president trump today suggesting the fbi shouldn t get involved in the new judge kavanaugh investigation because the agency doesn t want to. the president insisting it s not really their thing. yet, the president has directed the fbi along with the department of justice and director of national intelligence to declassify sensitive information related to the ongoing russia investigation of his administration. in an interview with the hill today, the president says it will be viewed as a, quote, crowning achievement of his presidency because it will, quote, expose something that is truly a cancer in our country. here to talk about all of it, chuck rosenberg, a former u.s. attorney and former senior official at the fbi, and matthew miller, former chief spokesman for the department of justice. chuck, not the first time i asked you to fact check the president, likely won t be the last. when the president says this isn t their kind of thing, and they really don t want to do it, what sho
background investigation into judge kavanaugh? would you support such a thing? it wouldn t bother me other than the fbi, john, said that they really don t do that. that s not what they do. president trump today suggesting the fbi shouldn t get involved in the new judge kavanaugh investigation because the agency doesn t want to. the president insisting it s not really their thing. yet, the president has directed the fbi along with the department of justice and director of national intelligence to declassify se e sensitive information related to the ongoing russia investigation of his administration. in an interview with the lhill q today, the president says it will be viewed as a, quote, crowning achievement of his presidency because it will, quote, expose something that is truly a cancer in our country. here to talk about all of it, chuck rosenberg, a former u.s. attorney and former senior official at the fbi, and matthew miller, former chief spokesman for the department of justi
anonymous that now comes out and says in high school he assaulted her. dianne feinstein has the let earn did not give it to the senate judiciary committee. there s no discussion on it. do you believe that a discussion can move forward or that the vote can move forward without that conversation being had? i think it all depends on what senators murkowski and collins do. whether they believe the accusations, you know, whether the woman comes out publicly. if she comes out and doesn t want to, to defend her this allegation and say exactly what happened, then the confirmation may be in doubt. right now it seems like it s all steam ahead. and republicans are kind of using the same playbook as a couple decades ago with clarence thomas. and saying, well, these are unverifiable. we don t trust this woman. they have released a letter from
nbc has a team of reporters on the ground tracking this storm as it continues across the carolinas. i want to go now to one of the areas hardest hit by florence, that is new bern, north carolina. garrett haake usually covers the u.s. capitol for us. he s covering what was north carolina s colonial capital. that being new bern. garrett, what s the latest? reporter: i m glad we finally found the intersection point between my two beats on this story here, david. look, the latest here is actually pretty good news. there is no one in the city of new bern who is going to have to spend the night in a flooded home tonight who doesn t want to. the city says that over 400 calls for rescue have been answered. they have gotten everyone who was trapped in homes around this town out of those homes and into shelters. that s the good news. the bad news is there are still lots of neighborhoods in and around this town that are inundated with floodwaters. some of it had come from the river behind me, t
away, quit talking about it. because the more that the president talks about it, the more attention that he draws to it, the less again, the less likely it is for the message from republicans, you know, the tax reform package has been passed, all of these things that they ve done since the president has been in office, all of those messages get displaced by the news of president trump going off, you know, on legal woes. that s just, again, something that he doesn t want to they don t want to contend with. they want to be on offense when they re running for reelection and, frankly, the less the president says about this the better. and something tells me the interview that s coming out later today with fox news is going to drive the headlines, especially about what the president knew about those two payments that have become such a source of this problem. molly hooper, thank you very much. reporter: thank you. and congressman duncan hunter called the indictment filed against