confront meghan but lucky if she gets win arm's length of meghan. >> good to have you here, victoria. >> thank you. >> "queen of the world" debuts tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. eastern. there is never been anybody that has been looked at like judge kavanaugh. the fbi, i believe, is doing a really great job and they have been all over it. they have free rein and they can do whatever they have to do and whatever they do. having them do a thorough investigation i actually think will be a blessing in disguise. he wrote me beautiful letters and they are great letters. we fell in love. >> what? >> judge kavanaugh, are you ready to begin? >> oh, hell, yeah. this is my speech. there are others like it, but this is mine! i wrote it last night while screaming into an empty bag of doritos! ♪

>> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> good morning to you. we will get to the supreme court battle in a moment. first, we want to show you what is happening in indonesia right now. >> aerial footage into cnn overnight of a devastating earthquake and tsunami and the effect. it's killed more than 800 people. rescue workers are digging through the debris. you're looking at pictures of a hotel right now and it's just a pile of rubble now. dozens of people are still thought to be trapped underneath. we will take you live to asia later this morning. we do want to start with the latest on the battle over supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and the sexual assault allegations against him. >> a new fbi background investigation happening now, president trump says nothing will be off limits. >> there has never been anybody

that has been looked at like judge kavanaugh. i think that it's going to work out very well. but the fbi, i believe, is doing a really great job. they have been all over it. they have free rein. they will do whatever they have to do and whatever it is they do, they will be doing things we never even thought of. hopefully at the conclusion, everything will be fine. this week's heated hearings provide plenty of material for the return of "saturday night live" guest star as brett kavanaugh, an angry matt damon. >> now, i am usually an optimist. i'm a keg is half full kind of guy. but what i've seen from the monsters on this committee makes me want to puke and not from beer! dr. ford has no evidence. none! meanwhile, i've got these. i've got these calendars!

these beautiful creepy calendars! jokes aside. we are learning more about who could be interviewed by the fbi and this investigation of kavanaugh. >> live from the white house now is cnn correspondent ryan nobles. what are you learning about the scope where this is right now and where it's going? >> reporter: you showed there, the president has said that the nib h fbi has free rein to talk to whoever they want to into this investigation into brett kavanaugh but the fact is there a short time line to get this done. they have to have everything mapped up by friday of next week and when the senate has promised that they are going to vote on kavanaugh's confirmation ultimately. president trump about the new round of investigation believing it will help brett kavanaugh's case. he says kavanaugh has been vetted many times by the fbi and this new round of looking into his background won't reveal anything new and he told

supporters last night at a rally in west virginia that this is going to help his case and it could be a problem for democrats in the midterm elections. take a listen. >> for ten years, they have been i heard about him a lot because they all said he should be on the united states supreme court. that's why i put him up. and i will tell you, i will tell you, i will tell you he has suffered the meanness, the anger, but a vote for judge kavanaugh is also a vote to reject the ruthless and outrageous tactics of the democrat party. >> reporter: those comments are significant because the president made hem in west virginia. that is one of the highly contested senate races in the midterm elections. patrick morrissey taking on joe manchin, the democrat. west virginia, among a group of states where president won --

the president won in 2016, where democrats are up for re-election. manchin has not said whether or not he supports judge kavanaugh's confirmation. the fbi investigation is well under way and we expect them to zero in on four individuals to have conversations with to learn more about judge kavanaugh. among them, mark judge. he, of course, the friend of brett kavanaugh that dr. ford believes was in the room during this alleged assault. also deborah ramirez is the yale classmate of brett kavanaugh and she claims he exposed himself to her while they were in college. patrick smyth is a friend and he may have been at that party and also at that party who might have been there is leland keyser. everybody involved in the ford allegations say they are not able to corroborate her claims but not to say that he deidn't happen. the next week is important as the senate decides whether or

not judge kavanaugh's confirmation will go through. >> ryan nobles at the white house, thank you. a bureau chief of the chicago sun times is with us, lynn sweet and joey jackson. lynn, he went through a list of people know that have been contacted. what about michael avenatti, the attorney for swetnick. what do we know about the scope of people they are going to reach out to and if they don't reach out to people like this will it be seen as fair? >> if they don't reach out to all of the principal names that have been mentioned then the investigation would not have gone where i think senator flake thought it would be which is to check out the leads. the fbi doesn't look to clear or confirm these allegations, but to bring out information even if they could pinpoint that the

party happened, if they have some evidence to show that it happened, if they have some evidence to show of the judge's drinking habits. that is all there. if they don't look at these other claims and because avenatti is vocal we will know about if they do or don't, it will lead to the public maybe to say this investigation wasn't as though. i think that is why trump realized that and he said they have free rein. that is the whole point of this is if you think this will help confirm judge kavanaugh, if this extra investigation brings up nothing that will prevent the key senators that is lisa murkowski, the republican from alaska, and susan collins of maine, and maybe jeff flake, too, this is all really for a small group of people to be convinced that at least due diligence was done. so if they don't go there, to be more specific in your question,

what will this do? it may give them an excuse to say, due diligence was not done. >> joey, if the fbi finds any indication, as lynn talked about, to the drinking point, say. and in this hearing he said i didn't essentially drink -- he said i drank a lot but that he never blacked out. if they find any indication that perhaps that is not true, is there any vulnerabilities there for him? >> you know, i really think there is, christi. good morning to you and lynn. i think lynn has it absolutely right. i think first of all, you want an investigation that has public confidence, right? when you have an fbi world renowned law enforcement agency as good as they are, you want them to do their job. and due diligence matters and due diligence is significant and it's important, not only for the senators, but for america to know that the process was followed, to know that the leads were pursued and to know that everyone all of the information was aired and we spent a lot of time talking about the fbi and

not drawing any conclusions but that is beyond the point. the point is that they present facts where upon people can draw their own conclusions based upon those facts. to your direct point, i think that the issue of drinking goes to contradictions and all of the information will go to whether or not u.there was truthfulnessr veracity during the hearing. certainly you want to get to the bottom of them and whenever you speak to one remember, there are others that can come forward because they point you to them, hey, was anybody else at the party? do you know anyone? did you see? you get to other people but at the end of the it's not only about the incident, it's about your response to the incident and whether you were absolutely truthful and if you're not, i believe that is problematic too. final point, christi, just in terms of like his temperament was important, right? because the hearing, we learned a lot about when he got really triggered, how his judicial temperament can be. i think that is very important. >> you're right, but let me ask

you this. some might say, well, he was angry because this was an allegation directed solely at him and his family which wouldn't necessarily be the case if he was sitting on the court. to that you say what? >> it wouldn't but what happens is you're a gladiator in a courtroom. if i could just take you into a courtroom. the stakes are very high. you know? irrespective of what case you're doing. and with the stakes being so high, often time advocates get into their advocacy and a judge is the referee of those proceedings and oftentimes there is a lot of pushback with the court not because we are mean spirited or rude but we feel our positions and are passionate about our positions and you want someone who can take control of that. so i get that it was about his family, but i think comportment and demeanor matter and attitudes matter. so i'm not one that buys the excuse that i can act one way when you say something about my family, but if it's a friend or if it's something detached, i

think comportment in all respects is important and i think it's a mere excuse to say it's about my family so i'm really mad and justifies what i do. answering back senators and answering questions or asking questions when you're supposed to answer them, i think it was kind of, you know, beyond the pale performance by someone who knows better and who knows the decorum and the proceedings. >> lynn, i want to ask you about north korea. they are representative of the united states general assembly commitment. let's listen to what the president had to say about kim jong-un last night. >> you know what is interesting? when i did it -- i was really being tough and so was he -- we go back and forth. and then we fell in love. okay? no, really. he wrote me beautiful letters. and they are great letters. we fell in hoff. >> lynn, did they fall in love?

or does north korea just want to woo the president to try to dissolve some of these sanctions? >> well, this is like advice to the morning session here. it's all, i think, but from both sides what you see is very unusual negotiating tactic where probable probably the psychological assessment by the north koreans of president trump if you write very flattering letters, it helps you get the president in a favorable disposition for you, perhaps as favorable to the point of love. and trump probably -- not probably. we know he thinks his negotiating hand is strengthened if he portrays the two as in this "in love" relationship. the thing this relationship has to yield something. it has to yield proof of denuclearization. it has to yield something that the inspectors could say happened. now one of the things trump points to is that there have been no missile tests since this, i guess, long engagement

wooing and happy love relationship is going on and that is true but the goal is to have evidence of den denuclearization. interesting ploy on both sides but not uncommon when you think of the marketplace. you know? lavish praise. oh, i love what you're doing. i hope you can bring the price town a little bit because i so would like to buy your product. i just need a little help on the price is what you're kind of hearing and put in very personal terms because the leaders that you could never hear president trump say this, i suppose, falling in and out of love with justin true tru dough. i think he sizes up what he thinks the leader wants to hear so this is a two-way relationship. >> thank you both for being bus. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> absolutely. one of the senators noted for her questioning of judge

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breaking news out of indonesia this morning. rescue crews are looking for survivors after that deadly earthquake and tsunami that hit the area. we know overnight the death toll has skyrocketed. more than 800 people have now died and authorities believe more bodies will be recovered

here. >> rescue crews are work to go get at least 50 people right now trapped under the rubble at this hotel. cnn's will ripley is live in hong kong. what do you know what is happening in that hotel? >> reporter: it's a massive rescue effort under way and complicated by the fact it's extraordinarily difficult to get to the hardest hit hear when is palau. air traffic controller was killed trying to get a passenger plane up safely before the tower reportedly collapsed on him. so now they have flights that are coming in with relief supplies and military personnel but a lot of the aid workers are having to drive in 10, 12, even 20 hours just to get there. and so supplies are badly needed. there is no electricity. no communications. you can't really call in. people have managed to get the videos up and you can see the devastation. first from the 7.5 earthquake which was, you know, devastating in its own self.

the tsunami that hit palau. the ten-foot waves came crashing in and even more horrific. i want to show you a video posted on sxra. a man who is standing up on what looks like a parking garage and desperately trying to shout to people down on the street below. some of them oblivious to the danger that was just seconds away. watch this. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> tsunami tsunami! tsunami! tsunami! tsunami! >> reporter: you hear his voice once the waves started crashing in and almost turned to a sound of sadness. he was watching people who were swept up in this disaster and maybe didn't even see it coming. horrifying. we know that 17,000 people are now homeless. building are destroyed. homes are destroyed and people had to sleep outside because a

lot of the structures if they are still standing are not safe and not intact. you can see driving along the coast how the tsunami waves take out everything in their path. i remember visiting the areas of japan where i used to live devastated by the tsunami in 2011 and several years later they still had not finished cleaning up. this is a long process. the immediate need, tents, food, water. you know, just people -- to be able to make sure the conditions are sanitary and avoid the spread of disease and what not. medical supplies for the hospitals which have been inundated. in the longer term, you know, people are going to need help rebuilding their homes and their lives. these are not wealthy areas. some of the hardest hit areas, rule areas have even less than they do along the coast there, they still haven't been reached yet. they don't know how people are doing there. >> will, i heard you earlier say that the mayor and the former mayor of palau were killed in this. then i heard as well that people are told to be sleeping outside

their homes because the threat of more earthquakes are coming. help us understand, you know, in terms of these rescue efforts, if they are continuing through the night, what are they able to do in the dark? >> well, it's very limited. the indonesian president was there and he has basically ordered rescuers to do whatever they can to try to find people who might still be alive. when you're in a situation you don't have any electricity or infrastructure, having to rely on battery power. fuel is running low. reports on the ground we are hearing they are almost out of fuel and having to bring that in from other cities and it's difficult to get in there because the roads are down. yeah, you look at the skill, the devastation and think about the fact the mayor of the city killed, the former mayor as well because all of these buildings collapsed and then the tsunami waves. it's really a situation of chaos right now. it's going to be quite sometime before they able to get the rescue effort organized and get people the help they need. >> will ripley for the latest on what is happening in indonesia,

now more than 800 death after the sqek aearthquake and tsunam. thank you. a passenger has been reported missing after his plane crashed into a lagoon in micronesia. 47 passengers and crew all survived after the plane missed that runway. the man was seen on one of the rescue boats. we know that much but apparently has not been seen since. >> new video shows u.s. navy sailors rescuing passengers and crew from that plane. you see it here. the sailors just happened to be working in the area. local fishermen pitched in also to help to try to shuttle everyone to the shore. wow. remarkable video here of what happened on the new guinea flight. >> of course, waiting for the fbi investigation into the sexual assault claims against judge kavanaugh to create, you know, make it through the process this week. president trump told a rally kavanaugh had suffered the meanness of the democratic party. this place isn't for me. that last place was pretty nice.

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one. having them do a thorough investigation i actually think >> joining us is maria cardona and ben ferguson. welcome. >> good morning. >> the senate judiciary suggests to the white house that all credible allegations should be investigated. we have talked about dr. ford. we have talked about deborah ramirez who says that her -- her attorney says they have been contacted. mike avenatti who represents julie swetnick says they have not received a call. she said she saw brett a calf engage in drinking and sexual contact with women in the 1980s. doubt she should be interviewed

with them? >> fountain fbi wants to talk to them, i don't have a problem with it. i think most republicans say at this point say whatever you want to look into the next week. look into it. at this point if these allegations are out there there should be accountability for those accusing brett kavanaugh, if, in fact, their stories are not accurate and the fbi will have accountability with them. at the same time, i also think it's important for people to step back and maybe take the politics out of this and say, let the fbi do their job and if brett kavanaugh is, in fact, seen as credible after this investigation, which i fully expect he will be, i really hope that many democrats will come to his aid and say, look, i may not agree with him because a conservative member going on the bench but i'm going to say this man's name is a name that is well-respected that should not continued to be talked about in the allegations of rape and they should support him moving on to the supreme court with his

dignity intact and say they are sorry that this got so you will because there was a lot of people trying to ruin his life. >> ben you just said and i had to write it down to make sure i got it right. take the politics out of this let the fbi do their job. >> yeah. >> republican politicians told you the fbi had no job to do. >> i'll quote joe biden. he also said the same thing when he was in charge of the judiciary committee when clarence thomas was there. it's not just republicans. >> what? >> i think that is putting the politics -- >> biden is not there! >> well, look. if you talk about precedent, you're talking about former vice president of the united states of america that is well-respected. if you want to take politics out of this, then you have to look at the words of joe biden who said the exact same thing. >> no, you do not. my gosh. >> you may not like it now. >> he is not there and has nothing to do with this. >> he is a form err vice president who sat on this committee. >> he has absolutely nothing to do with this. so to me that kind of indicates that republicans were in a quandary because they knew that the majority of americans--

first of all, the majority of americans don't want kavanaugh confirmed to the court but the majority of americans, especially the majority of women, were demanding an fbi investigation to at least, at least have the decency to not ignore or push under the rug or sweep aside the allegations of sexual assault and all of the agony and trauma and tragedy that so many sexual assault survivors have gone through this past week as they were triggered by dr. ford's incredibly credible and heartfelt testimony. so, yeah, i do think that republicans are doing the right thing. i think they were forced to do it because of what they were seeing. and who knows what is going to turn up. >> let me come in at this point. >> sure. >> if democrats want an fbi investigation, many of them said a week-long investigation. they got it. short of any corroborative

information, any details confirmed, should this then just go to a vote? >> bingo. >> should then what. >> should there be a vote on the senate floor to confirm judge kavanaugh? >> well, i'm sure that there will be because that is exactly what republicans have been trying to ram down the throats of americans. >> they got the investigation. if the fbi comes back with no corroborating information and nothing that confirms the details of the accusation from the three women we have identified, is it time then to vote? or will we see another effort from democrats to find another way to push this another week, another week, and then past the election? >> we will see what comes up from the fbi. >> you won't answer the question! it's a simple question about a man's integrity. wow! >> i am about to answer it. >> wow. >> i am about to answer it, ben. listen. in my opinion, i believe many democrats believe this, i think kavanaugh has already proven that he does not have the

temperament and that he does not have the character to serve on the supreme court. >> absurd. >> no, it's not. >> yes, it is. >> hold on, ben. i'll come back to you in a second. hold on, ben. >> can you let me finish, please? >> finish up. >> i've been hearing a lot what you're saying. >> what we have seen from his past testimony, there is already prove that he has perjured himself. >> not true. >> we saw -- >> democrats aren't saying that on the hill. >> hold on, ben! >> ben, let me finish. jesus! we saw with his outburst that he does not have the temperament. if he had acted like that during a court session, he would have been found in contempt. it was absolutely appalling the way that he acted. and this is not something that he deserves. this is not due process. this is a job interview and he was not -- he showed he was not fit for this job. >> let me get back to ben. what you're naming here are

reasons that democrats were not going to vote for judge kavanaugh. at the end of this investigation, even if it comes back and they cannot corroborate any of the details most democrats are not going to vote for him no matter what came back. >> that is correct. >> ben, let me get your response to what we heard from maria and then i have to go. >> the bottom line here is if democrats were so obsessed with this investigation they would have put pressure on dianne feinstein early on while she was holding this information while handing and hand-picking the lawyer to represent mrs. ford. so if you're upset at women being triggered last week, you should be upset with dianne feinstein. second of all you should be upset with democrats leaked mrs. ford's identity when she asked for her identity to not be leaked. >> you don't know that ben. >> when you say brett kavanaugh does not have the treemperamento be on the supreme court because the man has ludicrous claims up

against him that he was a serial rapist in high school and involved on boats of things that never happened and like it was reported as total fact. if you think a man or a woman does not have a right to be upset, to be personal to defend their good name when people are coming after them and miss ford do not bring any could rroborat testimony. you have a right in this country to be innocent until proven guilty. you can say that all you want. >> the women's vote because you have swept aside the tragedy and trauma of sexual assault survivors. >> we have to wrap it here. but coming with no corroborating evidence is usually the reason to start an investigation. >> exactly. >> the one that republicans fought for so long and is now happening. we will see what is happening at the end of this week. >> i hope democrats will not try to destroy this man's name if no new information comes up. they should not try to destroy

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a trademark and criminal attorney. help us understand what he did wrong here. >> he tweeted is the short answer. but in that tweet, he said that he had this private funding, which he did not have. he hadn't told nasdaq he was going to tweet out this information. he basically sort of defrauded 22 million people who follow him and anyone else who then saw that information who relied on that information to trade his stock. >> so musk will be allowed to stay on as ceo, right? but he'll have to give up the chairmanship there. how would his responsibilities change? and then does he then have a boss? >> yeah. he is. he is going to have a couple of bosses. it's a little unusual that he does get to stay on as ceo and i think that the logic is that they didn't want to tank the stock altogether. a lot of the tesla stock is based on his presence in the company. but he is going to have to report to the chair person of the board. they are going to have two independent people named and,

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44th season launched for "saturday night live" last night. they did so, of course, strongly, let's say. sketch focused on the brett kavanaugh hearings, which you kind of knew by the timing. >> the season premiere opened as matt damon as the supreme court nominee. here is a portion of it. >> look. i like beer. i like beer. boys like beer. i like beer. >> i asked if you drank in high school and you said, i like beer ten times. that leads me to the next question -- did you ever drink too many beers? >> you mean was i cool? yeah. >> minnesota senator amy klobuchar was an instant fan, let's say, of the sketch, saying

that rachel's performance so good that clob klobuchar's daug sent her a text to her. >> dean, thank you, for being with us. your take, first of all, on last night. >> i think it was a great way to start the new season. you know, i worked at "snl" for eight seasons in the production staff and the first show was always very special. you want to start out with a great cold open. here you had matt damon getting out of the park as brett kavanaugh. it doesn't matter if you're on the left or right we need to laugh if you're following politics. it's aging people. look at me. i'm 19 and look what politics has done to me! so i think we need to have some fun and enjoy ourselves and laugh. i think "snl" did a great job making people laugh, while also showing some of the reality in heightening a little bit for comedy. >> yeah. and "snl," we have talked about this before, has never shied away from politics. you go back to chevy chase as

gerald ford and all of the presidents. on this topic to the early '90s and the treatment of the clarence thomas hearing and talk about the differences in the treatment here. let's watch. >> sure. >> how did you go about asking her out for this date? >> i'm not sure i know what you mean, senator. >> well, did you just go right up and ask her? or did you have one of her friends tell her that you thought she was cute? >> i just walked right up and asked her. >> so a different tone to this, to be fair, a different tone between the two hearings from the early '90s and to now. what do you think about the transition from the tone we saw there and what we are seeing from this cast? >> i think it really makes if you can watch it on dline fr 27 years ago, the comedy was so much about the senators trying to get dating tips from clarence

thomas, even al franken as a senator on that committee asking for dating tips and flash forward now and it's much more about brett kavanaugh. the comedy has evolved because times have changed. in that time it was much easier for the men sitting around, not necessary necessarily showing concern for anita hill. that was the comedy. now the comedy is are conservative men moving forward the same way snl's comedy has? that's what they'll wait and watch on the series in terms of politics. he suppled up brett kavanaugh as a grown-up frat boy. a high school guy, college guy. had fun, drank. he is a different person today but remnants are still there with today's brett kavanaugh.

cory booker, the whole people on the left and the right can take a break and i know we're very passionate about politics. laugh. have some fun about this. i think it's a great sketch. >> it needs to be a little bit lighter. might rub people the wrong way. take a look. >>ite want to point out that democrats in this committee have acted like cowards. if you would forgive me, i would like to hide behind a female prosecutor we hire as a human shield. >> okay. so now before we begin -- >> okay, your time is up. >> wow, already regretting this. >> i would also like to yield my time to the female assistant. sorry, do you prefer stewardess?

>> i cannot believe i flew here on southwest for this. >> wonder what rachel mitchell thinks. oh, my gosh, i'm on "saturday night live." >> thank you for your thoughts. >> thank you, sir. >> a 13-year-old boy was attacked by a shark while diving for lobsters for the first time. quick thinking by people who were there might have helped save his life. we'll talk about that. ♪ you shouldn't be rushed into booking a hotel.

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cleveland clinic after being attacked by a shark. he was diving for lobsters. >> one witness says the boy was conscious but had serious injuries to his back, chest. beaches in that area are closed at least for another day. >> in the latest episode of parts unknown, anthony bourdain takes us to spain. >> secret cheese caves? >> mmm. >> never seen that facial expression. >> cheese caves are an undisclosed locations, hence the secret. here is a look.

>> wonder where jose is. >> oh, yeah. >> hope he's getting some rest. ♪ >> this is us. >> i still don't know what a cheese cave is. >> that's why you have to watch. >> great tease. >> do not miss parts unknown tonight at 9:00, only on cnn. and thank you so much for spending your morning with us.

we hope you make great memories today. >> "inside politics" with host dana bash starts now. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your sunday. an anxious wait now. background investigation into supreme court nominee with judge brett kavanaugh. >> dr. ford, with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you? >> 100%. >> none of these allegations are true? >> correct. >> no doubt in your mind? >> zero. 100% certain. >> republicans had a