Attorney general to serve his political agenda rather than the law. Making the dubious argument that the oped in the New York Times posed a National Security threat to the country. Here is the audio of the president responding on air force one. I will say this, for somebody to do that its very low. And i think journalistically and from many different standpoints and maybe even from the stand point of National Security. Well find out about that. For the New York Times to allow that to happen, thats disgraceful. Do you think Jeff Sessions should be investigating who the author of the oped place was or who i think so. Because i think its National Security. It is like a third world dictator ordering the secret police going after somebody who says something about the boss. To government, that was his phrase. To government at once. Subjecting the anonymously published article amounted to treason. The president doubled down on that allegation and accused the New York Times itself of treason.
Investigation . Her sister in law are my guests. Im kate bolduan. We have breaking news. Donald trump orders an fbi investigation, the white house says the president has authorized a new fbi Background Investigation into his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, and the allegations of Sexual Misconduct against him. The investigation, according to the president , will be limited in scope and must be completed in less than a week. That time line now delaying plans for the entire senate to hold a final vote on Brett Kavanaugh, so why the delay . It started with one republican senator, jeff flake, who went from saying i will vote for kavanaugh this morning at about 9 25 a. M. To demanding an fbi investigation before the final vote just hours later. What happened in those few short hours in between . This remarkable confrontation. I was sexually assaulted and nobody believed me i didnt tell anyone and youre telling all women that they dont matter, that they should just stay quiet because
Notably not interviewed, Christine Blasey ford, whose allegation prompted the investigation, nor did they talk to judge kavanaugh. There was one notable profile in courage today. I must say, north dakota democratic senator Heidi Heitkamp, whos locked in a very tough reelection battle out there, announced her decision to vote against kavanaugh. The process has been bad, but at the end of the day, you have to make a decision. And ive made that decision. And that decision will be what, senator . I will be voting no on judge kavanaugh. Well, in a statement, heitkamp noted she voted for justice neil gorsuch, but added, when i listened to dr. Ford testify, i heard the voices of women i have known throughout my life who have similar stories of Sexual Assault and abuse. Other democrats expressed frustration a that the fbi had not spoken to ford nor a host of other potential witnesses in connection with the probe. The most notable part of this report is whats not in it. It looks to be a product
I want to bring in senior reporting eric ordin, Gloria Borger and former assistant attorney general of the new Jersey Division of criminal justice. Lets get right to it. This is an extraordinary nine pages of reporting through tth wall street journal that i just blew through a second ago. They said they interviewed three dozen people. They do such a nice piece of just crafting the chronology of following the money and connecting the dots. So lay it out for us, if people havent read it. Sure. The story does a very good job, as you said, at sort of piecing together some activity that was known prior to Michael Cohen being charged in august about, as the journal had previously reported, cohens participation in these schemes to pay off Stormy Daniels and also to orchestrate payments to Karen Mcdougal through American Media, the publisher of the national enquirer. What this new story tells us is a more detailed look at Donald Trumps particular participation in directing these payments, his
This is cnn breaking news. Here we go, hour two. All eyes are on the Financial Markets where stocks are once again in freefall, at one point the dow dropping more than 800 points, wiping out much of gains for the entire year. The dow is down more than 660 points. Driving much of todays deep declines, confusion over the status of the u. S. China trade deal. Catherine, yesterday investors were essentially cheering the news out of the china trump talks. Whats going on today . What happens is what often happens when trump decides to meet with foreign leaders. He comoes out declaring there i an incredible deal when there is no such deal. And this time around trump met with chinese president xi. He came out of this meeting declaring that the biggest deal ever had just been made. In fact, if you look at the announcement, the statement that came out of the u. S. Side of things and the statement that came out of the chinese side of things, they dont match at all. Its not clear that anything spe