>> battle royale on capitol hill. when and how brett kavanaugh's accuser may testify before the senate judiciary committee deciding the fate of president trump's supreme court nominee. >> this has numbers are getting buried in the news cycle and it could have a major impact on the midterms. leland: plus, carnage in iran as gunfire breaks out during a military parade featuring the elite revolutionary guard. a lot going on this saturday.

welcome to america's news headquarters from washington. i'm leland vittert. >> welcome back from the swamp, i'm kristin fisher. the chairman of the judiciary committee says he's done with granting extensions. he says today is the final deadline for christine blasey ford to make a decision while her legal team is accusing republicans of bullying her into testifying before ready. our gillian turner is here. and everybody here is holding their breath waiting to see what next week will hold. >> officially, the ball is back in dr. ford's court. fox news learned discussions about getting dr. ford to testify went deep into the night with multiple senator prevailing on senator grassley. >> i've extended another extension to dr. ford to see if

she makes to testify to the senate. she should decide in she wants to move on. it's not my normal approach to be indecisive. with the extensions that we give to dr. ford if she wants to testify to the senate. i feel like i'm playing second trombone and schumer is the conductor. other supporters of the president are doubling down on their insistence that kavanaugh will take the bench despite the allegations of sexual abuse he's now facing. >> you've watched the fight. you've watched the tactics, but here is what i want to tell you, in the very near future judge kavanaugh will be on the united states supreme court. >> senate judiciary democrats though insisting all the extensions in the world won't matter. when republicans are blatantly ignoring dr. ford's original position, that a hearing prior to thursday isn't doable. senator feinstein writing in

part. dr. ford is receiving death threats. had her identity stolen and e-mail hacked. she fled her home with her family. republicans want to rush her into a hearing and it shows no sime sympathy or empathy. >> and. >> and that it's arbitrary and to bully. >> and it will be decided if two, three hours from now, leland. leland: the president has certainly not been silent on this and while we await an answer about what comes next in the confirmation hearings, president trump is spending the weekend in bedminster, new jersey with reporters ellison barber travelling with the president. >> hi, the president is defending his decision for the supreme court and attacked the supreme court nominee's accuser.

he was at a rally and he tweeted about dr. christine blasey ford asking why somebody didn't call the fbi 36 years ago. i have no doubt, the president writes, if the attack on dr. ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed by local law enforcement by either her or her loving parents. i ask that she bring those filings forward so we can learn date, time and place. and in another, he accused senator dianne feinstein of keeping the letter from dr. ford under wraps to release it with a bang after the hearings were over. the president says it was done to obstruct and resist and delay, arding let her testify or not and take the vote. some observers say the white house is shifting gears when it comes to strategy here. on monday center counsellor to the president kellyanne conway said that dr. ford should not be insulted and she deserves to be heard. and someone closes says that the

president's comments are a shift in tone to put the administration back on offense. >> i began the week saying she should be heard, and i'll end the week saying the same thing. obviously, some folks are trying to delay this as much as they can and trying to politicize this, well past october and well past the midterms if they can do it. >> sources tell fox news, the white house confirmation she did a murder board with kavanaugh on tuesday to help him prepare for the monday's scheduled hearing. leland: all right, ellison barber in new jersey. back to ellison if we hear from the president today. and kristin has more on the confirmation fight. >> we do, and we have analysts, and andrew and gretchen, thank you so much for being with us. >> anytime. >> gretchen, i'd like to start with you, you know, democrats are accusing senate republicans of essentially bullying dr. ford. they have said that they believe

that this is an arbitrary deadline, but, yet, the g.o.p. has been granting several extensions here. so, i'm curious, gretchen, what more would you like to see senate republicans do to accommodate dr. ford? >> well, dr. ford should have a full and fair hearing. she has made an accusation, this is about sexual abuse. this is attempted rape. if these allegations are credible, this person should not be sitting as one of the very few, there's only nine, justices that decide the laws of the entire united states. for example, if someone accuses someone like let's say a catholic priest is accused of molesting a semarian or that kind of thing, that person has some civil ramifications. they're presumed innocent, but it's only probable cause to arrest them-- >> if i could just get back to my. >> remove them from their job. >> back to my original question, what more would you like to see

senate republicans do? they've offered her a public or private hearing. >> just to delay until thursday i believe is what she's asking. >> okay. >> i guess she's had a home bunch of issues at home, break-ins and whatnot. >> fair pointments she needs to collect her thoughts. >> and andrew, why not wait? what is the rush when you're dealing with a lifetime appointment on the supreme court? >> well, you know, look, nobody has a problem waiting until wednesday or thursday, but let's just be crystal clear. the democrats motives are crystal clear in this case. they are using her as a pawn to try to make certain that he doesn't get approved until after october 1st, after the term starts or number two, and this is the real goal, that they can delay this thing until after the midterm elections and hopefully for the democrats' sake, the democrats win the senate. they're not so concerned about everybody taking a deep breath and getting the bottom of this. these allegations have been out

there for 30 years. and in fact, feinstein had these allegations for long time before she released them. so i have no problem with her testifying it's just we have to do it this week. >> to be fair, senate republicans said they want her to testify on wednesday, she said she cannot do that, she wants to wait until thursday. my problem is what's the one day difference. bottom line the chairman of the senate judiciary committee chuck grassley says he's granted multiple extensions and granted one last night and put out the tweet. he says with all the extensions we give dr. ford to decide if she wants to testify to the senate i feel like i'm playing second trombone in the judiciary orchestra and schumer is the conductor. so, politically, is it smart for senator grassley, chairman grassley to keep granting these extensions? >> yes, it is. >> i would. >> i think it's smart for him do. i think that people want to hear

what she has to say and this needs to be said and then people will-- this isn't a criminal court of law, he is enjoying the presumption of innocence as he should, but we -- after allegations are made there has to be a hearing about the allegations and it should be done on terms that are comfortable for the victim witness and that's how we do it in court. we make it as comfortable as possible for them to testify and we have support and therapy dogs and that needs to be done here. and she needs to have a safe forum in which to articulate what occurred. >> andrew, quickly to you. what is the likely that kavanaugh does not get confirmed, any chance in your mind? >> yeah, there's chance. let's see what happens when she testifies and his response. him not being confirmed aren't as great, a what people think. this is clarence thomas part two all over again, that was an extraordinarily close vote. this thing is up in the air i

have a problem with the lack of evidence, with the lack of proof in this case, and these are allegations from 30 years ago. you still have to have proof, you still have to have evidence, you can't just make baseless allegations and sink somebody's supreme court nomination. >> do you agree with that, gretchen. do you think there's a chance of derailing his confirmation? >> i do, it can. there is one evident, one witness rule in court. one witness, if found to be credible, that is the proof. her testimony about what occurred on that evening is the proof. there doesn't need to necessarily be corroborating evidence when you have the one witness rule and she's that one witness between the two of them. >> i've got to leave it there. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> be sure to watch media buzz tomorrow at 11 a.m. eastern, howard kurtz and his panel talk about this. and chris wallace, senator

lindsey graham, check local listings for time and channel. leland: you may have heard the kavanaugh debate took up most of the objection j en-- oxygen in the news cycle, but president trump was in the great city of missouri. >> here are some achievements. 4.2 growth. and jobs claims fell to a nearly 50 year low. we've created over four million new jobs since our election, we've added nearly 400,000 new manufacturing jobs. leland: with that we bring in gary, fox news contributor from orlando. gary, are things as good as the president says they are? >> yes, and one thing they forgot to mention and one thing

i love the most is welfare rolls, as well as food stamps dove in the last few years and less people on welfare and work fare and you can't get a better situation than that. look it, every number that i look at has had an economy above par, doing really well. when i spoke to ceo's of big business, as well as medium sized, they're all very happy and it's amazing what you can do when you get out of the way as a big government. i think with the lowering of regulation, the corporate taxes dropping, by the way, just to get in line with the rest of the worrell, have been a huge help and hopefully continues. leland: you say hopefully it continues. how does this derail? >> debt and deficits. i talk about it all the time. the one thing that the president and mcconnell and ryan did not do is anything about the debt and deficit. they raised spending $300 billion a year ensuring we'll have debt going forward.

and i don't know when, eventually there will be repercussions because debt and deficits always come back to haunt markets and the economy. leland: it's something the president is not interested in doing. he says he's not going to touch entitlements, and doesn't seem to be concerned about signing the massive spending bills. >> you're right, all evidence in. they're not doing anything about it and now we go to the midterm. if they lose the house, then they definitely can't do anything about it and again, that's the big gigantic worry and i'm surprised interest rates aren't a lot more higher to accommodate for this fact, but so far, so good. markets and interest rates have done real well to help things out. remember, $7 trillion was added to our wealth effect over the last two years and that also helps the economy. leland: and certainly how people feel matters. this is the latest polling we have, a total of 70% of american voters say the nation's economy is excellent or good. that matches the all-time high

rating for the economy another 28% say the economy is not so good, or poor. shouldn't come as a surprise that among democrats that number is much, much higher, about 35% of democrats saying the economy is not so good. do you people vote with their pocket books this midterm elections or are democrats able to turn this into a referendum on president trump? typically they do vote with the pocket books, but i call it the trump stuff that keeps getting in the way on a daily basis, whether it's kavanaugh, rosenstein, mueller and any number of things that we read about and hear about from the media on a daily basis, most definitely gets in the way. and i'm surprised the poll numbers are much, much better and that the republicans don't do a clean sweep based on the economy, but it doesn't look like it's happening yet. leland: it brings up a good question. are republicans losing the messaging war because they're

not a good message about the record or the media is leading them in the wrong direction? >> i think a combination of both. i follow the media closely. they don't want to report any good news, that's a definitive fact. when i look at the new york times i see articles how bad the economy is, believe it or not, which flies in the face, but i also think the messaging. i think the republicans are afraid to even talk about tax cuts right now because there's this whole message out there, they're only for the wealthy and the rich when in fact it's flowed down to everybody, especially in the job market. engo, i think they're afraid of their own shadow and that's not helping the situation for them either. leland: we've certainly seen confidence in the middle class. thank you, gary. >> take care. >> at least 24 people are dead after a gunman disguised as soldiers attacked a military parade in iran and iran is pointing the finger at the u.s.

brian joins us from the london bureau. hi, ryan. >> this was an audacious attack, gunmen opening fire on the parade commemorating the war with iraq. as that was broadcast live on television causing as you can see mayhem, children hit in that attack, as well as the people that were participating. people were just simply watching. it's a big question, of course, what is a very sensitive part of the world, who did it. islamic states raised their hand almost immediately through a tweet saying they were responsible, but there are a lot of commentators telling it's probably just islamic state trying to piggyback through the attack and on the attack and trying to gain attention through it. the government in tehran is claiming separatists from this region. now, this is the mostly arab region in what is mostly a persian country, and there has

long been a separatist movement there. that said, most of the attacks generally are on unguarded oil pipelines, for example, under the cover of night. this are rarely things that are quite brazen as this. the iranian foreign menster tweeted and he forget who the perpetrators may be, he holds actors outside of the country responsibility, hinting that perhaps saudi arabia was behind it. and saying that that just won't stand. heerp here is what he tweeted, terrorists recruited trained and armed by a foreign regime have attacked, children and journal irses among casualties, iran holds regional terrorist sponsors and u.s. masters accountable for such attack. iran with respond swiftly and decisively in defense of iranian lives. what response might we get from iran? iran is perhaps unlikely to go

directly after saudi arabia. the two countries are arch rivals in the region and already engaged in a number of proxy fights in syria and in yemen. as for the united states, the united states backs saudi arabia, it's a big ally of the country and we just heard from the united states secretary of state, mike pompeo the other day, say that if iran goes after american interests, then there will be an immediate response from the united states. so, that perhaps is also very unlikely given the fact that the u.s. has given iran so little room for leeway for navigating through the situation. >> ryan, thank you so much. and be sure to watch fox news sunday tomorrow. chris wallace is going to talk secretary of state mike pompeo. check your local listings for the time and channel. leland. leland: all right. as we come back, hurricane florence may be gone, but flooding continues to get worse in the carolinas. an inside look how we cover the story as strangers risk their

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>> vice-president mike pence praising supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh a couple of minutes ago at the voters value summit. he praised his character and dismissed the sexual misconduct allegations against them. >> obviously, the way some democrats have conducted themselves during this process

is a disgrace and a disservice to the senate and the american people. that being said, the president and i are confident that senate republicans will manage this confirmation properly with the utmost respect for all concerned and i believe that judge brett kavanaugh will soon be justice brett kavanaugh. kristin: the kavanaugh allegations made their way into the midterm discussions during a high profile texas senate debate friday night. republican candidate ted cruz and democrat fred o'rourke made their positions clear about accuser dr. christine blasey ford. >> doctor ford's allegations should be investigated by the fbi, full stuff. there's precedent for that, that's the right thing to do given the gravity of the allegations. >> the allegations she's raised are serious and they deserve to be treated with respect and i hope she comes and has a full

opportunity to tell her story in a way that is respectful, but i also think judge kavanaugh deserves a full opportunity to defend himself. kristin: that was their first of three debates before election day. the candidates faced off on other hot button issues, including gun control, nfl players kneeling during the national anthem and immigration. >> we need to bring people out of the shadows, allow to get right by law and yes, an earned path to citizenship. >> it's striking that congressman o'rourke over and over again, his focus seems to be fighting or illegal immigrants and forgetting millions of americans. americans are dreamers, also. >> that race, it's going to be a hot one decided on november 6th. i cannot get over the fact that president trump is campaigning for senator ted cruz after everything that happened between them during-- >> and now people are paying for billboards in texas that have some of the tweets that

president trump sent about ted cruz before the 2016 elections and during their primary fight. so, yeah, we'll see a lot of those tweerts tweets coming up. speaking of texas, there with as a defeat for democrats in the state election. and get this, this district has voted democrat since 1879, hillary clinton won that by 12 percentage points in 2016, but forest was able to turn the seat red for the first time in 139 years. >> this is a big choice election, and people need to put all the personal insults and attacks and put them on the side. with are do you stand as an american? i know where texas stance and hispanics stand, that pete

flores won. >> he's the first hispanic republican to serve in the texas state senate. so, you have, of course, the o'rourke-cruz race and now you have a republican winning a district in texas for the first time in 139 years. democrats i talked to though nationally are in love with o'rourke and the amount of money he's raised from the coast, especially in california and especially in new york. it's stunning. kristin: if you'd said a year ago that o'rourke would be seriously challenging a republican senator in texas, ted cruz, probably wouldn't believe it. leland: most people wouldn't think it would be a race and to your point earlier, the fact that president trump said he's going to have a rally for ted cruz in the biggest stadium he can find tells how worried they a are. kristin: after the break some lawmakers are pushing for a fbi probe into the brett kavanaugh

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lawmakers no doubt picking sides on whether or not the fbi should many about involved in accusations against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. getting involved in a decades old state level case is more easier said than done. is trey gowdy right on that one. >> whether or not the fbi should be involved is one issue, but what congressman is pointing out, this is a 35-year-old event and unless you're going to find eyewitnesses, there's certainly no physical evidence, merely having the principals recite, being the judge and the accuser, recite their stories is not getting you anywhere. unless you can find eyewitnesses, i don't see a whole lot that's going to come out of an investigation like that. setting aside the issue whether there should be one or not. leland: how would it work for the fbi to become involved?

does there have to be a formal request? >> the fbi does not investigate these kind of crimes. if a crime occurred that would be a local offense. the only way it's pertinent to the bureau, it's part of a background investigation that they've been requested to do. the fbi does a limited number of background investigateses. leland: they've done a number of investigations. >> as a federal judge, correct. essentially they have a client, either the white house requests them to do this investigation, when he was nominated or the senate. and if either of them. either of those two request that they round out this investigation in the face of new allegations, they could do that as part of the mandate and they could do it. leland: noteworthy, as you mentioned, this would be a local crime, if there was a crime that happened, in which case, the governor of maryland could ask the maryland state police to investigate that. he has declined to do so, so far.

democrats talking why they think a fbi investigation is necessary. take a listen. >> the way i portray it and describe is, you have the entire force of the presidency and all of the supporters of judge kavanaugh in the senate arrayed on one side and on the other side you have dr. ford who doesn't even have the benefit of a fbi investigation as we all have called for. you know, how unfair is that? >> is anyone entitled to a fbi investigation is this who does the privilege rest with? >> the privilege rests with someone who makes a credible allegation of a crime within the investigative jurisdiction of the fbi. it's really that simple. is the allegation credible? and is the subject matter within the proper investigative jury of the fbi. leland: based on what we know of dr. ford's claims, is an

investigation possible? if she recites her sorry to the fbi and the judge recites his story, what do you investigate? >> that's the road i went down early. if she can tell you when, where and who else is presents. and some, there was an event 35 years ago, i can't tell you where, i can't tell you when, i can't tell you how, i can't tell you who was there. not much to investigate. in fact, nothing to investigate. so far. now, i don't know that she doesn't-- she won't furnish some of that information and if she does there are questions to be asked. just a prediction, an educated guess, it'd be hard to believe that a fbi investigation 36 years after an event like this would turn up very much, and frankly, given the politicalization of these, i'm not sure it would change anybody's mind no matter what they found. leland: and the fbi getting

involved in another hot potato. this one they seem to be staying away from as much as they can. >> maybe they've learned a lesson or two. you're right, it's another sad commentary where we are with a politicalization of an organization, the last organization in the world that ought to be politicized. leland: all right. steve, good to see you. appreciate the insight. kristin. kristin: still ahead, a new study says the number of illegal immigrants in the u.s. could be double what is reported. why the number may be much higher than initially thought. and china steps away from the negotiating table while more u.s. tariffs are implemented. how the moves could impact your options in the market. >> we're also cracking down on the unfair trade practices from china. china last year took out 500 billion dollars from our country. we have rebuilt china. we have given them such wealth and we're changing, so we charge

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billion worth of merchandise tariffs coming in. and then they said, well, we're going to do the same thing. i said, that's okay. we're far more bullets. we have a lot more to come back with. kristin: well, let's bring in dr. michael pillsbury, he was laughing there, director of strategy at the institute. why are you laughing? >> i like the president and frankly, kristin, he seems to enjoy this. kristin: oh, yes. >> he could have been negative, oh, the chinese have cancelled the talks and they're not coming, i'm so sad. no, he seems to enjoy the process of negotiations. kristin: he is the author of "the art of the deal". so you agree with him that the united states can afford to wait and we can afford to allow china to walk away from the table? >> yes, this is going to be a long game in my opinion. the chinese are tough.

we've probably made some mistake, i used to think that china is weak, they're going to collapse, it's a state-run economy, what's good about that? that apparently is not true. they've got something like $3 trillion, t trillion in reserves. they have a lot of slack in their economy, they're able to subsidize. they don't have to just collapse and fold because the threats of trump. kristin: and president xi isn't tied down by-- >> he doesn't have a senate and a house, right. kristin: the term limits that president trump has, obviously. mike, i want to talk about, so many people hear about the tariffs and trade wars and they don't feel the personal impact yet, but major retailers like walmart, they are coming out and they're saying that because of these tariffs, they may have to spike prices, raise prices on several key items. i want to pop up a graphic of some things that walmart, in particular, is saying that they're going to have to raise prices on potentially.

christmas lights, shampoo, dog food, luggage, mattresses. a whole bunch of things. are people really going to start to feel the pinch because of these tariffs? >> on some products, yes. i think what you also see though, is some very clever chinese lobbying inside the united states. the chinese know who is with them and who is against them. so, they've formed some coalitions and provided a lot of threats, and they're frankly hoping that after the midterms president trump will politically be unable to sustain his tariffs campaign. they're hoping that the american side will blink first and will fold. so-- >> and of course, china is threatening to go after u.s. farmers. >> absolutely. now, this is in violation of their agreements, but they're still doing it. they're good politicians inside the u.s. we don't have that kind of capability inside china to influence president xi's advisors, i wish we did. kristin: even imposing the latest tariffs,president trump

this week hinted that he may be considering imposing even more tariffs on china. listen to this. >> if there's a retaliation against our farmers and our industrial workers, our ranchers, if any of that goes on, we're going to kick in another $257 billion and that will be also at 25%. we don't want to do, but we probably will have no choice. >> i think he's exactly right. kristin: say that again? >> i think he's exactly right. we're going to have to go to full-- >> 257 billion of chinas tariffs. >> and maybe apple and iphones and may be an exception already. kristin: and leland wants to know-- >> not about the country as a whole, but the chinese have been remarkably tough. this cancellation of the delegation is another example they're just not going to fold and they doubt our credibility.

now, i think they're going to come around in a few months. we've got to get ready for it and realize that our country's future is at stake. our growth rate could be much higher if we didn't have these chinese ripoffs of our technology, if they weren't blocking almost all of our serious investments in china. kristin: and the markets. >> and buy more products from us. >> the markets don't seem to mind the tariffs so far. >> they begin to understand that this is a long-term plan that president trump is putting forward and frankly the fact that senator chuck schumer supported this is a surprise. and i've told my friends, you've recently been in beijing, it's not just president trump, the moderates don't like it because they're free traders. a lot of democrats do like it because of the working job losses. so even if the democrats win the midterms, you chinese are still going to face all of this pressure from our government. so, please, you know, blink. but they don't believe me. they want to wait and see. kristin: all right. so you say buckle up.

prepare for the long game. >> don't exaggerate the price increases. kristin: thank you, mike. leland. leland: an investigation against fema administrator brock long coming to a close. we are going to tell you what investigators found. plus, relief efforts in full swing in the carolinas. the water is still rising. its residents there pick up the pieces from florence. jonathan serrie on the ground in lumberton, north carolina. hi, jonathan. >> hi, leland. high waters and swift currents are threatening homes and businesses and sh suggestive down stree down-- in some major areas. i'll have that coming up.

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>> fema administrator brock long has been ordered to reimburse the government for his misuse of federal vehicles. after an internal probe long used vehicles to travel between home and work without proper authorization. it's not clear exactly how much money long will have to reimburse, but he will not face criminal charges for his actions and he will remain head of the agency. >> it's been a little bit of a distraction as fema has worked to help in the carolinas, where it's still getting worse for so many there. residents battling rising waters that are making the cleanup process even harder. jonathan serrie on the ground,

lumberton, north carolina. hi, jonathan. >> hi, leland. right no we're overlooking a culvert. as you can see, there's water and debris and trash swirling around the drain across mlk. as far as mlk, the thoroughfare going through downtown lumberton, the waters receded enough so that the traffic is allowed to move through slowly in both directions. the other side of the culvert, water is bubbling through here and threatening homes downstream and a very swift current. local officials say that these conditions are expected to remain through the weekend. now, this flooding comes just two years after hurricane matthew left much of this town and surrounding robeson county jumped water what many thought was a flood so big it would only happen once in 500 years. well, just two years later, residents are looking at something even bigger. we sent our drone up to give you an aerial perspective of this

flooding that lumberton is about 60 miles from the coast, but prolonged rains from hurricane florence have created flood companies not only in this town, but throughout many parts of the southeastern north carolina. statewide flooding is affecting 750 roads including sections of interstates i-95 and i-40. we followed a caravan of relief supplies into the state, even with police escorts, the supply trucks had to stop and reroute several times to avoid flooded roads. meanwhile, flooding along the cape fear river forced duke energy to shut down its lv sutton natural gas plant in wilmington. flood waters preached a dam surrounding a cooling lake. north carolina's department of environmental quality is monitoring because river flooding has spilled into a basin of coal ash, a byproduct from a retired power plant at the site. meanwhile, we've learned that the coast guard set up a

temporary safety zone on the waccamaw river near an ash pond at a former sanity cooper coal fired plant. and that will be on that river, and hopefully reduce the chances of vessels damaging protective berms protecting that retired plant and that retired coal ash site from any further damage. back to you guys, leland. leland: all right, the seventh most expensive hurricane in terms of damage. jonathan serrie, lumberton, north carolina, boy, do they have a long road ahead of them. one thing as you cover the storm at that strikes you when you're doing there, we have video from chinopin, north carolina, took a boat tour and you're driving down roads in boats at 20 or 30 miles an hour. it's weeks before that water recedes to where people can get back into their homes.

the fellow we were riding in the boat with was a fellow named josh, medic in navy and-- steams you hear about the worst of the human equations and this is the best. josh helped to rescue two little puppies. maybe one was a puppy. the porch that they sought refuge on and the dogs will be on the show tomorrow and we'll show you how you can help. that's the rescue right there. more when we come back.

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leland: oh, boy, is there a lot going on this weekend, if you would like to hear conversations at the justice department, senate judiciary, at the white house, president is up in bedminster, two hours of america 's news headquarters i'm leland vittert. >> and i'm kristin fisher. latest on ongoing negotiations. leland: deputy attorney general rod rosenstein talking about the possibility of recording the president, you might say it's created controversy. we will debate the fallout.

>> and the army misses important recruiting benchmark, we will tell you how far they were. but first senator chuck grassley expressing frustration on twitter over the number of extensions that he's given to dr. christine blasey ford, kavanaugh's accuser so she can decide if she wants to testify before the judiciary committee. gillian turner has been following all day long and are we any closer to find out what dr. ford will do? >> not really, deep into the night last night with multiple senators pressuring chairman grass through grant an extension through today. eventually prompted this middle of the night tweet from him. judge kavanaugh, he said, i just granted another extension to dr. ford to decide if she wants to proceed with the statement she made last week to testify to the senate, she should decide so we can move on. i want to hear her, i hope you understand, it's not my normal approach to be indecisive, he went on sounding

uncharacteristic with all of the decisions, i feel like i'm playing second tr, umbone and schumer is the conductor, they are fed up. >> i think that he has worked very hard to accommodate her and there's been negotiations back and forth and negotiations have not come to a resolution, he has pushed back the deadline, nonetheless. at some point in time you simply have to say, make a decision, are you going to come and testify. >> senate republicans are doubling down and kavanaugh will take the bench despite the allegations of sexual abuse. >> you watched the fight, you've watched the tactics, but here is what i want to tell you, in the very near future judge kavanaugh

will be on the united states supreme court. >> senate judiciary democrats say accusations don't matter, hearing prior to thursday isn't doable, senator feinstein writing in part, dr. ford is receiving death threats, her identity stolen and e-mail account hacked, she fled home with family. republicans want to rush her in hearing, mean-spirited and show nos sympathy and empathy whatsoever. dr. ford reiterated the position that this deadline is arbitrary and sole purposes to bully dr. ford and her family during time of crisis, kristin. >> thanks, south carolina congressman ralph norman, congressman, thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> i want to know do you agree with the senate judiciary committee chairman's decision to keep granting these extensions for judge kavanaugh's accuser? >> absolutely not, kristin.

look the facts of this case, why does senator feinstein hold it for six weeks, why did senator feinstein not give it to republican counterparts and now to claim that at the last minute that this is is being rushed that she is being bullied makes no sense and i think the american people understand that and it's a 3-ring circus that the democrats are trying to stop a qualified supreme court justice in judge kavanaugh and it's it's a travesty the way this is working out and particularly she deserves a right to be heard but she needs to come forward now and with whatever she has and the time -- the clock is ticking and whether it was designed or whether it was orchestrated which it looks like, the time is up. >> congressman, but we are talking a lifetime appointment here, what's a few more days, what's 24 more hours when you're dealing with a lifetime

appointment on the supreme court of the united states? >> exactly. it is a lifetime appointment but when -- where does it stop? >> right, they were just asking for another day or two, why not wait? >> you know, regardless of -- they are closer to the information than we are but you can -- from all appearances it's orchestrated, they are going to be saying the same things when you give her another day and if she was eager to write the letter and get it in she ought to be eager and tell her side of the story because she was brave enough to write the letter and this is a mockery of the judicial system, i mean, where else can you write a lefter and convict somebody and where is the outrage of what's taking place here and where is the sympathy for judge kavanaugh. >> congressman you're running for reelection and you were in a debate two days ago and you made a comment, you made a joke that's getting a little bit of

attention, i want to ask you about it, i'm going to read what you said, we are not allowed the play clip, did you hear the latest from kavanaugh hearings, ruth bader ginsburg came out saying that she was groped by abraham lincoln, a lot of slack for that especially on social media and you came out and defended yourself on tweeter and said, quote, comments earlier today to add levity to a very serious debate between me and my democratic opponent and to point to the circus-like atmosphere that washington has become. people really need to learn to lighten up. congressman, do people really need to lighting up when you're talking about something as serious as sexual harassment accusations towards a nominee for the supreme court? >> and kristin, this was 15 seconds, i have a 60 minute debate and the press automatically jumped on it as being any type of harassment for women. here is the sad part of this and by the way i've been getting

death threats, we had to shut down our office in rock hill. >> you regret making that remark? >> pardon me? >> do you regret making that remark, that joke as you call it? >> it was a joke but he was the hypocrisy of it. we've got a candidate that's running against me who admitted to beating up his wife at the time, he's a part -- it's part of the divorce records, he had 6 staffers leave him because they were scared for their life, 65% of the voter primary voted for him because it didn't matter. for judge kavanaugh they are saying it does matter and that's the hypocrisy and selective outrage that liberals have, you can't have it both ways and it's a tragedy, but shows the two standards they are trying to have two different standards for two different things. >> i'd love to ask you several more questions about you but i only have a little bit more time

and i want to ask you about hurricane florence, your state hit very hard, of course, how are your constituents doing today? >> they're fine, we didn't suffer the flooding that they did in the eastern part of the north carolina and south carolina the wind did some damage -- >> what about the toxic -- >> it's something we have to deal with. we avoided the majority of the storm but i feel for eastern north carolina for what they are going through, with the infrastructure that they will have to be paying for and it will affect us with the road systems and the water and sewer that we will be having to deal. >> nice to hear that constituents are doing so well, thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you. leland. leland: six weeks away from midterm election and the kavanaugh confirmation fight is taking center, we bring in new orleans radio host jeff, jeff, good to see you, is the facts of

this case and the seriousness of the actions being pushed aside by the political calculations? >> all i see, leland are political calculations in this, the democrats waited till the last minute to spring it on the world, judge kavanaugh has got this great record that nobody is talking about. i feel for judge kavanaugh, i feel for everybody involved in this. it's just a typical democrat political trick. leland we saw this back in anita hill and clarence thomas, it's a rerun of what we saw in 1991. >> are you doubting the varasity of the accusations or both? >> i'm criticizing the process. leland: do republicans have any blame or should have any blame over this? >> definitely, they should have had the vote already. the thing is being dragged out way too long. they promised to vote a few days ago, it didn't happen, they said deadline friday and then pushed

back to deadline again and again and he's being played and i think chairman grassley is being played by the democrats. this lady, i don't know whether she's telling the truth or not, she's got a democrat activist -- >> leland: the accuser in this case was your daughter wouldn't you want her to be given every opportunity to tell her story? >> i would want her to have every opportunity -- >> okay, so what's wrong with given every opportunity. how do you criticize republicans, the republican chairman for offering that opportunity? >> well, again, i'm criticizing the democrats, they delayed this thing for months, dianne feinstein had months ago, don't you see, leland what's going on here, they are playing the republicans, they are delaying, this they are trying to wait until after midterms, leland this is all about politics. leland: to follow that out, given the hand that it's been dealt the republicans in this -- >> okay.

>> leland: are they making the best of the situation the democrats have put them. if they hold the vote, a lot of republicans who are terrified of the precer cushions of that and how how much that would energize the democratic. >> let me tell you this, if they don't confirm judge kavanaugh it's going to demoralize the republican base. leland: is it going demoralize them -- if all of a sudden you have a supreme court vacancy come the midterms, november 6, kavanaugh decides that he doesn't wanting to through the process anymore, the republicans delay the vote, whatever it is that doesn't energize the republican base? >> i think they need to confirm nominees, build the wall, cut spending. leland: there's no wall being built and there's no funding for the wall and so far we haven't cut any spending, in fact, spending has skyrocketed. >> right. that's the problem, this is one thing that they can deliver on and i think the republicans will feel good, okay, we have two supreme court justices that have

been confirmed. these are great justices, the president did a tremendous job in picking them so that will, i think, energize the base and they'll look forward the fact that the wall wasn't constructed, the other promises weren't delivered but this has got to happen because the democrats want to delay this forever. >> they want to delay it until november 6 so there's a vacant supreme court seat for them to talk about and get out to vote, this is the tweet from president trump, i have no doubt that if the attack on dr. ford was as bad as she says charges would have been immediately filed with local law enforcement authorities by either her or her loving parents, i ask her to bring those filings forward so we can learn time, date and place, there were no filings so we can't learn that from that and you also saw vice president pence earlier today certainly defend brett kavanaugh on this. is that the right position for the white house to be taking on that? is there a political risk there? >> yes, they need to defend this

judge because this judge has been unfairly treated over this past few weeks because, remember, the democrats are now saying they believe the accuser and are basically calling him an attempted rapest, that's unfair, when have we ever seen this process in court of law? this is a circus, clarence thomas called it, total circus back then, leland, circus now. leland: we are is the relationship for democrats and what is the risk for them when you compare this, for example, to the process the democrats have put keith ellison through. >> the democrats are being hypocrites because keith ellison supposedly did to girlfriend within the past two years, this is a recent situation that they are overlooking, but, of course, the democrats are showing themselves to be unhinged. look at the hearings, leland, they went crazy. so i think the voters out there are looking at the democrats and saying, these people are not people that we can trust with power because of how they've

acted, we need to keep republicans in charge so the more they act up -- leland: hold, jeff, is that what -- you think voters in general are the voters you talk to on radio think? >> well, listen, i've talked to a lot of moderates, i've even talk today liberal democrats who are not happy -- >> that must have been stunning for you. >> , no i have callers all over the board on my show, liberals, moderates, conservatives call in and people were a little bit outrage at how hearings were conducted. remember, they interrupted chuck grassley when he said his name. he started the hearing and they started interrupting. leland: jeff, we appreciate it, good to have you as always, thanks again for the conversation, take care. kristin. >> right now 2,000 russian troops are taking part in another round of massive drills, russia's baltic fleet undertook drills involving planes and practicing air combat, drills come on the heels of far east war games the largest since fall

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leland: 16,000 people without power after tornado and then big thunderstorm ripped through parts of quebec and ontario friday night, 5 people injured, not often you have tornadoes in canada. the storm's high winds turned over cars, knocked out power for thousands of canadians. prime minister made statement on twitter urging citizens that video shows tornado, the issue trudeau on twitter says people need to check on those who need help. >> well, gunman disguised as soldiers open fire military parade in iran killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens of others. it's the bloodiest attack in the country in recent years, state media and government officials are blaming attack on arab separatists in the region with

saudi arabia. former new york city mayor giuliani is speaking in an event sponsored by council resistance of iran, critical of iranian regime ahead of trump's visit united nations general assembly where he's expected to push very hard line against iran, jackie joins us now from the event live in new york, hey, jackie. >> hey, kristin, this resistance group has taken cues from both president trump and un ambassador nikki haley ever since the u.s. withdrew from the nuclear deal there, they are building the hardline stance against the regime ever since with we drew from the deal. 2018 uprising summit is the meeting place for one of the largest iranian opposition groups, the national council resistance of iran, they are gathering here in new york just as iran's president rohani prepares to come to the un in a few days, protests have erupted in iran after four decades of

rules against tehran regime, 142 towns and cities and lead to execution to 120,000. since december 50 protestors have been killed. un ambassador nikki haley waste nod time in condemning iran again on thursday at the security council. >> it is difficult to name a conflict in the middle east that does not have iran's fingerprints on it. the iranian regime has backed dictators who gas their own people, it stokes conflict, funds foreign fighters and terrorists, it transfers missiles to militants. >> the trump administration has shown support for the iranian people and his lawyer rudy giuliani is the keynote speaker at today's event although he is not speaking on behalf of the white house, i sat down with him

a few moments ago and said without regime change peace will not come to the middle east. >> i would say the iranian regime right now -- [inaudible] >> the biggest -- the biggest supporter of terrorism. if they were to change, i think you could start to see an end. >> president trump will share his first security council on wednesday, one of the main topics will be iran former major giuliani here behind at the podium expect today speak later on today. we are live from new york, kristin. >> live in new york city where there's going to be even more traffic than usual next week because of all the motorcades, jackie, thanks, leland. leland: still ahead president trump standing by his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, ellison barber traveling with the president, hi, ellison. >> hi, leland the white house is

seemingly on offense with the president attacking the woman accusing supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual assault, we will break down all of the details in just a minute

leland: busy saturday for the judiciary committee as president trump tries to rally sporters behind supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, at rallies this week the president touted kavanaugh's character amid decades old accusation of sexual assault misconduct. ellison barber travels with the president as he's in new jersey this weekend. >> hey, leland, we are hearing from source that is the white house confirmation group did what's called a murder board with kavanaugh trying to run through questions with him in preparation for a potential hearing this week, sources tell fox news that kavanaugh did well in that session and that there was no wavering when it came to his answers. president trump continues to defend his supreme court nominee

and yesterday he directly attacked kavanaugh's accuser on twitter, he works quote, i have no doubt that if the attack on dr. ford was as bad as she said the charges would have been immediately filed with local law enforcement authorities by either her or her loving parents. i ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn a date, time and place and in another tweet he accused democrats and senator dianne feinstein of keeping the initial letter from dr. christine blasey ford under wraps in order to release it with a bang after the hearing were over. senior counsel to the president kellyanne conway. >> obviously folks are trying to delay this as much as this and probably politicizing, trying to go well past beginning of supreme court term.

>> shifting gears when it comes to strategy, the president's tweets is approaching and, he and the white house are approaching this in a more offensive posture, leland. leland: we will watch that, meantime friday afternoon major bombshell that new york times report that attorney general rod rosenstein suggested wearing a wire and invoking the 25th amendment, rosenstein pushing back pretty hard, anything from the president on that? >> not directly but at his rally in missouri last night he did talk about the fbi. take a listen. >> just look at what is now being exposed in our department of justice and the fbi, look at what's going on, look at what's going on. i want to tell you, we have great people in the department of justice, we have great people, these are people i really believe, you take a poll, i have to be at 95%, but you have some real bad ones, you

have seen what happened at the fbi. >> now, as for the report and n "the new york times" as you said, leland, the subject rod rosenstein denies it and says the story is factually incorrect and based in a moment, on anonys and officials including former deputy director andrew mccabe but rosenstein did add, quote, based on my personal dealings with the president there's no basis to invoke the 25th amendment, a source in the room when that initial meeting took place tells fox news that the comments were made sarcastically, another source that it is accurate what "the new york times" is saying, it is accurate that according to andy mccabe it was his feeling according to source that is the comments were not made in just. leland. leland: all right, ellison barber in new jersey, back to ellison if we get anything more from the@, kristin.

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memo. the second thing i think is that the doj is absolute neighboring pit where they use leaks, inappropriate meeting relationships, attack each other behind the scenes, it's all playing out now. we are seeing it come to fruition and i think rosenstein is way out of his depth honestly. i think he's -- i think he's trying to do the right thing honestly and he's being played by people who are better at the media game than he is and, you know, we will see where this ends up but rosenstein might bring charges against andrew mccabe over this. kristin: josh, let me jump in real quick, what was your initial reaction to the news yesterday? >> this is rare but i agree with sean hannity on this one. what he said last night, we don't know who leaked the story but it's anonymous quotes in the new york times trying to insight donald trump to fire rosenstein which would be a political disaster aside from the constitutional questions that it would raise but it would -- what we need to do right now is

reconfirms that congress needs to protect the mueller investigation because there's so much back-stabbing in doj right now and across the administration that we need to and 60% of americans support the investigation going forward and congress needs to make sure that happens. kristin: one to have big questions throughout washington who leaked this and, kevin, you believe that the former acting director of the fbi andrew mccabe who we know was in the room during the meeting you believe that he leaked it from his memos. >> yeah, well, most likely source of this and he knows thousand play the media game, he has been proven to be a leaker, i think charges could be brought against him, he has a book deal coming up. he has a gofundme page, i think he's the worst of the swamp and -- and i think the doj, current doj is going to be ticked about this and they may actually go after him on it. kristin: he's already under investigation, josh, you agree? do you think it's coming from mccabe? >> he's under investigation for

lying about leaking, stories that hurt hillary clinton during the election, so i think both sides are pretty angry at him for various reasons, honestly, we don't know, i think -- you saw within minutes the president's son using ammunition to argue for the firing of rosenstein, it's absolutely like mccabe has and some of the president's allies have incentives to do this. >> you should not fire rosenstein and let him do his job and he's in a position that he could take out avengance on andrew mccabe and i think he might. kristin: whether or not he should or not fire rosenstein. everybody is kind of guessing, is president trump going to fire him, is he not, do you think that this will lead to president trump actually taking action against him? >> you know, i think he won't, i think he likes to let people twist. we have seen that with his attorney general, jeff sessions. i think he's going to just -- i don't think he wants to take the political heat and i don't think he needs to. he leaves rosenstein and place

and let it play out. kristin: the deputy attorney general has issued two denials, i want to pop the latest one up, you can read it for yourself, i never pursued or authorized recording the president and any suggestion that i ever advocated for the removal of the president is absolutely false. he never pursued or authorized but noticeably absent from that he never says that he didn't say it. >> he said it. >> even if he said in jest, we talked to somebody who was in the room and we were told that he kind of said it very sarcastically as, you know, talking to andy mccabe, what you want me to do, wear a wire? >> we have seen this play out so many times in administration where they weponized quotes that people are saying sarcastically and are using it to hurt the other person. andrew mccabe is under a lot of heat and that's what we are seeing right now. kristin: josh, what stands out to you from the rosenstein statement? >> i'm sure it happened. kristin: we are all in agreement on this.

>> it was ill-advised joke. it raises the serious things at the administration at the time, this was just after comey's firing, there was a lot of chaos and internal questions about how the president was handling the situation. but to your original question, i think it's very important that he does not make this firing, that he allows the investigation to go forward and does not allow him -- kristin: right, president trump very careful not to mention directly at the rally last night though he did refer to the lingering stint at the justice department, he left it at that. >> let's see how long he can stick to it. kristin: jeff, kevin, thanks for coming in. >> thank you. kristin: leland. leland: officials pointing aim at the united states, at least two dozen are dead, iran blaming terrorists and their, quote, u.s. masters for the attack, with that we bring in gordon chang, author of nuclear showdown, north north korea, god

friend, better than a good friend to the program, nice to see you, my friend. who is behind this, the iranians are making a lot of hay out of it. >> of course, the united states was not behind it. you know, there were 3 sets of iranian accusations, one was against the united states and israel or at least indirectly and also against the islamic state and the other against arab separatists, there's also been two claims of responsibilities, one from the islamic state and one from the arab separatists, who knows what's going on but clearly it was not the u.s. and the iranians are trying to make the u.s. and enemy as they have done for decades. leland: either way pretty significant for an attack on iran's revolutionary guard in the middle of a military parade, you can't be overlooked sort of the turbulent waters underneath the calm that iran likes to put

out there. >> yeah, this certainly hurts iranian diplomacy because the iranian state has just tried to show how strong it is and that is really been state craft for them, you know, but, of course, we have seen the protests on iranian citizens, two large terrorists attacks in two years. leland: how does the u.s. capitalize on this, how does israel capitalize on this? >> i don't know that we are going to change policies in order to do that but what we will do continue to insist to our european allies that they adhere to our sanctions and that we try to get, you know, a lot of progress on making sure the iranians stop their enrichment of uranium and other things that are not good for the international community. leland: secretary of state pompeo to that point yesterday, we will get your reaction after the sound. >> the islamic republic of iran continues to be the world largest state sponsor of terror, we are determine today stop that

behavior and to change the way the iranian regime inflicts horrors all around the world. we are looking for european partners to join us but we have big coalition that understands that the sanctions make sense and will continue to enforce them. leland: no word that the administration has been a lot tougher on iran than the obama administration publicly supporting protestors and talking actively about regime change? >> certainly, we will continue to do that and it's very important for secretary pompeo to say that. at this time the united states has so many disagreements with iran and they seem to be multiplying because iran's engaging in terrible behavior, you know, as ambassador haley said, if there's a problem in the middle east, iran is behind it. leland: you have a couple of busy days ahead of you, appreciate it, when we come back a little bit more on the accusations against brett kavanaugh and the timing of

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leland: so we all remember the big hawaiian volcano, volcano's national parks are opening for

the first time sin kilauea erupted in may. the lava form transformed and even drained massive lava lake, officials anticipate 5,000 visitors to come take a look, pretty cool. kristin: brett kavanaugh's nomination to supreme court is embattled in controversy after high school classmate accused him of sexual misconduct and it's driving republicans and democrats even farther apart ahead of midterms if that's even possible, david, author of the new book the most dangerous branch, joins us now to walk us through the pros and cons of kavanaugh's nomination and the future of the supreme court, david, you are an expert on the supreme court, if you were advising senate republicans on the judiciary committee and you were advising dr. ford, what would you tell them to do in this moment? >> be honest, for starters, but,

you know, this is -- unlike the hearings a few weeks ago which was all staged. we knew what the questions were going to be, we knew what the nonanswers were going to be, in this round we really don't know what's going to happen and while it's not a legal trial as such, it's akin to it because we will have a chance to assess her demeanor, her response and cross-examination and the same for him and out of that we will have a better idea of who we believe. kristin: there are obviously so many parallels to the anita hill hearings but so many differences as well in this era of social media, the metoo movement, how will these hearings be different from the hill hearing so many years ago? >> well, you will will are instt response and while the republicans now saying we are going to confirm kavanaugh even

as they still say they have open mind f she's credible and persuasive and if he's not, he sounds evasive as he did a few weeks ago in the first round of hearings, i think it's possible that you'll see the tide turn. it only takes two senators on the republican side to throw his nomination into jeopardy and until you see it play out, i don't think anybody knows but i think politicians, even on the republican side are sensitive in the metoo era and will be loathe to look like they are attacking her or prosecuting her. >> just a few days confirmation seemed like a sure thing, now, do you truly believe that confirmation is in jeopardy, seriously jeopardy? >> yes, my predictions are often wrong but i think before we hear her assuming she does, the idea that you can say ahead of time that the republicans are going

to run this through is inaccurate. politics are too fluid and there are to too many republican senators who have expressed not doubt about kavanaugh but a willingness to listen to this person, to the accuser, and to decide if she's credible. you know, so far the indicators are that she may well be credible, who has more reason to lie her, you look at her position, she has thrown herself into the vortex, she's had to move, getting death threats, there's not a lot in this for her to come forward. and i was say if you look at respective positions he's in a more difficult position, he has more incentive to not remember and perhaps not to tell the truth. that's not to say that's what's going to happen, but the respective positions, she begins in the lead. kristin: fair points ands is somebody who wrote the book the most dangerous branch is certainly someone who would

know. david, thank you so much. >> good to be with you. leland: the kegs are flowing in germany, we will tell you how many people are expected to raise a glass in oktoberfest, i won't be there but i will raise a glass any way so you just walk around telling people geico

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leland: good news they are not going to go hungfully the international space station, here is a video from japan as a

japanese space agency rocket lasted off to trip to international space station, the flight for the cargo craft has been delayed for an entire week due to bath weather and technical issues but the launch took place right at the predicted time today. there you go. kristin: well, good news. leland: now you -- kristin: good news pumpkin spice fans, i'm not a pumpkin spice fan but a lot of people are, today is official start of fall, the point where northern and southern hemispheres experience equal amounts of daylight and while it marks fall here in northern hems steer like places in u.s. and europe and start of spring in areas like south america and australia, different worlds. leland: with falcons what, beer, first keg in munich in oktoberfest but not october yet, we need to figure how that works, 185th year, the first

week of october, it's expected to bring in 6 million thirsty visitors and lots of people celebrating with them around the world. kristin: lots of people celebrating, leland, i feel like you need a drink. leland: after north carolina? kristin: just got back from covering hurricane florence and you had -- i'm going to blow leland up here, quite a week, not only did he get in a car accident, he also got attacked by fire ants and had to stand in flood waters and the ant bites got infected and you're now on antibiotics. is that tmi? leland: it was all for worthy cause, we were in the flood waters to go check out a lot of the flooded houses and to also see about some dogs that people had been hearing barks from. these are the two dogs. kristin: the cutest things you've ever done. leland: i appreciate that, thank you. that's the dog we named, a puppy, 4 to 6 months old, the dogs were horribly malnourished

and had been neglected and abandoned. that's the mom florence. >> josh a volunteered firefighter who gapped them and brought them in, only took 125 seconds to realize they were among friends and they are now going to be up for adoption, lucky dog animal rescue has brought them up to washington, d.c., they are here and they -- they are really cool dogs and so far we have raised about $16,000 not only for their vet care which they are going to need a lot of care but also for hundreds of other dog that is were abandoned during hurricane florence and if you'd like to contribute you can go to lucky dog animal rescue.org and donate. kristin: leland vittert, savior of dogs, good look for you. leland: i appreciate that. kristin: i worried about your hair but hold up great, the

baseball hat. leland: we will see you tomorrow with the dogs and without any beer, although beer later, there you go. kristin: beer later and dogs, thanks for watching. arthel: will she or won't she testify, that's the decision the senate judiciary committee is waiting for from dr. christine blasey ford the woman who accused supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual assault at a high school party when they were both in their teens in early 12980's, hello, everyone, welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm arthel neville. eric: hello, arthel, i'm eric sean, the committee's chairman senator chuck grassley granting extension for the deadline. for dr. ford to make that decision until later on today. this is as drama unfolds and story continues to take twist and turns, here is mike pence speaking about the