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Who is clearly just on the opposite side of a partisan fight for his second supreme court nominee. its hard to even substantiate these allegations. >> certainly not going to have the guy on the bully pulpit talk about the politics of personal destruction. hes a master. hes got a black belt. that said, it is -- that is the problem that republicans are having right now. they are railing at the politics and personal object trucks and the added irony, some people date that to the starr report agains...

Mentality. you could see it when the second accusation came out. its counterintuitive to people because the worse it gets the more they dig in. theyre in a siege mentality, so theyre very defensive, paranoid style, and of course michael avenatti is sort of the perfect character to put into this mix because they really didnt have very much to work with. it obviously makes no sense. but yes, so people -- some people believe it. some people dont care about the truth. when i was in the right, people...

It obviously makes no sense. but yes, so people -- some people believe it. some people dont care about the truth. when i was in the right, people asked me, do people believe these things? some did and some didnt. some were cynical. i never knew which ones were worse. theres clearly a belief here that these women are being duped or used by enemy forces. right wing media thinks its pc police, me too militants and the media. >> theyre falling into a trap here, a lesson from the clinton years, right...

Judge kavanaugh, on september 22 of this year, senator corey gardner received an anonymous letter sent from denver, alleging that you engaged in certain conduct in 1998. have you had an opportunity to review that letter? judge kavanaugh, i did look at that, i believe, yeah. redacted republican staffers name again, says okay, im going to read from it. the letter states, i will remain anonymous but i feel obligated to inform you of this 1998 incident involving brett kavanaugh. and then the punctua...

The nation through that process is wrenching. ken starr mentioned supreme court nominee kavanaugh who worked had him on the clinton investigation calling him the word smith of the starr report. >> martha: we will talk to ken starr on the "story" this week. a weather alert. hurricane florence is on track to be the worst storm to hit the east coast in decades. its a category-4 and gaining strength. it barrels towards the u.s. meteorologist adam is here now on the latest update on the projected pat...

Assault weapons. >> abortion. >> you just cant -- what are you doing for lunch? lets overrule roe v. wade. >> antennas evolution regarding whether a sitting president should be subjected to investigations while in office. as a member of kens stars team, he advocated for aggressively questioning then-president bill clinton, and helped help to write the starr report, outlining the grounds for his impeachment. years later, he authored a law review article questioning the wisdom of subjecting presid...

George washington university basically confirmed what many here in puerto rico had known for a very long time. that the government count of just 64 dead from this hurricane just wasnt enough, and instead now governor ricardo updated the figure following the release of this report to 2,975 estimated deaths making hurricane maria the deadliest u.s. natural disaster in more than 100 years. we spoke with several families that talked how the weeks and months following the storm their loved ones were ...

You heard it going to break, because donald trump was awake and tweeting again after midnight in the white house. claiming without evidence that china -- so -- it was a fat guy in jersey, in his mothers basement that donald trump said was hacking hillary clintons e-mails. and then, of course, you had his intel agencies telling him, russia hacked the e-mails. but now donald trump without evidence suggesting that maybe china hacked hillary clintons e-mails, and the president actually demanded that...

Hes incapable of doing that. >> reporter: now, today happens to be the 13ening anniversary of hurricane katrina and now with this updated death toll it is 60% higher or so than the death toll back from hurricane katrina. still a lot of outrage almost a year after hurricane maria. the power has been restored. just restored self weeks ago to the entire island, but still a lot of outrage following the release of this report. joe? >> its flabbergasting. the entirety of this. the fact they just were ...

Now when it comes to public reaction of these investigation, those numbers capture is well. it means if and when mueller has a final report everybody gets a chance to look at its going to be read with i think a little more openness than that starr report was received back in 1998 by a broad cross-section of people and the investigation has gone up recently. the one thing i say, the politics what giuliani and the trump team are doing, not connecting with broad public opinion but is there a connec...