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around the united states. cnn starts right now. ♪ at 5:00 a.m. on the east coast, a controversial candidate is likely to pass from the senate to the high court. protests after alligations of sexual violence admitted against christine blasey ford when the two were in high school. in the meantime, democratic senators have been debating through the night. 501:00 in washington d.c. and democrats on the floor in opposition to kavanaugh's confirmation. their efforts likely will not change the outcome. republicans have enough votes to reach the 50 vote thresh hold. cnn has the very latest from

capitol hill. >> reporter: after one of the most intensely fought confirmation battles in a generation, brett kavanaugh now headed to the supreme court. >> i will vote to confirm judge kavanaugh. >> a key republican senat announcing she will vote to confirm kavanaugh for a lifetime seat and amid furious protests over kavanaugh's nomination and sexual assault allegations. >> we will be ill served in the long run if we abandoned the presumption of innocence and fairness, tensing though it may be. the facts presented do not mean that professor ford was not sexually assaulted that night or at some other time but they do

lead me to conclude that the allegations failed to meet be more likely than not standard. therefore i do not believe that these charges can fairly prevent judge kavanaugh from serving on the court. >> reporter: collins had been under enorms pressure in weeks, facing angry protesters storming her office, forcing her to be escorted by police who stopped even reporters from approaching her. the senator interrupted at the beginning of her speech. >> the sergeant in arms will suspend. >> reporter: senator joe mansion, a red state democrat also announcing his intent to support kavanaugh as protests broke out in front oof his office.

>> are you concerned about -- >> concerned with the sexual abuse that people have had to endure and very much can concerned that we have to do something as a country. i have to deal with the facts i have in front off me. >> reporter: he'll be confirmed by the thinnest margins in history. behind the scenes republican leaders scrambles, after collins said she would announce her decision on the final vote. and top leaders privately lunching with her and hearing her concerns. they hounded key senators after kavanaugh's nomination barely cleared a crucial >> the yays are 49, the motion is agreed to. >> reporter: along with republican jeff flake all voted toed a vance the nomination.

but senator lisa murkowski quietly voted no. she said it was the most difficult evaluation she had to make saying he's not the right man for the court at this time. now after her speech susan collins told reporters she struggled with this decision even as she went point by point defending brett kavanaugh's record and all the alligations, even questioning whether christine blasey ford, one of kavanaugh's accusers was being used by democrats to derail the nomination. and joe mansion, i asked if he believed christine blasey ford's account and he said he did. but he's not sure it's brett kavanaugh who sexually assaulted her. and he also thinks the fbi investigation was thorough from what he's seen, siding with the republican argument but now the question is how much back lash will those two receive at home?

cnn, capitol hill. >> thank you. in the meantime, the u.s. president in response to protests facing 1/2 senator jeff flake, mr. trump tweeted this very rude elevator screamers are paid professionals funded by billionaire and others to make senators look bad. and keeping in mind mr. trump's tweet that is not true. we know that those people in the elevator are notified do that. in fact they were doing that because they wanted to to it. mr. trump is hoping to ride this momentum into the november midterm elections. he will hold a rally in the u.s. staut of kansas. let's talk more about this now. and the professor of

international politics live for us in our london bureau. this is certainly a big win for president trump who promised to reshape the corts in a more conservative manner. what does the addition of brett kavanaugh mean for the supreme court? >> first all of it means the last two republican presidents who had lost the popular vote as george w. bush and donald trump are now responsible for appointing four of the supreme court justices and what it means is you have a conservative majority. and i think we can look fortwoord a large number of cases coming up to the supreme court which are going to be really toward the right, which is going to effectively free up, if you like, market principals, corporate power and so on and probably diminish welfare rights and workers rights more broadly. and maybe even a challenge to

roe versus wade and the issue of abortion politics as well. i think what we've got is an upswing in the most ultraconservative court in probably 80 or 100 years. >> we also heard from senator lisa murkowski focusing on the process that played out in front of the world. here's the criticism she had of it. >> i hope and i pray that we don't find ourselves in a situation again. but i'm worried. i'm really worried that this becomes the new normal. where we find new and even more creative ways to tear one another down. that good people are just going to say forget it. it's not worth it. >> the concern that she raised,

your thoughts? a real concern about this being a new normal as she described it? >> howmany times have we used the consuspect of the new normal in the past two 1/2 years? the whole way in which politics is dus can cussed, the ensuvilt, the lack of recognition of an opposition, the party in which truth and lies are determined, all of that suggests there is a new normal and this challenges one of the legist me-- it was supposed to be the one body that would largely decide on the fairness of the issue and the behavior of brett kavanaugh last week during the hearing shs that suggests he has an idea about plutical vendettas against him and people are worried about the legitimacy of the court. but we know the legitimacy of

the entire political system has been challenged and i thing murkowski represented that and represented that accurately. some of the participants see it but they appear to be locked into a logic of behavior which they can't extract themselves from. you say the gop has got a big win. i think the democrats have something of a win too. they've galvanized around this idea and they're looking forward to a galvanizing exit in about four weeks time too. >> and senate republicans chalking this up as a win. as being bullied by a mob. >> if you vote for the democratic party you're voting for people who spit on you.

if you keep the republican party in place, that means an alliance between citizen collins and others to make our life better. >> you should not allow mobs to intimidate you. and i think the good lesson for us, it made us excited about the november election, was good for the american people to see these people were stood up to and they did not 1. that's the most important thing. >> how radical has the democratic party of today become? >> it's a pretty wild bunch. willing to say anything to try to win. no boundaries. >> mitch mcconnell speaking on a conservative opinion show on another network. politically how did this play out heading to the midterm snz >> i thunk they're going to be pretty onfdant. there's a whole lot of number regarding jobs, and more jobs. president trump has triumphed,

if you like in his trade agreements with japan, mexico, eu. he's squeezing china. but there's still four weeks to go and we know happy voters and republican voters will be pretty happy by the end of this vote too. they tend not to turn out to midterm elections. i suspect the confidence there but by four weeks time i suspect it's going to be diminished by somewhat and i believe the democrats will be able to use the galvanize behind them to take the house of representatives. probably notsont but definitely the house. maybe by 30 to 50 seats will change hands. >> there's been the talk of impeachment among democrats. do you see that as something that would be seriously considered should they gain grounds in either chambers?

>> i think that will be thoroughly considered. but probably would be very poor strategy especially after the way in which the opinion polls have shown the direction of movement with regard to the kavanaugh nomination, the fac is that when you steer president trump who has an ambiguous relationship with the law itself, saying you're innocent until proven guilty and there should be due process in the rule of law and who's getting support, then you've lost the momentum, you've lost the high ground and that's what the democrats did at that particular time. any kind of idea about impeachment could thereby galvanize them further behind trump than they would otherwise be. >> live for us in our london bureau. thank you. >> thank you very much.

>> if can confirmed brett kavanaugh would be the fifth likely conservative vote on the supreme court. president trump's second pick. he also picked neil gorsuch confirmed in april of last year. this means there's a potential for current precedence to be reinterpreted or changed. like the right of same-sex cup canals to marry, abortion, and affirmative action. and protections for people with preexisting conditions under affordable care act. he vowed to try to overturn roe verses wade. it gives hers the right to have an abortion. then a landmark silver rights case from 2015 grands same-sex

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he's being questioned by authorities somewhere in china. cnn's bryan todd has the latest for us. >> reporter: he's a top leader of interpol, the world famous crime fighting agency. a security official well versed insecurity. he's vanished from his post irn france, missing for more than a week. >> this is a very high ranking position within interpol. >> meng was assigned to interpol head quarters in france. but a senior ofils says he was not on french soil when he was last seen. meng's wife was the one who reported him missing. she didn't tell officials until thursday night. meng's wife had recently received threats over the telephone and social mead wru.

>> the wife is going to be the key. they'll look at whatever digital foot print he's got. >> reporter: and there are questions about whether his disappearance is related to threats on his wife. some reports say meng returned to china, then disappeared. the morning post newspaper known to have connection to chinese authorities sites an anonymous source saying meng is under investigation for unspecified reasons and taken away for questioning by so-called discipline authorities. >> he may have been picked up for questioning. what were his taefactivities asr official in china where he's likely interacted with other officials.

>> any intelligence community is going to be deeply suspicious of everyone, especially in the chinese context where you have to worry about not just actual conspiracies, but internet-based conspiracies, criminal activities. people who are senior officials are aware of the habits and tendencies of a vast swath of the population. this is a country where the righting to privacy is not a figment. >> reporter: they so far have not commented on this case. if meng was brought back to china for questioning, we may not find out what happened to him for some time, probably a brief announcement by the chinese government about some type of punishment. thank you and cnn senior producer live in beijing.

why is china not saying anything? and what is the importance of his role there? >> reporter: well, george, probably because the plit sl sensitivity surrounding this case as we speak, when bryan's story was on air, cnn's signal was being blacked out by chinese sensors here. viewers did not get to watch the story and are not able to watch us talk right now. that's the kind of sensitivity surrounding this case and they have also stayed away from the story entirely on social media, even though meng's name has not been entirely sensored, any mention of his disappearance has been scrubbed clean. even though tloz there's no official confirmation, all signs pointing to it's an internal investigation. really bears hallmarks of what

happens when they're accused off violating the communist party -- and he has been trying to clean up the party since he took power. controversial because of the methods and tactics deployed by his party vrgs. they're known to snatch people away. and even use torture to extract confessions. and the whole process is really shrouded in deep secrecy. so things not looking good right now. >> this is not the first high profile disappearance. a high-profile actress also disappeared. >> that's right. that's also a fascinating and some would say terrifying story.

fun, bingbing, often compared to jennifer lawrence. she vanished to thin air in june. we did not find out what happened to her until a few days ago when the government announced she was found guilt ea of mass tax eivation and ord toord pay back taxes and fines totalling 130 million u.s. dollars. this is how murky and n nontransparent the legal system is and that does not bode well for mr. meng. >> thank you for the reporting. a prominent saudi journalist is still missing. he hasn't been seen since entering the soud consulate in istanbul, turkey. turkey says he may still be inside. more than a week after a

devastating earthquake and tsunami struck indonesia, the hope of finding survivors in all the rubble is fading fast. they're mostly bringing back bodies at this point. they say more than 1500 have died and that number will likely rise as information from remote areas continues to come in. still ahead the final stages of the brett kavanaugh final process. >> we have come to the conclusion of a confirmation process that has become so dysfunctional, it looks more like a characterter off a gutter level political campaign than a solemn occasion.

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good morning coast to coast across the united states and all around the world. i'm george howell with the headlines we're following this hour. mike pompeo has arrived in japan. he's set to head to north korea next where he will meet with the north korean leader and help plan a second summit between the u.s. president and kim jong-un. people are starting to get desperately needed aid a week after earthquake and tsunami rocked the island there. erous cue teams are still

searching for survivors but there's only a small chance of finding people alive. three palestinians were culled at a mass protest friday. israel defends forces and they threw explosives and rolled tires. a 12-year-old palestinian boy is among the ted. french police say they have broken opfrench sex slavery ring. as much as $60 million was sent back to nigeria. melissa bell reported on nigerian women in paris being forced into prostitution. judge brett kavanaugh will likely be confirmed as supreme court justice. three previously uniticided senators say they will. the final vote is expected later

on saturday. krrn will cover it live. the woman who shared it with feinstein and it was eeventually leaked, so ford decided to go public. and in front of the world, ford's attorneys say her client has no regrets. they asked ford's lawyer whether the process was broken. >> i can't sneak process. what i can speak to when victims of sexual assault and violence go to their congress people, when they go to their senator swz they ask for their information to be kept confidential, i think that's a request that needs to be requests. they get to control when and how and when their allegations get out there. i think senator feinstein

respected the constituentses and it was the right thing tootoo. >> look, there is the political aspect of all of this, also the legal aspect around the investigation, mainly focussed on ford's account of sexual assault and we're seeing senators backing kavanaugh though casting doubt on the credibility of her testimony under oath. take a listen. >> i believe that she is a survivor of a sexual assault and that this trauma has upended her life. nevertheless the four witnesses she named could not corroborate any of the events of that evening gathering where she says the assault occurred. >> i believe dr. ford -- i don't

believe the facts showed it was brett kavanaugh. but i believe something happened. >> so can senators really have it both ways? supporting her but not believing her and supporting kavanaugh? >> you know, george, that's been the problem all along with the way gopsonteres have treated dr. ford. they say she's credible and they believe her but somehow she's mistaken about who attacked her and if you listen to dr. ford give her testimony, she was unequibblical in her statements about who attacked her. she was asked repeatedly could she be mistaken? could it have been someone else and experts who deal with sexual assault survivors willtle us often times they can't remember all of the details, the time, the street. the color of the paint on the wall. but they can remember the

traumatic event that occurred to them and they can rrm the perpetrator of that traumatic event. so i don't think how they can speak about believing dr. ford but dismissing her credible testimony about who attacked her when she was 15 years old. >> and given the testimony of brett kavanaugh at that hearing, there are questions about whether he can be above politics. we're hearing about the umportance on the high court of impartialiality. >> part of the court's legit maesz depends on people not seeing the court that people see the rest of the governing structures of this country now. in other words think of the court as not politically divided, as not an extension of politics, but instead somehow above the fray. >> kavanaugh just the other day

mentioned he might have said some things he wished he wouldn't have said. can the court maintain its perception of being impartial? >> i don't think so, george and we should note in that oped piece, he didn't specifically identify which statement said he was so-called sorry for and he didn't identify which statements he thought went too far. so we're not sure if this is is a statement about being the witch hunt, the clintons so-called being involved. what goes around comes around. i don't think he did anything that could can aswaj the kaungs ngs of the american people he can be an impartial arbter. and john paul stevens was originally in favor of kavanaugh being appointed but after listening to his very partisan statement said turring the last

confirmation hearing he himself said he no longer believed that kavanaugh could serve in the position as a united states supreme court justice. the statements he made demonstrated an inability to be impartial, to be an unbiassed arbter and raised questions about his temperament. that's one of the most important aspects of a judicial officer is his ability to be compozed, to not lose his temper and what we saw was a very angry, belligerent judge kavanaugh during that last hearing. >> look, at this point, fwifben what we've heard fromsonter collins, mangsz and flake, kavanaugh has the votes to be confirmed. what are some of the cases he could have the greatest impact should he be confirmed? >> one of the things i'm particularly concerned about are the issues of civil rights, george.

they may end up at the supreme court. those coss are often brought by political parties. they're brought by tms. so if judge kavanaugh believed this allegation brought by dr. ford was somehow orc strauted or engineered by democratic operative said, how can he be unbiassed in a jerry manderinging case brought by a democratic party e? say in north carolina? so i think there are cases like that where it really begs the question as to whether he can even sit as a judge in those cases. and district courts and no one can tale supreme court justice that he or she must recuse himself or herself. that's a decision they make on their own without oversight or supervision from anyone else. if those cases come before him

and that's why his name and the court will always have an rsk of this appointment, after we've watched this whole partisan process play itself out. >> thank you so much for your time today. >> thank you, george. there's a verdict, a white chicago police officer, jason van dyke has been found guilty in second degree murder. he shot the 17 year old 16 times. he claimed mcdonald lumpinged at a knife but dash cam video showed him walking away. release of the video in 2015 lead to massive protests across the city of chicago. the police union says the conviction will be appealed. they're beg thing nigerian

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he dedicated his fries survivors across the world, telling them the world is listening to you and refusing to remain indifferent. in nigeria the parents of a kidnapped school girl say the group, bockau huh rom -- boko haram are threating to kill her child. >> reporter: a fate of 15-year-old who was abducted along with 100 other of her school mot said up in northeast nigeria. over the last couple of days, leah's parents have issued a desperate plea for the fwuchlt of niger wru to do everything they can to bring their daughter back. they say the militants have threatened to kill her if their

demands are notimate. we know they usually involve the exchanging of money and freeing of boko haram insurgents. we don't know what stage these negotiations are at. we know october, no firm fixed date, but october is when they have said they will kill 16-year-old leah. he tweeted in the last couple of days, "today i spoke with mrs. rebecca to reiterate our ittermination to bring her daughter leah back home safely and of course weal droor everything we can to bring her back. and april 2014200 girls taken. about 93 of those remain missing. but the fate of leah, who knows what will happen to her. >> thank you.

christiano ronaldo's club is standing by him after a rape allegation has resurfaced. he's denying the accusations. melissa bell has more on the fallout. >> when i grow up fame was nothing but a dream. >> a dream that appears to be souring for christiano ronaldo, or at least for his sponsors. nike who has an endorsement deal says it's extremely concerned by the allegations that surfaced this week and like ea sports, it says it's monitoring the situation. they center on this night in las vegas in 2009. later in the evening she says he raped her in a hotel room while she repeatedly screamed no.

>> the #me too movement and the women who have stood up and disclosed sexual assaults and publicly has given katherine a lot of curnl. >> reporter: it accuses ronaldo and his team of taking advantage of her fragile state after the assault to force her into signing a settlement deal in exchange for her silence. she seeks to end the nondisclosure agreement she signed at the time. they denied and runauld o, who watched his team, juventus play from the sidelines had this reaction. >> fake news you want to promote by my name.

they want to be famous to say my name. >> reporter: his italian team, javents came out fighting, tweeting that ronaldo husband shown in recent months his professionalism and that these events dating back almost 10 years do not change this opinion. ronaldo only joined the club unjuly in a deal reportedly worth $117 million. making him one of the four most expensive players all of time. and although las vegas police have reopened the criminal investigation into the alleged assault last month, the row appears already to have taken some of the shine off the man whose golden image is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. >> thank you. denials from moscow and

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more like amateurs than james bond. >> johnny english. >> reporter: it's all to easy to mock a bungling spy. more johnny english than james bond. he's had one minister dubbed gru agents in a series of blunders. take those recently expelled from the netherlands. not only were they caught red handed, but one of them even had a moscow taxi receipt in his pocket, show thing ride from gru head quarters in the russian capitol to the airport. great for accounting. not good for espionage. of course even the best secret agents can make mistakes. not that long ago russia mocked british spies, after filming

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supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh is on the path to confirmation. [ shouting ] >> are you going to -- >> i will vote to confirm judge kavanaugh. >> believe women! >> believe women! >> believe survivors! >> believe survivors! >> i could not conclude that he is the right person for the court at this time. >> so i say to every american that is hurting tonight, every american that's angry tonight, tomorrow we face a defeat, but we shall not be defeated.