and gep we always are cautiously optimistic when it comes to this. but it has been remarkable. prurp is right. president trump is right. i think the doomsday clock was a minute away from midnight and we've done much better. lou: good evening, everybody. our top stories, radical dems stooping to collusion and corruption. trying to provoke, it seems, a constitutional crisis, sending a letter urging the director of national intelligence, the justice department assistant attorney general and the fbi to defaye presidendefy president ts classification order. we take up their actions tonight with judge jeanine pirro and sara carter with us. also tonight, the smear campaign against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh goes on. the dems now demanding who would

be an unprecedented last-minute fbi investigation of alleged sexual misconduct even as the accuser declines to substantiate her claims and who to this point refuses to communicate with the senate judiciary committee and refusing as well to testify. >> he's a man of great intellect as i've been telling you and he as an unblemished record. this is a very tough thing for him and his family. and we want to get it over with but at the same time we want to give tremendous amount of time. if she shows up, that would be wonderful. if she doesn't show up, that would be unfortunate. lou: senator chuck grassry, chairman of the committee giving the accuser a deadline, telling ranking member, senator dianne feinstein, to produce the accuser's letter unredacted that she received in july. senator grassley insists there will be no further delays toll

tolerated. we'll take up the dems desperate and obvious attempts to halt the kavanaugh confirmation. and president trump traveling to north and south carolina to see first hand the devastation caused by hurricane florence and to reassure those who have lost so much that their government will do everything possible to comfort and to restore their lives. >> washington is with you, trump is with you, we are all with you 100%. and we'll get through it. lou: and the market is moving ever higher. the dow jones industrial is well above 26,000, nearing a record high as president trump shows the chinese, the canadians, the european union that it is time to reach a new deal with the united states that is both fair and balanced. canadian businesses putting pressure on prime minister trudeau to cut just such a deal with the president immediately.

commerce secretary wilbur ross joining us to fake up the latest negotiations and what to expect in the months ahead as the president's trade policies are implemented. our top story tonight, rale radical dem leaders calling on the fbi, the justice department and the director of national intelligence to defy president trump's direct orders to declassify documents and texts involving the russia witch hunt. the extraordinary letter sent yesterday by nancy pelosi, mark wonder abadam schiff calls on rod rosenstein, the director of national intelligence, dan coats and fbi director christopher wray to refuse to follow a direct presidential order. their letter is written evidence of their effort to subvert the president's administration and to commit insubordination by refusing to follow his direct

order. the agency's review and any communication with the white house on the substance of the material for this part of the letter direct should not proceed further until you have briefed the gang of eight in person. this from the so-called loyal opposition. subversion, insubordination by the radical left, demanding obstruction of white house orders. the letter making it clear that leaders of the opposition party are no longer loyal, demanding the doj, the fbi are expected to submit the declassified documented to the director of national intelligence with redactions. the dni would then hand over those document to the white house in direct contravention of the president's order to provide unredacted documents and texts. our first guest tonight to discuss this desperate attempt by the dems and the department of justice attempting to

obstruct and delay the president's order for the immediate unredacted declassification, joining me now, judge jeanine pirro, the host of "justice with judge jeanine." awe thowr of "liars, leakers and liberals, the case against the anti-trump conspiracy." this is clearly an anti-trump on the spearcy carried out by the left. >> what this is an attempt at a coup. and if you know so lynn anyone sci. the rules of the radicals is to create havoc and tell people in the party ore the other party that you must dismiss what the chief executive, the commander in chief, the person we elected to be in the oval office is akin to treason. it is outrageous and it should be a message to everyone that their job is to obstruct everything this president does.

lou: and this letter -- and this is the letter right here. i mean, signed by the four highest ranking democrats in this process. not only calling for obstruction, for subversion, but referring to earlier agreements with this group of senators and congressmen that require them to not turn over all documents to the president of the united states. >> are you surprised? when you're talking with pelosi, schumer and schiff, the rest of them, all of them suffer tremendous damage in this stuff comes out. that's why they're calling on rod rosenstein, who is nothing more than an attempt by the whole, you know, deep state to defend itself. that's why they're there. lou: it's a coverup without question. no. you want to know what surprises me? what surprises me is that they

were stupid enough to put this in writing and to refer to the earlier agreement which, by the way, appears to have been carried out by the dni, by the director of the fbi, by the deputy attorney general. >> you're right. lou: and this to me is the basis for eleve eleven worth or all o. >> rod loazen stein is the attorney general and jeff sessions is in a closet somewhere cowering. that's the problem with all of this. they can freely do it in our face. lou: your judgment about sessions, is he compromised or mentally incompetent? >> this guy was in the senate for 20 years. he didn't do anything but passed four or five laws that was passed, it's absurd. the bottom line is this. jeff sessions is a front for

those individuals who would suffer if they were made accountable if what they've done. lou: i want to turn to the other part of the chaos created by the dems. they're not being particularly clever or cute about it but they're energetic. and that is trying to derail and to end the kavanaugh confirmation. judge k kavanaugh is now facing the prospect of, again, trying to rebut and refute unsubstantiated claims from 36 years ago. where are we in this? what do you devine from all that we know from this point? what i devine from all that we know, essentially, nothing can be done legally. the statute of limit taightses s pass pd fbi can't investigate this. there's no federal crime. the fbi doesn't do sex crimes. i ran an office for 30 years.

i know sex crimes. when you don't have an outcry, a date when it happened and it comes out in this political sphere, think about it, lou. everything that we know about kavanaugh, about his dna, the women who worked for him, the women he went to school with, the women he dated, not one person has alleged anything close to this. and we're talking about aggression, covering the mouth, attempted rape, so-called. and nobody wants to think that this guy hasn't done anything. we need to believe her. but if it's a democrat who is accused and he's accused of rape and sexual assault by woman after woman and on and on, we cannot believe those women. this is politics at its worse. shame on us. lou: certainly shame on them. thanks for being with us. appreciate it. be sure to watch "justice can judge jeanine" saturdays 9 p.m. eastern on the fox news channel. up next, the radical dems

continue their push to reopen an fbi investigation into supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. >> i would like to see an investigation done. the fbi is equipped to do it. >> they need to have the facts and she has a right to have those facts be developed by a nonpartisan sourcel source like. >> i think you can't avoid the appearance of insult if you don't have an investigation. >> guess who is perpetuating all of these actions? it's the men in this country. and i want to say to the men of this country, shut up and step up. lou: and i want to say to all of those speakers, every one of you knew that the fbi could not investigate judge kavanaugh. shame on you. we'll take up more on that right after the break. we're coming right back with ed rollins. stay with us.

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i think they're going to do a good job. lou: republican senators echoing the president's words today asking for to reconsider her refusing to testify next monday. this comes as the dems continue to push for an fbi investigation into decades old allegations which would, by the way, be unprecedented in every way. and by the way, this is the same fbi that's conducted six kavanaugh background checks, who has twice refused this investigation, the fbi has. and senator chuck grassley stating this, the fbi does not make a credibility assessment of any information it receives with respect to a nominee. nor is it tasked with investigating a matter simply because the committee deems it important. we have no power to commandeer an executive branch agency to conducting our due diligence. it is the role of the united states senate.

karen monaghan, the former girlfriend accusing keef ellison of domestic abuse, she's speaking out. and by the way, democrats saying nothing. monaghan was asked on twitter how she eeses been tweete she'se democrats party. when asked if the dems believed her, this is what manna hand said. no, they don't. i've been smeared, threatened, isolated from my party. i provided medical records. i told them about the abuse and who did it. my therapist released records stating i've been dealing and healing from the abuse. where are the dems calling to an investigation of a major leader of their party. quite a different standard. and this man would be the attorney general of the state of minnesota. joining me now, top strategist for great america pac, former reagan white house political director, fox news political analyst, ed rollins.

let's start with the extraordinary call, this obvious united orchestrated call by the dems for an fbi investigation. and as i said earlier, every single one of the people that you saw call for that fbi investigation knows it's not in their power. it is not the appropriate role of the fbi. that was further substantiated by the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, chuck grassley. what do you make of this just raw, pure whereby bald politics? >> it's all rhetoric on their part. and the bottom line is this man has had six, six full-scale fbi checks. i've had three with the white houses i've served in. they go back to the first grade you were in and they ask every single question, they know everything about you. it takes months and months to do. i promise you if there was anything anywhere, it would be somewhere in the report. they've seen the reports. six times they did it, six times

they found nothing. the bottom line is -- lou: we know that this is pure, as i said, raw politics on their part. but it is such a cynical and toxic atmosphere that they've created. the dems to me are without conscience, they're without principle and someone has got to hold them accountable for this kind of conduct. >> first of all, you read the constitution, in the second article, giving all of the power to the executive, the president. he has the power. the people that work for him, the dni, the director does not follow his orders -- lou: this is a different issue. we're going to to let frer the four democratic leaders on capitol hill. the see what they're doing. they're not only telling christopher wray, the director of the fbi and dan coats, the director of the national intelligence awches, they'r offe

saying, your agency's review and any communication with the white house and the substance of the material should not proceed further until you've briefed the gang of eight in person. who in the hell does chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, mark warner and adam schiff think they are? >> the other half of the gang of eight are the republicans. and this is just absurd. lou: the republicans haven't said a word. >> the gang of eight is a courtesy call. it's not a real power they have. and the bottom line is these people, if they do anything to step up against the president, they should be fired. i'm talking about, it's his team and he basically has an obligation to sit them down and say i want this done -- lou: who has the obligation? >> the president. he should say to these guys, you have the obligation to implement my orders. my orders are to put the documents out there. lou: if you have to tell the head of the fbi, national intelligence, you know what their obligation is. >> if they don't want to do it, hand in their resignation.

lou: how do you get them to do that? you're talking of people of principle. i'm now afraid that christopher wray and dan coats, these are -- and rod rosenstein for crying out loud, they're not demonstrating great principle. they look like people who want their job because they need to cover their rears because of all that they've done. this letter by the way, ed, it refer to the fact that they've already withheld evidence and information and intelligence from the president of the united states. >> the president has the power to fire every one of them. every one is on appointment of his and bottom line, he ought to do that. lou: why in the world is the national left-wing media not reporting this just absolutely inner jet clenergetically expwh. >> they're sympathetic to the other side. the power is with the president

on the front and he needs to implement them. i would give them until tomorrow morning to do what i told them to do and if not, i would fire them all. lou: ed, as always, thanks so much. did you ever see anything that approached this in your career? >> this urges on treason. people talk about the deep state and everybody laughed about there is a deep state. and there's cohorts on both sides and our side is not fighting for its rights and for the president that was dually elected. lou: ed rollins, thanks so much. appreciate it. president trump in the carolinas today. he went there to comfort the citizens who have lost so much in hurricane florence, to assess the federal government's response to the hurricane. here's what he said to first responders earlier. >> we will never forget your loss, we will never leave your side. we're with you all the way. and to all of those impacted by this terrible storm, our entire american family is with you and

ready to help and you will recover. lou: property damage from the hurricane estimated right now between 17 and $22 billion. but as they say, this is an early estimate. be sure to vote in tonight's poll. do you think the president should hold the dni, the department of justice and fbi accountable if they defy his declassify order? cast your vote on twitter @loudobbs, like me on facebook, follow me on instagram tonight. still ahead, more on the dems desperate attempt to obstruct the president's direct order to declassify russia-related documents and texts. we'll be talking with investigative journalist sara carter here tonight. up next, time running out for canadian prime minister trudeau to make a new trade deal.

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lou: breaking news tonight. senator clair mccaskill said she will oppose judge kavanaugh's supreme court confirmation. the senator says her decision wasn't made as a result of the ongoing allegations against the judge. it's based on his positions, quote, an avalanche of dark anonymous money that is crushing our democracy. i suppose she would include her own vast wealth in that. by the way, i don't think there's a soul in missouri that's going to be surprised by the senator's blind partisan decision. good going, senator. good going. canadian prime minister justin trudeau facing pressure to strike a new trade deal with the united states before the october 1st deadline that the president has set.

canada's foreign minister resuming trade talks today with robert lighthizer. said to exclude ka that da from the trade deal including mexico and the united states. joining us tonight, secretary of commerce wilbur ross, implementing the president's trade policies and all others, commerce and financial as well. great to see you mr. secretary. good to have you with us. congratulations on the deal with mexico. congratulation to this point on implementing the tariffs, the next round, some tariffs, 10% tariffs on some $200 billion of chinese exports to this country go into effect. and it appears that people are beginning to get at least the message in the u.s. national left-wing media. so congratulations on that. they seem to be awakening.

>> well, i hope so. they have been some len s some t on the news. lou: well it will be near a slumber, i think. they'll be able to figure that out. it is -- it's really impressive. and as the president pointed out, the chinese market has dropped -- it is well beyond correction. it's approaching just about 20% decline. the chinese are acknowledging, for the first time, that they have significant problems. they're maintaining, of course, as they would, that they can manage these problems. but they can't manage them if they don't move toward a balanced trade relationship with this country. >> well, i think that's absolutely true. and it's also absolutely true, they're pretty well running out of bullets to fire in this trade conflict. and the reason for that is that

we export so much less to them than they do to us, that there are many, many more items, hundreds of billions of more that we could tariff than that they could tariff. that's a tough position for them to be in. lou: and it's a terrific position for the united states, conversely. >> right. lou: because the u.s. economy, from the moment the president was elected, this economy has turned. it is a business friendly washington, d.c. instead of an antibusiness atmosphere as under his predecessor. the markets are moving faster. i get a kick out of it, mr. secretary. i don't know if you do. watching the national left-wing media trying to talk about the market if it has an off day with the dow sitting at 26,000, records for the nasdaq, the s&p at hand. talk about their trade tensions,

their jitters in the market. meanwhile it's been a march from january straight ahead to the levels that we are now. it's kind of fun to watch them have to eat crow. >> well, it is. these are the same people who said the economy could never grow more than about 2% a year. and i think if they had been elected, they would have been right. it would not have been able to grow at more than 2%. but their great fear is that the american public is also catching on to the fact that the cuts in the taxes and the cuts in regulation are really what's driving this economy. and they can't stand that because it's the total opposite of what they forecast would happen. lou: i want to turn very quickly to something that larry kudlow, the president's chief economic adviser, i suppose he could be styled, talking about cutting entitlements as a way to attack

deficits. and that left a lot of people shocked because the president has said the opposite and campaigned on the opposite. is this larry being larry or is there ooh change of view somehow in the economic team? >> there is no change of view. the president, unlike many politicians, remembers his promises from the campaign, keeps track of them and lives up to them. and this one especially, he simply not going to violate. my guess is if indeed larry said something like that, he probably had in mind getting rid of the last fading remnants of obama obamacare. that is something we're going to deal with. it's just about gone anyway. but as to things like social security and all of that, forget it. there is no chance that the president will cut them. lou: wilbur ross, secretary of

commerce, thanks for being with us, sir. appreciate it. >> thank you, lou. good to be on. lou: good to see you. up next, the president expressing his frustrations with attorney general jeff sessions saying he actually doesn't have an attorney general. we take that up next. james holstrom joins us next. stay with us. we'll be right back. bln

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hunt and all of the corruption in the fbi the department of justice, the intelligence commute. last night congressman go mer was with us and he put the spotlight on something that a lot of people didn't recall or even know about james comey's political past. here he is. >> i did not know until last week, i saw an article in 2003 where comey was bragging, yeah, we was a communist until i became whatever i am now. i never heards that. comey the communist. who knew that. amazing. lou: that tbree article the congressman referred to from new york magazine which comey says this, quote, i voted for reagan. i moved from communist to whatever i am now. i'm not sure how to characterize myself politically. he's not the only member of the deep state to have a turn left ward of karl marx.

john brennon revealing he was a communist sump theser durin syme cold war. jamejoining us tonight, james hl holstrom, serving three decades in the fbi. >> i never thought when i came back from vietnam there would be a communist that was a head of the cia. lou: this boggles my mind. you know, i grew up on the fbi television show, they were pursuing communist and there's one at the head of the cia and one at the head of the fbi. >> i wonder if comey and brennon were in the same den, like the cub scout den, if they were in the same communist den up in the bronx or something. lou: well, it's -- i don't want to say that i'm convinced of it, but it could be possible they

should share a cell going forward. i would hope they eesh held accountable for what they've done in this country. >> as weave talked for months and months over a year, it's crystal clear that this cabal was far reaching, this conspiracy, the fbi was involved, so was the intelligence community. lou: dan coats. >> many of the democratic leadership of the congress were part of this story telling that went on ever sense, you know, it was on yous that trump was going to be the nominee. and this thing has been going on and still going on to this day. and the deputy attorney general -- of course the attorney general is out on some sort of medical leave of some sort. lou: i don't know what he's doing. >> but the deputy attorney general is like at the center of this whole thing. because, i mean -- lou: rod rosenstein has been at the point of the spear, the nexus of everything that is

toxic and corrupt about the justice department and the fbi. now we're finding out in this letter, jim, from four leading democrats that they've already made deals in which they withhold intelligence and information from the president of the united states. it's stunning. >> the president should call them into his office tomorrow, give them a deadline of like 24 hours to present all of this. and if they don't, fire them. that's what needs to happen. i mean this whole gaggle of people that are anti-constitution, anti-the rights of people, trampling on the rights of people. this is a huge event. i mean we haven't even talked about the unmasking yet. we're going to have hundreds and hundreds of unmasking of american citizens. lou: unmasking referring to samantha power for crying out loud, susan rice and others who have called unmasking of those they wanted to surreal as it's referred to. and we're talking, as jim says,

hundreds of american citizens. and we haven't even heard a word about that. >> we haven't heard a word about that. here we go, we know now the fisa, they're really illegal, the perjury. they're not truthful to the fisa court. lou: and they withheld critical information. >> and when you present an affidavit, i know, i've seen many of them. you got 40, 50, 30 pages of facts. they had no facts. it's all a made-up story. you know that circles the globe, involving a lot of strange people all over the place. it's a crazy thing. they present this fraudulent document then they renew it 90 days four times. and the law says you have to bring new facts. you to make the case that you have to continue this. because this is a violation of someone's, you know, rights. lou: and these documents as you point out, this is paid for by hillary clinton's campaign, by the democratic national committee. it was a fraudulent false

document. bob woodward referred to it in his new book. >> we're going to find out that all of these renewals were fraudulent. what could they have possibly found out about the person they were surveilling. i mean, he's not in jail. he hasn't been charged with anything. it's all bs. the whole thing is bs. lou: ale and there's plenty of that in washington, d.c. and the level is rising. the kavanaugh, judge kavanaugh's confirmation hearing, we have an orchestrated effort by the democrat to call for an fbi investigation of judge kavanaugh which would be unprecedented in any form but particularly at the last minute. this is ababsurdity. have you seen anything like this? >> no. i'm familiar with investigations of people that have been, you know one going into the congress and going elsewhere. these investigations take over a year. you know, everybody this person ever knew is pretty much interviewed going back to

kindergarten. that's happened six times with judge kavanaugh. this bs of asking for another information. what are are they going to investigate? as far as i know, he's not sure of the date or the place. lou: and senator feinstein who created all of this, orchestrated it, now won't even support or endorse her veracity as the accuser and doesn't explain why she didn't ask for investigations that she could have led three months ago, in july. >> without question. you know, the whole thing is a stalling tactic and i hope the republicans on the committee and the chairman, i hope that, you know, grow a big backbone. grassily has a pretty good one. stand on what's right and what the american people deserve to have, and that's another brilliant member of the supreme court. lou: jim, as calls, great to have you with us. the radical dems are looking to just more dirty in this

year's midterms. we'll be telling you about that. and the leader of a local democratic group in illinois, you will not be shocked because says voters need to do anything they can to stop president trump. >> need to early vote, like i said, we can play st. louis, vote early, vote often. whatever you can get away with. i shouldn't say that, but i really don't care. lou: there's a lot of don't care going on in that party isn't there? that's in a state, by the way, illinois. a new report estimates that every adult living in illinois now is, well, on the hook for $54 billion in future health care costs for just retired teachers. that means every person in illinois owes 4,000 dollars just for that, that doesn't include

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lou: president trump calling out the corrupt leadership of the fbi, the department of justice for their conduct during the russia witch hunt in a new interview he said this to the hill, i hope to be able to put this up as one of my crowning achievements, that i was able to do through the help of a lot of good people. we have tremendous support. to expose something that is truly a cancer in our country. joining us tonight investigative reporter, fox business contributor sara carter working diligently on this story from the very outset. first of all, good to have you here. >> thank you, lou. lou: i want to start with this remarkable letter from the gang of four, mark warner, you know, adam schiff, nancy pelosi, and

of course crying clown chuck schumer. calling on the intelligence community, the fbi and the department of justice to further subvert the president of the united states. i say further because in this letter they also acknowledge that they had a deal with these people to keep intelligence from the president of the united states. your thoughts. >> it's absolutely stunning. it's incredible how vast, how deep, lou, this has gone. the comments made by john brennon, the former cia director i mean are borderline so sediti. they're asking for people to go directly against the authority of the order of the united states president. he has every authority under article 2 to declassify these documents and the american people deserve to see it. i do have some news for you tonight. ayi've been told by sources that the documents will be turned over to the president next week. i hear that the fbi and the doj are redacting what they're going

to do is they're going to turn those documents over to the president and then say now it's up to you to declass. i think they're trying to figure out ways to stall or maybe put pressure on the president. i have talked to sources that have actually viewed these documents who have top secret clearance to view them and what i have been told is that there is nothing in the request, nothing whatsoever that would violate national security or give away sources and methods. and that's what claiming the doj, as well as the fbi and others are claiming the president will do. lou: as they have, by the way, throughout, they've stonewalled congress, they've stonewalled the senate and to this point it turns out, and we don't know to what degree, they've been stonewalling the president of the united states if indeed this letter from those four democratic leaders is accurate and proves true, they've

committed, as jim kol strom said, basically treason. >> i mean, i don't know how legally they would term that. but what we see is a group inside the united states, inside our government, a bureaucracy that is literally working against this administration, literally working against the president of the united states. and what we saw, lou, before the election, and then after the election wasn't just a witch hunt. this was not a witch hunt. because if you look at all of the documents, what it shows, it was actually a silent coup. they were trying to remove a dually elected president of the country. the american people see it for what it is. we have the documents to prof it. there are more documents that i think are going to shock the conscience of our country once they come out. and once the documents are revealed, both the fisa, the bruce orr interviews as well as numerous text messages and the gang of eight dossier, the answers will be there and it will be up to the american

people, not the democrats, not john brennon, not director comey, not mccabe, who are all trying to hide behind what they did, which was basically bordering crimes and possibly crimes and they will be charged, i think, some of them. but we will see the truth and the american people will make that decision. lou: and the president is now faced with what is clearly a direct order from the democrats, the minority party that is supposed to be the loyal opposition who are not loyal but are obstructing and subverting the president, not simply opposing his policies. he is going to be faced with immense, immensely weighty decisions because if it is accurate that the fbi and the department of justice are redacting those texts in defines of his direct order for them to be unredacted, if they are hiding anything in those fisa court applications, it will --

there will be hell to pay. because this is something that simply cannot stand defying a president of the united states. >> absolutely. and it's the authority of the president, by his authority, he can have those unredacted documents and he can discloses those to congress and congress can discloses those to the american people so they can kick and scream and cry at the doj and the fbi, but the american people are going to know the truth. they are going to get these documents. they can stall all they want. but in the end we'll get them. lou: sara carter, good to have you with us. up next, more on the corrupt dems efforts to subvert this administration, this president. but before we go we want to bring to your attention that september is childhood cancer awareness month. we urge you to donate whatever you can to the number of organizations who are working diligently in the fight against cancer. we're coming right back.

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salem radio network. desperate dimms defying the president's orders to declassify documents. >> it's not just obstruction. it's an attempt at a coup, to tell people in your party that you must dismiss what the chief executive, the person we elected to be in the oval office is akin to treason. lou: president trump says it would be wonderful if supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh's accuser were to show up for a hearing. the dimms are demanding an fbi investigation first which would be unprecedented and not happening. the president visiting the victims of the carolinas.

he was urging strong federal support for everyone who has suffered so much. be with us. thanks for being with us tonight. good night. kennedy: breaking news in the partisan knife fight over a supreme court nominee. the attorney for the accused making new demands involving new witnesses. but republicans have demand of their own. who is going to blink first. judge kavanaugh's nomination in jeopardy over allegations he sexually assaulted a woman when they were in high school. his confirmation vote was supposed to be tomorrow. but that has been held up as we wait for dr. christine blasey ford to decide whether she