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weren't all excited about voting for roy moore once this came out, even a weak endorsement from trump might get those people excited. alabama is very much trump country. >> reporter: no one here seems to think that trump's backing is any game changer, not in a state where voters take pride in putting a thumb in the eye of the establishment, even the republican establishment. >> even if all of these allegations were proven definitively to be positive, i would still vote for him over doug jones. >> what we're getting nationally is, oh, alabamans would vote for a pedophile over a liberal democrat. >> in this circumstance, yes. >> reporter: now let's get to the bad news coming out of the roy moore campaign and that is the communications director, that's john rodgers, suddenly called it quits. the campaign is trying to downplay this, saying this was a decision they reached last friday. however, they also say it's because of the intense media scrutiny that they felt they needed a more experienced hand
in the communications job. but to change a communications director this close to election raises a lot of eyebrows, poppy. >> it does indeed. marty savage, we appreciate the reporting. thank you. app ry april ryan, tom bates, and kiersten powers joins us. tom, let me begin with you given your position there in alabama. what do you think after seeing marty's piece and from all the folks you talk to. do voters care what trump thinks about moore, or do those other republicans who spoke out against moore carry more weight? >> i think marty did a good job of capturing where we are now. trump's statement yesterday i think will give some voters cover to vote for roy moore, but right now both candidates are fiercely focused on a small segment of republicans who
believe the allegations and are really struggling between party loyalty and moral values. if it goes party lines, of course more wins. if it goes values he may not necessarily win. i don't think his platform really reflects what the majority of folks in alabama think at this point. >> kiersten, we learned in the presidential election in 2016 voters are not always honest when it comes to what they tell polsters. we saw the trump effect right after that "access hollywood" tape dropped in october. voters didn't want to admit they were going to vote for the president but went on to do so. the latest poll we have out of alabama shows the democrat, doug jones, is up by 8 points. the moore campaign says don't believe that for a second. here's the chief campaign strategist, dean young. >> fox news puts out their fake polls and everybody else can. the people of alabama don't go for what y'all are trying to sell. >> okay, that's his take. now that the president has
weighed in with such staunch support of roy moore, does that give other republicans cover to say how they really feel? >> first, it's a little hard to believe an 8-point lead by a democrat. is that what you said? you said the democrat is up 8? >> yeah. >> that's very hard to believe, even in these circumstances. roy moore already wasn't a particularly strong candidate prior to this happening. i think he was up about 6 points prior to this in a state that trump won by almost 30 points. but at a minimum, the polls seem to be neck and neck. the other thing is that they have definitely eroded -- his support has eroded since the news broke. so it's being factored in. does trump make a difference? it certainly doesn't hurt him. i think it probably helps him but we need to remember the primary where republican voters chose to ignore what trump had to say and went with roy moore in the first place. i think that it helps him
by him on capitol hill and also at the rnc, and the rnc has broken ranks by not giving funding and support to roy moore. people on the hill, you have senate and house leaders who have said, look, there's credible evidence about this. you even have senate leader mitch mcconnell talking about, look, we're going to find a way to get him out if he wins. and i listened to the former head of the rnc, michael steele, saying this is not about the republican party and it's not about the women. what does this boil down to, and we're going to wait to find out to see if the president next week -- he's going to give us word next week if he's going to campaign for roy moore. this is beyond politics. this is beyond politics. >> tom, i'm old enough to remember when the president wanted luther strange to win this race, right? that was like a few weeks ago. him out campaigning with roy moore knowing what he know now would be quite an optics issue potentially for this president. when it comes down to it, back
moore there's a special place in hell for people who prey on children. >> we've seen before where she defers from her father on issues and it doesn't seem to move him much, especially on this kind of issues. he's dig into making his own political decisions. roy moore, he regretted immediately that he hadn't endorsed roy moore. roy moore was always his kind of person than luther strange and he went along with the establishment and he regretted it. >> thank you all very much. have a great thanksgiving. i appreciate it. "outfront," next, president trump goes one-on-one with the father of a ucla basketball player. does the president's later twitter attack hit a new low? and breaking news of abusive behavior against congressman john conyers. a woman who worked for him on the hill said she was called
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president trump. president trump refusing to let go of his feud with lavar ball. the president tweeting today, it wasn't the white house, it wasn't the state department. it wasn't father lavar's so-called people on the ground in china that got his son out of a long-term prison sentence. it was me. too bad. lavar is just a poor man's version of don king without the hair. just think, lavar, you could have spent the next five to ten years visiting your son in china but no nba contract to support you. remember, shoplifting is not a little thing. it's a really big deal, especially in china. ungrateful too. this twitter rant comes after ball showed a lack of appreciation in the president's role in his son's release. >> if he said he helped, that's good for his mind. why even got to say that. if you helped you shouldn't have to say anything. if i help somebody, i don't walk around saying, i helped you now.
i would say thank you if he would have put him on his plane and put him on. if i was going to thank somebody, i'd probably thank president xi. >> jeff zeleny is out front. jeff, the president chose to engage in this fight on twitter early this morning, 5:30 in the morning, two and a half hours before he took to twitter to address the navy plane crash in which three americans are still missing. why? >> poppy, he did. it was actually about 90 minutes before sunrise here when that first tweet came out about 5:25 against lavar ball. of course those three words there in all caps i think spoke volumes. it was me. the president trying to seek credit for this of course but it's also, poppy, we've seen a pattern of this throughout most of the last year. the president is also trying to change the subject, trying to produce a distraction, trying to set the tone of the day. one thing he did not talk about at all today was roy moore, the alabama senate race which of course was in the news. the president wanted to revive
those old grievances and drive the conversation. but it was a bit odd for him to be tweeting like this when there was a national security event happening. it's not every morning that there's a plane crash that happens in okinawa in the pacific ocean while the president is waking up. so that was a bit odd. but he was briefed on it around 8:00 or so this morning we were told and then he tweeted about that shortly afterward. what i'm struck by here is the president wants to be in the conversation. other presidents, president bush i covered, barack obama i covered, they enjoyed being on vacation. the white house went to great lengths today to say the president was not on vacation. he did spend five hours at his golf course here which is fine. no one would ever blame a president for doing that. but the white house would not even say he was playing golf. all he know he did today was sent out a lot of tweets. >> jeff zeleny, thank you very much. ben ferguson, host of the ben ferguson show and former white house aid under the clinton administration, keith boykin. nice to have you both here.
ben, why? why tweet about this again, 5:25 in the morning. i'm walking into work and this is what i'm reading and it's not until 8:00 a.m. that he tweets about the navy plane crash with these americans on it. i don't understand. help me. >> one, he wasn't briefed at 5:00 a.m. about the navy. as you just heard jeff say -- >> he reads the news. we all do. >> he was briefed at 8:00 in the morning. i think it's appropriate for the president to wait until he's briefed to find out what happened with this plane crash. the other thing is i don't know why people are so surprised. this is what donald trump is going to do with his twitter. whether you like it or not, he's going to be blunt. he's going to fight back. they've said that from the white house. i don't know why anyone is surprised that the president decides to tweet about things like this. is it my style? no. i wouldn't do it this way. clearly the president believes that this is what he should be doing. he did it through the entire campaign. but i think to imply that somehow he tweeted about this
before the plane crash that somehow he wasn't prioritizing when he was briefed at 8:00 and tweeted about that plane crash at 8:30, that's a little bit unfair. >> the president's tweet, too bad, lavar is just a poor man's version of don king without the hair. there have been many who asked with this debate specifically, is there race at play? how do you see it? >> yes, there is race at play. it's clearly a part of a pattern the president has been engaged for quite some time when he started in his campaign attacking mexicans, attacking musli muslims. he started his political white house if you will with this whole sort of attack on barack obama for five and a half years, questioning his birth certificate, not the white house but his involvement in politics i should say. this is part of what he's doing right now with the haitians. he's going after the haitians,
after lavar ball, marshawn lynch, fredricka wilson. he's repeatedly attacking prominent african-american figures in order to distract attention from the other things he should be working on. he's not focused on as you mentioned before, he woke up at 5:30 in the morning, he wasn't talking about the u.s. navy aircraft in the pacific. he wasn't talking about sergeant la david johnson's remains which were discovered. he wasn't talking about sergeant la david johnson's remains. he was not talking about the 50% of puerto ricans who don't have electricity. he's not talking about north korea and nuclear missiles. he's not talking about the fact that he just endorsed a child molester essentially for the united states senate. what he wants to talk about is racially divisive issues and that's troubling from the president of the united states. >> let's just say i accept the premise for a moment that this is racially motivated. if the president's tweet was somehow racially motivated, then
explain to me, keith, why the president would use political capital while meeting on very serious issues with the president of china to then have influence on that leader to get three african-american basketball players out of prison from probably what would have been five to ten years? you can't say that the guy is being racist at one moment when he actually was sitting down with a president of a foreign country and getting three african-american basketball players -- if you're claiming it's about race, out of a country and keeping them out of jail. that's not racism, sir, as much as you want it to be about race. >> fair point, keith? >> yes, it is a fair point. i was one of the first people to congratulate or compliment the president when he announced that the three basketball players were coming home and he had done something to help them. i'm not completely sure that he did for the same reason -- >> don't say it's racism. >> let me finish. i'm not sure that he actually did contribute to this at all but he says he did and the same way he says he had the largest
inauguration in history which we know isn't true. he's always claiming credit for things. >> no one has discounted the president -- >> the president was clear -- >> wait, wait, no. >> keith, keith, you can't make up facts here. >> i do know -- i'm not making up facts. i don't know why -- >> you are. >> i do know that the president has a history of racism. i do know he's willing to believe vladimir putin -- >> the race card gets old. >> he's willing to believe -- >> guys, we're tight on time. ben, final response to that. >> the race card gets old when you play it all the time while the president -- and it's been confirmed -- did get involved, did talk to the president of that country. the fact is he helped three african-american basketball players keep out of prison for what would have been five to ten years. if that's what racism looks like, you can call me or anybody else a racist every day of the
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new tonight, the longest serving congressman from texas apologizing after a sexually explicit photo of him was posted online. republican joe barton who served 17 terms in congress doesn't deny the photo is legitimate and says in part, quote, while separated from my second wife prior to the divorce i had sexual relationships with other adult women. each was consensual. i'm sorry that i let my constituents down. what does this mean for this political future? >> reporter: poppy, in the short term he says he's staying put. he is not resigning and that's according to the pr company who is helping him deal with the fallout from this. to emphasize this just a moment, this is a city member of congress and even though he says this was from a consensual
relationship, these are incredibly lewd photos out there on the internet of him which he does not deny are legitimate, as you said, so there certainly is a significant cloud hanging over him. >> this also comes amid growing questions about the fate of the democratic congressman john conyers, now another woman has come forward accusing him of sexual harassment and just like conyers' own hometown paper, the detroit free press, a democratic congressman is calling on him to resign. what can you tell us? >> congresswoman kathleen rice is calling for his resignation and said in a statement, quote, representative conyers should resign. i've reviewed the allegations against him and they're as credible as they are repulsive, whether it happened 40 years ago or last week, settlement or no settlement, democrat or republican, harassment is
harassment, assault is assault. we all know credible allegations when we hear them and the same is true of hypocrisy. the detroit free press is the congressman's hometown newspaper and was out with a scathing editorial today also calling on him to resign and specifically saying that he believe he attempted to bury these allegations of sexual harassment by paying off one of the accusers from his own office's budget. >> sun land, thank you for the reporting. breaking news, another woman coming forward with accusations tonight against congressman conyers. melanie sloan says she was harassed and verbally abused while working for the congressman in the '90s. he is denying any wrongdoing through his attorney. melanie sloan is out front with me tonight. thank you for being here. i know it is a difficult conversation to have. i appreciate it. let's begin with this, what happened to you and when? >> i worked for congressman conyers on the house judiciary
committee staff as minority counsel from '95 to '98. while it was a great job, i was working on crime policy, i was very excited to be there. i had previously worked for house member -- then house member chuck schumer and i also worked on the senate judiciary committee for joe biden. i was very happy to be in congressman conyers' ju ddiciar staff. he became increasingly abusive to him. one occasion whery was organizing something for him in new york and he brought his toddler son and forced me to be behind the stage baby sitting his son during the entire hearing that was my hearing. there was another instance where he hauled me out of a meeting with a bunch of domestic violence advocates and started screaming at me at the top of his lungs. he fired me numerous times only to keep me.
he once started yelling at me for not wearing stockings and i responded, but you're not wearing socks. there was of course also the time where i walked into his office and he was in a shirt and underwear, and i just turned around immediately and left. >> on that last note, you were, i believe, melanie, summoned to his office, is that correct? he called you, asked you to come. you didn't just show up. he asked you to come. is that correct? >> yeah, somebody would have told me that he was ready to talk to me and then he was just not dressed. i want to emphasize though the way it seemed to me at the time, i was not sexually harassed by congressman conyers. i was harassed by the congressman, verbally abused repeatedly and it was very unpleasant to walk in on him in his office in his underwear, but it was a very short moment and i think it was more a question of him just not really caring that i was there and not being very concerned about what he was
wearing. >> did you tell anyone about all of these instances? >> i did, in fact, talk about all of these instances. i went to my supervisors. i was becoming increasingly upset about what was going on in the office. i was having a very hard time. it was emotionally very debilitating. i also spoke with somebody who worked for the then minority leader richard gep hart and i asked them to intervene and see if they could help me with congressman conyers. i did a lot of work with women's gru groups and i asked somebody from a leading women's group if she might be able to intervene and she told me that he was really great on their issues so the answer was no. eventually i called a reporter that i knew that i had worked with on some policy issues and i tried talking about some of these things. he called some other people to confirm some of the things that i said and another woman who worked for congressman conyers on the committee told him that
he was mentally unstable. he then told me that he couldn't be sure i wasn't mentally unstable even though we had worked together for years and he wouldn't do anything with the story. >> so no one listened to you essentially is what you're saying? >> right. >> let me get some responses and get you to react to them from dick depgep hart. he said he doesn't recall you raising your kesconcerns. he did go on to condemn any abuse like this. also the lawyer for congressman conyers just told us, attorney arnold reed, just told us that you were in conyers' office about a month ago and were, quote, laughing and cajoling with staff members. he doesn't mention the congressman specifically being there at the time. he also says i'm not even sure why it's a story because the individual admits that my client doesn't harass. >> i was in the judiciary office
a couple months ago, that's certainly true. these are all instances that took place 20 years ago. i don't see whether my being in the judiciary committee office talking to staff what that would have to do at all with what happened with congressman conyers all those years ago. i agree that it's not the same as the sexual harassment allegations that other staffers are making, but there were things in those allegations that i felt like i could confirm. for example, the baby sitting that i had been asked to engage in baby sitting. so i felt like it was important to say so. let me just say, i didn't come forward with this. somebody from "the washington post" called me, and at first i was only interested in talking about it on background and then i thought about it for a few hours yesterday afternoon and i thought this is sort of exactly the problem. people don't want to go on the record and in washington i'm sure like in other industries but particularly here, loyalty is considered paramount and it's
very disloyal to talk about the bad things that happened, particularly in congress, and i'm sure i'm far from the only woman who's had really bad experiences and i'm sure women have had much worse experiences than i did but people are so afraid to come forward and i feel like if people in the entertainment industry and the media industry can come forward, it's also important for people in government to also talk about their experiences on the record. it's not really my shame. it's the congressman's. i shouldn't be embarrassed about what he did. >> melanie, do you think that congressman conyers should resign? >> you know, i have not thought about that. i definitely think congressman conyers should be held accountable for his conduct and particularly the sexual harassment allegations which i think are very serious. i think the kind of abuse i suffered from congressman conyers while not acceptable at all is not necessarily uncommon. i think there are other members of congress who have behaved perhaps equally as badly to their staff, men and frankly
women. nobody gets held accountable for their mistreatment of congressional staff and i think that we need to change the entire attitude and there needs to be a place for people to go and complain and actually be heard and have a possibility of some kind of repercussion which were none in my day. there was nothing i could do. i did everything i could think of and there was no way to fix it. >> and thus the legislation put forth by democratic senator kristen jill abrand and congressman jackie speier trying to change the system at the haerlt of it. >> right. >> thank you very much. out front right now, democratic congressman jeffries sits on the committee with congressman conyers. you just heard what i heard from melanie. what's your response? >> what melanie has made clear is there's a system in congress that's broken and needs to be remedied so people feel comfortable coming forward to report allegations of misconduct
or concern or hostile work environment which melanie appears to be describing without fear of retribution. that's an important lesson and i think we all can take away from this moment that we're confronting in america right now. >> we'll see what happens, what accountability there is. do you think congressman cony s conyers -- you sit with him on the yu dijudiciary, should he r? >> the allegations are clearly disturbi disturbing, disappointing, deeply troubling. the ethics investigation should be thorough, taylor swift, cosw importantly, it should respect the dig any of the women who are part of it so they are not chilled in being reluctant to come forward down the road. >> let me get your response to what gregory meeks of new york also told me this morning about what he thinks conyers should do. let's listen. >> if he defends himself and
says there's nothing there that he could come back, but you can't, in my estimation, just in the scenario we're in to be the ranking member of the judiciary committee at this time. i think he should step down. >> do you agree? >> it's going to be very tough for congressman conyers to proceed as ranking member moving forward. that's a decision -- >> what do you think? you sit on that committee. this is your ranking member and your party. should he be leading that right now? >> i think the process is going to have to take shape moving forward and hopefully will unfold in a swift manner so -- >> do you have faith he had lead the judiciary committee right now? >> my view is that we're going to come back to congress last week. the congressional black caucus will meet. the overall democratic caucus will meet and we should come to a collective decision and not make these decisions on a case-by-case basis. we need an overall standard.
right now the rules are such that if there's an ethics investigation that could be lodged, not in this instance but in others, by a political enemy, it should not necessarily trigger an automatic standing down of someone from the ranking member. but in this context with these disturbing allegations, perhaps we need to go in a different direction. >> given all that you've said about the accusations against this democrat, what about roy moore? should he be held to the same standard? he's not in the senate yet. we'll see if he wins. he's not open to an ethics investigation like al franken or john conyers. for roy moore do you give him the same latitude? >> the people from alabama are going to make the decision. the allegations as i understand them involve child molestation and pedophilia, the most serious allegations in this instance of someone who's trying to be part of an exclusive governing
opportunity as a member of the united states senate. i think both chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell are correct in saying that if he were to be elected by the people of alabama, immediately an ethics investigation needs to be convened to look into these very serious charges. >> we appreciate you being with us. >> thank you, poppy. happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving to you as well. next, kellyanne conway facing accusations she broke the law when she spoke out about the alabama election. could one of the president's closest confidantes get fired? nearly 200,000 puerto ricans devastated by hurricane maria now living in florida. what could that mean for that state politically? could they swing it in democrats' favor? ahead. pain. but he has work to do. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong.
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>> i'm telling you that we want the votes in the senate to get this tax bill through. >> schaub had filed a complaint with the u.s. office of special counsel to investigate this. former white house ethics lawyer, richard painter, is out front with me. you know this law, it dates back to 1939. did she break it? >> oh yeah, this is a slam dunk violation of the hatch act. the hatch act applies to every executive branch employee other than the president and the vice president. you are prohibited from in your official capacity using your official title endorsing a candidate or opposing a candidate in a partisan election. she's standing there on the white house lawn in front of the white house. she's obviously giving an official interview. the press corps hangs out there, waits for people to give official capacity interviews. she can't do that. if she wants to go in her personal capacity somewhere else without using her official title and she wants to endorse a racist or a pedophile or anyone
else for any position anywhere, she has a first amendment right to do that as a private citizen. but not using her official title, not on the white house lawn. that's a slam dunk violation of the hatch act and the penalty is firing. he would not have tolerated that in the bush white house when i was there. if someone had endorsed a candidate in that capacity in that location. >> if she were to be fired that would have to come from the president but the white house is responding tonight. let me read it. they say ms. conway did not advocate for or against the election of a candidate and specifically declined to encourage alabama voters to vote a certain way. kellyanne conway went on twitter and she wrote what potus says below equals exactly what i said yesterday on "fox & friends." so they're saying nothing to see here. your counter argument is? >> that's a flatout lie. we just heard her talking about doug jones. doug jones is a democratic
candidate for that senate seat. she is trashing on the opposition candidate. that is taking sides in a partisan election. that is a violation -- >> but richard, this isn't the first time. you'll remember back in february when she was on the white house lawn again and she was talking about ivanka trump and she said, quote, buy ivanka's stuff. that's spurred a bipartisan letter from the leadership. nothing happened. no disciplinary action. you say strike two. so then what? >> well, it's unfortunate that we have repeat problems with a number of people in this administration including kellyanne conway. now, that first violation was of a separate position, office of government ethics regulation. i think it was very serious. i might have fired her for that or recommended firing her for that but that's a lot less serious than the hack act violation which is a statute going back to 1939.
it's critically important that official position not be used to interfere in important elections. that's a lot more important in our democracy than whether she's schilling for ivanka trump clothing on "fox & friends." this is serious business. it's a very serious offense. >> richard painter, thank you for being with us. have a great thanksgiving. >> thank you, poppy. "outfront" next, puerto ricans escaping their hurricane ravaged island, heading to florida. how this massive migration could change the political landscape not only in florida but nationwide. and francis for coppola offers anthony bourdain a meal he cannot refuse in ancient southern italy. (avo) when you have type 2 diabetes, you manage your a1c,
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an orphan. she was forced to leila res -- flee la res, puerto rico after the hurricane destroyed her home. gonzalez says she lost everything over night. she and her son joined a wave of evacuees arriving in orlando three weeks ago. some 170,000 puerto ricans landed in florida according to if you believes. while all of them may not put down roots here, many will. some are comparing it from a boat lift in cuba when immigrants landed in south florida reshaping toll picks -- politics as a voter block. the -- and unlike cubans, puerto ricans, the vast majority who lean democratic are already citizens. they can vote right away as long as they register. florida is a perennial swing
state, trump won here by just over 100,000 votes and barack obama won twice. eight years of a flash finish and subsequent recount handed the vote to george w. bush. >> that group can be pivotal in a swing state so their impact and effect on statewide elections vote for governor, u.s. senate and of course for president, could be very dramatic. >> reporter: but plig science professor michael mcdonald says white retirees from the northwest and northeast, many who deem puerto rican are likely pouring into the state. president trump toured the devastation with weeks after the hurricane. >> we spent a lot of punish on puerto rico and that's fine, we saved a lot of lives. >> reporter: gonzalez says the
federal government should have done more after maria and she's still hurt the the president said the people of puerto rico should do more to help themselves. it hurts, we're human beings she told me. he should not have spoken to us that way. a trained chef, gonzalez plans to stay here and build her life. as for 2020 and casting a ballot for trump, i asked her would you vote for him to remain in office. >> no. >> reporter: and she was quite definitive on that last point there. i med linda gonzalez at a nonprofit called latino leadership that's already helped some 5,000 puerto ricans setting here in the last few months. many of the families she's met, especially those with young children are planning to stay. she also says her group has focused on voter registration in
the past and likely to do so again after they help the families meet the immediate needs. poppy. >> thanks athena for the report. happy thanksgiving. finally on bower dane unknown he visits southern italy and recovers the culture. he sats down with erin and talks about what make it so interesting. >> the heel of the boot. last year we had a really great time shooting with the director who said you have to go to this part of italy. so i was like, anywhere else, different languages, different dialect, food's different. extraordinarily beautiful history. so packing up the expensive camera equipment, the largest grew we ever had, we went and did an amazing show. >> and did it live up to your
expectations? >> it did indeed. we among other things, other than eating and drinking very well, and have many adventures, i had the privilege to sit down with brad cope la who opened the hometown where his father and families grew up. he returned to that small village and bought the manner house -- his family's former fascist oh pressers and turned it into a hotel and restaurant. >> and you say you spent some realtime with him. here's a bit of your conversation. >> this is a dish we call the koda that how to you call it? >> pig skin. >> this is a football.
>> wait you had this as a young kid? >> yeah. i hated it. now i don't. >> you say you really had a chance to talk to him. >> yeah. >> that he opened up, food wide. >> he's always been classic, you look back at his interviews, very reluctant to talk about his career. he talk about the sense of shame and but happiness he felt after the success of the god father. this is interesting to me because he seldomly talk about that film. but imagine, his great success made him happy in a lot of ways. >> why do he feel shame? >> he said it was a film that nobody wanted. and suddenly it was the biggest thing. i showed up to talk about food and wine and his hotel in the area. we went off on a fascinating tan jint that informed and resonating throughout the rest
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later. would you say that all of this now can be attributed to the decisions made in washington by the president? >> i think what's fair to say is that as they move along and move further away from the obama administration, we're more than 18 months in, it's harder to democrats to make that case. at this point, you see how democrats have talked a lot about other issues, talking a lot about health care, that's their main issue right now, especially as they chug toward the brett cavanaugh confirmation. the democrats are talking about health care, talking about russia, talking about issues that aren't the economy. that's something that the republicans have in their back pockest. as long as the economy is moving forward, this tariff issue could slow them down but we'll have to wait and see about that you mentionemention -- julie: you mentioned the democrats are talking about health care. it was supposed to be repealed and replaced. that didn't happen. that was a huge disappointment for the trump administration. they moved on to taxes. they won there.
wide range of topics, including the economy, tariffs, the gop strategy for the midterms and confirming brett kavanaugh, democrats have been trying to block that and the vice president's planned trip to hawaii to receive the remains of americans killed in the korean war, that is tomorrow, 10:00 eastern on fox news channel. mike: the trump administration said they met the deadline to meet families left at the border. the administration can confirm they reunified all eligible parents in i.c.e. custody with children. the administration continues to comply in good faith with the court's request while protecting the safety and well-being of all children in our care. garrett teny is live in washington. hello, garrett. >> reporter: immigration activists and democratic lawmakers argue the administration have not met the deadline. more than 700 children are still separated from their parents. those parents have not been
reunified with their children because they are not eligible for reunification due to a variety of reasons. some have a criminal record. 120 parents chose not to be reunited with their children. more than 400 have already been deported. this morning the aclu tweeted some 463 parents were deported without their children and the government isn't even trying to reunite them. we will not back down real donald trump, you are responsible for fixing the crisis you made. dhs denies the allegation, saying the administration will continue to make every effort to reunify eligible adults with their children. in a court filing this week, lawyers with the aclu said some parents were misled by the government and never meant to let their kids -- rather, never meant to leave their children here in the united states when they left but the former acting director of i.c.e. told shannon bream this week that for some of these parents, leaving their kids in the united states was likely part of the goal all along.
>> some of these people had left the united states without their children, chose to leave the united states without their children because they basically got what they wanted, they got their child to the united states to live with relatives, get an american education, take advantage of the social system and be the next daca applicant in 10 years. >> reporter: while the administration says they plan to continue to work towards reunifying all of the separated children, at this point it has not given any kind of time line for when it plans to have that done. mike? mike: garrett, thanks a lot. julie: a fox news alert now. two massive wildfires on the right of your screen, raging in california. there is one in the south and another one in the northern part of the state, that's called the car fire with the flames already destroying 500 structures. >> this fire is scary to us. it's something we haven't seen before in the city. if you hear an evacuation order on your phone, home phone or cell phone or if you see an officer on p.a. telling you to
get out of there, please get out of there. julie: jeff paul is live in idlewild with the lat latest. >> reporter: we're right inside the containment lines in the town of idlewild. you can see the firefighters out here, mopping up the few remaining hot spots in this particular area. investigators say this particular fire, the scranton fire, was started as a result of arson but is now at 17% containment as crews start to gain up ther hand. further up north, in redding, california, the car fire remains a huge threat. it's killed a bulldozer operator and a local firefighter. some families are reporting they're missing loved ones. redding police have received 90 phone calls regarding missing people. most have been resolved. they tell us right now they're looking into reports of 16 missing people. that number is very fluid. as far as damage, the fire has burned more than 80,000 acres and is only 5% contained.
367,00367,000 -- 37,000 people e under evacuation orders. the fire is threatening 5,000 structures. the wildfires are becoming the new normal. >> what we're seeing not just here in this county but literally state-wide fires that are growing exponentially. we're averaging 45 to 50 fires a day throughout california. >> reporter: back here further south in idlewild, crews say they seem to have a good handle on the kranston fire. they are dropping water on remaining trouble spots. we've seen a lot of firefighters moving around as they look to find more important areas that need their help. coming back out here live, you see crews are in the mop-up state. they tell us they conditions to get worse -- expect conditions to get worse. that means the wind is starting to pick um.
they're trying to douse the embers, make them go out. once the wind picks up, basically tiny little fires in the air and once that hits some dry vegetation, of course it's dry and a hot out here, those fires can start again. julie? julie: jeff paul, thank you very much. mike: a deadly fire at motel in michigan killing a mother and her five children. several others were injured including first responders. it happened this morning in benton harbor in the southwest part of the state. the cause of that blaze under investigation. julie: red state democratic senators to meet with supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh ahead of the nomination hearing. why are breaking with party -- why are they breaking with party leadership? our political panel will debate, next. >> we are on the moral side of history. >> if a president can say hey, i can do anything i want to do,
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the president of the united states in this deliberate, he was looking for a judge with extraordinary credentials and intellect, also a judge who would strictly interpret the constitution as written and not legislate from the bench. judge brett kavanaugh has that judicial philosophy. he has a record. that's the message we'll carry to republicans and democrats in the senate and we remain confident that before the fall is out, that judge brett kavanaugh will be justice brett kavanaugh. mike: mike pence speaking with maria bartiromo in an exclusive interview airing tomorrow on sunday morning futures, praising the credentials of supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh who is gathering up to two red state democratic senators. most other members of the party
have refused to meet with him as they ramp up efforts to get all his documents from his past jobs. chuck schumer is taking his request for documents directly to george w. bush who kavanaugh served under for five years. let's bring in john thomas, founder and president of thomas partner strategies and michael toddman, former senior aid to democratic senator chuck schumer. great to see you. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> good to be here. mike: democrats continue to for more of judge kavanaugh's documents and chuck schumer wrote to george w. bush yesterday saying i believe that making judge kavanaugh's complete record public is consistent with your commitment to transparency and is strongly in the public interest while the country may be divided on whether judge kavanaugh should join the supreme court, there ought to be no disagreement on whether the process that leads to a confirmation vote should be a fair and impartial one.
what do you make of that play? >> a very smart tactical play by a very smart democratic leader. i don't say that because i used to work for him. it's smart politics and smart poll civil i'm sure they'll get a lot of angry calls and tweets about this. while public disclosure especially for something as important as the supreme court confirmation process is important, and vital for the public policy and public conversation, i think the nominee's role in the white house as a staff secretary controlling and managing and overseeing the flow of paper into the oval office is an executive function and not a judicial function which is what is going to be deliberated here. however, let's have the conversation, let's see what it produces. mike: president bush is backing judge kavanaugh's nomination. is that outreach a sign of desperation? >> first of all, i'm in absolute shock that michael and i agree on something here. this is a move of desperation by the democrats t to stonewall and
end up stopping confirmation of trump's supreme court pick. they can't assassinate his character. they can't assassinate his impeccable record as a judge. so what do they do? they try to come up with procedural hiccups. the reality is, like michael said, being a staff secretary in the white house is a very important position but, look, you are pushing paper and millions of pieces of paper. you're not issuing opinions. look, i think this is a stonewalling tactic. i think at continued of the day, those three senate democrats that are in trump country are going to end up folding. if they go against this supreme court pick, that will cost them the reelect. mike: we know joe donnelly and joe mansion are going to meet with judge kavanaugh. how difficult will it be for leader schumer to keep the red state democrats from supporting judge kavanaugh. >> red state democrats are in a pee cure y'all situation here --
pepee --strange situation here. it depends on the issues around the state's priorities and issues. it's noteworthy. it's significant that red state democrats are meeting the nominee. i think ultimately two or three of them will vote for the nominee. it was always going to play out this way, the heat and the energy of the democratic party. let me just say, the democratic party is not just one thing. it's a lot of different ideologies, it's a lot of different priorities. it's a lot of different approaches towards politics and government. so to say that democratic party is not a monolithic thing. a lot of the heat and energy is on the far left with the activists. that's different than what we're seeing with red state democrats. this was always going to happen. ism happy to -- i'm happy to discuss it. mike: it would seem to be a tricky spot for leader schumer, if the democrats lose in
november, he becomes further away from becoming majority leader, right, john? >> the democrats are between a rock and a rock. they're dammed if they do, dammed if they don't. the heat of the democratic party is so far to the left that it's essentially the nomination of judge kavanaugh to them is like nominating hitler. right? so the base is saying that these democrats can't vote to nominate. on the other hand, i think one thing we know and i'm sure michael will agree with me, at the end of the day tigses care about one -- politicians care about one thing and one thing only, themselves. i think self press preservatiol win out. i think they're going to play a cat and mouse game. the other key wrinkle here is the confirmation isn't likely to actually happen until the month of october. that's right before the critical midterm vote. this may be the last thing that's on voter's minds before they walk into polling booths in some of the critical states.
>> president bush is a different republican than president trump. i think appealing to that sense ability and that part of american recent history is an interesting contrast between the two. mike: the republicans i've been speaking to on capitol hill sound very happy, they don't believe democrats have been able to do anything to damage kavanaugh's nomination. is his confirmation pretty much inevitable, michael? >> nothing is done until it's didn't done. i would think ultimately the nominee is confirmed. i think along the way a lot of important policy discussions and a lot of important political positions and narratives are going to be advanced. some i believe very successfully. because the no nomination is liy to be successful, doesn't mean the conversations along the way can't be fruitful and can't be important. i'll just come to my colleague's defense here in a different studio. referencing hitler in the context of supreme court discussions and nominees, we'll
pretend you didn't say that. mike: fair enough. >> no, i did say it. mike: some republicans have not formally committed to supporting judge kavanaugh. john, is there any way a senator rand paul would be the one to kill the kavanaugh nomination? >> i think, again, he's going to play this interesting little game probably to get his 15 minutes before the november elections. but i don't think senator paul wants to be responsible for derailing republicans' chance to slid phi a conservative -- solidify a conservative majority for the next years in the supreme court. i don't see any way that senator paul doesn't vote for kavanaugh at the end of the day. mike: thanks for the debate. enjoyed it very much. julie: house republicans deciding not to move forward to impeach deputy attorney general rod rosenstein but the battle over his future isn't over as top republican lawmakers hold his feet to the fire in their request for those documents they've been waiting nine months
for. plus, president trump blasting claims he knew about a meeting at trump tower in 2016 with that russian lawyer. how this could impact the russia investigation moving forward.
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trump p tower meeting that's become a feature in the mueller probe. the meeting took place in new york city on june 9th of 2016 and included donald trump junior, paul manafort, jared kushner and a kremlin lawyer. the president taking to twitter yesterday to reinforce the claim he's made several times saying i did not know of the meeting with my son, don junior. sounds to me like someone's trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam. the president's son has long insisted his father had no knowledge of this meeting. >> it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. i wouldn't have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. it was a waste of 20 minutes which was a shame. >> reporter: this claim from cohen comes days after someone leaked a recording of a conversation between him and president trump about hush money paid to a playboy model. now the president's inner circle is painting an unflatter portrait of cohen. >> he lied to people about
taping them, the president and other people. he went to subterfuge in order to do it, a little game which shows how pathological he is. >> reporter: looking ahead in just a few days, the trial of former trump campaign manager paul manafort will kick off in arlington, virginia. insiders anticipate the witnesses will be asked about the meeting. mike? mike: jillian, thank you. julie: congressman jim jordan and mark meadows backing off their push to impeach deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. they accuse him of withholding documents related to the russia investigation but may take a different approach to get them. >> all we've done is file it. it's still there. it's extent the judiciary commit at this moment it can be brought up at any time. the only way we've gotten documents and information that we're entitled to get is when we put pressure on them. julie: emily kompanu joins us
now. this was a whirled win whirl wie week. just up until wednesday they were hell bent on forcing a contempts vote. why did mo meadows back down by giving the doj and fbi one more chance. >> he claims because his strategy worked. i want to point out a few factors that affect the strategy so that viewers understand why he pulled this quote, unquote nuclear option. in the house, a privileged resolution means you have to vote on it within two days. for contempt, the entire house judiciary committee needs to do so but for impeachment, only a single member can. basically, that automatically becomes a privileged resolution. basically he is a single member, moved for this, it forced the hand of the other committee and house republicans. some in the middle are saying that negotiating was working or simply if the doj and fbi would
comply, we wouldn't need to go through these kind of strategic tug of war. and obviously they're reconvening september 4th. the hope is that the fbi and the doj would comply enough to satisfy that entire spectrum by then, so this kind of circus can stop. julie: you mentioned the two days. i was going to bring that up. they have two days if they're going to force a vote, by tuesday, wednesday, they hadn't done so and they were taking recess on thursday. yet meadows still seemed like it was still a possibility. what do you think ultimately, though, got him to back down? obviously house speaker paul ryan wasn't on-board. that spoke volumes. you call it that maybe he had a come to jesus moment? >> yes, i think with the other house conservatives absolutely, i think behind closed doors, he even referenced i've had meetings with the other republicans here, we've come to an agreement, we negotiatessed something. i want to point out what happens if they vote to hold roseen time
in contempt. that's referred back to the doj for prosecution. that gets us into the situation we saw with eric holder where the doj declined to prosecute him. the last time an executive office official was prosecuted was for perjury in the early '80s. at that point they can only move for civil charges. i want viewers to understand that as well. julie: i want our viewers to understand how long house republicans have been asking for the documents related to the doj and fbi's handling of the investigation into the russia interpheneinterference in the 26 election and the alleged collusion with the trump campaign. they waited nine months. they claim rosenstein blocked those documents from going out. for what other reason would there be than to hamper an investigation to block documents from coming out? that's evidence that's needed in
order for an investigation to be properly completed. >> exactly. the argument on the other side is we are still investigating and this might hamper that investigation that ison going at this point. remember, who does that answer to? it's the oversight. it's those branches are in place so there is oversight by congress. while that tension continues to play out, that plight sig is whs frustrating. the integrity of the investigation has been called into question and certainly more by now the refusal to turn over the documents. yes, nine months is far too long to wait and this entire situation could go away if they would comply. julie: you talked about the difference between being held in contempt and impeachment proceedings. there are several republican whose agree with meadows on the impeachment. they want him fired. they believe rosenstein should be fired including florida congressman ted yoho who sits on the house freedom caucus. listen to what he had to say this morning. >> when you look at what rosenstein has done, he hasn't
answered the subpoena. if that were you and any a court of law we would be in jail. if we signed a fisa warrant that should never have been signed, that dereliction of duty and for that he should be fired jf what julie: what will happen if the doj doesn't produce these documents? will meadows stand by his word? >> that remains to be seen. he has to come to pressure or negotiation tactics of the other republicans. who knows they there could be more -- if there would be more pressure that comes into play. a different strategy might be called into play by everyone. know that part of the opposition of this within the conservatives is that look, they say this isn't a high crime and misdemeanor. that doesn't rise to this level. while we agree he's been noncompliant, it's still not to the level and we shouldn't use this tactic. so i do believe that ultimately it results in that collective opinion but note he can still
move for it. it doesn't mean that it will pass. even if he stays true to his word, again, an impeachment is unlikely. julie: emily, thank you very much. we appreciate seeing you and for you coming on. mike. mike: kim jong un keeping his promise to president trump as north korea delivers the possibility remains of 55 american soldiers from the korean war. what this says about the regime's willingness to deliver on the ultimate goal of denuclearization. plus, two officers shot while responding to a disturbance call, what we're learning about their conditions. >> it's obviously the police that are over there including chief dunn, they're just very grateful right now. imagine being grateful when two of your police officers . welcome! hi there. so, what do you look for in a vehicle? sleek designs. performance. dependability is top on my list.
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authorities say it happened as they were investigating a disturbance with one of the officers being struck twice and the other suffering a gunshot wound to the head. authorities say they are both expected to survive, thank goodness. the suspect was also shot multiple times. no word on what led to the shooting. >> the fact that this president sitting down with kim jong un to negotiate the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula, also had our fallen heroes on his heart, should tell you everything you needs to know about president donald trump and my wife and i are deeply moved and deeply honored to be able to be there when we bring our boys home. mike: vice president mike pence weighing in on one part of the agreement between president trump and north korean leader kim jong un in singapore last month. this comes after the u.s. retrieved 55 containers from the north said to be the remains of u.s. soldiers from the korean
war. they're expected to arrive in hehawaii next week to undergo da testing. vice president pence is expect offed to attend the repatriation ceremony on wednesday. rob effort charles, a former assistant secretary of state to colin powell, nice to see you, sir. for the families of our fallen korean war vets, there is no doubt yesterday was a hugely significant day. what is your assessment of how big it is in terms of u.s., north korea relations? >> first, let me say it is a poignant day and i think every american should remember having worked on a few of these cases in the past, that these people -- this is a really significant moment for those families and we should be very happy for them. some perspective on the larger picture. we americans, we love instant gratification. we want to just hit the app and get the answer that we want. nuclear diplomacy is the
anti-thesis of that. it takes a long time. it's painstaking. it will take years. but that having been said, i think this discussion needs to be grounded in fact and this particular action fits within the context of some larger actions that are occurring at the same time and are utterly unprecedented. at this moment in time, donald trump has scored the following things. he has stopped or there has been a cessation of missile launches, a cessation of nuclear testing, our american citizens have been brought home. we have a dismantling of a nuclear -- of a launch site and we have the return of these remains. i will just say as a matter of context, it appears to me that this president is doing exactly what we would want. there is a framework agreement under discussion for nuclear -- denuclearization, we know that we're trying to empower a transformational leader here. in due time, we will see a win-win where north korea sees
advantage in getting rid of the nuclear weapons because theyen danger its future and gets integrated into the international order. we will get a nuclear-free peninsula. this takes a lot of time. this is not something that happens overnight and i think people need to keep that perspective. mike: what about the concern that the north koreans are going to demand more concessions before they return more remains or provide the u.s. more information? >> they're in no position to make any demands. we have our full kinetic response capability available. nothing has changed. the military options are still there. i think what this president is trying to do, for the first time ever you have -- actually for the first time at least since reagan, you have someone tacking up into the wind. they're not denying the wind, they're not running from the wind. they're tacking into the wind. if you're a sailor, it takes time. you need to get small advantages. this is a trust-building exercise and what we are going to do is we're going to give him recognition. we're going to give him every
opportunity at every turn to make the right choice and for his people and for himself and maybe for his military command, just to understand that there is no other real way forward for him. hee endangers himself by not getting rid of nuclear weapons. he's got the fourth largest conventional army in the world. nobody's going to toy with him once he gets rid of the nuclear weapons. he gets the economic advantage of inclusion. this president, one of the reasons he's trying to get closer to russia and china is to keep a unified front against the north korean sort of back-sliding. i see this as an exceptionally strong strategic move. i see everything moving in the right direction. but recognize, i'm not a poly anna. you're going to get back steps. this is a multiyear process. i hope americans see the value in what this president is doing. leland.julie: i covered the fia -- mike: i covered the final years of the obama administration.
there were efforts to get something down with the north koreans that seemed to fall apart. you're convinced this time they're serious. >> i'll tell you what is different. there has not recently been -- maybe harry true man was such a -- truman was such a president but there has not been such a president that had anything on the table and everybody believes i'd. jim mattis and others have contingency plans if things go south. there's a willingness to believe on the north korean's part that this is their moment. he's got a young leader in kim jong un. he has time to create a trans formational opportunity -- transformational opportunity. kim jong un could have a bright future if he does the right thing. he could have a dark future if he does the wrong thing. mike: mike pompeo was asked about north korea. he was asked about this. >> we're engaged in patient blow ma any. we will not let this drag out. i emphasize the conversations i had with the vice chairman. mike: that's the pes an from
the administration -- message from the administration. do you think it's being received in pyongyang? >> i do. i believe we wouldn't have these developments if it weren't being received. it's about deterrent and credibility. the president has done what he said he would do at every turn. some people don't like those decisions. he's calling out international accountability and he's calling it out with kim jong un. i feel as though this is a president who walked into a room and somebody had kicked over the march l belles and he's -- marbles. he's got a mess to pick up in every corner. he's trying to get trade back on track, trying to get north korea and russia and china to be accountable. this is a long process. i think there is method to the process. mike: robert charles, we thank you for your time and your service. have a great day. julie: a properly innocent cardinal resigning amid allegations of abuse. we'll have reaction from the vatican, next. i don't keep track of regrets.
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the most high profile church leaders to lose his position. the vatican says the resignation was received on friday. the 88-year-old was removed from public ministry after allegations of sexual abuse surfaced in june. those allegations date back more than 50 years. one man has claimed - - abused him when he was a teenager and another man alleged he forced them into an abusive relationship when he was 11 years old. he says he has no recollection of that initial allocation but the catholic church has been tainted in the past by sex abuse scandals and is now determined to clean up its image. the vatican says the pope wants to send a strong message that sexual abuse will not be tolerated. >> what's this means, no matter how prestigious point when it comes to sex abuse, you will be held accountable. >>reporter: pope francis has
ordered - - to go into seclusion for a life of prayer while the allegations are looked into. he will remain a priest for now but there will be an official investigation and the church later be holding - - >> kitty logan, thank you very much. >> that's it for us. >> we will be back in one hour so be sure to tune in then. "the journal editorial report" is up next after this short break. paying too much for insurance you don't even understand? well, esurance makes it simple and affordable. in fact, drivers who switched from geico to esurance saved an average of $412. that's auto and home insurance for the modern world. esurance. an allstate company. click or call. paying too much for insurance that isn't the right fit? well, esurance makes finding the right coverage easy.
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