Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Your World With Neil Cavuto 20180926

It. You have that. Of course, Rod Rosenstein, right . Whether he will be the Deputy Attorney general or not after tomorrow because guess what . Hes meeting with donald trump tomorrow. So much happening, so fast. Who better to put it in perspective, john roberts with the president soon at the palace hotel in new york city. John . Theres a lot happening, no question about it, neil. Always a lot happening with this white house. Its true this is the First Formal Press Conference that the president has held on u. S. Soil in the United States since february 16th of 2017. Its not to say he doesnt talk to the press a lot. You pointed out the pool sprays that he has had at the u. N. General assembly, he talks on the way to the helicopter, oval office sprays and wideranging press conferences in overseas venues. Most recently nato, singapore as well when he was there with kim jongun. I think he went more than 20 deep in terms of questions. It was up there for over an hour. So first formal one on u. S. Soil in a long time. What we expect to get to today will be a lot of questions about his nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh. Of course with three women coming out to level allegations against him and that Judiciary Committee hearing tomorrow. This is top of mind for the president. When he sat down with shinzo abe of japan, the president weighed in on the latest accusations against kavanaugh will filed by Michael Avenatti. Listen to what the president said. I think its ridiculous. Its a con game theyre playing. The democrats have been playing this game that is disgraceful, a disgrace to the country and i think youll see it in the midterms. People are wise to it. Its a con game. Its a high quality person that brings people out of the woods. They can do that to anybody. Im sure one of the questions that the president will get to today is theres all of these calls from democrats that the fbi should have been looking into these allegations. You go back to 1991 when anita hill raised to joe biden her allegations against Clarence Thomas, those were handed off to the white house. They had not become public. The white house asked the fbi as part of Clarence Thomass background check to look into her allegations. He was interviewed. There was criticism that it wasnt thorough enough. Kavanaugh will probably get questions on kavanaugh and Rod Rosenstein as well. The president after he wraps up here at the u. N. , will be going back to the white house where he will sit down and have a frank conversation with Rod Rosenstein about all of the allegations. Something else the president brought up today that is worthy of discussion, the charges that he levelled at china and russia again on election tampering saying that china is taking out ads that look like news stories in newspapers like the Des Moines Register to try to swing the election to the democrats and take away some of his power to go after china on trade. North korea, the list goes on and on, neil. At 5 00 or so when the president arrives here at the palace, state tuned. It will be mustsee tv, neil. Neil real quickly. Were hearing reports that the president was disappointed in Brett Kavanaughs response in the Martha Maccallum interview and in his tweets to these women and their charges. That the real sentiment building that the judge has to be super forceful and passionate in his response tomorrow. I think theres no question that the judge has got to put forward his absolute best case. Dont forget, hes not going to be questioned by senators at least on the republican side. Hes going to be questioned by a seasoned prosecutor of sex crimes for maricopa county, arizona. So he better have his a game on. I really do believe that his nomination rises or falls not only on what he says tomorrow but how he says it as well, neil. Neil thanks very much. The president will be speaking at the top of the hour. Ahead of that, the focus is exclusively right now on this hearing about Christine Blasey ford and her charges dating back to when she and the judge were both high school students. But two other womens names have come up in the interim, Deborah Ramirez who has similar claims about her interactions with the judge when they were students at yale. So in college. So then a woman of materialized Julie Swetnick. A Michael Avenatti client that goes on to make charges. Theyre different but part of the theme that the judge was a serial harasser and more. Now, the issue were hearing is that these other women cannot be brought up. That its Christine Blasey ford will be the focus of this. That will not stop the Democratic Senators on that panel when the judges turn to respond to dr. Fords charges to address these other women. Enter emily. This could turn into bedlam, couldnt it . What is your sense . Yeah. This is a very, very fragile situation. I think theres a reason that theres a seasoned prosecutor that will be doing a lot of the questioning tomorrow. Not only because there are no female republican senators on the senate Judiciary Committee but shes seasoned in investigating sex crimes. I think well see her being leaned on heavily and for a reason. But this is a very fragile situation. When you have allegations like this, of course it is. But at the same time, i think its very, very important to note from what i sense the mood of the Republican Base has shifted critically when it comes to allegations of President Trump will feel embolden and that could embolden republicans on the Judiciary Committee. Theres a sense that what is happening a democratic delay strategy and the Republican Base is sick of it and wants to see the senator stand up to that. Neil so lets go on this personal crimes prosecutor will be serving in her role of counsel asking dr. Ford these questions. Are both sides of the senators expected to honor that and let her do all the questioning . If republicans want to jump in, can they and conversely as the judge has to take on and deal with those accusations from Rachel Mitchell, can either side, senators most notably democrats, get their chance to pounce on him an question him . Senator grassley will be presiding over the hearing. I dont know exactly what to expect in terms of whether democrats will try to jump in, whether republicans try to jump in. Im sure that senator grassley has a strategy and im sure that he has laid out his expectations to both sides as to how he expects this to play out. Weve seen him be very forceful. Hes used a great tone in explaining that he wants fairness and he wants people on both sides to come with a sense of primary mission to get to the bottom of this, not boost their president ial bid or put on partisan shows. Well have to see how it goes down. I expect probably a more reserve process than what we saw in the initial hearings. Neil the focus had to be on at least originally christine fords allegations. Its possible the Democratic Senators could go on to the other allegations and particularly with the judge, right . Its certainly possible. I think it would be kind of odd and maybe unfortunate. We have two sessions. One with ford around one with kavanaugh. So you have to give the whole point of the hearing is to give both sides equal time to be probed on what happened and tell their stories. If were bringing in other people that are not represented, im not sure how fair that will be. Neil its going to be crazy. Thanks, emily. Lets get the read on capitol hill from peter doocy. You know, peter, i listened to Chuck Schumer. He thought this hearing should be delayed and that he went so far to say that the judge should just step down. What is the sentiment building ahead of this on the hill . Neil, its all systems go. 18 hours from now, this room will have Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey ford. The hot seat is there in the front seat getting ready. The way that we understand it, the room empty now but once republicans are in there, they plan to yield most of their time to Rachel Mitchell, the experienced sex time prosecutor from arizona taking leave to be here. Both sides are bringing their own evidence. Brett kavanaugh will be his calendar from 1982 where the month of may lists cutting the lawn, being grounded and basketball related activities. Dr. Christine ford is bringing evidence in the form of sworn affidavits signed by friends that tell the committee that later in life she mentioned that she was sexually assaulted by someone who became a federal judge including one that says it came up during a conversation about the stanford trial of brock turner. This is going on even though theres fresher allegations brought by Julie Swetnick who is represented Michael Avenatti and alleged that kavanaugh and his High School Friend took advantage of drunk girls and were present while some were gang raped. These allegations are absolutely breathtaking. They are a gut punch for this nomination. Kavanaugh allies see a lack of evidence with all of the allegations as a reason to move forward with a Committee Vote quickly. I dont believe Brett Kavanaugh is a serial rapist. Theres nothing in his background the way he lived his life to give legitimacy to these claims. I look forward to hearing from mrs. Ford tomorrow. Chuck grassleys investigators are working right now to try to flesh out the latest batch of accusations and while they do, theyre saying tomorrows hearing will continue because to cancel it in light of anything else would not be fair to dr. Christine blasey ford. Kneel. Neil thanks very much. Theres three senators you want to watch closely as their sentiment is building and well explore this later on. Jeff flake, republican Lisa Murkowski and republican susan collins. Jeff flake said some very powerful things on the floor of the senate today. Well get to the implications of that because republicans could really afford to lose one vote among their peers. They lose two, this is not happening. Assuming that all democrats vote against the judge. That is not a given but it seems to be a growing consensus here that this latest dust up over the judge and these allegations provides cover for some of those democrats running for reelection in states that the president won big might have an excuse not to vote for the judge. It is what it is. It wasnt a leap to say the Federal Reserve did exactly as respected. Hiked Interest Rates. The market was big deal. Its a testament to the strong economy. Then they started parsing words that the economy is filing on all cylinders, things are picking up, unemployment could be 3. 7 and maybe lower and you have concern that the Interest Rate pace of increases could be more than earlier thought. It weighs on them. It started selling. And then theres trade fears. All of which will probably come up in the president s press conference. He has an opportunity to go after jerome powell, he has an opportunity to go after the critics and Michael Avenatti. He has a lot to go after and he will in probably 45 minutes. Stay with us. [knocking] memories. What we deliver by delivering. If youre waiting patiently for a liver transplant, it could cost you your life. Its time to get out of line with upmc. At upmc, livingdonor transplants put you first. So you dont die waiting. Upmc does more livingdonor liver transplants than any other center in the nation. Find out more and get out of line today. Neil all right. Youre looking live at new york where were waiting to hear from the president of the United States who will be the First Formal Press Conference in awhile. He does a lot of these exchanges with reporters on an ad hoc basis coming or going to the air force one or marine one. Many of the questions about what is going to happen tomorrow on capitol hill, two big developments. Christine blasey ford will get a chance to level her accusations about Brett Kavanaugh. Were learning from senator hirona thinks this is too much. With the other women coming to light, thats why im formally demanding mr. Kavanaughs nomination to the Supreme Court be withdrawn. Shes urging those that support her to sign a petition to that respect demanding the president do the right thing and cut the guy off. Does not appear to be likely but followed the likes of Chuck Schumer that said a better part of valor might be for the judge to step aside. Again, that is not likely to happen. The president has been strongly defending his pick for the Supreme Court. So well see what happens there. Tomorrow is a red letter day for other developments including the president s first sit down with his Deputy Attorney general, Rod Rosenstein. That will be at the white house tomorrow. It will concern his future there. All of this after comments that Rod Rosenstein allegedly made back in 2017 wondering whether he should wear a wire and whether the president was fit for office and invoking the 25th amendment to kick him out of there. What will happen tomorrow with the president . Does he fire him . Maybe Rod Rosenstein quits . We have no way of gauging this. Lets get the read from house judiciary member, matt yates who says the guy should resign but for other reasons. You have a host of reasons. If you took it in the light most favorable to Rod Rosenstein, he would have been joking about wearing a wire on the president of the United States. That is an inappropriate thing to do when you lead the Justice Department. You dont make jokes about destabilizing the presidency in front of your colleagues and subordinates. In an administration where theres a culture to resist the commanderinchief, it seems as though this is the type of contribution to that ecosystem that is very unhelpful. So its my expectation that if Rod Rosenstein is not before the house Judiciary Committee to give testimony about what happened and the context that we may force a vote on his impeachment. So if the president says i want you to stay and youre working with your colleagues and the House Freedom caucus and elsewhere saying we kick you out, youre not on the same page . We have an obligation separate and distinct from the president. Our job is not to work for the president. We work within the congress to conduct oversight on the department of justice. Its literally our job in the Judiciary Committee. I wouldnt care if it was a republican president , a democrat, a president i liked or didnt like. If you have employees at the Justice Department making these jokes or maybe it was a joke to try to gauge peoples reaction to see if it would lead to further conduct, we dont know. Its really bad for the country to be addressing these questions in the absence of facts on the record under oath. Thats why mark meadows is meeting right now with Speaker Paul Ryan to see if well secure a hearing for mr. Rosenstein to give that sworn testimony before the congress breaks for october. Neil we dont know what really happened and whether he really made the remarks. They were in gest or earnest or taken out of contest and how things have changed since they were allegedly made. So much we dont know. Congressman, im curious to get your gauge on lets say you get what you want. Maybe be careful what you wish for because now you have a guy who would turn into a witness for james comey or certainly bob mueller going back to the comey firing and everything else. That could create a bigger mess for the president. I dont think its about making a mess for the president. I think its about transparency for the american people. Whether the information is good, bad. Its good to have things play out committee on the senate side urging the democrats to postpone the hearing. Many democrats think its a combination of charges here that the judge is damaged goods and should step aside. How do you feel about that . I think its particularly disappointing that senator hirono from hawaii is fundraising off of this. Making statements about the appointment and using it to dry to generate campaign contributions. That is not helpful to the process were in. I also think its dangerous if we say that the sum of allegations, the volume of allegations is sufficient to not have to test the voracity or truthfulness or legitimacy of those allegations. We dont want to live in a country where the allegation and the conviction are synonymous. We have to test those claims. The senate has set up a fair procedure to do that and well gauge the credibility and move forward with the nomination. Neil all right. Lets see what happens. Thanks very much. Theres no response from Chuck Grassley on this call. Hes denied the necessity to have to postpone anything or put off a vote or anything that the democrats are demanding, not the least of which saying kavanaugh should step down. Not having in the eyes of the republicans and the judge himself. More after this. Waze. Waze integration seamlessly connecting the world inside with the world outside. Making life a little easier. The new wellconnected 2019 lincoln mkc. But prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. The full value oft wyour new car . Youd be better off throwing your money right into the harbor. Im gonna regret that. With Liberty Mutual new car replacement well replace the full value of your car. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty if someone wanted to block me from the Supreme Court of the United States because of my views on the constitution, thats fine. If someone wanted to block me because they felt i wasnt qualified, thats fine. If someone wanted to block me because they dont like the composition of the court, thats fine. But to destroy me, senator, i would have preferred an assassins bullet. Neil you have to go back in time with Clarence Thomas because after anita hill testified and made her case against him, he was dead man walking. He was not going to be a Supreme Court justice. It was close. Ultimately he was. And a lot of his performance afterwards, answering her charges, whether you believe him or her, spoke to that. In other words, he got in everyones face, particularly the Democratic Senators questioning him. Andrew napolitano known to get in peoples faces knows a thing or two about it. The president has been very critical were told of Brett Kavanaughs performance. Not only in the interview with Martha Maccallum but how hes just handled the charges. That he has to bring it up a notch. What do you make of that . The model is what you just ran. Then judge, now justice Clarence Thomas. He did two or three things which are remarkable. He was very, very strong. He was the wrath of god. You ran the best clip of the four hours of his testimony. He condemned the whole process, including senators by name. And then when he was asked what senators thought of professor hills allegations and performance, he said i dont know. I didnt watch it. You could hear a pin drop. You didnt watch it . No. Its garbage. Why would i waste my time watching it. I blew everybody away. It changed some of the winds in his direction. Im not suggesting that judge kavanaugh not watch the morning session neil because they went to great leaps here that he would come second half. But the voracity, the indignation that he showed carried the day. He was looking for a nomination from a senate that was 56 democrats to 44 republicans. He got confirmed 5248. Judge kavanaugh has one vote a majority of republicans. According to bob corker, two hours ago with our peter doocy, i think 20 republicans havent made up their minds. Neil i was going to ask that. A lot on the fence. Jeff flake on the fence. Chuck grassley can respond to these. One second. Just as soon as we got the information neil all right. I apologize for that. He said as soon as we got the information and they left. I think i know what he said. As soon as we got the information from Michael Avenatti about the third accuser, we reached out to him to put our investigators in touch with her to interrogate her on the phone to see if we want to bring her in. Were not going to put off the hearing. Neil its not part of this hearing. But democrats could make it part in the questioning of the judge, right . They could. Neil explain the process. Who is down to do what . Well, the republicans are not going to say a word until after the prosecutor from arizona theyve hired to speak for them has finished interrogating dr. Ford. They can still ask questions afterwards. But only when shes finished. They are going to confine their questions to dr. Fords allegations. The democrats are going to expand their questions to the ramirez allegations, the one about the alleged gang rape, and the i forgot her name. Michael avenattis client neil swetnick. The one that came out awhile ago. Those are very serious. She held three highranking jobs in the federal government which required fbi investigations of her in order to get the security clearances that she received. Neil but all of these were pre that time. Yes. Neil so let me ask you about what the procedure will be. This could go very late, could be out of order, out of order and they could walk and leave, a number of democrats said we think this should be postponed. Chuck grassley said its not going to happen. This is focused on Christine Blasey ford. How is this going to go . I think its going to be extremely contentious. I think youll see clips of the Martha Maccallum interview run for judge kavanaugh and the democrats are going to try to impeach his testimony by claiming they have evidence to challenge what he told her. That he becaasically i dont think he could have come across as forceful. Neil what would have been forceful like you saw with Clarence Thomas. If i was advising him, dont do the interview. Dont do it for two reasons. One, the basic rule of criminal procedure 101 is you dont deny something in public until youve been accused in public. He was answering a newspaper article, not the actual accuser. Neil they did it for a reason to humanize him. You think too much so . I think they did it because they came to the same conclusions that chad pergram is. The at the time they made that decision, they didnt have the votes. By putting him out there, humanizing him may bring some votes in. The other reason for not doing it is you have given your adversaries the ten democrats in that committee more ammunition with which to cross examine you. You dont want to do that. That train has left the station. Theres 45 minutes of that interview that they can run and rerun and rerack and rerun. Right. Neil judge, thanks. Would love to see you being questioned by these guys. Probably a sevensecond delay. We shall see. More according to Mitch Mcconnell who isnt moving anything. Hes still sticking to the timetable at hand. 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Lets get the read from senate gop conference chair, john thune. Thanks for taking the time. You heard what your democratic counter parts are saying. Maybe in the chase of Chuck Schumer, maybe the judge just steps down. What do you think . I think thats been the strategy from the beginning from the democrats, neil. Its been delay, block, obstruct, stall, try and push this off into next year. Thats what theyve been doing from the beginning, which is why i think that this information which the democrats have had in their position going back to july was Just Launched at the last minute to try to drag this process out and sink this nomination. I dont think the democrats had a fair process in mind. They tried to hijack this process, turn it into a circus and thats what theyre doing now. Trying to consistently drag this out. So i cant put much stock or credence into any statements theyre making at the moment because theyre all politically motivated. Neil senator, we know this is about Christine Blasey ford and her charges. If democrats wanted to bring up Deborah Ramirez, another woman laying down similar comments while they were in charge and Julie Swetnick, a Michael Avenatti client, they can do that but then it could concei conceivably become a circus. Are you worried . I expect that will come up. Democrats will use any and all means. They go into this hearing, a bunch of them tomorrow that are running for president , including the attorney of the latest accuser. This is all about politics. Theyre going to do everything they can to try to turn this into a circus, try to discredit and launch character assassinations at judge kavanaugh. But i think at the end of the day, tomorrow well present an opportunity for judge kavanaugh to make his case nor dr. Ford to make her case. If they want to ask questions, they can ask questions about the other accusers. Everything is going to be fair game tomorrow. I hope when its said and done, what will come out are facts and truth. Those are the things that our members, republican members, want to see happen. They want to see a process that leads us to the facts, leads us to the truth and not one that is used for political purposes. I think again, thats what the democrats have been doing from day one. Neil they say the same of republicans. That might shock you. Let me ask you about the timetable for this, senator. Mr. Connell has said likely a friday vote out of committee. Setting the stage for everyone staying in town for debate that would end with a tuesday vote in the full senate. Is that doable . Given these other womens charges . You know, from a timing standpoint, it will depend on what happens tomorrow. As of right now, the process that the leader has laid out, well see what happens in the hearing. Just a moment to defend. When you mentioned earlier, you mentioned the democrats attacking the republicans nor being political. I cant think of a more open, fair process. He answered questions for more than 30 hours from members of the Judiciary Committee. He answered questions in a closed setting. He answers 1,247 questions neil theyre saying the way this was handled and the fact that no fbi investigation, no follow up on the other women. Six fbi investigations and every allegation has been raised, the Judiciary Committee has aggressively gone out to whoever that accuser is and tried to bring them in to interview them. Theyre doing everything they can to investigate this. Thats the power that they have. They actually have had authority neil and theres reports theres no corroborations for any of the charges. Ill leave that to the Judiciary Committee. Based on the reporting that weve seen, thats true. Theres no corroboration, theres no sta theres theres theres no neil you think the way the judge came off in the interview he had with our Martha Maccallum on that he didnt show enough passion or rage or whatever . Do you think he comported himself well in that . That he has to be much more much stronger, more in your face for want of a better expression tomorrow . I think he will. Tomorrow will be very combative, which i suspect will bring that sort of passion out. But i think hes handled himself well in the interview. I think people want to see somebody that is measured, who is out there to defend himself and his family, but at the same time does it in a way that is very straightforward and respectful. I get a lot of people, a lot of critics that no matter what hes said or how he said it would be critical. I thought he handled himself in that interview and handle himself tomorrow. This is a real opportunity, neil, to get everything, get the facts out there. Hes denied all of these things categorically. I think at this point, its thyme to get it all on the table and lets move forward with this process. Neil the president will be speaking in 15 minutes. He will want to mention when it comes to Michael Avenatti and his client with the latest charges. Many of your republican colleagues have said please, sir, dont. How do you feel . Its probably better at this point to allow the process to play out here on capitol hill. I think that its been a very as i said, a fair, open process. Senator grassley has bent over backwards to accommodate anybody that wants to come forward with the accusations and interview them hand get the facts. But at the end of the day, its probably in everybodys best interests if the Judiciary Committee do their work tomorrow and then absent anyth changing as a result of this, this process moves forward in an orderly way under regular order in the rules of the senate and we ultimately get a chance to vote up or down on judge kavanaughs nomination. I understand that, you know, the president may want to weighin on this. This is something that hes heavily invested in. Its his nominee to the Supreme Court. 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Well take the under and over on that and how much the president will and wont say. He might crow about the fact that the markets have been resilient, zipping a little today. This is a point i want to race with Charles Payne. Because well, he bragged about it in the United Nations and reminding folks, we had a reminder for the Federal Reserve Interest Rates went up. We expected that. No big surprise. Everything was going good. But then Charles Payne what did the chairman say that set him off . Im not sure that it was anything specific. I feel like for me, gone back decades. At the end of these meetings, the last two hours of trading, its very hard to raise. People are emotional. People trying to read the tea leaves. Its more machine driven than anything else. They put out a chart this morning. The last three times they hike rates. Look at the charts, identical. Same pattern. You popped into the announce meant. Neil people are talking about the chairman of the Federal Reserve, things are good. Theyre really good. So good that maybe well have to hike rates more than we thought. That is something that the president just cannot fathom. Been critical in the past of that policy. Somebody asked about the president and a war. He reminded that the fed is an independent body. Neil he expressed concern echoed by other colleagues about the trade. Sure. He did. But his first answer i thought was interesting. If you add up all of the tariffs announced, theyre relatively small. Thus far, theyre hard to see much of an impact. He did relate the comments to him from Business Leaders if th if they get to their worst point. If we have global protectionism, thats not good for the american economy. Neil and i read i didnt follow as closely hes not a riveting guy. But one of the things i did find out that i thought, hes got to continue to get ahead of this improving economy. On paper, its good. Were dealing with four year highs in Interest Rates, six plus year highs in oil prices. So you could make the argument, we have inflation. By the same token, they raised the gdp outlook for the third time but they didnt change the inflation outlook, which is interesting. So what were looking at, three rate hikes in 2019, one in 2020. Then theyre done. The market will probably rally. Goldilocks is tossed around. Is this as good as its getting . This is the ultimate environment. He kind of alluded to it also. He said in this environment, we should be taking care of some other issues like our massive debt, wink wink. The best we can hope for is that its susstained and he will do his part to make sure he doesnt wreck it. Neil thanks, charles. Were waiting to hear from the president. Hes telling the United Nations audiences and World Leaders that we are the engine of the world and that is the wind after his back. He will argue at the republicans back and who stays and goes, whether someone moves on to the Supreme Court or someone else leaves as Deputy Attorney general, the backdrop for all of this is a sound economy, sound markets and everything going just fine if everyone just steps back. Unfortunately nobody is in a mood to stop back. More after this. Is is stoningto, a town where almost half the population is selfemployed. Lobster fisherman is the lifeblood of this town. By 2030, half of america may take after stonington, selfemployed and without employer benefits. We havent had any sort of benefit plans and were trying to figure that out now. If i had had a little advice back then, id be in a different boat today, for sure. Plan your Financial Life with prudential. Bring your challenges. Your society was dearled by a woman, who governed thousands. Commanded armies. Yielded to no one. When i found you in my dna, i learned where my strength comes from. 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Neil was jeff flake signaling a no vote on this, when it comes to a vote, the Supreme Court. Caitlin owens from axios. The man who has a different take on it, from the daily caller. Who says this could be jeff flakes way of providing a grudging. I think it was i think jeff flake is going to bas on this and i think ultimately what he was doing here is taking the opportunity to attack donald trump for his statements about the process. The president of the United States. And simultaneously come out and say that with a heavy heart, tomorrow were going to have inconclusive evidence about what actually transpired but in the end, were going have to make a decision and yes this will forever be steeped in doubt, whatever decision we end up making. It sounds to me like he is preparing his watchers for his yes vote this week. I dont know, neil. This could go either way. I think some senators, some of these key swing vote senators, Lisa Murkowski, susan collins, jeff flake, i think they are trying to watch the hearing with an open mind and we just dont know. Tomorrow, theres going to be crazy fireworks on both sides. We dont know what can come out. I think flake was kind of thing this process has been ugly. We will see what happens. I didnt get the sense that he was signaling his vote either way. Neil there is another worry that tomorrows could quickly go off the rails. Rachel mitchell is going to be asking the questions of dr. For dr. Ford. Everyone might stick to that except when it comes time for the judge to answer, where a number of Democratic Senators, a good many running for president , could berate him on that and also get into his thoughts on these additional women who we were told were not supposed to come up tomorrow but invariably well. I think senator flake is correct and that senators should keep an open mind but i think democrats have made a very easy for republicans to take a yes vote on Brett Kavanaugh because they have totally overreached in this entire episode. The most important part of this entire process is the truth, and democrats have done what they do best which is obscuring what the truth is during this entire process. If they were really interested in getting to the bottom of the matter, they would have released the letter that was sent from the initial allegation prior to the sick leaks than what they waited to release it. They would have the evidence handed over to the committees of both sides could pour over it and investigate whether or not theres actually corroborating evidence of these allegations. These allegations are very unequivocally not justifiable. Neil criticism that has come up, a sort of kneejerk response that youre getting from a number of democrats saying forget about delaying it. The judge should step down. Do you think thats a little extreme . Yes. I definitely think its extreme. I agree with senator flake that we need to listen to this with an open mind. Thats really the best thing he possibly could have said because at the end of the day, this is going to be he says, she said. We have got to really keep an open mind here and listen to her story, listen to his. They are going to have a very difficult task of determining the truth. Its going to be trial by fire. With only 1 out of 3 americans right now supporting this Supreme Court justices nomination, its trouble for the g. O. P. I understand why the democrats are seizing on it but i wish politics were staying out of this. Because of the nature of these allegations themselves. Neil we shall see. President of the United States a little bit early. To address this and anything else. The United Nations in new york, this is quite a gathering. Wow. Its a lot of people. A lot of media. [laughter] we have covered a great deal of territory. Just left, as you know, Prime Minister abe of japan. We are starting trade talks with japan. They were not willing for years to talk trade, now they are willing to talk trade. Im sure will make a very good deal. Just concluded, as you know, two days ago, signed a deal with south korea, trade, tremendous deal with south korea, a lot of business for our farmers. We are opening up for farmers, we are opening up for a lot of different groups. Were going to be able to sell much more than double the number of automobiles that we were allowed under a deal that was totally defective that was there before. We are very happy with that. That deal is concluded. We are very well along the way with mexico, the relationship is very good and with canada, we will see what happens. They are charging us 300 tariffs on dairy products. We cant have that. We cant have that. With china, as you know, we put out an announcement today. They would like to see me lose an election because theyve never been challenged like this but i want to open up china to our farmers and industrialists and companies, and china is not open but we are open to them. They charge us 25, 35, 55 for things and we charge them nothing in terms of coming into the country. Cars, 25 . We are at 2 and 2. 5 and dont collect it but we collect it now. So we are doing very well in our situation with china on trade. I have a great relationship with the president of china, president xi. But its got to be a two two wy streets. Waiting 24 years and longer was not and trillions and tons of dollars was taken out of the United States for the benefit of china. We just cant have that. We have to make it fair. So we are at 250 billion now with 25 interest and a lot of money is coming into our coffers and it had no impact, absolutely, no impact on our economy which i said it wouldnt. In fact steel is like the hottest industry there is. If you look at what happen with steel, charging a 25 tariff for the dumpers. They dumped massive amounts of steel and they want to put the Steel Companies out of business and after they are out of business they will come in and