who was i going to say something to? he wassed most powerful man in hollywood. >> the stories keep coming and coming. trump escalates threats against news media. let's be clear. these are typically heard from authoritarian regimes. >> and before we twist this into a story about the press being perturbed, "vanity fair" is reporting that advisers and leading republicans that may be staying quiet, too quiet. but what they are doing is raising fears that the president is unraveling. former strategist steve bon

giving the president a 30% chance of making it to the end oefz first term. we have it all covered for you. joe johns live at the white house. >> the president has been completely up front about the fact that he gets irritated by negative news coverage. he has taken issue with individual news story but never gone networks should be pup issuing for unflattering coverage. >> it is disgusting that the press can write whatever they want to write.

>> we have great policies that the republicans tend not to be as unified. >> reporter: the president is growing increasingly frustrated with a stalled legislative agenda and a new article in "vanity fair" described the white house in crisis. with advisers struggle to go contain a president who is increasingly unfocused and consumed by dark moods. the reports cites two senior officials who say chief of staff john kelly is miserable but remaining in his post to keep mr. trump from making a disastrous decision. his deputy chief of staff was nominated to replace the post he vacated as homeland security secretary. one white house source telling cnn they don't see kelly remaining on the job for long without her and that he may have been giving her somewhere to land before he ultimately

leaves. according to one of "vanity fair" sources, the former chief strategist steve bannon has said he thinks the president only has a 30% chance of making it through his full term. bannon reportedly telling the president that the main risk to his tenure is the 25th amendment to the constitution, which allows the cabinet to vote to remove him. the white house is disputing these accounts as the president denies any rift with secretary of state rex tillerson. >> we have a very good relationship. >> but making it clear that his own strategic opinion matters most when it comes to north korea. >> i think i have a little bit different attitude on north korea than other people might have. and i listen to everybody. but ultimately my attitude is the one that matters, isn't it? >> this as cnn learns that a tense and difficult meeting

prompted tillerson to call the president a moron back in july. defense employees were ashen at mr. trump's direct questioning of his commanders and lack of a ancec d world view. unable to get a health care bill through the congress at least so far, the president is expected to sign an executive action today that would begin weakening parts of obamacare. it is expected to instruct the agencies to start selling cheaper, less comprehensive health insurance. that will benefit healthy people and sick people won't like it too much. >> when president trump was first elected, i saw troubling signs ahead. that is when they were talking about no on-camera briefings

with the daily press. talked about changing libel laws. with sean spicer there was flirtation on on camera videos. they did it in bushes instead. it is hard to know how seriously to take threats. they come up and then they go away. >> we should always take the words of the united states seriously even if he does not take his own words seriously. this is a position with enormous power. and the sad, sick truth is this president goes beyond. there is a natural tension with the press. he threatens libel laws. then the press. he is calling us the enemy of the american people. everything that we're seeing is sort of out a dark sa tear

satirical novel. this is actually, this language is a contradiction of the president's commitment to uphold the constitution, the first amendment of the constitution. >> he says, mr. president, are you recanting the oath you took january 20th to preserve, protect, and defend the first amendment? >> the good news, david, is the president doesn't understand apparently how licenses work. this wouldn't happen the way he is saying it would happen. the reason we bring up ben sasse is not to encourage negativity but accountability. one of the reasons the president can't do this, if you were to try to pass a law in violation of the constitution, the supreme court would act against it. congress should come and act against it. that is why there is provocation here to people in positions of leadership. it is time to stand up and be counted about how you feel about these things. there's too much quiet. >> i agree with that 100%. and i think there is a tendency

among a lot of leaders in washington. how about what bob corker has been saying this week that a lot of people have been feeling angst and anxiety about what the president does and says but people don't speak up. why not? this is how an authority tear yann speaks. the president made these threats before. it speaks to the fact that he doesn't take the presidency seriously enough to be this provocative when of course he laughs the news media and relies on it tremendously and always has. it is an in ability or unwillingness particularly on the part of congress saying this is not dialogue we ought to be having. what the president is doing is lashing out, scapegoating, trying to make up for the fact that he is not accomplishing anything in other areas. and the substance of this, getting to a place where clearly

there's an unraveling going on in the white house. we see how disfunction al his left wing is, let alone his entire cabinet, to deflect away from that, he simply goes back to what he thinks will keep his core base together, to go on open warfare with the news media. as alyson said, thanks to the news media, jewish other and other restraints on the president, his rhetoric and threats have not gone on. we have cnn reporting about the background in which it was said that the president was a moron. it was a july 20th meeting at the pentagon. it was described as difficult and tense. it was where the department of defense was briefing the president. and he was either not sort of

fully digesting everything or taking to task commanders he thought weren't doing the job well enough. he wanted more of an explanation why he wasn't facing more options for what to do in afghanistan. it was after that meeting we now know that tillerson said -- if you believe the sources in the room who were telling us that the president was moron. >> yes. it would be pronounced moron. a lot of tension in the military members. we saw in the criticized them publicly and folks bristled. and nuclear weapons that should make people with military responsibility very uncomfortable. we are seeing the downstream effect general linley concerned about what they are seeing.

if you're a trump fan, you will deny all of it. this tran sends partisanship. they are saying something is terribly wrong with this president. that gets to adult conversations. what he is bristling against is the pushback because they are not deferring to his judgment, with air quotes around it. maybe the 25th amendment is your greatest threat, i think that speaks to an environment of paranoia as well as increasing consensus of bob corker and others saying something is terribly wrong. >> it is now a statement of fact. congress has a new set of responsibilities. they were supposed to do it under the constitution when they raised their hand, they were supposed to do it. now practicality has created an exist seu.

many hoped, and still hope that, mr. trump's aggressive posture is mostly theater. but there is no underlying strategy to his loose talk. and whatever he means by it, congress has been sufficiently alarmed to consider legislation that would bar the president from launching first nuclear strike without a declaration of war by congress. it wouldn't take away the president's ability to defend the country." this is a critical time. when i say we need more people like ben sasse. i don't care that he is republican or critical of the president. but he is standing up and being count spd doied and doing his j. they have been talking about authorization of use of military force for months. they are not still debating it. this law is being proposed but we don't know by who. is it time for congress to stand up and be counted?

>> i think there is no question. that goes back to the original military force post 9/11 that gave wide latitude in defending the country that was never updated. this is not just about trump. this is about congress standing up and doing its job and having some real voice in these matters and not giving all the power to the executive branch which president obama was happy to have and president bush and vice president cheney were happy to have after 9/11 because they felt it was the right thing for the country. >> what's different now i think is that democrats and republicans both are recognizing the danger of the growth of this presidency over time when it collides with celebrity culture in this way. you get more democrats recognizing that encroaching federal power is dangerous in circumstances like this.

and more strengthening of the checks and balances and separations of powers that have been largely ignored over the last several decades. >> right. look, the difference between health care policy, immigration even, is that in domestic matters, it's a bit more transparent. there is a push and a pull. policy can lurch in different directions. when we get into national security, it is an obvious point. it is so much more dangerous. and the process is not as transparent. we don't know, for instance, on on north korea whether 9 president is really reservation or there is a policy that's more coherency that may lead to success. >> look what happened in syrort. small scale. maybe arguably not even that effective. the way president approached it is something congress to take into consideration. they have to stand up because they are serious questions not just hot talk anymore. >> gentlemen, thank you very

much. breaking news in california. the death toll rising to 23 people as wildfires rage out of control in california. ryan young is live in santa rosa with more. and people are still missing, ryan? >> reporter: yes, people are still missing. 285 people are still missing. one of the things that also stands up is the wind is picking up. wind gusts 25 to 40 miles per hour today, which can make it hard for firefighters to continue to fight this fire. you're seeing scenes like this play out over and over. burned-out homes. not only do you deal with the entire naked that's gone here. but then you have the mountainous terrain that firefighters are having to battle this fire. they have been dropping water down to try to knock the fire out. containment is still under 10%. you can tell they have been dealing with a lot in terms of trying to get everyone to safety. 20,000 people so far evacuated. chris, it will be another long day. >> boy, when you talk about the raising winds, you and i have

both watched as the fire follows the wind. and it jumps roads and seems to make choices about what to destroy. it just turbo charges the entire situation. stay safe. keep the crew safe. let us know what's happening, ryan. thank you for the brave report. our next guest thinks president trump's plan to decertify the iran deal could trigger a crisis, a crisis that would increase nuclear dangers significantly. the former energy secretary under president obama joins us next.

the president is set to announce that he will decertify the iran nuclear deal. he was energy secretary under president obama and now with a nonpartisan organization that works to prevent a tabs with weapons of mass destruction.

you were intimately involved with the process of coming up with the iran deal. you understand it well. you're a great guest. so thank you for joining us. >> pleasure. >> decertification is not a big deal. it will just kick it to congress. they can evaluate whether the tenets are being met. this could be a good period of reevaluation. what do you make of that? >> if the president chooses to not certify, that already will be a negative step. for one thing it will start a process of isolating us from our allies. the iran agreement should be remembered as multilateral one with our european allies, uk, france, germany, eu, but also russia and china. sit quite remarkable that the world came together to respond to the concern about iran having a nuclear weapon. simply not certifying is already a major step to shake the

foundation. if we went all the way and reimposed sanctions while iran is in compliance, again, our allies made it very, very clear they would not be following us. this would be a slippery slope towards a bad outcome, something very much not in our national security interest. >> all right. what's driving the president's decision is this. it's a bad deal, mr. moniz. that the way the testing is done and the certifying, not in regard of him decertifying the agreement, but their following the deal is too much dependent on what iran wants to tell people. and that they are violating the spirit of this deal by creating chaos all over the world and be a sponsor of terror. >> i don't know where to start with that. first of all, the deal is extremely strong. in fact, sighsly the transparency, the visibility that we in the world have into that program. the verification measures in this agreement are

unprecedented. precisely because the world went into these negotiations. of course the united states as well not trusting iran. so the agreement is not based on trust in any way. it is based ultimately on verification. we would give that up if we walk away from the deal. with regard to iran's other activities in the region which gives us of course considerable concern from yemen to syria to hezbollah to missiles, to human rights, we and our allies have all been very, very clear these are not acceptable. but imagine trying to address these issues, as we are. we did in the obama administration, the trump administration is doing it as well. imagine doing those with nuclear weapons in iran or even the suspicion that they have them. just look at north korea as a case in point. so the whole point was put us in a much stronger position, remove the threat not only to us but to

israel, for example, and the agreement accomplishes that. now it is up to us as both have done to ramp up the pressure and resolve those other issues. i might point out just yesterday the former prime minister and defense minister of israel came out yesterday and made it very, very clear if we were to withdraw from this agreement while iran is in compliance, it would put iran in a stronger position. this is not a good direction to go in. >> so when you say this is not a good direction, there is an argument being made that what the president wants to do with the iran deal is somewhat of an example of a foreign policy raising concerns in terms of his judgment on these sensitive matters. the "new york times" has an editor that states in part as follows, many have hoped, and still hope, that mr. trump's

aggressive posture is mostly theater. but there is no underlying strategy to his loose talk. and whatever he means by it, congress has been sufficiently alarmed to consider legislation that would bar the president from launching first nuclear strike without a declaration of war by congress. it wouldn't take away the president's ability to defend the country." the atomic energy act in 1946 passed when there was more concern about trigger-happy generals. he could unleash the apocalyptic force of the american nuclear arsenal by his word alone, and within minutes. your take? >> well, first of all, the president already back in the campaign has made some statements about nuclear weapons that are certainly not in our interest. and would exacerbate traumatically nuclear risks. and i have to say our judgment would be that the risks of a miscalculation lead to go use of

a nuclear weapon are probably higher than they have been since the cuban missile crisis. so we need to address this. the underlying issue and the congressional legislation that you're talking about really i think hinges on something that we must address and frankly change. and that is that the idea of launching on warning the -- being on hair-trigger alert in both the united states and russia is extremely destabilizing. we need to address this. there are many ways we could address that. of course we can't do it without entering into a serious dialogue with russia. so i think that that's ultimately what we need to address. it is a very difficult situation when frankly if information were to go to the president that there was a launch against us and as historically we have had errors made in that context. we have been pretty lucky,

frankly, to avoid the use of nuclear weapons. imagine being in a position where you might have realistically 10 minutes or less to make a decision, a life or death decision, not just for an individual but literally for our country. this is an unstable situation. so the congress needs to consider this legislation. but the real underlying issue is we need to get away from this hair-trigger alert in both the united states and russia. >> well, the law would be something that could enact a process. mr. moniz, thank you very much. congress has been sheurbging this duty to own its constitutional responsibilities where declarations of war are involved for some time. let's see what they do. thank you for being with us. >> the president making it crystal clear that he wants all nfl players to stand for the national anthem. how he said he would have handled colin kaepernick. that's next. the opioid my doctor prescribed for my chronic back pain

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rapper eminem had an anti-trump rap that went viral

and an ultimatum for fans. >> any fan of mine who is a supporter of his, i'm drawing in the sand a line. you're either for or against. and if you can't decide on who you should stand beside, i'm do it for you for this. [ bleep ] you. the rest of america stand up. >> here to discuss is ana navarro and ben ferguson. nice to have both of you in studio. let me start with you. what do you think about what eminem did? he obviously is a huge rapper. he has sold millions and millions of records. he has a big following. and he's in michigan, which is significant politically. do you think that this matters and gets any traction with his fan base? >> i certainly cannot speak for his fan base. i'm not a member of it. other than slim shady, i'm not sure i could recognize a single

song. that might come as a huge shock to you. i come at this from a blooder freedom broader freedom of speech he debate. whether it's flag, anthem, right wing, white supreme sift, freedom of speech exercised by eminem. the president of the united states threatening the press with taking away licenses from networks he thinks are against him. there is a very broad freedom of speech going on in the united states. and i think we have to be so vigilant about it. i come at this also from the, you know, from being a political exile. i need communism. in miami, my friend gloria estefan's songs are illegal to be played in cuba.

they are not even profane. they are just talking about freedom. i think it is an aspect of america that makes us great. freedom of speech. we have to defend it whether we like the content or not. >> that president trump is encroaching on freedom of speech? >> i don't. i think he is challenging people which tells us we have real freed of of speech. i think telling people you're on my team or you're not is brilliant marketing by him. he has an album coming out. i have no respect for eminem. he talks about how to rape women, 000 assault women. this is a guy also that i don't putney stock in what he says. he attacked george bush, hillary clinton when he had an album coming out. he understands if you go out and act like this billy bad [ bleep ] and you give the finger to the president of the

united states of america. >> i think he might have been giving the finger to the fans. >> i think he was giving it to president trump. he doesn't have moral high ground because he made a listen. if you listen to his lyrics choking women's vocal cords while rapeing them. >> the president saying he will revoke news licenses for the press. you think that that is attacking freedom of speech. >> the president has to be careful to not go too far in that way. it is fine to point out news stories that are not accurate. i make a living off those airwaves. i don't like when we start talking about pulling someone's license. that's too far in general. but i also think that it's too far for a rapper to come out and to say i'm going to give you

that finger. >> it is is different than the president. when the president speaks, he has to be more careful. >> ellen degeneres tweets out i love eminem. she said she would never have trump on her show but says she loves a rapper whose lyrics talk about rapeing women. >> it is equally absurd to talk about grabbing a woman and get all holy roller when we talk aboutthe rapper. it is unamerican. it is unconstitutional. we should all be denouncing it strongly. the big danger here is that we all get numb to the crazy stuff donald trump saysand it is is not going to end up being anything. but it really may be something. it is is affecting the national psyche. what eminem said, i can't even

talk about his former lyrics because i don't know anything about his former lyrics. what he said now, laced with a lot of profanity, is what a lot of people are saying about the wall, about how dare donald trump talk about patriotism when he has been beating up on john mccain who is a patriot and who is a hero. so a lot of things that he was voicing are being voiced around kitchen tables. not in rap and not in pro tpapt, b profanity but, yes, in content. when he talks about a line in the sand, it is going in in american families, work places. >> but i also think the left has to be careful to not wrap themselves around, just like ellen degeneres did, for example, a guy who is disgusting and vial towards women just because -- >> but, ben, i could say the right has got to be very careful

not to wrap themselves around someone who is so disgusting and vial that talks about grabbing women. >> i never defended donald trump when he did that and said it is is absolutely wrong. i'm consistent in the standard. i think what we are also seeing and it worries me is we are now in a culture where it doesn't matter what your resume says, how vial, how disgusting, how sick you are and ma sopblg tpheuft towards women, the left will come out and say i love you when this is what you're selling. remember, ellen degeneres comes out almost every day and talks about women. let's look at ellen here. she said she will not have the president on her show because of what he said. but she will tell all of her audience to buy his lyrics, go buy his albums. e hold him to the sale scrutiny. the rapper is not an example to follow for children.

he is not -- >> ellen said yesterday he was. >> the president of the united states. >> hollywood said he was yesterday. >> let's table this for a seconds. >> i can't turn donald trump off as president of the united states. >> because we're approaching the weekend, what's going to happen with the nfl? what do you think will happen with the protests. the president now expects everybody to stand. i don't know that they are going to imply. do you see this as a freedom of speech issue? >> i think you have the right to do it. there are consequences for your actions. same thing we teach children when they're young. the nfl got it wrong. they tried to come out and play both sides of this issue. then they tried to say, oh, we're america's team, america's game, america's sport while allowing their employees to disrespect the country. there's consequences. >> i just want to be very clear. they say we are not disrespecting the country. their protest is about --

>> i have the right to disagree with them. i will say this. i think many of the nfl players are frauds. most did not go and vote, colin kaepernick has never voted. >> voting is not necessary to protest. donald trump's children didn't vote. and in her in the white house. don't tell me that they don't have to protest when senior advisers in the white house didn't vote. >> colin kaepernick said i'm going to lead this group. when is the last time he went to a black lives matter. he saw a bunch of cameras and said i'm going to kneel. it is fraud. you are a fraud. >> black lives matter? who are you to tell a black person who makes them black.

i mean, really. look at yourself in the mirror. >> i go out every day and i champion a cause but i never do it in real life, i'm a fraud. >> who died and made you the judge of blackness to tell whether he voted or not allows him to have a political opinion. >> if you go out every day and fight for something that you say is so near and dear to your heart and i find out you are never involved in the issue outside of national tv, you are a fraud and fake. >> talk to ivana trump. she never voted. >> i said this. >> then i want you to say right now. donald trump jr. and ivana trump are frauds. >> they should have voted. >> say the same words. >> by your standards you say you are a republican. you voted for hillary clinton.

you're not a republican by your standards. >> you voted for a man that was a democrat, then independent, and as an opportunist he became a republican. i was been supporting represent candidates for candidates while you were probably still in diapers. >> you voted forri hillary clinton. >> yes. because i refused to vote for a racist misogynyist. it was the first time in my life i did not support a republican nominee because i found him absolutely disgusting. and i crossed over party. and you are nobody to question colin kaepernick. you are not judge and juriment you can do whatever you want for yourself. you cannot judge me. >> i can judge colin kaepernick. this is the weakest argument. >> you say he doesn't go to black lives matter. >> i'm going to finish my point because it is important.

again, let me finish. colin kaepernick coming out and say this is a big issue to him but he never goes out in the community and is involved in it, doesn't care enough about the issue. he says everyone else should care about. to go register to vote, that is hypocri hypocrisy. it has nothing to do with being black or white. it is being a hypocrite. >> why don't you let the members of the community that he is representing. i think he is talking for >> i have an opinion about it. >> and you both have had very compelling, interesting and lively opinions. >> we're still friends. >> not that. . don't push me. >> ben ferguson and ana navarro, thank you for the very spirited debate. >> all righty then. president trump tweeting about puerto rico this morning. what he is saying about fema and how long that they will be on the island.

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president trump is tweeting about recovery efforts in puerto rico after hurricane maria. the president says puerto rico's in tpfrastructure and electrica grid were a disaster before the storm anded add we cannot keep fema, the military and the first responders, who have been amazing under the most difficult

circumstances, in p.r. leyla santiago live in san juan with more. there is a little bit of a logical inconsistency there. the president seems to realize the desperation there which is in part because of the infrastructure challenges that existed even before this. but then he seems to say that that is somehow an explanation for not keeping the help that's needed on the ground there forever. so the question to you, leyla, what is it like there now in terms of seeing a turn in the tide of need? >> reporter: right. so, chris, here's the reality check. the president is already tweeting about possibly pulling aids when some of the aid isn't even making it to the homes of the most vulnerable. we have been outside san juan, the area that president trump did not visit when he came to puerto rico. and what we have found is many people still without power. as a matter of fact, as of this morning, 90% still without

power. we found homes without water. a third of this island still without water. we visited hospitals, doctors told us they need help. they cannot continue operating the same way they have been operating. i mean, you go outside of the capital and it's a completely different story. fema aid is moving. that's something that we have seen change in just the last week. but somehow it's not making it into the homes of the most vulnerable. and when you talk to first responders, when you talk to people already working for fema right now, they will tell you this isn't a matter of days, this is not a matter of weeks, this is months, possibly years, for recovery for some sense of normalcy for puerto rico. and here's something that really paints the picture. we actually went to an area that we visited four days after hurricane maria. when we went back just in the last two days, they told us nobody else had been there to deliver aid beyond the mayor with one box of food, alyson.

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we now know the meaning of this joke. >> congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to harvey weinstein. >> yesterday he tweeted a message, in 2005 a friend confided in me regarding her

encounter, and she courageously come forward. i could not resist the opportunity to take a hard wing in his direction. make no mistake this game from a place of loathing and anger. that woman, actress and producer joins us now. good morning, jessica. >> good morning. >> tell us about your story. i know in 2011 you met harvey weinstein at a golden globes party and he invited you to a business meeting at the peninsula hotel and then what happened. we were supposed to meet in the lobby. he called me and asked me to come to his room. i was very hesitant about and i was texting my sister that he wanted me to come to his room and i didn't know what to do.

she suggested that if i was going to go to his room that i text her as soon as i get there to let her know how it was going. when i got to his room he was very casual. i was dressed up professionally. he was very casual. unbuttoned shirt. baggy pants. the room had champagne and sushi, and we sat on the patio, and at first he started talking about career stuff, and how he wanted to fly me to new york and give me a role in sarah jessica parker's new film. he also alternating between that and asking him to give him a naked massage in the bed. i told him that was not going to happen. i asked him if he was married because i looked up that information before i agreed to

the meeting because i was hesitant to have a meeting at the hotel so i wanted to see if he was married, and it turned out he was and he, in fact, just had a baby as well, so that comforted me a little bit. he told me he had an open relationship with his wife and i told him that i didn't. so it fluctuated back and forth with that. >> and as i understand it, he began also fluctuating between complimenting you and berating you, and you told him you were not interested in giving him a naked massage. how did you extricate yourself from the situation? >> he said if i wanted to compete with people like mila kunas i would have to lose ten pounds. i stood my ground. i told him i was never going to

trade sexual favors to advance my career and i was under the impression this was a career meeting, and all while doing this i was covering tears that were coming up, and i was trying to hold my ground, and then he said, no, no, you misunderstood me, i will set up a female asso. >> and then you sort of figured it out it was bs from the beginning. i know when you got out of there, obviously it was traumatizing and you did share the story with people, including seth mcfarland. when seth mcfarland made that joke at the 2013 nominations we just played, what did you think? what did you think about him saying it publicly and what did you think would happen next? >> it was, i believe, two years after the instance, so i was happy that at least somebody was saying something about it at that point. when it initially happened i requested that he didn't say

anything. i was not comfortable coming forward at that point, being what i assumed to be my word against his. a huge hollywood mogul, i just -- how do you think that's going to play out, you know? so at that point, two years later, i was appreciative of the joke because nobody else in hollywood was saying anything about harvey and at that point i heard rumors about him and was wondering why everybody was turning such a blind eye. >> after that joke why do you think it took four more years now for this ground swell of people, women to come forward? >> i think it was fear. i think that's why there's very few people in hollywood right now speaking out still. i think for me personally with ashley judd, when i first heard her encounter in 2015 where she didn't even name harvey

weinstein, i knew it was him because of her story, it was so eerily similar to mind, and i reached out to her agent because i wanted to go forward, but i never got a response. if you don't have somebody like ashley judd coming out and speaking and it's an unknown actor or a receptionist or co-worker and they are coming out, i don't think you think that your word alone is going to encourage other women to come forward because he's such a powerhouse in the industry with a high profile legal team. how do you fight that? one girl, it's your word against his and that's why i feel a lot of people have settled with him and signed disclosures. this is their way of silencing women and it needs to end.

>> let's talk about that. now that you have come public with your story and you see the flood gates have opened and there's so many women, what is your advice to young women that find themselves in that situation? >> i understand honestly how difficult it is to come out against somebody in such a power position, but there's strength in safety and kpaoupb tcommunit numbers, and if you can find that courage to speak out, the support is there. you know, it's not just harvey weinstein, and it's not just producers, it's every one in hollywood. i'm sorry, it's not every one in hollywood -- >> you mean, this is a common experience, you believe it's a common experience for woman in hollywood. >> i do, firsthand, absolutely. i would encourage every single woman to have confidence in their voice, if they know, and that's their instinct, they know

they do not want it to happen and, they are pursuing their dream as innocently as possible -- look, i was excited to have the meeting with harvey weinstein. i was thrilled. i didn't know any of the rumors at that point about him. i called my mother and my mother was excited for me and i walked out humiliated. i understand how it is being young and raising your voice, but come forward because your voice is important and you will be believed, and i believe it's a shift in hollywood at this point. hopefully it will be easier, not come out with this as easy as it is to report any other crime. >> there you go. jessica, quickly before i let you go. do you know if your friends like mcfarland has heard from harvey

weinstein after this? >> not that i am aware of. >> after he made the joke was there blowback against him? >> blowback from harvey himself? >> yeah, or from the city? >> i know he is that getting blowback now. >> we appreciate you being here with us. thanks for sharing your story. >> thank you very much. let's go to chris. >> the president is up and tweeting and he just said some things about puerto rico that may make that situation worse. let's get after it. >> it's frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write what they want to write. >> he is increasingly angry at the coverage of the white house in crisis. >> a new "vanity fair" repor