Come forward in the bright lights and relive something that happened to her. That is craig melvins exclusive with a lot more coming up. And President Trump is preparing for the critical u. N. Meetings next week. I ask the secretary of state whether kim jongun should be rewarded with another meeting despite not making good on the promises after the first summit. Ultimately, that going to be a decision for the president. I am hopeful that i will get a chance to travel again to pyongyang to continue the negotiations before too long, and before too long, and then, in relatively short order, i hope that the two the leaders get together again. And 2020 vision, and more from joe bidens exclusive today show interview with craig melvin. It is not a no. You sound like a man who wants to the run. You sound like a guy who really wants to do it, and do you want . I want to desperately change the landscape. And good day, everyone. A busy day in washington. President trump after avoiding direct criticism of Brett Kavanaughs accuser all week, today, he crossed the line, and writing to the the 50 million twitter followers. I have no doubt that if the attack on dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with the local Law Enforcement by either her or the her parent, and i ask that she bring them present for the date, time and place. And tweeting again, why didnt someone call the fbi 26 years ago. And joining me is Kristen Welker and mimi. And kristen, it is clear that he was subdued own the south lawn, and then he went there. We spent so much time this week talking about the president s tone, and the fact that he was not engage ing ing types of attacks and then today it changed. We sort of saw him getting closer and closer to the line overnight when he said why wasnt this reported to the fbi 36 years ago . Well, of course, a teenager is not going to report Something Like this to the fbi, but andrea, the bottom line, he is taking her on directly, but the messaging still runs counter of that of many of the top officials including Kelley Anne Conway said there is no reason to attack her. She needs to be heard. And so, you been watching this closely, and you and the Washington Post team did the first reporting on this of Christine Blasey ford, and how do you see this evolving with her attorney debra katz on the phone last night into the evening with the democrats and the republicans in a Conference Call saying that i will come on thursday and not monday, and she is going to be coming on thursday, but not any sooner, and she wont come monday. She wants to come first, and she wants him not to be in the room, and she wants mark judge the third person in the room when this alleged incident that took place, and the eyewitness to be subpoenaed. Do you see it now coming together or Standing Firm if she is not there monday, it is all over. That is the major can question that we are trying to report out today and i talked to senator Chuck Grassley the chairman of the judicial Comm Committee, and they aid is a that we will give you the update when we have one and so they are clearly working on it. And does this hearing go forward at all, and all week, grassley and mcconnell and others say, that monday hearing is the way to go and we know now that of the litany of the concerns, and requests that debra katz, the lawyer for dr. Ford made with Committee Staffers last night. One of the demands that they say is nonnegotiable is the date. They will not come on monday and it has to be thursday to give them enough time for her the do a security preparations to prepare her testimony, and for the republicans a lot of the requests are nonnegotiable at all, and they say that the judge kavanaugh the testifying first, but leaving that aside, there is a way to get to the middle of the request, but again, we have not had the official word from what senator grassley and the rest of the Senate Republicans are thinking. And here, mimi rocha, we have a fair hearing and yet mike davis who is the head investigator of the committee and the head of the republican side of the committee had these tweets which have now been taken down, but incredibly, but he is saying that he is unfazed and determined. We will confirm judge kav nay and confirm kavanaugh and then i personally questioned him under the penalty of penalty and five years of imprisonment if he lice and i want to hear back from the accusers attorneys who cant find time between tv appearance appearances to get back to me. And there was a jewish holy day which is the 24hour period and a medical procedure, but there was a long Conference Call yesterday. But what does this project if he is the guy who should be leading the Senate Investigators and they dont want the fbi to do it with a neutral or experienced oorganization, and why should she have confidence in being questioned by this man . Well, that is exactly right, andrea. And she shouldnt, frankly, and he is not the only one saying it. And hatch has said that he does not believe her, and the president , he is not going to be sitting in the senate, but he is knottinot standing alone saying she did not report it and do not believe her, and that is what the tweet says. She should not have any confidence and she should not be given confidence that she is giving a fair shot, and this is a sham. American people can see it and people looking at it subjectively, that this is not a search for the truth. That said, she has bravely an reasonably said that, okay, i will come anyway, because, you know, i think that she is of the mind that she has come this far, and her name has gotten out, and not by her doing, and her story is out there and now she is willing to go under oath and testify, and they have set some very reasonable parameters for that. What is shocking, and i mean, many thing thes that are shocking to me about this, but the most recent shocking thing is that people are saying, well, we wont subpoena mark judge, because we wont let dr. Ford be the one to dictate who we will subpoena. Well, fine, dont let her. If you, the republicans want to clear his name, and clear kavanaughs name, and if this is all a big lie, then his name should be cleared, and then there is a witness out there that we know of o, and possibly a coconspirator, and depending what turns out to be the truth here, and but, you know, he is a friend of judge kavanaughs, and the idea that he would not be called to testify, and i just dont understand it. There is a really no excuse for it. It is really going to put the lie to the idea that this is any kind of osearch for truth. And joe biden has of course been part of the conversation, because he chaired the judiciary Comm Committee and he did call for the fbi investigation into the anita hill when she had confidentially shared her experience and it was followed up immediately by the white house counsel, and then boyden gray to George Herbert walker bush, and immediately the fbi did it and did it in a couple of days. Joe biden was speaking exclusively as we have been saying with craig melvin earlier on today. Anita hill was vilified when she came forward by a lot of my colleagues and characters a s assassination, and i wish i could have done more to prevent those questions in the way they asked them. I hope my colleagues learned from that and how would you advice the senators to proceed next week and how do you balance the rights of a woman who is maching accusations like this versus the presumption that a person is innocent until Proven Guilty . Well, the presumption should exist, but what should happen is that the woman should be given n the benefit of the doubt and not be, you know, abused again, by the system. My biggest regret was that i didnt know how to shut you off if you were a senator and attacking anita hills character. Under the senate rules i cant gavel you down and say, that you cant ask that question, although i tried and so what happened is that she was victim i victimized again in the process. Ask tough questions and substantive questions and who said what, et cetera, but dont go after the character, and not the kascharacter assassination. And it seems that you get it now versus back in 1991. I think that i got it in 1991 well, people have their own opinion. So, he is apologizing, but he is not acknowledging that he was at fault other than not reign re rein iing in some of the colleagues. And so, kristen, she has said that she would come, and the republicans can they say, no, if you are not here monday at 10 00 a. M. , that is not politically sustainable. It would be difficult for them to say, that and that is why you have a phone call last night that lasted so long between the two sides trying to drill down on some of the specific specifics of what a hearing would look like, and i think that they are concerned about the optics, and not just of when will this hearing take place, and what are the terms going to be, but you heard the former Vice President talk about how odamaging it was back in 1991, and thehere are a lot of potentl pitfalls and what is the tone of the questioning, and will they give her the benefit of the doubt, and will the questions convey that . They are heading into the midterms where they are concerned about potentially losing the house, and holding onto the seats in the senate. So they are very aware of the optics of this and that is why broadley, you have the republicans saying that we need to hear from her and save the recent tweets from the president. And we know that the republicans were wanting to hire a woman attorney as counsel to the committee to do the questioning, because they dont have any male republicans asking question, and we have seen already from some of the sten senators, including some who have have been on the anita hill panel and they have nott gotten the sensitive ti training. That is one of the options that is being discussed. And she said yes, and debra a cats told t debra katz said that she did not like the counsel idea, because the woman does not want to feel like she is on trial. But you are right, the republicans have put on a confident face throughout the week and the turmoil that judge kavanaugh has faced and i found Senate Majority leader mcconnells remarks are remarkable, and he is speaking at the value voters summit and one tof the core bases and the party and give them the faith and kavanaugh will be kconfirme and at least Mitch Mcconnell is supremely pardon the pun that judge kavanaugh going to be through it, and again, he is controlling only 51 vote, and some of the senators such as jeff flake and Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have been known to show their stubborn neness f time to time. And there is concern that President Trump wont get his ability to nominate someone during this term. And we just want to add to a all of this, the atmosphere from both of the sides has gotten toxic with the social media and the threats between both sides and the New York Times is reporting that blasey ford is going to be speaking to the fbi in San Francisco near her home about the online threats, because that is something that the fbi can investigate without being asked by the president or the white house. That is a criminal investigation, and not a civil investigation. So, it is not part of the background check, and more to come on that. Mi mimi, what with insights do you have as a former prosecutor about the fbis role here, and we know that we have confirmed that it is only the president , and the white house who can ask them to get back into the c confirmation process, but this is a different matter. Yes, this is entirely separate. And it is absolutely should be investigated. We had, i have overseen and done many cases of the threats like this where you have both in terms of the witness tampering, and obviously, she is a potential witness in a federal proceeding which a congressional can confirmation hearing would be, and clearly at least some of the threats are, i would think that, you have to look at the substance, but attempts to dissuade her from testifying and those are the category of witness tampering, but other federal statutes that apply whether or not someone is trying to influence her testimony, Online Harassment or threat, and those are federal crimes prosecuted a all over to the country, and the fbi is very well equipped and they do a forensic analysis if they are email s emails or Text Messages or phone calls and even social media, and i have seen the prosecutions just based on the social media postings. So this is something that the fbi is very good at and they should take very seriously here. And join g ing us now by pho is the reporter who broke that story, cheryl, and what can you add to that . Not much, but dr. Blasey, as she are prefers to be known, is getting help from the fbi to talk about the online and the telephone threats against her which have rattled her understandably according to her lawyers. She has had to move out of her home. She has moved out of her home, and worried for her safety and for that of her children, and frankly, i think that is one reason that they are wanting a delay so this hearing next week. It has been a lot on her since she has been public. We will be watching your posts on the New York Times and all of the followup information and thank you for jumping into that, and thanks to both of you, and of course, kristen well can k kristen we anchoring the 1 00 next to me today. And it has been a busy day and so much that i was at the white house interviewing mike pompeo earlier today. Stay with us for Andrea Mitchell reports. 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The approach is fundamentally different than in each of the three previous negotiations of the both democratic and republican negotiations. The sanctions are remain in place. And they started the global sanctions that are put in place by the entire world and the u. N. Security council resolution, and so we have known that it will take time, and we knew that it would not happen instantaneously, but each step, including the visit from president moon where they made an i incremental progress talking about the materiel in a material way, and there is much more work to be done and we have the patience and the determination and we believe that world does, too to accomplish this goal. But china and russia is taking are from the president s declaration that the smuggling is spiking, the oil smuggling, and the message to the rest of the world is to ease off of the sanctions. And that not the signal. The countries from the middle east, and indeed china and russia both have stated their continued commitment to enforce the Security Council resolutions. And there is gap, and we are working to enforce the Security Council resolution, and those sanctions will remain in place until we get to the end, the final denuclearization which chairman kim promised President Trump that he would undertake. And some reports and as well as others nott only of the increased smuggling, but that he is expand iing the arsenal and t limiting it. He is making a loft promises now, and are they h enough to justify another summit a second summit with the president . Ultimately that is a decision for the president. I am hopeful that i will have a chance to travel again to pyongyang to continue the negotiations before too long, and that before too long, and then in relatively short order, i hope that the two leaders get together again to continue to make progress on this the incredibly important issue for the entire world. The president is going to be hosting a Security Council meeting on nonproliferation, and as he is tweeting to today, it is really about iran. Are you signal ing ling in the policies that you want a soft regime change or real regime change, and do you see rouhani from iran, and president Rouhani Meeting with the president of the United States . Well, we have made it clear that regime change is not President Trumps policy and we have laid it out what we want from the Islamic Republic from iran. And it is straight forward and here is the starters, stop launching missiles into riyadh, and threatening hezbollah, and ceasing to be the worlds state sponsor of terror. Those are the demands and that is what we are looking for from iran as well. When the islamic are regime makes that change, we will be happy to have a conversation with them, and President Trump has made it clear, but there are no signs that they are backing off and continuing the terror threats around the world. On yemen, you have indicated continued backing of the war in yemen and even after the killing of 40 schoolchildren by a saudi air strike, a school bus, and lot of people in this