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Will reflect on him. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl leading us off tonight. >> reporter: urged by party leaders to focus on what they think is his strongest selling point, president trump is now talking up jobs and the economy. >> republicans have created the best economy in the history of our country. >> reporter: but the core of the president's closing argument is not hope, it's fear -- dark warnings about illegal immigration. >> democrats are inviting caravan after caravan -- isn't that nice? -- of illegal aliens to flood into our country and overwhelm your communities....

And jon, when we studied the words there, that answer, president trump seemed to imply that it's really up to the fbi whether to reopen judge kavanaugh's background check. so, what is the fbi saying tonight, if anything at all? >> reporter: well, we asked the fbi about what the president said, they have no comment on this. but david, background checks are conducted at the request of the white house. one was done on kavanaugh. if the president wanted it reopened to look at these new allegations, he could order that done and he has not done so. david? >> jon karl leading us off tonight. jon, tha...

Good-bye, read aloud today in phoenix, with a message for this country, for this time. and then, late this afternoon, the white house amid mounting pressure, lowering the flag again. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl leading us off tonight. >> reporter: in the senate chamber today, black velvet and white roses on the desk that belonged to john mccain. >> while john proudly served with us as the senator for arizona, he was america's hero all along. >> reporter: and today, a final message from mccain to the country he loved so much. a farewell letter read by his friend and form...

To strip a former official of his security clearance, let alone one who has not been accused of breaking the law. for his part, brennan says that this is going to have a chilling effect on former officials who may want to come out and question the president's actions. but i have never seen it happen before. >> jon karl leading us off tonight. jon, thank you. also developing at this hour, jurors have just been given instructions by the judge in the paul manafort trial. the jury now set to deliberate his fate beginning tomorrow. president trump's former campaign chairman could face life in pri...

Briefing this afternoon -- >> can you stand at the podium and guarantee the american people they'll never hear donald trump utter the n-word on a recording in any context? >> i can't guarantee anything. but i can tell you that the president addressed this question directly. i can tell you i have never heard it. >> jon karl with us tonight live at the white house. jon, you reported there the president tweeted, "i don't have that word in my vocabulary and never have. she made it up." and jon, tonight, omarosa is making another claim, saying she has been interviewed by special counsel robert muel...