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warding off threatening iran. >> the chaos, death and destruction, and they do not respect their neighbors or bo borders or the sovereign rights of nations. instead, iran's leaders plunder ed the nation's resources to enrich themselves and to spread mayhem across the middle east and far beyond. self-defense, brett kavanaugh is breaking all precedence by proclaiming his innocence on tv with his wife by his side. >> and the truth is that i have never sexually assaulted anyone in high school or otherwise, and i oom not -- i'm not going anyw >> and the republicans are closing ranks to vow to confirm him before a single question is asked. >> the weaponization of unsubstantiated smears, and that

is what we have here, the weaponization of unsubstantiated smears smears. good afternoon. i'm andrea mitchell in new york, and before we get to the president's big speech at the u.n. today, a split screen domestic and powerful threats of scandal and confirmation battles alternating with the u.n. policy. and geoff bennett is our correspondent over there, and president trump making comments that one of brett kavanaugh's accusers, and we are joined by geoff bennett. >> yes, and he was in a bite lau -- bilateral meeting, and then he was asked about charges of ms. ford and ms. ramirez.

and he said that ms. ramirez was e inebriate and might be him or not be him, and so i believe that we have sound of that. >> and so, geoff -- >> and she comes up, and she says it may not be him, and there were gaps, and totally inebriated and she was all messed up. and she doesn't know if it is him, but it might have been him, and oh, gee, let's not make him a supreme court judge because of this. and this is a congame being played by the democrats. >> wow. i mean, geoff, the president has been for four days very careful to not go after the first accuser,, dr. ford, and now it is escalating as the accuser s a accusers are coming forward with the stories from back then that sometimes are confusing and still have to be corroborated in some case, but going into a confirmation battle like this,

this is an unusual stance to take, and especially on a world stage and say, i am here at the united nation, and i don't have to answer that. >> andrea, you are exactly ri t right, and it is articulate and choreographed strategy best telegraphed by the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who spoke on the senate floor, and he attack ed the process an the democrats and not to a accuser, but president trump is taking a page out of his own playbook and he has discredited the women who have brought allegations against him when he was running for office and taking that page and deploying it against the women against brett kavanaugh, and so he is digging in, and discrediting them. and what accounts for that? the republicans believe if he acquits him quite well, they could actually still confirm him, and as we know, the supreme court is an existential choice of donald trump. and those who have had

misgivings of donald trump the man, the one thing that keeps the coalition behind him is the donald trump having a light leaning on the court, and if he can't do that, he has a huge problem in november and perhap s in 2020 and that is what is oaccounting for the major p.r. battle to keep this nomination, this confirmation process on the rails, andrea. >> geoff bennett, we will have to see how this plays out, because it may backfire against the president. thank you, and of course, the generals a s assembly as presid trump directed the fire and fury at iran. and he also promised more crippling sanctions against the regime. >> we cannot have the world's largest sponsor of r terrorism to possess the planet's most dangerous weapons. and also not weapons that can

threaten america or threaten israel with annihilation, and to deliver a nuclear warhead to any city on earth. just can't do it. >> and in the 35 minute speech that started with a boast of america's wealth and unusual tone to say the least in the front of this world body, and listening to the response. >> my administration has accomplished morep that almost any administration in the history of our country. america's -- so true. i did not expect that reaction, but it is okay. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> and that is the applause when it was finished, but joining me now is msnbc national correspondent peter alex sander and msnbc national are reporter

car carol. and peter last year it was rocketman and going after north korea, and this year, making great progress and honorable, and he wants a second summit very, very soon, and iran, and always been on the enemy's list, and now, oh, boy, they have withdrawn from the nuclear deal, and you talk about a missile that can carry nukes, iran does not have nuclear weapon, and north korea does, and they have not yet can dismantled them, and iran according to the u.n. and the inspectors abiding by the nuclear deal instead of breaking out of them once the u.s. abrogated. >> yes, and as the man in the commercial of the men's warehouse said, what a difference a dayic mas, and this is what a difference a year makes. the fire and fury and the president came up with that pretty good, but this year, it was what he feigned as the

successes with north korea and saying that kim jong-un has shown courage and thanking him n for the signs of progress being made, there and he said that there have not been my more missile missiles or rockets fired, but the bottom line is that we know that based on all of the intelligence information that they are continuing with the nuclear program. and so on iran, that is the focus this time around, and saying that the world community needs to isolate iran right now, and effectively saying that this is a priority that the world needs to revolve around and using the same tact that he thought would succeed a year ago, and rouhani said that he would not meet with the president, and the president said that he would not meet with rouha rouhani. >> and he is not going to meet with justin trudeau, because he and europe have a gulf between them as well as canada and the trade, and also, the p.m. of

canada is up set about the land deal, because they are not going to be able to trade with iran and take the oil. >> right. if you are taking all of the issues and the confrontations that the president has with the allies, and the speech was outlining the america first policy. and you know, taking aim at all kinds of things that america a traditionally engaged in, whether it is, you know, going to review the foreign aid, and not only that, but he said that they will tie it to whether or not countries respect and like us. and so he is looking at that, and a lot of talk of ounfairness, and whether it is the opec or trade and the icc and peacekeeping. >> and international criminal cou court. and now, tying aid to countries that are friends is a complete misunderstanding of what the whole purpose of foreign aid is, because it is the aid for countries that are in the midst

of migration and survival. >> it is nott for the aid of its own interests, and insecurity, and not whether or not somebody is nice to us, and you know, what we have seen is that this president is willing to the tie that to aid, and particularly with the palestinians for instance. >> and to that point, you have spent so much time in that part of the world. cutting off all of to u.n. palestinian refugee aids and the new caps that are being propose and the deepest since the program was started in 1980 against the advice of secretary mattis and reigning u.n. ambassador nikki haley, because they don't believe it is in our security interests. and this is an aggressive speech, and parn thett cli he had -- parenthetically, he wanted to have a throw theaway line where he talked about venezuela,

and the coupe? >> well, he goes item by item how other countries should do and other countries should lower their oil prices, and a regime change in venezuela and how you should like the united states if you like our money, and it is ironic, because he makes a big deal about the sovereignty and the state's rights and then go to lecture the other countries about how they should go about their the own internal affair, but you are right about the refugee issue, and what is missing is the theme of human right rights that so many people are expecting at the the world stage, and speaking to the the secretary general at amnesty international, and one of the controversial issues of withdrawing from the human rights council has, itself, created a breakdown on the international organizational level in a place like human rights. so people look at american leadership on the world stage on

a thee mmatic level, and this y, it is all about america first, and that is is why it is alienating a lot of the allies. >> we have the leave it here, and we have to have all of us to understand it better is joined by richard haass who is author of "america in disarray, the american foreign policy and the crisis of the world order." and your book, and how prescient it was when you first wrote it. richard, we are seeing the destruction of the old order. >> absolutely, and almost akin to the health care experience in the country. and with are seeing more of the destruction of the order rather than the replacement with something else. what we have heard from the president today is quite interesting. essentially saying that america first is what we have a adopted and we suggest to you, that if you are india, you should be d india first, and if you are israel, israel first, and it is a real rebalancing a wway from e internationalism, and into the

direction of the extreme nationalism. >> and the other point here is also what he said at a meeting with the colombian leader where he talked about iran. they have a policy, and idea which they have been trying to talk about it to the state department of having new negotiations with iran on the missiles and the support of the hezbollah and hamas, and propping up the assad are regime. and talking about the possibility of future discussions with iran. >> at some point they want to negotiate, and i have said no so far. at some point we will have the discussions, and probably do a deal. i don't see how it works otherwi otherwise. because, otherwise, they are going to be in the worst economic trouble of any country anywhere in the world. >> but this is what president rouhani said to lester holt yesterday in his exclusive interview. >> translator: there is no such

program for a meeting. mr. trump did not create conditions necessarily to bring about the atmosphere conducive to a meeting. >> so where do we stand at this hour on this day in a speech which is not interrupted by applause except for one, and it was laughter when he was boasting about america's achievements under him. >> and in the large stance we are juxtaposed against the world. america first is a narrow approach to the internationalism, and what we can expect is for others to take matters into their own hand, and when it comes to iran, essentially the united states is going to introduce in early november, another wave of sanction, and what we are hoping is that we bludgeon the iranians into accepting limits on among m missile programs that they have opt ed into but now they won't. i am skeptical it is going to

work, but we will see how it plays out. it is one of the countries with with china and venezuela that kale into serious criticism today. >> and no criticism for vladimir putin and the propping up of assad more than iran is on the ground, and control in the air. i want to ask you about your conversation with justin are true dodeau because he is not oe program to meet with president trump. >> and the trade talks are going to continue to go on, hand se here with the foreign minister who is speaking with the u.s. trade representative, and still a couple of big sticking points that became obvious from listening to prime minister trudeau this morning is that the u.s. and mexican and bilateral agreement is by no means a model for the new nafta. and the mexicans for whatever reasons accept certain american

positions that the canadians can not ever accept. so on nafta, it is not in any way in hand, and i hope that i am wrong, but based on what i heard on the council of prime ministers, it is not at hand. >> and we heard from justin trudeaut ta council earli-- tru at the council earlier today. >> mine is not escalating or opining or weighing in, but it is very simple my job to, defend canada's interests. and having a constructive relationship with the president, with the united states administration while choosing to not escalate or respond in kind is something that we need to do.

>> and so, this is a bu i si ti -- busy time of the year, but the zus more isolated with the cuts in the foreign aid, and dropping out of the relief programs for the palestinians, and the process to speed of and the peace plan and yet, this is quite a moment. >> yes, it is quite a moment, and it is a radical turn, and what makes so it odd is that you would have thought that by listening to the the president that the last 70 years have been awful for the united states, and we needed a wholesale change, and sit is a tone that we have been ripped off and we won't take it anymore like the character howard beal in the movie "network." nand the last 70 years, andrea, we have done well in temperatures of the prosperity, and democracy and security. and that is the part that does not add up. >> richard haass, as always, a pleasure, and thank you for joining us from the council on

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i think that it is a wonderful human being. i think that it is horrible what the democrats have dope. it is a con game. they are conartists, and they are trying to convince, and you

know, they don't believe it themselves, okay. they know that he is a high quality person. they don't believe it it. and it is resist and obstruct. they are playing a con game and they play it very well and they play it much better than the republicans. >> and the president on the attack moments ago, and again, defending his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. last night, a defiant kavanaugh went for an unprecedented public event trying to get ahead of his appearance thursday. >> i did not have sexual intercourse in high school or for many years thereafter, and the girls from the schools that i went to, and i were friends -- >> and after all of these years in question, you are saying that you were a virgin? >> that is correct. >> never had sexual intercourse with anyone in high school? >> correct. >> and the years in high school since we are probing into your college.

>> many years after, andly leave it at that. many years after. >> and kristen welker at the white house, and kasie hunt at capitol hill, and -- let me say that he is not accused of having sexual intercourse can, but sexual misconduct and attempted rape. and kasie, where you are covering this, i understand that lisa murkowski has been in a scrum with reporters and asked about debra ramirez who had an account of a sexual activity that he exposed himself at college at age 18 and living as an adult, and if she should have an opportunity to testify. and will you fill us in on that? >> sure, andrea. she was asked about that, and she said that she thought like dr. ford it should be up to the ms. ramirez, and if she does

want to come forward, she should be allowed to testify, and that is really the standard of the undecided senators have set for their own leadership. right now, mitch mcconnell does not have the votes. he has 48 republican senators who are more confused about this which is coming with ms. ramirez which many believe are thinner than those brought by dr. ford, and not strongly corroborated, but he still does not know where jeff flake, and susan murkowski and susan collins is going to do. that is the key, and as you know, these hearings can take unpredictable outcomes, and turns. but when you go into the big public hearing you will know what is going to happen on the

other side of it, but that is obviously not the case here. there are some questions about how the republicans felt about how brett kavanaugh presented himself in the fox news interview which is a little bit viewed as a trial run, and the question questions of why there is no investigation additional investigation are also kind of bubbling up here, and lisa murkowski was asked about that earlier in the day, and she said, well, the fbi, and the reporter said to her, would the fbi investigating help this, and she said it would certainly clear up some questions, now, wouldn't it? the tone is sarcastic, but it is fluid and unpredictable situation up here, and we won't are have the answer until we actually have the hearing unfold thursday. >> and kristen welker, the escalation of the president's rhetoric not just against the democrats, but to go after debra ramirez at the u.n. bilateral

where he could have ducked the question, and he is ready to boil over on this. >> his tone, andrea, it has been stunning today, and he was asked by our own monica al ba who is serving as a pool reporter to all of the network reporters today asked if the second accuser debra ramirez should testify, and president trump said, she has nothing a. and this is a stunning statement for him to make, particularly ahead of all of the facts being known, and particularly given that his own press secretary earlier in the day said she would be open to having her testify on capitol hill. and so not only mixed message ing coming from the administration, but you are seeing the president really ramp up and dig in, and we started to see this last week when he took direct aim and dr. ford he indicated that she was not tell ing the truth which is

continuing into the week, and putting it into the broader frame wok that it is all political and i expect it to continue, and by the way, andrea, it is not just the president, because there is a similar tone from the advisers including kellyanne conway and she said it is important to hear from dr. ford and now she is saying that it is increasingly beginning to feel like a right wing conspiracy. >> and so, the accuser is going to be questioned not by the republican senators, but by someone who her lawyer is complaining they don't know who this woman is and the prosecutor, and supposedly a experienced sex crimes' attorney, and is that is going to make it look more like a trial? and last night, brett kavanaugh was denying that he was a heavy drinker in high school. >> i never did any such thing.

never did any such thing. the other people alleged to be there don't recall any such thing. if such a thing had happened, it would have been the talk of the campus, and yes, there were parties, and yes, the drinking age was 18, and yes, there were beer there, and yes, people had too many beers on occasion, and in high school, i am sure that many of us have done things in high school that we look back and cringe a little bit, but that is not what we are talking about. >> that is in sharp contrast from his roommate at yale who wrote that although brett was normally reserved, he is a notable heavy drinker even by the standards of the time, and he was aggressive and belligerent when he was drunk. did not witness this event in question, but i do remember brett drinking excessively and becoming incoherently drunk.

and so i have lit it up a lot there, margaret. haven't i? >> well, the interview did not help kavanaugh even though it was on the official white house tv station. what he paints about his high school years is not just about the roommate, but anybody who was at his school at this time, and going to the parties. so he may have gone too far in describing those years. i had a flashback to the clinton interview of "60 minutes" and seeing ms. kavanaugh, and sitting by her man. >> yes, so did i. >> and kavanaugh answering questions that are not asked and saying that he was a virgin, and it is essentially was asked, but he offered it. it is like clinton offering

something that was not germain and i did not have sex with that moment. and that is not what is at issue, but it is the sexual conduct with a woman. and another point which is lost in all of this is that kavanaugh was at the center of the starr investigation, and he asked of monica and not just clinton, but the most intimate and intrusive question, and he said it would have been abhorrent to do otherwise and his duty and then published it all. i am thinking of the hearing thursday where the senators should man-up. they should do the interview and it is highly unusual to bring in an outside lawyer to conduct their part of the hearing, and with what we are getting without an fbi interview which should have been asked for by the white house, and which kavanaugh should want if he is so innocent is that we will get he said' she said without any movement beyond, that and he is the powerful person prepped by the

white house for hours and upon hour hours, and she is the not powerful woman said. so it is a stalemate. and that is exactly, i am afraid what the republicans want, because they think that they can push it through or as mcconnell said plow on through. >> well, it is going to be a disturbing and challenging day and emotional on a lot of levels indeed. thank you so much, margaret. and of course, kristen welker, and of course kasie hunt on capitol hill, and running around the hill to chase all of this. and decision day, and will rob rosenstein learn his fate thursday with the president? i'm ray and i quit smoking with chantix. i tried to quit smoking for years on my own.

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i am meeting with rod rosenstein thursday, and i'm busy with other things today as you can tell. >> and rod rosenstein says he is

not quitting. and joining us is a msnbc political analyst, and he says it is extraordinary that today i am doing other thing, and he goes into the bilateral with the colombian leader, and goes into questions about debbie ramirez, and he can do multiple things? >> well, the president can do multiple things at many time, and no question that he is thinking of rod rosenstein and preparing for the meeting on thursd thursday, and the question is whether he is going to plan to fire hum or force him to resign and accept the political backlash, because it is not that he is just the deputy attorney general, but also running the russian investigation, and key to what may happen. >> and he can be compromised and pointed out by a couple of

lawyers where if he gets into a meeting where he is forcing him to be a witness in a potential obstruction case by demanding loyalty, then rod rosenstein cannot remain in the investigation, because he is compromised. >> yes, and many are saying that he is already compromised because of a memo that he was criticizing comey for the handling of the hillary clinton e-mail case in the election context, and some people said that rod rosenstein already has been part of the obstruction case, and witness to the obstruction case. he has not seen it that way. he says that he can fairly run the russian investigation despite his involvement with that memo, but you are right, if the president were to bring him in thursday and the conversation were to take a turn where it is about personal loyalty to him, and if his condition on the continuing the job is such that it makes rosenstein's position

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identify the person, to soo see what the background is and have a meeting. >> when the senators are question i questioning the witnesses, they have a duty to search for the truth and conduct a inquiry, and beholden to the constituents ultimately, and the lawyers whether they are defense attorneys ort not, they have no such mission. their mission is to win, kill, period. and so that means the if you are my witness on direct, my plan is not to bring out the truth, but to bolster you. if it is on cross-examination and you are not my witness, then it is to destroy you and make you look dumb as a witness. so in that sense, a sex crimes prosecutor is going to be very good at asking the questions, but without the additional mission. and both kavanaugh and the accuser have concerns can about any attorney questioning them, because they are going to be much more destructive than a senator in any case. >> and usually asex crimes

prosecutor, and in most cases is prosecuting a case brought by a woman, and defending a woman victim if you will, and a complete role reversal, and as they argue not appropriate. and i want to bring up a little interesting facts in today's new york times. it is the kavanaugh yearbook with a picture of, and a yearbook page which is horrible and hurtful to the woman it named according to the complaint, and the woman renate appearing 14 times, and the including picture of renate alumni, and it is a reference to the nearby school, and they say that this is were part of the unsubstantiated boasts to it. and she is one of the original signatory group of women of

support, and then she discovered that she had been in fact diminished she feels this way, and treated this way in the yearbook and is quite upset about it. >> we can't look at this evidence as the kind of the evidence that may or may not come in a courtroom case, because this is of course is not a courtroom case, but it is essentially a job interview, and so if this is relevant to the senate's inquiry as to character, that i can ask about it. i'm certain if it is an attorney the or senator asking this, and if this information is substantial to them, they will ask about and he is forced to explain. and of course, the rules are wide open, and continue to follow up on the lead if it is something that they think will generate relevant information. >> and we should point out that georgetown prep had the practice of the students writing their own -- and so he wrote this himself or that is the practice then, but they say it is being misinterpreted in a way.

>> and who is writing that, because i was on the yearbook, and it was scrutinized. >> and they had different rules that you and i went through. thank you, danny. and america first, and the american president pushing the isolationist policies and skipping meetings with the closest ally, and what is going on at the u.n. today? we will have an expert. the daytime, coughing, stuffy head, vaporize your cold, medicine. introducing vicks vapocool drops. to vaporize your sore throat. breathe freely fast with vicks sinex. (man) my congestion's gone. i can breathe again! i can breathe again! oh! (vo) vicks sinex. breathe on. billions of problems. morning breath? garlic breath? stinky breath? there's a therabreath for you. therabreath fresh breath oral rinse instantly fights all types of bad breath and works for 24 hours. so you can... breathe easy. there's therabreath at walmart.

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we will never surrender america's sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable global bureaucracy. america is governed by americans. we reject the ideology of globalism and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism. >> it is a new doctrine and a new world order and white house press secretary sarah sanders just tweeting that the president will hold a press conference tomorrow at 5:00. today, at the u.n., he praised north korean dictator kim jong-un. and alienated many traditional allies like paris. it is a shift in foreign policy

that one expert described as risky. robert kagan, who "the new york times" column titled america first has won, makes that case, that president trump may not enjoy majority support these days but there's good reason to believe his america first approach to the world does. mr. kagan is a senior fellow at the brookings institution and has a new book, america and our imperilled world. it's great to see you. you're posetting that trump did not create this, that it has roots in america and popularity here, if not around the world. >> yes, we're used to an america

it's fearful that the rest of the world has ganged up on us, has pushed us around, invading ourg sovereignty. he's playing to a very deep strain. military might.

the u.n. general assembly, where there's so many countries that are struggling with lack of resources? >> obviously not. in doing so he's breaking with the fundamental compact that america sort of put together after world war ii and which americans have benefited, which is we're going to work with other nations, help other nations to create an international system that is conducive to all values and all prosperity and all security. he is walking away from that. that's why i use the term the jungle growing back. we have seen the return of every nation for itself. the kind of conflicts that we saw before -- you know, world war i and world war ii. he's hastening the day when those conflicts come to us. >> what about whether or not people are friendlier, helping

them? is that the concept of foreign aid? >> there is this idea obviously that he is playing that somehow foreign aid has been a gift we've been giving other countries when, in fact, we've always used foreign aid for our own purposes, to strengthen governments that are friendly to us, to stabilize regions where if they become destabilized, they will be dangerous to us. we've never done foreign aid as charity but always to pursue american interests. >> what about giving putin a complete pass? he criticizes everyone, even america. but not vladimir putin. >> but obviously trump may have his own reasons for being sort of soft on putin, but i think it's also the case that he and putin agree about some things very fundamentally. they both hate and would like to disrupt what most of us refer to as the liberal world order. they both support right wing nationalists in europe. and so i think they have a lot in common in addition to whatever their personal arrangement might be. >> could not be more timely.

the book is the jungle grows back. congratulations on it. it's great to see you. >> thank you so much. and it wasn't all bombast at the u.n. a quick note at our new favorite attendee at the u.n. general assembly. the 3-month-old daughter of a head of state, new zealand prime minister. the prime minister was not only the first woman in more than 30 years to give birth in office, but she became the first world leader to bring an infant to the u.n. her partner shared a photo with the official u.n. i.d. which identifies her as first baby. be sure to keep an eye on this future diplomat in the making. stay with us. we'll be right back. ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once daily pill for psoriatic arthritis. taken with methotrexate or similar medicines, it can reduce joint pain... ...swelling and significantly improve physical function. xeljanz xr can lower your ability

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and in a little more than a half an hour, we're expecting a court to announce the criminal sentencing of bill cosby. and after calling him a sexual violent predator today. keep it right here for all the details. coming up. that does it for us on "andrea mitchell reports." ali velshi is up with a lot more. >> we hadn't even finished the u.n. discussion, it was a great discussion, but in declaring bill cosby a sexually violent predator, the judge accomplishes one thing that he didn't want

the optics of bill cosby walking out of court looking like it was easy. so whatever sentence he gets, he now has to register, he's got a label, even if he travels, bill cosby said, if i travel overnight somewhere, do i have to still register. it's going to be an interesting half an hour. >> we will be watching. good afternoon, i'm ali velshi. it's tuesday, september 25th. let's get smarter. >> i am looking for a fair process. a process where i can defend my integrity, and clear my name. i've never sexually assaulted anyone. not in high school. not ever. i'm not questioning and have not questions that perhaps dr. ford at some point in her life was sexually assaulted by someone, in some place. what i know is i've never sexually assaulted anyone. i know i'm telling the truth. i know my