produce his clients for a statement. >> be sure to watching the hearing here on fox news channel. coverage begins at 9:00 a.m. eastern. thanks for joining us. i'm julie banderas. here's trace in for shep. >> trace: judge brett kavanaugh facing a new bomb shell claim. a woman accusing kavanaugh and his friends in high school to get them drunk to gang rape them. he said it never happened and the claims are out of the twilight zone. this comes at kavanaugh and his accuser set to answer questions tomorrow. president trump defending his nominee and calling him a gem and claiming democrats are playing a con game. now we're waiting to hear from the president this afternoon at a solo news conference after his meeting at the u.n. meeting. that's ahead this hour.

i'm trace gallagher in for shepard smith. a stunning third accusation as we're just hours away from judge brett kavanaugh and his first accuser testifying in front of the senate judiciary committee. at stake is a seat on the highest court in the land and a chance to shape america's laws for generations. but earlier today another accuser came forward claiming just brett kavanaugh was present when she was gang raped at a house party sometime around 1982. attorney michael avenatti released julie swetnick's statement on his twitter account. in it, she claims she witnessed brett kavanaugh and others caused girls to become inebriated and disoriented so they could be gang-raped in a side room or bedroom by a train of numerous boys. she then reveals she was a victim of one of these gang or train rapes. kavanaugh writes in a statement, this is ridiculous and from the twilight zone. i don't know who this is.

this never happened. here's what he said in an interview with fox news earlier this week. >> did you ever participate in or were you ever aware of any gang rape that happened at a party that you attended? >> that's totally false and outrageous. never done any such thing, noknn about any such thing. >> democratic senator richard blumenthal calls it a gut punch and breathtaking. >> there's no way, absolutely no way this this nomination can proceed to a vote without an fbi investigation of this affidavit sworn under oath with immense detail and corroborating witnesses who will come forward. this woman, a survivor of vicious sexual attack has

everything to lose. >> committee chairman republican senator chuck grassley from iowa says his lawyers are talking to the third accuser right now. the chief congressional corr responsible department mike emanuel is live for us on capitol hill with more. mike? >> attorneys for professor christine blasey ford released a handwritten note and a read-out of her polygraph test. the handwritten note goes over the events she says happened to her 36 years ago. talks about her going to a small party, that she went to use the rest room, went into a bedroom and the door was locked on her. her polygraph test went over the allegation and it's says that blasey's responses are not indicative of deception. that sets the stage for tomorrow's hearing with a motions running high. >> we're not seeking to convict him or put him in jail.

we're seeking the truth. we're seeking facts. we're seeking just what happened. >> this afternoon, a republican on the judiciary committee talked about how nasty things have gotten. >> some of the public comments about both of these witnesses have been vile. not unrelated to these comments, each of these witnesses have reportedly been subject to death threats. for that, we should be ashamed. the toxic political culture that we have created has infected everything. >> flake says kavanaugh and professor ford are owed an apology. trace? >> trace: mike, what else do we know about this third accuser? >> her name is julie swetnick as you went over at the top. she's represented by attorney michael avenatti and she claims in the early 80s in the washington d.c. area, she went to parties where girls were given alcohol and drugs and later gang raped. judge kavanaugh this is

ridiculous. it's from the twilight zone and doesn't know who this is. the senate democratic leader offered this reaction. >> i strongly believe judge kavanaugh should withdraw from consideration and the president should withdraw this nomination if kavanaugh won't do it voluntarily. if he will not at the very least the hearing and vote should be postponed while the fbi investigates all of these very serious and very troubling allegations. >> the senate judiciary committee has been sent the information on this latest allegation. chairman chuck grassley says they're checking it out. >> we have had accusation after accusation and accusation. very few of them are corroborated. our lawyers, if we can make the contact, get on it right away. so obviously with this one, we have a contact.

our lawyers are on it right now. our staff investigators. i won't have anything because i can't say anything until they get done. >> grassley says the hearing will go forward tomorrow morning. he says delaying it would be unfair to professor ford. trace? >> mike emanuel live for us on capitol hill. thank you. it was a jam packed day for president trump at the united nations meeting with world leaders and running a security council meeting. he couldn't escape the drama in washington and spent part of the day defending his supreme court nominee. he went after the lawyer for the third accuser, michael avenatti, and things got a bit personal. you'll recall, avenatti also represents stormy daniels, the porn star that claims she slept with the president and now awaiting to hear from president trump in just a couple hours as he holds his first formal solo news conference in 587 days. let's get to the chief white house correspondent, john roberts, he's live at the united

nations in manhattan. john? >> trace, good afternoon to you. that was back in january, 2017. president trump was only president-elect the last time he visited with the press in an open forum like this afternoon. you can bet the majority of the questions will probably fall on judge brett kavanaugh and as well rod rosenstein issue. the president with a full frontal assault on attorney michael avenatti. comfortable not to criticize julie swetnick with her accusations. certainly wasting no effort to take on avenatti in a tweet saying, avenatti is a third-rate lawyer that is good at making false accusations like he did on me and like he's doing on judge brett kavanaugh. he's just looking for attention and doesn't want people to look at his past record and relationships, a total low life. in a bilateral meeting with shinzo abe the last hour, the president in full defense of his nomination nor the supreme

court. listen here. >> this lawyer that came out, he's a low-life. he represents democrats. nobody talks about that. he's a democrat lawyer. not a very good one but he's a democrat lawyer. so it's a horrible con game. i think the people are finding it out. hopefully over the next couple days, it will be settled up and solved. >> the white house says safe to say, trace, wants the hearing tomorrow morning to proceed with all haste and they want the story to get out here and they want both sides to have an opportunity to air their side of the story. then the senate judiciary can decide what they want to do going forward. trace? >> chuck grassley says it's going forward. the president made a big accusation about china at the united nations today. >> yeah. this is something that he first alluded to september 18th in a tweet saying that china is taking aim at farmers and ranchers and industrial workers because president trump is being

tough on trade with china. but today as he was chairing that u.n. security council meeting, the president really surprised china by going after them face to face. >> regrettably we found that china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 elections. they do not want me or us to win because i am the first president ever to challenge china on trade. we are winning on trade. we are winning at every level. >> president trump's statement at the u.n. security council, the begin of a administration wide effort to push back on china. the president tweeting about and talking about in that bilateral meeting with shinzo abe adds that china is taking out in the des moines register that are made to look like news reports. the president says they're trying to influence the election

by buying ads that the president won in 2016. he doesn't like it and this administration is not going to tolerate it any longer. at the same time, the president trying to maintain his relationship with president she jinping at that same security council meeting saying it's been an honor to work with president xi. trace? >> john roberts live for us in new york. thank you. more now on the controversy surrounding judge kavanaugh. let's bring in gene cummings, the bureau chief for the "wall street journal." gina, i don't know where to begin. the allegations coming in by this third accuser are just horrific. i mean, they are -- if true, you would think it's hard to square them because you would think instead of having 65 women come forward to praise judge kavanaugh as a gentleman during high school and college, you would have these woman coming forward saying this man needs to be condemned. >> absolutely. they are horrifying.

the idea that young girls were isolated and then boys lined up in hallways outside of a closed bedroom and went in and took their turns, it's sickening. it's really makes you wonder whether the committee can proceed without asking the fbi to come in and do an investigation because they're just so horrifying. >> trace: but it's sickening if it's true. judge kavanaugh says this is from the twilight zone. there's not a whole lot of corroboration. we're talk -- she's talking about gang rapes at ten parties. she went to ten parties in three years and this was happening at most of those parties and judge kavanaugh and his best buddy, she says they were joined at the hip, mark judge, were spiking the punch with drugs and grain alcohol to get women so inebriated that men would line up and rape them and this happened again and again and again and it seems to me like well, this is just now coming

out? >> that's why, trace, it seems more sensible now than it did before, that there could be a law enforcement investigation. when we only had dr. ford's allegation, there were only three people that were, if you believe her version, there were three people aware of what happened. not a big party. so now with these new allegations, you have multiple events, you have more attendees. so there's actually a place where the fbi could actually go and find witnesses and make a decision one way or another about whether this went on or not. it's extremely hard to get your head around because it is so incredibly awful. you know, any normal person, it's shocking. so i think for even the judge's

sake, it would be good to square this thing and either lift this shadow from him and his friends and that entire class or take action if he can't lift it. it is just cry for an honest broker to look into this and see what really happened. >> we also just found out that we got a copy of the polygraph report. they said the polygraph was not in. now we have a copy of it. it says they asked a couple questions and this polygraph. we're talking about christine blasey ford now, the first accuser. she was asked, is any part of your statement false. her answer was no. she was asked did you make up any part of the statement. her answer was no. the polygraph said that she was telling the truth. you know, the kavanaugh side was saying look, she hasn't released a polygraph. now it's released, how does that play into this? >> you have that and then you

have the affidavits that were submitted last night in which she did tell they are people about this. it was years later, but the first time she told someone about it was in 2012. so that is quite some time ago. and at that time did in fact name him as the person that she recalled attacking her. so there is -- each side is developing their own little pool of evidence. for instance, senator grassley's staff went out and got affidavits from people that didn't remember her. >> thanks, jeanne. we appreciate it. >> you're welcome. >> trace: and of course, tune in tomorrow for the kavanaugh senate hearings with the supreme court nominee and their accusers set to tell their stories. we'll begin at 9:00 a.m. eastern

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senate judiciary committing meeting tomorrow. >> the senate republicans have brought in a prizefighter that has done this for a living. asks sensitive questions every day of sexual assault victims and those that commit these crimes. rachel is chief of the sex crimes division. she's done this job nor 26 years. she's nationally recognized expert in this field. last night i spoke to one of hers colleagues. called her a prosecutor's prosecutor. a registered republican, but apolitical in the legal arena, an advocate for victims and unphased by notoriety. moments ago, we spoke to an adversary, a democrat. individual tracy westerhousen. she's been up against mitchell for 20 cases over 30 years. >> my expectation of rachel -- again, i'm speculating because i have not talked to her about

this -- is she wants to find out the truth. she wants to find out the truth in her routine cases. i can't believe her mission will change in this extraordinary situation. >> so while democrats have criticized republicans for using an outside counsel, senator grassley says this is the best way to get at the truth, if you will. westerhausen says mitchell is not aggressive, pointed and poised. democrats will have their opportunity as well. >> trace: do we have an idea how this will go down? >> yes. we'll have opening statements from senator grassley and feinstein. then maybe arguments, maybe to postpone it altogether. then you have dr. ford and then you'll have the prosecutor, rachel mitchell taking the place of republican senators for their five-minute allotment and then the democrat will go for five minutes and back and forth. each time mitchell will speak on

behalf of the republicans and then the democrats and then you have different senators former prosecutors as well. >> any word that the senators might jump in there and say hey, you might want to say something? >> i understand that they have that opportunity. >> trace: thank you, william. yeah, ahead we'll have a look at the lawmakers that could make or break kavanaugh's confirmation. we'll show you who could be on the fence and the ones to watch. that's next. ♪ this is loma linda, a place with one of the highest life expectancies in the country. you see so many people walking around here in their hundreds. so how do you stay financially well for all those extra years? well, you have to start planning as early as possible. we all need to plan, for 18 years or more, of retirement. i don't have a whole lot saved up, but i'm working on it now. i will do whatever i need to do. ♪

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to work through the weekend. so a floor vote could happen next week. whether or not kavanaugh has the votes, that's an entirely different story. peter doocy is live with more. peter? >> trace, there might be a lot more undecided republicans than anybody realized because a few minutes ago, one of the undecided republicans, senator bob corker, said it could be a big swing in the vote total. >> i'd say half of our caucus is going to be watching the hearings tomorrow and making their own determinations. so whatever you want to call me listening to all the information and announcing what i'm going to do, you can label it how you wish. but that's just the way i go about doing my business. >> so a lot can change because right now there's just six that are officially undecided, including corker. senator jerry moran from kansas,

lisa murkowski, jeff flake from arizona who just addressed his villanova. >> i have to listen to the testimony before i make up my mind about the testimony. what i do know is that i don't believe that dr. ford is part of some vast conspiracy from start to finish to smear judge kavanaugh, as has been alleged by some on the right. i know that i don't believe that judge kavanaugh is some kind of serial sexual predator. >> it's possible that whether flake likes what he hears tomorrow or doesn't, he might be one of the first ones in a senate that has to vote on kavanaugh to advance his nomination because flake is on the judiciary committee. trace? >> peter, what are you hearing from democrats? >> some of the democrats that are trying to win re-election in states that. trump won still have not made up their mind like senator joe

manchin from west virginia. >> as i've said before and i'll continue to repeat it, the woman of women that desire to be heard need to be heard. he needs to have a chance to clear his name. that's about as clean as i can make it. it's just the fairness of it. >> others like john tester, heidi heitkamp and joe donnelly facing tough re-election bids and waiting long before they announce their decision on kavanaugh. trace? >> trace: thanks, peter. we're waiting to hear from president trump as he meets with british prime minister theresa may on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly. we'll so if he says anything about his supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh. and the kavanaugh hearing not the only major event in our nation's capitol we'll be monitoring tomorrow. rod rosenstein expected to meet

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>> trace: and there's breaking news. president trump and british prime minister theresa may meeting now in new york on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly. let's watch. >> every meeting became better and better. i will say that we're talking about a lot of different things today. trade, military, security, protection, all sorts of things. we have a myriad of things to talk about. i just want to say it's great to be with you and great to have you as a friend. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, mr. president. thank you, donald. great to be here. looking forward to the discussion we'll have on quite a variety of topics. the relationship between the u.k. and the u.s. is a special one.

there's much for us to talk about if we go forward together, particularly obviously the ambitious and wide-ranging trade deals that we want to do between the u.k. and the u.s. and also security partnership and defense partnership and the many challenges that we're facing around the world and how we can cooperate. >> we'll talk about it and come up with solutions and answers. thanks very much, everybody. >> thank you, everyone. >> see you at the press conference at 5:00. >> trace: you can see normally the president will address a couple questions. he's holding his first conference in 587 days. so he's going to think wait for the questions till then. let's get to kristina partsinevelos with more on what is happening there at the u.n.

kristina? >> you're seeing the prime minister of the u.k. mentioning trade. that will be a major topic for her meeting with president trump. brexit and trade. earlier today, theresa may did speak at the united nations general assembly. she sold post brexit to the rest of the world saying britain will be a pro business country. listen to her comment. >> we will still be neighbors, we will still be part of the european family of nations and we will continue to company the same beliefs. freedom, democracy and the rule of law and underpinned by a world-based global order. >> the reason why i'm choosing the worlds that way, very recently you had european leaders that rejected theresa may's post brexit plans so she's having a tough time now trying to get brexit off the ground. it's expected to happen march of 2019. >> trace: the fox business network's kristina partsinevelos. thanks very much.

she's there in east manhattan. let's bring in jeff mason from reuters. i should note that i said 587 days. that's the official timeline for the press conference for the president. he's had informal press conferences. he's talking all the time. this is the big formal one tonight at 5:00 p.m. eastern. we'll cover that. what do you make of this? the british prime minister said the u.s. and the u.k. have a special relationship. it's been very bumpy in the past, but now it seems like look, i trust this guy. >> well, they had a little bumpy relationship or at least a bumpy moment when the president went to britain this summer. visited the prime minister at checkers but the night before he did that, he gave an interview in which she praised somebody that could be considered a rival of hers and had to walk that

back the next day. the relationship between the united states and britain has been that special relationship and even with a few bumps in the road, theresa may values that with president trump as other prime ministers have had. i think you're right to note that there's been other ones, you know, and even larger ones it's worth noting. in europe on that trip i just referred to, he took a lot of questions there, too. >> he did. the president coming out today and took a good swipe at china. is this all over the tariffs? seems like we were talking about president xi at mar-a-largo not long ago and they were thick as thieves. they got along well. now it seems like he's taking a few more swipes recently at china. what do you make of this? >> i thought it was notable when he took that swipe against china and said china is trying to meddle in the mid-term elections already. he did not praise president xi.

he usually does. even when he criticized beijing and criticizes china broadly for not treating the united states fairly, he always adds the caveat that he likes president xi and has a good relationship with him. he didn't do that today. so it seemed like a bit of an escalation. >> trace: i want to jump in. john roberts said at the end of his life shot, he said the president did say that he said something to the effect of president xi is a remarkable guy. so you're right. as a rule, he always prices xi throughout. the end, he added something, like, president xi is a remarkable guy. but it seems like there is this kind of bubbling up of tensions between the president and china in just the past really two, 2 1/2 months. >> yeah. absolutely. glad you noted that. i didn't hear that. but yes, the fact that he used his opportunity as the united states chair of the security council today to really go after china with one of the chinese officials sitting across the

room from him was significant. it's also significant because that very direct accusation that he made is exactly what others have been wanting him to do about russia with regard to meddling in the 2016 election, which many critics believe he's not done. >> normally it's all about the united nations this time of the year. boy, now we're talking about judge kavanaugh, we have a lot of things going on. rod rosenstein tomorrow. what do you make of the latest accuser? i know you read the allegations against judge kavanaugh from this latest accuser. these are just horrific allegations. it's hard to square with what we've heard about the kind of guy from these women that he was in high school and college, very hard to square lines of men waiting to date rape women in parties. >> it's -- i'm not in a position to judge that or the evidence that is being presented. the white house is -- been put in a difficult position by this. the lawmakers that are holding

the hearings tomorrow as well, it's created quite a bit of uncertainty over judge kavanaugh's candidacy for the supreme court. it's exactly the opposite of where the white house hoped this would be going in terms of a really solid candidate, somebody that came across as somebody with a lot of experience, with a lot of integrity and intellect. now having all of these allegations being brought up. >> trace: and the judiciary chairman, chuck grassley says this is going forward at 10:00 a.m. from now until then, it's washington, things move at a very quick pace. it's a long time until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. >> it is. >> trace: pressure is mounting. >> it is. a lot can happen in a few short hours. of course, the president giving his press conference at 5:00. he's been weighing in about the brett kavanaugh issue throughout his time here in new york. i'm sure he will weigh-in again tonight during that press conference and we'll see if he's

very critical of the alleged victims. if he's started to be in the last few days or if he tries to stand back a little bit. >> trace: i want to get your take on the format of this, jeff. the democrats are clearly not happy with the way this whole thing is laying out. the republicans have said, look, they're bringing in someone who specializes in sex crimes. she knows more about this than they do. what do you think of the way this is set to evolve tomorrow? >> it's hard not to think the republicans have made the choice of bringing in this prosecutor at least partially because she's a woman. and because they want not only -- not only because of that, also they want her expertise and they were uncomfortable with the visual of a bunch of republican men challenging or cross examining this alleged victim. so that certainly is part of the optics here. that said, the person that they are bringing in has a lot of

expertise and will be asking questions both of dr. ford and of judge kavanaugh. so it's -- they're being treated equally in that sense. there's definitely an aspect of optics that was part of that decision, i think. >> trace: fascinating to see how it comes down on the democrat's side. they already said they're not going vote for him. so everybody on the senate judiciary committee has said we're not voting for this guy. so what has become on their side? are they looking for answers, do you through? >> i can't speak for either side. i know that some of the other senators that you quoted on the program today who may not be part of that committee but are watching because they will be asked to vote as well. they're certainly looking for answers. they have that opportunity tomorrow, whether they judge beforehand or afterwards is i guess up to the individual consciouses of each of those senators who have to make those

decisions. >> trace: we have a couple people that have said on this network, they know the president, they think they can read his body language. what do you think happens tomorrow to deputy attorney general rod rosenstein? in or out? >> it's the million dollar question. i don't have the answer. i asked the president about that earlier this week. he was surprisingly circumspect. he said i'll be meeting with rod rosenstein. we talked today. we want transparency. it's clearly something that he's upset about. he could have had his chief of staff fire this deputy attorney general earlier this week. that's not what happened. i think it's -- i hate to say 50/50 but could go either way. >> trace: yeah. 50/50 is a good response. jeff mason, white how correspondent for reuters. thanks very much. >> thanks for having me. >> trace: meantime, the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein should find out his fate tomorrow when the president returns to d.c.

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electric cars are more fun to drive and more affordable than ever. electric cars are here. plug into the present. >> trace: a group of house republicans calling for rod rosenstein to testify after "the new york times" reported rod rosenstein secretly discussed recording the president. rosenstein has called the report incorrect. he's set to meet with the president tomorrow. the question is, will he have a job when it's over? rosenstein oversees the special russia investigation. some lawmakers are worried what will happen in rosenstein leaves. catherine herridge live in washington. paul ryan talked about this today. >> trace, good afternoon. earlier today, the speaker of the house, paul ryan said he would leave the fate of rod

rosenstein to the president saying house republicans should stay out of the dispute for now. >> the president should have political appointees that he has faith and confidence in. he's meeting with the president tomorrow. we shouldn't stop in the way of that. we should let the president work it out with rod rosenstein. i hope they have a good productive conversation. that's helpful. >> members of the house freedom caucus, the republicans want rosenstein to testify this week before the recess about allegations that he discussed recording the president and invoking the 25th amendment to remove him after the president fired fbi director james comey in may of 2016. rosenstein denies the allegations with his comments described to fox news as sarcastic. >> it's about restoring trust. what we do know is there's a number of documents that indicate that there are real problems at the fbi and doj. and to find out that rod rosenstein was communicating these kinds of things whether or

not he was joking, you don't do that. it emblematic of the problems that we know exist. >> congressman mark meadows was on the hill earlier today. he told fox news that they wouldn't allow the speaker to punt to the white house and they would have an answer by the end of the day today, trace. >> trace: what are you learning about tomorrow's meet something. >> the white house meeting is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. the white house is not saying who will attend. they did confirm that rosenstein and the president talked about the allegations and decided a conversation in person was the best way to finish the conversation. the chairman of the commission bob goodlatte is drafting subpoenas that contain the rosenstein allegations that i were drafted by andrew mccabe on the right who was fired for lying to federal investigators ant a media record concerning the clinton foundation just

before the presidential election. today jim jordan said he thought the two camps might might and find a way forward together. some republicans want to force a vote impeaching rosenstein defying the speaker and democrats have spoke consistently with a single voice. they have warned about firing rosenstein citing the need to protect the special council investigation, trace. >> trace: as you say, there's a lot on the line here. talk us through what the white house has to consider before making this decision and whether he stays or goes. >> many people have counselled the president not to fire the deputy attorney general. they say that the fall-out would be consider and one aide pointed to the fact in a discussion about how the absent secure forum in the summer, rosenstein was hailed as a hero with a standing ovation and that they feared he would be a poster boy for the resistance and the democratic party. another factor to consider is that the president and those

close to him have been straightforward about the fact that they have regrets they didn't fire james comey as soon as he took office and that this was a decision he would come to regret for obvious reasons because of the fallout of that decision in may of 2017. i would urge people to consider that there may in fact be a third option here, that there's a meeting of the minds between the president and the deputy attorney general that he will call it a day in that position, but it will be some time in the future that mutually agreed by both parties and it could well be after the mid-term elections, trace. >> trace: catherine herridge live in d.c. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> trace: well, there was once a time democrats would have had the chance to stop supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh without any republican help. that all changed in 2013 when the senate majority leader, harry reid, went nuclear. that story is coming up.

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>> just five years ago democrats may have had a shot of keeping kavanaugh off the supreme court but that didn't happen because of the nuclear option. chad pergram explains. >> in order to understand what might happen with brett kavanaugh, you have to turn back the clock. first, november 2013 and the spring of last year. in november 2013, then senate majority leader harry reid grew frustrated with repeated filibusters from republicans on lower court and executive branch nominees. so after much consternation, reed lit the fuse on what is known as the nuclear option. back then it took 60 votes to break a filibuster on all nominations and changing the

senate rules requires a procedural vote of 67 yays. a rules change was out of the question. there was another way to lower the bar. establishing a new precedent. >> there's only 44 standing rules of the senate and tens of thousands of precedents. standing rules are the bare skeleton of senate procedure. the rules of the road are givened by interpretations of those rules by precedent. >> via fancy fin nagling, harry reid didn't change the rules. he instituted a new precedent for breaking filibusters on all nominations except the supreme court. >> under the precedent set by the senate today, november 21, 2013, the threshold for cloture of nominations is now a majority. >> that was the nuclear option. reed's decision incensed republicans then in the

minority. there was fallout. nuclear winter froze the senate. there's few things more sacred in the senate than the filibuster. >> unlimited debate is the soul of the senate. people are critical of the filibuster. the filibuster gives the minority their only protection anywhere in the three branches of the government. over the years, the majority has restrained from squashing filibusters. while restraint went out the window in 2013. >> any kid on the school yard will tell you pay backs are hell. so when facing a possible filibuster of neil gorsuch last year, republicans returned fire. this was the second nuclear option. mitch mcconnell established a new precedent for supreme court nominees dropping the threshold to overcome filibusters to a simple majority of 51 as well. democrats may rage about

kavanaugh, but harry reid opened the pandora's box and many regret it. on capitol hill, chad pergram, fox news. >> trace: under the tentative calendar, we would expect that vote to end debate sometime monday with a full senate vote no earlier than tuesday. well, meantime, the federal reserve reported this afternoon that it would hike interest rates by 1/4 percentage point saying the economy is strong enough to handle it. stocks up after the announcement but falling back down now. hillary vaughn is here with more on that. >> the fed predicting that the economy is going to grow even faster than they expected. they're predicting that unemployment is actually going to drop to 3.7% by the end of 2018. now this interest rate hike is going to affect consumers differently. if you're in debt, it's going to be more expensive. if you're saving, it's going to be a little more rewarding. so if you have credit card debt or adjustment mortgages, you'll

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