these kinds of witnesses need to be interviewed. the original understanding was it would be full and fair. >> have you asked the fbi to circle back and go back and review what clearly you and your democratic colleagues are suggesting is something maybe untoward that occurred in the previous six background checks? >> we have put those potential witnesses in touch with the fbi and they have the responsibility of making a decision about whether they have relevant information. i hope they will interview them. >> so there are witnesses, potential witnesses out there at large who have made serious, from your perspective -- and i know you can't discuss it publicly. serious allegations of sexual impropriety or alcohol abuse in earli

in a normal white house, they would have bob corker and bob menendez down to the white house to discuss their concerns about saudi arabia, especially their calls for sanctions for one of the president's closest allies. in a normal white house, the president's national security team might just want to start a list of all of jared kushner's contacts with the young crown prince of saudi arabia. out of concern that the optics alone of the two young men huddled closely literally and figurative lie might be damaging if we come to learn the turkish reports of 15 saudis flying to turkey and entering the consulate there to kill and dismember "the washington post" columnist are true. and that the administration knew that the saudi leader intended to detain khashoggi. in a normal white house, that would all count as a full-blown national security crisis. but this isn't a normal white house. not even close. so today in front of a full press pool with an extended question and answer period, the president of the united states turned the oval office over to kanye west who sat across from him at the re

the white house weighs in as a f.b.i. wraps up its latest investigation into brett kavanaugh and senators sift through the findings. the president tweeted this this morning. the harsh and unfair treatment of judge brett kavanaugh is having an incredible upward impact on voters. the people get it far better than the politicians. most importantly this great life cannot be ruined by mean and despicable democrats and totally uncorroborated allegations. john yoo is a former assistant attorney general in george w. bush department of justice and on the senate judiciary committee. things seem to be quickly changing. i know you've been following this minute by minute. what can you tell us about what you have seen and heard so far at this hour? >> as you know, the f.b.i. has turned over the supplemental background investigation, which is standard fare to the white house, which has turned it over to the judiciary committee and senators are now able to look at it in closed chambers, as it were, which is also standard procedure. i thi

>> yes, white house counsel. and i just signed on to a letter with all the democratic members of the committee, and said here is a list of the people you ought to be talking to. >> and are these people, potentialnesses, college classmates and should alcohol, what he did in terms of his drinking and whether or not, as you have suggested, whether or not he lied to the economy about his drinking habits and other aspects of his college years. >> it's not about whether he drank or not. but whether he lied about it. and the picture that is painted is that this is a person who drank a lot. not just in high school but also in college, and that when he drank, he would become very belligerent and aggressive. he said no, i never did any of that and there are plenty of people coming forward, even today saying that when they listened to him testifying before our committee to that effect, it's just so unbelievable that they are coming forward and these are all the people that need to be interviewed by the fbi. and one of the t

the white house has been way behind in preparing for this. the bush white house when they saw a democratic house coming in 2006 spent months preparing for it. axios jonathan swan now reports that the white house chief of staff john kelly has a small working group that's getting ready to deal with this white house incoming and later this month the senior staff will have a weekend retreat and this is going to be one of the topics for that retreat. >> let me ask you about the concern within the white house not about the legal aspects of what a democratic white house could mean but just the shear fact that the house could possibly flip into democratic control in november adding to the president's problem. is that a serious concern? i mean, what are they basing that on? simply the polling and the trends or do they have, you know, other statistics and data that they're using? >> no, the intensity of their voters is something they've been watching. they've seen for a long time that enthusiasm among democrats has been much higher and that's the basic

typically in the white house there's a theory that no one in the white house says no to the president. he is not getting a lot of pushback on the messaging, that it is the media responsible for the negative coverage and he has no one telling him to do so. sarah sanders made it clearly that she backs the president fully on that. >> they've often been critical of the news media, understandably so, but none have ever said that we are the enemy of the american people. stand by. more news just ahead, including a cnn exclusive, a potential challenger to president trump calls him out on his rhetoric. booking a flight at the last minute doesn't have to be expensive. just go to priceline. it's the best place to book a flight a few days before my trip and still save up to 40%. just tap and go... for the best savings on flights, go to priceline. when we switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. hey! oh, that's my robe. is it? when you switch to liberty mutual, you could save $782 on auto and home insurance. and still get great

she lived in the white house during her father's last tenure in the white house from 1966 to 1969 and for over two decades has served as a trustee on the lbj foundation. and susan ford bales is the only daughter of gerald ford. she lived in the white house during the bulk of her father's presidency. since 1981, she has served as a trustee on the gerald ford presidential library foundation. moderating our panel is david rubenstein, cofounder and coexecutive chairman of the carlyle group and our country's leading patriotic philanthropist, generously contributing to the preservation of our nation's history and culture. he is also the host of bloomberg's david rubenstein show, peer to peer conversations. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, matthew mckinley, tweed roosevelt, clifton truman daniel, lynda bird johnson robb , and susan ford bales. and david rubenstein. >> thank you all for coming. i want to apologize again, as one of my roles as chairman of the board of the canada -- board of the kennedy center, i think this is the first time the air-conditioning hasn't worked.

you know, to get into the white house everybody wants to work at the white house until they get the job. [ laughter ] then they don't know what they'd are supposed to do with it, i mean it that's the truth. you have to understand how this job is very scary because of the people you are serving. you no longer serving just anybody in a restaurant, you are serving people that have achieved great things in life, so you better be on the same level with your food. i also served numerous emperors, kings, heads of state, all during my tenure. but when i started at the white house, i was already in that line of work for 20 years, learning under the best chef available in paris france, in germany and especially the hotel i mentioned , because that particular hotel used to be known as the number one hotel in the world. it still exists today but i think it lost a little to the years because it's now part of a chain. in those days, the savoy was owned by family, big difference. the customers that i guess that we were feeding at the savoy in those days, just to give you a short list, we had a lot of

there were no armed men around the white house. we had this exceptionally peaceful transition of power, very traumatic time in our lives. the presidency was secured by the decency of gerald ford and by the extraordinary strength of the constitutional law that defines what the presidency is. >> there was this relief that somehow the system had worked, and then there were in the aftermath a lot of reforms that were put in place. the media changed. investigative journalism had been an incidental situation pre-watergate. post-watergate it almost becomes a standard. presidents before watergate had been really by most reporters been given a presumption of innocen innocence. in the aftermath they're almost presumed guilty. it really dramatically changes the relationship of the news media with the president. >> the system had worked including the role of the press, but really the idea that the system had worked in this amazing way, that a criminal president had been forced to leave office, the principle that nobody in this country is above

through the white house. and so mrs. bush had made sure that any of the resident's staff that were still working in the white house that had been there in the johnson time were there to greet mrs. johnson at the diplomatic reception room door when she stepped in. and in addition, one of the butlers that had worked for the johnsons, mr. german, was now a part-time elevator operator, operated the president's elevator in the white house, just a few days a week, mrs. bush made sure that he was there and that he was the one that greeted mrs. johnson when the door was opened of the car for her to get out. and the way that mrs. johnson reached up in recognition to embrace mr. german and how he embraced her, is really would just make you weep. but would also, the two last things that i'll just say about mrs. johnson's visit, her last visit to the white house, is, mrs. bush wheeled her into the vermeil room on the ground floor, which had just been repainted under one of the restoration projects that mrs. bush did, tha

although between the two of them they only represented eight years in the white house. course in recent times, bill clinton, george w. bush, barack obama, we've had this unusual three consecutive presidents every eight years. last time that happened was jefferson, madison, and monro. so it's easy to forget the nixon and ford years. like the johnson and kennedy years, were truncated. but i think pat nixon and betty ford served in the white house at a time of enormous change and they were agents of a gentle turn toward the future. thank you very much. [applause] >> well done. thank you, carl. carl has agreed to take a couple of questions. we'll do that now. just raise your hand. i do want to mention now carl is the author of more than a dozen books. this was done in collaboration with the exhibit and the series. it's for sale in the museum store. and a thing carl will sign for you if you buy it. but this was done in four months. can you tell us a little bit about that experience? doing this book in four months? carl: i don't know if i should. [laughter] it was insane. eve

new white house counsel will have his hands full, stepping into the job as the white house braces for potential legal storms following november's mid terms. the washington, d.c.-based lawyer was a senior justice department official during the george w. bush administration. when he was first being considered in august, president trump's personal attorney jay sekulow put out a statement praising sipaloni saying he's a brilliant attorney. i've had the privilege to work with him and can attest to his skill and intelgy. >> that shows the white house is gearing up should the democrats take to the house which could lead it a number of new investigations and perhaps even an impeachment battle. >> i think the president has to feel some degree of confidence that you can utilize those legal abilities in what is a political environment, that you bring to the job some sense of political sensitivity. he's going to have a lot on his plate at one time. >> reporter: as the head lawyer for the office of the presidency, the white house counsel advises the president and his staff on legal issues surround

the white house calls the shot. the fbi does what the white house says. but we've never had a situation like this before where so many things a supreme court nominee has said under oath to the senate are in question but the fbi's only allowed to examine some of them. now, that could change. for example, we have this man who's now calling into question judge kavanaugh's accounts of his drinking and he says he's going to the fbi field office in north carolina and talk to an fbi agent. the white house can't prevent that from happening. the question is, what does the fbi do with that information? are they allow ed to follow up n it? if the witnesses give them other names of people who can corroborate their testimony, will the fbi be allowed to reach out to those people? we don't believe at this point that is allowed. but it's possible the white house under pressure from senators will change the parameters of the investigation. here's the bottom line, stephanie, it doesn't matter what we think. it only matters whether those swing votes among republicans, jeff

the white house. and, i just felt like, you know, as a reporter, i needed to find out everything i could find out, and pass it on to the american people. and, that is the rule i tried to follow. >> as a print reporter, with different deadlines, then we are accustomed to thinking about today, right, in the world, where to social media and cable television and talk radio all on all the time. do you see that this coverage has changed dramatically, as the velocity of information has increased? >> i think it is interesting the fact that you started off with a lapdog, washed all, attached dog division, that is a good way to think of this, because, i think we have moved from watchdog to attack dog mostly, now. and part of that, frankly, is that president trump has put us in the position of being the enemy of the american public, as he calls it, fake media as he says. and i know we don't want to draw on president trump, so actually last night i did a little due diligence and look at our history, i wrote a boo

the scene at the white house. the photo op at the white house with kanye west and what he said that drew a reaction from the the president. >>> the space launch emergency. an american astronaut and russian cosmonaut forced to abort mission. >>> and our exclusive interview tonight with first lady melania trump. she is now saying she is the most bullied person in the world and adding she cannot trust people in the white house. >>> good evening tonight from panama city, where it was only today when so many of the people who live here realized the true extent of the destruction, the devastation left behind by the hurricane. never before had they endured a category 4 hurricane and keep in mind, this was nearly a category 5. tonight, we have just landed after flying in a blackhawk over the worst hit area, mexico beach. the moment you come in view, you can see it, homes wiped off the earth. some sitting in the middle of the street. buildings with the roof tops gone and remember, that's right where near it made land fall,

howie: the white house says it's all him, it's not cooked up by strategists. he thinks the mid terms are a factor and he enjoys the fencing with reporters. maybe -- there is so much trump in our lives. we lose sight of the fact that it's very unusual for to see a president in so many forums. does it contrast with his belligerent approach of failing "new york times" and fake news media. gillian: when he's taking outlets like abc, nbc, these are the folks he feels are conspiring against him. as a reporter it's wonderful when he does this. i spent friday reporting live from the white house. it has a wonderful trickle-down effect. when the president gets chatty and talkative and opens up to reporters, everybody else does, too at the white house. you get senior and junior officials willing to grab your ear and tell you a juicy nugget. you get larry kudlow willing to gaggle on the front lawn of the white house. i don't think he's giving them direction to open up but they are following his example. howie: there has been a lot of media chatter about fox news carrying

so let's go to the white house. abby phillip joins us, and the white house this morning is feeling good about this nomination. >> certainly seems that way, poppy. the white house is expressing so much confidence going into this, saying there's no corroboration in the fbi report that would endanger brett kavanaugh's nomination, but they are facing a lot of questions about the scope of this investigation. now, remember, a few days ago, president trump seemed to say that there were no reigns on the fbi investigation. they had free reign to interview whoever they wanted. it turns out that was not true. and the white house acknowledges as much this morning. they suggested that the scope of the investigation was limited by what senate republicans wanted, and here's raj shah explaining why that was. >> the senate has set a scope on what they are interested in. they have already investigated this matter through their own senate process, through the senate judiciary committee. they wanted interviews of additional individuals

we did not agree that the white house should tie the fbi's hands. it's simply not credible to say that public testimony in last week's hearing is a substitute for interviews by fbi agents. not only do senators lack the expertise of fbi agents, we were only given five minutes to question judge kavanaugh. so in my view, from what i saw, the investigation was very limited and it will be interesting after all of the members have an opportunity to read the documents, and we have an opportunity in public to discuss our conclusions, what the findings are. >> thank you, senator feinstein. i just have three points to make. one, we had many fears that this was a very limited process that would constrain the fbi from getting all the facts. having received a thorough briefing on the documents, those fears have been realized. second, i disagree, having received a briefing on all of the documents, i disagree with senator grassley's statement that there was no hint of misconduct. and third, we are reiterated our call, given how limited this -- these documents were

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peter doocy is live from the white house. how else did president trump try to move past that confirmation process? >> the president made a ruling on kavanaugh's innocence with the entire supreme court sitting right next to him. >> president trump: a man or a woman must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. [applause] and with that, i must state that you, sir, under historic scrutiny to be proved innocent. >> most of his time at the podium was spent saying thanks to his family and to the president. >> i am grateful for your steadfast, unwavering support throughout this process and i'm grateful to you and mrs. trump for the exceptionalal, overwhelming courtesy you have extended to my family and me. mr. president, thank you for everything. [applause] >> today is kavanaugh's first day on the supreme court and his daughters got the day off from school to watch him hear two cases. >> sandra: the president is headed to iowa later today. what can you tell us about that? >> he is going to make an announcement at

it is normal that the white house sets the parameters of a background check because the white house is the client here. the fbi is working on their behalf. it's not a normal criminal investigation. but former agents and former prosecutors told us they had never seen before the white house dictating which witnesses people could talk to. and we learned there is a witness list of four people, as you said before, three of whom would have been at the party that dr. ford alleges where the sexual assault happened and the fourth would be deborah ramirez, the accuser. but it wasn't clear they could talk to anyone else that for example deborah said could corroborate her story. and that really -- that started to stick in the craw, we understand, of some of these key senators, including jeff flake and susan collins who were looking at this and wanting to believe that there was a serious fbi investigation, as flake said today, not just a fig leaf, not just a cover so we can vote for this guy. and i think that's led us to where we are today which is a slightly expanded inquiry. >> and just to be cle

moved until i moved into the white house. so, i already had secret service protection. back then -- my mother didn't, but i did because of the threat from the sla. i had secret service protection and my mother didn't, which was such a strange phenomenon. but the most exciting part of it was moving into a place that i had my own bathroom and i did not have to share with my brothers. susan: the secret service protection must have been a real shock to your everyday like. -- life. ms. bales: it was, but i grew up with three older brothers. it was kind of like having your brothers around nonstop. we worked with the secret service and i have always had a good relationship with them. yes, i did disappear once on them, but everybody needs to do that to see if you can do it. and you know, it is fine. i still stay in touch with my secret service agents. they were great friends and they know a lot of secrets that i do not want out. susan: you will be on a panel session tonight, and i should tell people we are recording this at the presi

house driveway passes for the new white house briefing room? they have a perfectly nice briefing room right inside the structure. we haven't seen much of sarah huckabee sanders on camera in recent weeks. the white house secretary defended the president's comments blaming the media for anger in america. just last night at his rally in wisconsin, he called for all sides to come together in peace and harmony. his words. following news of these explosive devices have been mailed to top democrats and to cnn, peter baker and jeremy peters of "the new york times" write, quote, upset the critics linked a spate of pipe bombs targeting his adversaries to his own angry messaging, mr. trump an ban doond the scripted call for a national day of solidarity and lashed out at perceived enemies for fomenting the toxic environment they say he has encouraged. steve schmidt said to find the parallel between what we are witnessing right now this week, you'd have to go all the way back to 1865. >> we haven't seen anything like it since the night abraham lincoln was a

the white house says the bureau has the control to look into kavanaugh. there are reports that witnesses with stories to tell about kavanaugh's behavior are not able to reach fbi agents to talk. kavanaugh and christine blasey ford is not on the witness list of the fbi. >> and they are suggesting the time and scope limits are turning the probe into a, quote, farce. senator flake telling "60 minutes" kavanaugh's nomination is done if it turns out he lied in any way to the judiciary committee. and a kavanaugh classmate at yale claiming the supreme court nominee was not truthful about his drinking in college, and there's more than just one. let's get to abby phillip live at the white house. what is the latest? >> reporter: this fbi investigation is supposed to help bring more clarity to the national debate sparked by the confirmation process, but it has brought new questions as the senate republicans and white house and under fire on how they are handling the probe. sources telling cnn the white house is controlling the scope of the probe, despite president t

it was a busy day at the white house. president trump awarding the nation's highest military honor to a former army medic who braved heavy gun fire and saved ives in afghanistan. he served with the combined joint special operations task force in afghanistan. there's a picture there of president trump putting the meld al of honor around his neck -- medal of honor around his neck. he's now in the secret service. if you want to watch that vernings you can do that at c-span library. we took in that event as well yesterday. but this discussion continues this morning. the event at the white house in the rose garden yesterday. president trump talking about

well what's going to come out of it presumably is that the white house will then be able to act it's under an enormous amount of pressure from the u.s. congress the equal body of government who says if this white house doesn't act it will which are very strong statements just two weeks out from the congressional midterm elections from not just democrats who are usually typically critical of this white house but also republicans members of the president's own party the top ranking one of the top ranking republicans on the foreign relations committee bob corker who chairs that committee is basically saying he doesn't buy the explanation of the crown prince we know that donald trump has had telephone calls with the crown prince up to this point he says that he has accepted his denials but at the same time his actions say just the opposite the fact that he is sending his top intelligence officer an official to go to get to the bottom of this and that's the phrase you're hearing repeatedly whether it's donald trump whether it's the vice president they want to get to the bottom of this the

house and maybe even the white house itself have a pretty good idea of what actually happened in that consulate in istanbul. so the question really is whether or not the white house is giving time for saudi arabia to concoct some sort of story that may or may not be believed by anyone except maybe for president trump. >> is there confirmation that mike pompeo heard that audiotape? it has been reported many places yes. nbc news is saying that tape has not been handed over. but was it played for mike

house, they met in the white house, lovely woman, there's just pain. just absolute pain. this isn't a man she loves and knows, the father of those children, what he's being painted as. the fact he basically defended himself in a vicious, what they call now vicious, i found it aggressive -- trish: wouldn't you? if somebody's making those kind of accusations i would be pretty darned mad. >> you better believe it. you don't want to get me going on something like that, falsely accuse me. i think it's -- trish: what does it mean for midterms now? let's walk this through. they are talking about potentially a vote on saturday. you think it could come that early? >> it can. i think the key thing here is mcconnell is controlling it. it's not going to be distributed. it's going to be one copy. i would predict most of the members, democrats aren't even going to bother to look at it. some will. it will go to the room, got to get it out, spend some time doing it. they made up their minds. my sense is 30 hours of very vicious debate and whatever is in there, whateve

house no details on when that might take place but it seems clear that the goal of the white house is to use the leverage that it can to try and at least shed some light on what's happened and i think the final point in all of this. the president has often been accused of clamping down on. press freedom but in this case he has underscored that he believes when it comes to journalists vocalizing we know the missing journalist in this case had some concerns about liberties and freedom that this may be the crux of what happened and he says we cannot let this happen to reporters to anybody it seems the president has a personal investment in this can really help with the latest from the white house kimberly thank you and that's it from me in london but come out something larry and it's going to be picking up the story this of course still our top story on al-jazeera with all the latest developments i'll see you in one thousand nine hundred g.m.t. it's watching a bike. sweden has his home. in northern iraq his homeland. from which he ran. camera in hand he returns. to film was he was tiny t

and the white house is the client, specifying what to look at. >> i have not seen the white house control a reopeninfstation to this degree. this seems to be an attempt to unusually control not only the interviews that could be done but the investigative steps the bureau can take. >> reporter: another difference, the fbi cannot force anyone to answer questions. cooperation is voluntary. meantime, the supreme court itself remains above the fray, opening its new term today. the remaining justices took their places this morning in just eight chairs behind the court bench, leaving a spot for whoever is confirmed to take the empty place. no hot button cases coming up. a tranquil start for a court about to have a new member. and whoever ends up getting confirmed as a trump nominee will move the court to the right for years to come, lester. >> pete, thank you. >>> as the kavanaugh battle plays out, president trump also announced today he's ripping up nafta and has sealed a new trade deal with canada and mexico, one he says will bring jobs back to the u.s. if lawmakers approve, it could also have

and that's what motivates most of that white house. most of the machinations of that white house are about people stepping up to trump's needs and sort of responding to his desire to be seen as infallible and on top of things. that's generally what motivates that white house. it's fine if you're marketing something. it's not if you're managing something. that's why his white house isn't good at the managing process. >> the other tool he has is the right wing media. the idea bill shine who used to run fox news in the white house, and hope hix who used to run the white house is now at fox news, that should be talked about more. those guys are always on the phone. and those are tools that -- they just do whatever he tells them to do to get ratings to divide us further. >> he's the only messenger on their side that can swallow the racism -- everybody else if they say something obviously racist or obviously sexist, they get hit for it. it hurts them in the polls. trump is the only one that's allowed to be so front and center -- >> but look

jim acosta over at the white house. jim, once again, making it clear, he has no intention of firing the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. >> that's right, wolf. and i thought it was interesting, there was almost -- i don't want to call it a bromance between the president and rod rosenstein. that might be taking things too far. but he was certainly giving him the air force one treatment. he was there in front of the cameras, traveling with the president. and the president making it clee clear, he's not going to fire the deputy attorney general. he may be concluding, wolf, he may be better off in terms of the russia investigation by, you know, showing rod rosenstein some respect. more respect than he has shown to the attorney general, jeff sessions. and that may be just the strategy at this point, moving forward. the russia investigation has been sort of on a slow burn, on the back burner through this midterm election cycle. and we haven't heard a whole lot of that. so perhaps that is the thinking there on the pres

peter alexander was second-degree at the white house. we're going to see if we can get peter up live. joel reuben, your reaction to what you just heard from the secretary of state? >> well, that's a very soft commitment that the secretary got from the saudis. i don't understand why the united states is not sending our own investigators to this site to have an independent verification of what took place. one could really drive a truck through this, and the saudis clearly right now are in control of the narrative, and they will send us the narrative when they're ready, apparently, and that's very troubling, and it's not going to have the kind of credibility that members of congress, i believe, are going to want to really rely on in terms of their assessment of what to do about this situation. >> there's also the urgency factor with secretary pompeo saying we ought to give them a little bit more time to be able to do the investigation. does that seem fair to you? >> well, it's already been a couple of weerks, aks, and appa the saudis sent i

the white house decides which stes turnover. the fbi is working like a private eye in a background investigation and the white use is the client specifying what to look at. >> i have not seen the white house control a reopening of a background investigation to this degree. this seems to be an attempt to unusually control not only the interviewshat could be done but the investigative steps the burro could take. >> reporr: another difference the fbi cannot force anyone to answer questions, cooperation is voluntary. in the meantime, the supreme court veitself remains a the fray opening the new term today. the remaining justices took their place this morng in eight chairs behind the court bench leaving a spot for whoever is confirmed to take the empty place. no hot button cases coming ubut tranquil start for a court about to have a new member and whoever ends up getting confirmed as a trump nominee willove the court to the right for years toome. >> pete, thank you. >>> as the kavanaugh battle plays out, president trump announced tod