Now the video from a drive through a hellscape. Lets get to it. Curses and crying as a couple races to escape the flames. Its time for the news. And first from the fox news deck this afternoon, the white house says the president will just kidding when he reportedly challenges his own secretary of state to an i. Q. Test. This after nbc news reported that Rex Tillerson called President Trump a moron and considered resigning over the summer. President trump told Forbes Magazine and i quote, i think its fake news. If he did that, well have to compare i. Q. Tests. And i can tell you who will win. Tillerson said he never considered quitting but he didnt deny calling the president a moron. Hes spokesman said he denied it though she wasnt there. During a meet with Henry Kissinger today, reporters asked President Trump about a comment on an i. Q. Test. I didnt undercut anybody. I dont believe in undercutting people. Thank you very much. Shepard that was the end of that. Heres what Sarah Huckabee sanders said about it at a briefing here in the last hour. The president never implied that the secretary of state was not incredibly intelligent. He made a joke. Nothing more than that. He has full confidence in the secretary of state. They had a great visit earlier today and theyre working hand and hand to move the president s agenda forward. Shepard sanders suggested reporters should get a sense of humor. The president went after the tennessee senator bob corker who repeatedly blasted President Trump in a New York Times interview. The president tweeted, the failing New York Times set little bob corker up by recording his conversation and was made to sound a fool. Thats what im dealing with. Its common for news outlets to intervie interviews. Corkers aides record it it and it was said on the reporting to the New York Times by the senator, i hope youre recording this. He was. The chief white house correspondent, john roberts is live on the white house lawn. Good to be back. Good to be back. Secretary of state was back at the white house with james mattis and the president. How was the lunch . How did it go . Sarah sanders said the lunch went fine. The mine get along well and the president continues to have full confidence in his secretary of state. Privately, shep, theres people that say the president is frustrated with the secretary of state. That he doesnt quite grasp the idea of public diplomacy. Hes not one of those people that likes to be out in the public talking about diplomacy. From time to time he runs afoul of what the president thinks should be going on. What the secretary said about talks with north korea a week ago seem to be at odds with the reality of what is going on that the United States is not having back channel talks with north korea over their nuclear program. Now is not the time to be having the talks. Despite the fact that the two men sort of run into each other every once in a while on the idea of policy and personality, the two of them for the time being do seem to be getting along. Though a lot of people are placing bets as to how long Rex Tillerson will remain as secretary of state. Shepard and im sure youre following this war of words between the tennessee senator, chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee and the back and forth. He of course is not running for another term. Seems to be, at least according to the analysts from who weve heard, seems to be speaking to the president and the war of words has escalated. It has. How can you miss it, shep . This war of words started with the president tweeting that bob corker begged him to run again. And he also begged him to be secretary of state. Corker said no thanks. And then corker drops out of seeking another seat. The president said he didnt have the guts to run. Bob corker tweeted back, he is somewhat dismayed to find out that the white house is something of an adult Day Care Institution and somebody must have missed their shift on sunday morning. And then in an interview with the New York Times that you alluded to, bob corker said this about the president. Listen here. You have to realize, that, you know, that we could be heading towards world war iii with the comments that hes making. A lot of people think theres some Good Cop Bad Cop underway. Thats not true. Hes putting on an act. Senator corker said the president was engaging in reality tv at the highest levels. The president was asked about the world war iii comment just before noon today with Henry Kissinger at his side. Heres what the president said in response. We were on the wrong path before. All you have to do is take a look. Look at the last 25 years through numerous administrations, we were on a path to a very big problem, a problem like this world has never seen. Were on the right path right now, believe me. The president not directly answering the comments from senator corker, deflecting to say well, were on the wrong path before and now were on the right path. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about it at the briefing a little while ago and answered it directly. Listen here. Senator corker is entitled to his own opinions. Hes not entitled to his own facts. The fact is this president has been an incredibly strong leader on foreign policy, national security. Does the president think senator corker should resign . Thats a design for senator corker and the people of tennessee, not the president. A lot of people wonder if is a problem with tax reform. Will he try to stiff the president. The president said he doesnt believe that will happen. Not Many Republican senators are expected to vote against tax reform. And the president defended the immigration changes that he is talking about for protecting the dreamers. The hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose parents brought them to the United States without documents. The problem with agreeing to a policy on immigration is that the democrats dont want secure borders. They dont care about safety for the u. S. A. The president s list includes funding for the wall along the u. S. Mexico border that he said democrats then he said that mexicans would pay for. Democrats said theyre open to reasonable Border Security measures, but they say the president agreed not to include a border wall in a deal on the dreamers. Back to john roberts at the white house. John, where are we on this . That was the big surprise, when enthe president played out his principles for getting some sort of legislative fix on daca including border wall. I asked that question of Sarah Huckabee sanders if the president was asking for more than he agreed to. Listen here. Did he change the goal posts . No. The president simply is stating his priorities for what responsible Immigration Reform should look like. That includes those three big priorities. Thats what he has promised congress he would lay out. Thats what he did. I dont think weve been inconsistent on that front. Is he insistent that the wall be part of any daca legislation . Im not going to stand up and negotiate from the podium with you guys. Thats for the president and congress to work out. Were laying out priorities. The president didnt say initially that the border wall was part of the daca legislation. But he did said the wall and meritbased immigration wont fly with democrats. He may find that if he wants a deal on daca, his end will have to be paired down substantially. Shep . Shepard john roberts, the welcome home parade today. Good to see you. Thank you. Lets turn to alex isenstadt. I dont know where to start. I was thinking maybe with bob corker, senator corker having his own facts. This really is more than a dustup of words here. To hear it from the inside, bob corker is trying to send a message. Yeah. The reason why this is dangerous for the white house, bob corker is not just some rank and file capitol hill lawmaker. He is widely respected by his colleagues on capitol hill. When he says something, it means something. People listen. He did not minutes words in terms of his day care remarks and other things. He told the New York Times. So you what you saw today is the white house hit back hard. The question, as you guys have discussed what does this mean for tax reform and moving legislation forward . Given that corker is an important vote and given that Senate Republicans have such a slim majority right now. Shepard what are we hearing from corker and his people regarding what he plans to do next . His the chairman of a powerful committee. He has the power, if he chooses to, have hearings that could expose what he says are these issues with the president , that he is leading on a path towards world war iii. Is he going to do anything . Its a great question. It important to point out that corker is not running for reelection so hes a man with nothing to lose. He can do whatever he wants. He doesnt have to fear political blowback from the white house. One thing that is going to be interesting to watch, corkers role on tax reform. Hes not necessarily an automatic vote for this. Hes has expressed real concern about how a tax bill could raise the deficit. Hes a deficit hawks. That will be interesting to play out. Shepard we dont know where the tax brackets fall. We dont know how many will fall in the 12 category. We dont have enough details, anybody coming up with specific analyses and saying this particular person will pay more or less. We cant know those things yet. We can know what it is that bob corker wants as an individual senator that has an individual vote. Has he said . What he said is that hes concerned that the current talks of what tax reform could look like, could raise the National Deficit substantially. A trillion dollars over ten years. Ive seen that. Im not sure how they know that. But look, hes an important vote on this. What he says could really make a difference in terms of whether this legislation passes or not. Its important to remember that republicans dont have a legislative accomplishment. Were heading into the heart of primary season next year. A Midterm Election year. Republicans really need to find a way shepard rand paul is shaky on the budget because of his libertarian principles and he believes the government has a few roles. Hes a difficult to get. Aside from that and bob corker, is it the same group . Absolutely. You have to look at john mccain. You have to look at someone like lisa murkowski. Theres potentially other trouble spots that could develop as well. Susan collins from maine. Theres a group of republicans that are not automatic votes for republicans when it comes to legislation right now. Shepard alex isenstadt, thanks very much. Ahead, the stunning recording in the Harvey Weinstein scandal. The former studio boss caught in a police sting. Youll hear it for yourself. And now some of the biggest names in hollywood are sharing their stories. Some important politicians are speaking out. And some very important ones have not yet. Thats coming up from the fox news deck on a tuesday afternoon. Patrick woke up with a sore back. But hes got work to do. So he took aleve this morning. If hed taken tylenol, hed 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. Tylenol cant do that. Aleve. All day strong. All day long. Also try aleve direct therapy with tens technology for lower back pain relief. 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And explosive record is out about Harvey Weinstein. According to the new yorker mark seen, weinstein is facing accusations of rape. Three separate accusations. The magazine releasing an audio recording in which Harvey Weinstein confesses to groping a model. Our chief correspondent Jonathan Hunt with the news and politco is weighing in on this and some not. Jonathan, to you. The allegations just keep coming with the New York Times now reporting that actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie came Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed them. The new yorker magazine reporting separate allegations of rape and for the first time were hearing this audio of what the new yorker claims is Harvey Weinstein pressuring a young actress to join him in his hotel room as she complains about being groped. Im a famous guy. Im feeling uncomfortable. Please come in now. If you want to leave when the guy comes, you can go. Why have you touched my briefs . Just come on. Im used to that. Youre used to that . We should point out, that tape was part of a 2015 police sting operation in new york in 2015. The manhattan d. A. s office ultimately declined to pursue charges in the case. The chorus of condemnation of weinstein is getting louder. Nicole kidman and George Clooney among the latest to speak out and Hillary Clinton issued a statement saying like the clintons, shep, the obamas were also close to Harvey Weinstein. We have not yet heard from president or mrs. Obama who once described Harvey Weinstein as a wonderful human being. Shep . Shepard raised a lot of money for them. Maybe even more so bigger than that, did a lot of be underling. Many hundreds of thousands into more than a Million Dollars for the obamas. Theyre notably absent today. Yeah, you would expect it would be an easy thing for president or mrs. Obama to issue a tweeted statement. We have not seen it yet. Were waiting for it, shep. Shepard wow. My understanding from reading different publications on this, and there are many, that the belief is and its widely held that theres more to come. At the same time, Harvey Weinstein is blaming his brother saying his brother set him up, this is a hit job. Yeah, theyre talking now about the possibility that this was part of some sort of family feud and that Bob Weinstein wanted to oust Harvey Weinstein from the company that the two built so prominently together. But nobody of that, whether this was a family feud or anything else, shep, changes what appeared to be a growing body of facts that Harvey Weinstein was abusing, sexually harassing and if the allegations are true, raping young women over the course of several decades, shep. Shepard what about charges . No charges of any kind or what do you know . No charges of any kind at this point. You heard that audio recording from what was a police sting operation in manhattan in 2015. The d. A. Then declined to pursue any charges. There are none that we know of at this point. As gloria alred who put forward a new so far a woman who hasnt publicly spoken yet today says that the statute of limitations has run out in a lot of these cases. Its still a possibility. We have to wait and seen. Shepard thanks, jonathan. There is breaking news now on fox news channel. Lets go pens theyre stanley cup owners. The president is speaking. Lets listen. Thank you very much for being here. Before we get started, i want to say a few words to the people of california. Great state. Especially with those in napa. Napa has been hit so hard. They deal with the tragic loss of life and property to devastating wild fires. I spoke with Governor Brown last night to let him know that the federal government will stand with the people of california and we will be there for you in this time of terrible tragedy and need. I just want to pay my warmest respects. Theyre going through a lot. We also continue to pray for those grieving and wounded after the mass shooting attack in las vegas. We stand in solidarity with those suffering in the aftermath of hurricanes harvey, irma and maria. Thank you very much. We have to never forget. To the many members of congress who join us here today, we have many, many fans out here. You know that, right . A lot of fans. [applause] not all from pennsylvania, too, if you can believe it. A lot of fans. Members of my administration and distinguished guests, please join me in welcoming to the white house, the twotime defending stanley cup champions, the Pittsburgh Penguins. [cheers applause] not only are the penguins the first time in the National Hockey league in nearly 20 years to be repeat champions, you captured the cup in three out of the last nine seasons. Pretty amazing. I know the competition. The competition is tou