♪ i'll fight, stand and defend you ♪ ♪ take your time, take your time ♪ putting his party above the law. president trump launches a bitter new attack on the attorney general he appointed for allowing indictments of two republican congressmen suggesting mid-term politics are more important. plus the father of a murdered college student in iowa ripping into those who were using his daughter's death to push what he calls racist views. and hurricane warnings and states of emergency now in effect for parts of the u.s. gulf coast. many people are being urged to evacuate as gordon gains strength and heads for land. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and of course all

around the world. i'm rosemary church, and this is "cnn newsroom." donald trump is lashing out again at his attorney general jeff sessions. and his recent tweet shows two things, he's clearly worried about democrats taking control of the house of representatives in the mid-term elections, and he thinks the justice department should be protecting him and his supporters. cnn's jeff zeleny reports. >> reporter: summer may be over at the white house but the same storm clouds are gathering as president trump heads into the fall. tonight the president lashing out again at attorney general jeff sessions but this time over the justice department's recent indictments of two republican congressmen. two easy wins now in doubt because there's not enough time. good job jeff, the president said on twitter. he's referring to chris collins

of new york indicted on insider trading charges. and duncan hunter in california accused of stealing campaign funds. it's an extraordinary statement but also suggesting that justice department should overlook criminal allegations for political reasons. all this as a confrntrationtati looming over special counsel mueller and the white house. >> it has nothing to do with collusion. >> reporter: rudy giuliani saying they're likely to cite executive privilege, telling the new yorker, i'm sure we will try to block the release of the report. abruptly changing course and going back inside. on a day traditionally seen as a kick off for the fall campaign the president had no public events on his schedule but tweeted our country is doing better than ever before with unemployment setting record lows.

as democrats like joe biden provided the opposing view while marching on labor day. with the mid-term elections only two months away the president is hitting the road again this week heading to montana, north and south dakota, and he's still threatening to intervene in the russia investigation as part of his ongoing feud with his own justice department. >> i will get involved and i'll get in there if i have to. >> reporter: the president also increasingly isolated from his most loyal supporters. as words from the funeral services of john mccain still echo. >> the america of john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great. >> reporter: while president trump's name was never spoken a critique of his travel brand of politics was a notable theme. >> john's voice will always come as a whisper over our shoulder. we are better than this, america is better than this.

>> it's a politics that pretends to be brave and tough, but in fact is born in fear. john called on us to be bigger than that. >> reporter: only hours after the service a trump tweet served as a quiet rebuttal, make america great again. all this setting the stage for confirmation hearings this week for president trump's supreme court nominee. >> i will nominate judge brett kavanaugh to the united states supreme court. >> reporter: his nomination is one of the bright spots for the white house as the president seeks to secure a more conservative legacy on the high court. now, those confirmation hearings will begin in the senate tuesday and will continue all week. many republicans hope this is a moment to unify them. of course he's done at the supreme court appointments as well as the federal court.

but the president seems to be focusing on his own war with the justice department just months before the mid-term elections. >>. >> let's bring in scott lucas. always good to have you on the show. >> thank you, rosemary. >> so let's start with president trump's tweet criticizing jeff sessions for indicting two republican congressmen. mr. trump tweeted this. two easy wins now in doubt, good job, jeff. speaker paul ryan's spokesman reacted by saying this, the department of justice should always remain apolitical and the speaker has demonstrated he takes these charges seriously. for more you can ask him at his press conferences this week. so, scott, why does the president of the united states not appear to understand the role of an attorney general and his department, and could this

issue potentially divide the republican party? >> because donald trump doesn't believe in the rule of law. if he thinks it might affect him adversely, it's as simple as that. i mean there's a specific here, and that is donald trump is setting up to possibly remove jeff sessions because he's upset that sessions will not take charge of it trump-russia inquiry and fire the special counsel mueller. that's been running for months and trump has been insulting sessions for months. but what he did this weekend goes wider than that. and that is by interfering, and it is in interference in the cases of representative hunter and collins, both of whom who face felony charges over insider trading allegations, campaign finance allegations. trump is effectively saying my politics take precedence over the courts, in the same week that he's trying to get a supreme court justice brett kavanaugh nominated. he's actually saying, look, the

courts have to stand aside if i don't like this. of course, what's the widest context of this, because he's saying that not only about individual congressmen but the russia investigation, which i suspect within months will be pressing charges against some of trump's most closest advisers and possibly forcing the president to reconsider his own position. >> do you think that's an ignorance of what the attorney general is supposed to do in his department or do you think president trump just doesn't care? >> he doesn't care. rosemary, you can go back decades and whatever you think of donald trump, right or wrong, his approach to the courts has been as a businessman, for example, that the courts have no right to inflict punishment upon him. this goes back to 1970s when he was accused of discrimination in-housing practices. remember he's criticized, insulted, threatened to remove judges in cases for example like trump university. let alone cases that may have

important political ramifications. so i'm not sure trump is the brightest spark in the fire when it comes to understanding the law. that doesn't matter to him. the law be damned. >> so scott, just nine weeks away from the mid-term elections, how vulnerable is president trump or his party, or do the numbers show what seats once considered republican now threatening to go democratic? >> well, i'd be a fool to place a bet on elections adi've found in the past. i think there's a good chance that the democrats will win the lower house. i think there's probably a toss up they'll take the senate. but more important than that is the trend state by state. and that is are you seeing in effect what we call that base, the notion of republican and trump loyalists holding the fort against all these controversies or do we see a tilt in participation that tilts towards the democrats? if the latter, we're not talking about just numbers but a change in mood.

which is not only about individual issues. it may be about, for example, the notion that trump should not be allowed to continue in this fashion. we need a different type of politics. and of course it may even extend to the idea that maybe this man should no longer be in the white house. >> in just a few hours from now confirmation hearings for president trump's supreme court pick, brett kavanaugh get under way. a lawyer for former president george w. bush has just released 42,000 pages of documents to the judiciary committee. what impact would you expect those documents to have? of course, it's going to be tough for people to wade through them all and review what they contain, but how likely do you think it is that kavanaugh will eventually get confirmed? >> oh, if the republicans get their way, you can have 200,000, 300,000 pages, it doesn't matter. they're going to steam roll their way through these

elections. the question is whether we actually have a due diligent process, as we should with any nomination, to consider brett kavanaugh's strengths and his weaknesses and whether in fact this becomes a political rather than legal process and that this is rushed through. because quite frankly senate republicans are scared to death the tide will turn against them in just two months time. >> scott lucas, thanks so much for coming on and giving us your perspective on these issues. appreciate it. >> thank you. so if confirmed judge brett kavanaugh will likely tilt the supreme court further to the right. he is more conservative than the swing justice he's replacing, anthony kennedy. but what does kavanaugh's record suggest on how he may vote on hot button issues such as abortion rights or presidential

privileges? cnn's ranldy kaye takes a close looks at izr his career and statements. >> reporter: judge brett kavanaugh now hoping to occupy the seat of a man he once clerked for, justice anthony kennedy. kavanaugh has been on the d.c. court of appeals since 2006 and spoke of kennedy during that confirmation process. >> he conveyed to his clerks and certainly conveyed to me to use one of his favorite phrases, the central neutrality of the law. >> reporter: kavanaugh spent years working for independent counsel kenneth starr, helping to investigate bill clinton's affair with monica lewinsky. "the new york times" says kavanaugh also helped outline grounds for president clinton's impeachment. later in 2009 kavanaugh wrote the nation's chief executive should be exempt from time consuming and distracting

lawsuits and investigations. some have interpreted this as opposition to an indictment of a sitting president. cnn has learned that the trump white house was aware of these comments during the vetting process. on health care and abortion kavanaugh has already made controversial decisions. last year he sided with the trump administration to block an abortion for a pregnant immigrant teenager in federal custody. noting the government's per missive history in favoring fetal life. during his confirmation process in 2006 he was hardly forthcoming in his personal views. >> do you consider roe v. wade to be an abomination? >> if confirmed to the d.c. circuit i would follow roe v. wade fully. >> i asked your own opinion. >> and i was saying if i was confirm today the d.c. circuit, senator, i would follow it.

it's been affirmed many times including in planned parenthood -- >> i understand. but what's your opinion? you're not on the bench yet. you've talked to other people in the past i'm sure. >> i don't think it would be appropriate to be -- >> okay, not going to answer the question. >> reporter: more recently kavanaugh raised eyebrows when "the washington post" reported he racked up $60,000 to $200,000 in credit card debt, buying baseball tickets and taking on a loan. "the washington post" reported his debt exceeded the value of his bank accounts and investments. a white house spokesman told the paper kavanaugh had bought washington national season tickets and playoff tickets for himself and a handful of friends who then reimbursed him. he said the judge has stopped buying season tickets. kavanaugh attended yale university and yale law school graduating in 1990. in 2001 he met his wife when they were both working for president george w. bush.

they have two daughters. he coaches one of his daughter's basketball teams where the players call him coach "k." now he's looking for a new title on the highest court in the land. randi kaye, cnn, new york. much of the u.s. gulf coast is bracing for tropical storm gordon, which could be a category one hurricane by the time it makes its expected landfall tuesday night. the governors of mississippi and louisiana have each declared a state of emergency. gordon is expected to gain strength as it moves northwest through the gulf of mexico from the florida keys. well, the father of a murdered college student has a message for politicians whom he

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the father of murdered iowa college student mollie tibbetts has a message for people, don't exploit his daughter's death. he is asking people to stop using his daughters as a pawn in the immigration debate. he says mollie wouldn't want that. the 20-year-old's murder has become a political talking point because her suspected killer is an undocumented immigrant from mexico. rob tibbetts wrote in the des moines register do not appropriate mollie's soul in advancing views she believed were profoundly racist. he added instead let's turn against racism in all its ugly manifestations, both subtle and

overt. let's turn towards each other with the all the compassion we gave mollie. let's listen, not shout. let's build bridges, not walls. let's celebrate our diversity rather than argue our differences. his op-ed saturday came one day after president trump's eldest son had his own op-ed in saturday's newspaper. he wrote the mask is off and the true radical face of the democrats has been exposed. they are seemingly more concerned in protecting their radical open borders agenda than the lives of innocent americans. and for his analysis and perspective i'm joined now by an attorney and immigration analyst as well as a cnn opinion writer. good to have you with us. >> thank you. >> so mollie tibbetts' father made it very clear in his op-ed

he doesn't want his daughter's death politicized. so why is donald trump, and his son and others ignoring it and using her death to push their own immigration policy? >> it's sad to say but the one reason they seem to be using this tragedy -- a young woman named kate steinle was shot and killed, and to some extent it worked for him because of immigration and what he perceive today be the threat from undocumented immigrants became his signature issue. so i think the trump family sees this as an issue they can win on. and for the international viewers i want to let people know iowa can be seen as trump

country. this is the heartland, a state that went for trump by 10 points in 2016 and it's 93%, 92% white. so i think they view this is an occasion they can rile their base up and hopefully in my view, distract from some of the ongoing investigations such as robert mueller investigation, other probes into the trump family and their organization. >> right. and let me just read a part of what mollie's father said again if i can. the person who is accused of taking mollie's life is no more a reflection of the hispanic community as white supremacists are of all white people. to suggest otherwise is a lie. so how significant is that point and the fact that it's been made by a father who is grieving right now for his daughter, but at the same time showing support for the hispanic community. >> in my view it shows extraordinary compassion, because as you say this is a

father who has just lost his daughter. but the fact is what he's saying is correct. we have seen multiple studies from groups on the right, the left, libertarians and they all come up basically with the same result which is that immigrants including the undocumented in the united states are far less likely to commit crimes, including violent crimes than natural born citizens. so not only is what he saying factually correct, but also i think is a very important gesture to remind people we should not view this crime, this tragedy as reflective of an entire population. in the united states we have about 11 million undocumented people. so it's sad inevitably perhaps among these we are going to have those committing crimes. in my view i think the way the trump administration has gone after so many undocumented people who are living here -- in compliance with the law, not committing any crimes, that allows the violent offenders to

run free and commit acts like this. i really have respect for this gentleman because no one has at this point the moral authority he does as this father. >> no how much impact do you think his words will have at this critical time, and how do you think president trump will respond to his request to stop politicizing her death? >> the bad news is to be honest i do not expect president trump to refrain from politicizing her death. the president feels this is an issue he can continue to exploit and use to his advantage. but the good news is i do believe the tide is turning it with the american public. woo do know with polls this summer 59% of americans disagree with president trump's immigration policy. so i think the nation is coming around in the sense they're embracing more progressive or open views on immigration. and the fact is when we talk about these crimes and

undocumented people and immigrants, the truth is, sad to say, evil comes in all colors. but the good news is so does m compassion, and i think mr. tibbetts is an example of that. >> donald trump, jr. says in his view democrats are seemingly more concerned with protecting their radical open borders agenda than the lives of innocent americans. also, too, this reference to the democrats wanting open borders, is that even true? >> no, as a matter of fact that's a very common talking point for republicans, from politicians on the right. but no one in the immigration debate in any constructive way wants open borders. no one is in favor of that, not even the immigrant rights groups or immigration advocates. what people want is we

acknowledge we have borders, we have a rule of law, but we need smarter immigration enforcement. we need more humane immigration enforcement. most importantly we need targeted immigration enforcement that could go after drug dealers, enforces and people who like this allegedly killed mollie tibbetts. and hopefully as the nation moves towards a more constructive immigration debate more solutions instead of just rhetoric and more divisiveness. >> in the midst of tragedy we must never stop fact checking. thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. leaders within the catholic church have offered apologies for the sex abuse scandal that's gripped the church, but the sentiments may be too little and way too late. we will take a look. plus tropical storm gordon is bearing down on america's

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welcome back, everyone. i'm rosemary church. want to update you now on the main stories we've been following this hour. authorities have launched an investigation to determine what caused sunday's massive fire that gutted brazil's national museum. it's feared the flames destroyed millions of artifacts spanning 11,000 years. museum officials say the building suffered from lack of funding. there was no adequate sprinkler system in place, and nearby hydrants were dry when the blaze

erupted. condemnation from around the world after a judge in myanmar sentences two journalists to seven years in prison for possession of state secrets. the two reuters reporters were investigating the massacre of the rohingya minority there. the u.n. is calling for their release. human rights watch calls the sentences a new low for press freedom. u.s. president donald trump is warning syria and its allies not to attack the last major rebel strong hold in idlib. mr. trump says it would be a grave mistake and hundreds of thousands could be killed. u.s. officials are especially concerned about the possible use of chemical weapons. well, the governors of mississippi and louisiana have each declared a state of emergency as america's gulf coast braces for the arrival of tropical storm gordon. gordon could be a category one hurricane by the time it makes its expected landfall tuesday

night. after lashing florida with high winds and rain the storm is now in the gulf of mexico helping northwest to the mississippi and alabama coast. now, hurricane warnings are in effect there, and residents have been sandbagging vulnerable areas. so let's turn to our meteorologist. pedrham, how bad could this get? >> it has the potential to strengthen here. it is going over a very conducive environment here. typically 83 degrees or warmer is what you look for sea temperatures to support a tropical storm. and the system will kind of traverse across this trajectory right here into southern mississippi, eastern areas of louisiana, all of it that is

conducive for further development. we do have hurricane warnings, hurricane watches in place for about 2 million people. morgan city, new orleans. work way towards biloxi, and if anything good comes out of this storm system is that it doesn't have that much time over all of this favorable environment. because of course it's moving at roughly 24 miles per hour, and with that speed the system itself going to move over land very quickly. if this was going to remain over the gulf of mexico say for an initial 24 hours we could be looking at a category 2, category 3 hurricane with this system. but sitting at 60 miles per hour, and the slower a storm goes, the more rainfall it produces. we've seen a storm move 5, 6 miles per hour drop 6 to 30 inches. this particular one brings in rainfall amounts approximately

5, 6, 7 inches is what we're expecting. and the bermuda high, in fact, has kind of shifted a little back towards the west, so it is guiding it away from areas around alabama, georgia, portions ofs of the south and directing it right towards into southern mississippi. and we think landfall most likely sometime tuesday evening between 7:00 and 9:00 p.m., comes ashore and potentially strengthens to category one, just before landfall moving across biloxi, mississippi, gulf port, mississippi, and new orleans. model k model confidence on this extremely high here. very high probability mississippi or eastern louisiana becomes the impact zone with this system. and rosemary, we often talk about how significant these storms are as it relates to storm surge because that's the amount of water displaced from

the normal sea levels. so 3 to 5 feet above what is essentially the normal level for the beach there will put parts of the coastal communities around the mississippi and louisiana under water. and that's the biggest concern with the system coming ashore. >> thank you so much for keeping a close eye on all of that. much appreciated. and speaking of dramatic weather a spectacular scene over the windy city. have a look at this amazing time lapse video of a shelf cloud blowing over chicago monday. naturally those clouds meant rain, and that led to heavy flooding in and around the city's o'hare airport. that caused travel delays there and surrounding roads. and at least five people are dead in southwest china after heavy rains triggered flooding and mud slides. crews are searching for at least 15 people currently listed as missing. and in southeast china this video shows the moment a toddler

was rescued from a flooded building. crews using a boat to take the baby to safety. officials say two people were killed and two missing in that part of the country. an embattled catholic cardinal spoke about clergy sunday. calls for him to resign are now growing. he spoke at a mass in washington sunday. one parishener turned her back on the cardinal. and she also wants the church to be more forthcoming with how it deals with sexual abuse. >> i was trying to send a message that i, just speaking for myself, do not approve of the way the church has handled

this skanldal fcandal for the l years. and i think that the church could use some more transparency in the way they have dealt with this. >> for his perspective on this i'm joined now by cnn religion commentator father edwood beck. thank you so much for being with us. >> good to be with you. >> so we heard there from parishioner mary challinor. listen to what another had to say. >> we need to hold close in our prayers and loyalty father pope francis. increasingly it's clear that he is the object of considerable animosity. >> shame on you. >> so just two examples of

protests there. we know two catholics across america have signed a petition asking for the bishops of america to resign. is it time for the catholic church to listen to these calls for cardinal well and others to step aside, to show support for a much needed radical change to this culture within the catholic church? >> well, as you may know, rosemary, the cardinal did submit his resignation two years ago when he turned 75, which is required of all bishops and cardinals and pope francis has yet to accept it. so really the ball is in pope francis' court as to whether he assessments the resignation of cardinal wheorl is any other bishops who may have been involved in any sexual misconduct cases. so i think it's on pope francis for what is now a global problem and how will he deal with

bishops in particular with regard to this issue. >> of course pope francis is also under attack himself. a cardinal has accused the pope and others at the vatican for knowing for years of allegations against cardinal mccallic who's now resigned. this is how the pope responded. just listen. >> translator: i read that statement this morning. i read it and will say sincerely that i must say this to you and all of you that are interested. read the document carefully and judge it for yourselves. i will not say one word on this. >> father beck, why such a meek response from the pope to such serious accusations? an attempt to expose what's happening within the catholic church. >> well, the immediate response of the pope say it's going to be silence, i'm interpreting it as i'm not going to get in the mud

and wrestle with this archbishop who just is full of slander and mistruths. so basically the pope has said his account is not accurate, archbishop vigeno's account, and others have said his account was not accurate, that 11-page screen was full of untruths. i think he doesn't want to be seen as acting in response to his letter because it's full of mistruths. >> but why? because wouldn't you reply if it's not true -- simply say that. >> well, again, i think it's a complex issue because we also are involving the pope's previous to pope francis. because pope benedict was supposed to have issued these restrictions on the cardinal

mccarrick according to viganot. so if pope benedict did have these restrictions on the cardinal he obviously did not follow them. so is pope benedict to be implicated then on not following through on mccarrick? is it just pope francis? so it extends beyond what did pope francis know? pope francis certainly when he found out about child abuse, allegations of child abuse against cardinal mccarrick from the archdioceses of new york who sent the report to rome, mccarrick was immediately removed from doing any public ministry and was stripped of his title as cardinal. in regard to the other allegations he said he said to them, those were concepts from

seminaries and priests. still, though, we're waiting to hear from pope francis what did he know and when. and many including editorials in this country believe that pope france should speak publicly ability that time frame. >> yes, and catholics across the globe don't think the response has been good enough to this point. is this a watershed for pope francis, his greatest challenge perhaps? >> rosemary, i think this is his greatest crisis in the last century of the global catholic church. so it certainly is a watershed moment for pope francis. how he handsels this sex abuse crisis, and many say he's too late in handling it already, may very well define his -- all this will be overshadowed if he does not deal head on with this sex

abuse crisis. so certainly i think it is a watershed moment in this papacy and across the globe. >> father edward beck, thank you so much for beak with us. we do appreciate it. >> thank you. vladimir putin is getting his own reality tv show, but it may actually reflect a drop in his ratings. we will take a look. back in a moment. ms and fees. they seem to be the very foundation of your typical bank. capital one is anything but typical. that's why we designed capital one cafes. you can get savings and checking accounts with no fees or minimums. and one of america's best savings rates. to top it off, you can open one from anywhere in 5 minutes. this isn't a typical bank. this is banking reimagined. what's in your wallet? of america, we use diagnostic tools that help

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image building machine. now part of a weekly show on russian state tv titled moskow, cellle cellle kremlin, putin. a show devoted to depicting putin as russia's government, talking to school children, or engaging with a noted pianist. >> classic kremlin project to elevate vladimir putin and to humanize him at a time when he's under increasing fire from his own public. it's not an accident that this is occur, it seems to me right at a time when he's embroiled in a real political controversy. >> reporter: that controversy has brought thousands of russians into the streets this summer. protesting putin's plan to raise the main. age when russians can start collecting their pensions. it's cost putin's popularity to plummet. according to an independent polling group in russia his

approval ratings normally sky high at about 80% dipped to 67% in july. the new tv show almost smacks of a desperation to hike up those numbers. in one exchange with the host putin's spokesman gushes of the man known to intimidate. >> when putin is talking to a mother and her child or if he just looks at the child you can see -- you can't fake that. >> he's a very humane person. it's true, and this is what i see every day. >> the slavish devotion to putin is notable. it is a hallmark of authoritarian societies, and you know dear leader type propaganda. >> reporter: those falling poll numbers analysts say likely won't hurt putin significantly for now. after 18 years in power he just won re-election by a predictable

and carefully engineered landslide, neutering any serious opposition. but experts do see a possible achilles' heel down the road. >> actually putin has a millennial problem. russian millennials have no conscious memory of a leader before vladimir putin. young people today in russia are increasingly alienated by some measures or at least the kremlin is very worried about this new generation. >> reporter: analyst saz at least putin's rule is secured for now he's worried about his slide in popularity that he might pool off a drastic move to try to boost that popularity, something that's worked for him in the past, something like an aggressive military move or even an evasion like he did in crimea. coming up after the break, former u.s. vice president joe biden is running. but it's not what you think. we'll explain.

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for its new ad. the add reads believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything. you will recall of course in 2016 he began kneeling during the pregame national anthem to raise awareness of violence against after are can americans. the protest spread and led the football league to whether to require players to stand during the anthem. >> speculation swirling around joe biden and the 2020 election. the former u.s. vice president hasn't announced any official plans to run for president. but he is doing some running these days. >> reporter: it's definite. he's running. literally running. here he is running from the side. running from behind. people with a pittsburg labor day parade were urging him to

run for president. who knew he would run immediately. even if all he was running for was to catch up to his assigned position in the parade after stopping to meet and greet folks. we have seen him run before. in the let's move fitness video with president obama. what was running through my mind? have we seen trump run? critics craft the only thing he runs is a golf cart. we found him semi-jogging over to police to shake hands. and remember when a green peace protester and a glider buzzed his golf course in scotland. no wonder he ran. a few steps to shelter. trump and biden. have already exchanged blows. >> i wish you were in high school i could take him behind the gym. >> i'd like to take him behind the gym. i dream of that.

>> why dream. when we can see. biden running. someone suggested this needs rocky music. critics could have a field day. with word play. saying biden is a running joke and president trump excels at running his mouth. >> you know what you do with biden. go like this. >> reporter: not if he can out run you. >> and he'd fall over. >> love the music. thanks. joining us this hour. i'll be back with more news in a moment. don't go anywhere. you're watching cnn. ♪ ♪ i'm going to be your substitute teacher. don't assume the substitute teacher has nothing to offer... same goes for a neighborhood. don't forget that friendships last longer than any broadway run. mr. president. (laughing) don't settle for your first draft. or your 10th draft. ♪ ♪

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president trump taking a brand new swing at jeff sessions. suggesting the attorney general should have held off charging republicans until after the midterm election. also the murdered woman president trump is turned into a martyr in his fight over legal immigration. her father is speelking out. and what he's telling the president is making headlines. >> plus a state of emergency declared along the u.s. gulf koets.