companies and not paying the price. to military ldotection. i number of countries, listen, you're a rich country. we protect you. without protection, you have real problems, you'd have real problems. i said you should reimburse us for protection. why are we ptecting you? you want to know what they said? after about two minutes of talking, they agreed with me. you can ask this group of tle d talented people. they agreed wit me, but they said, one of them said, but mr. president, nob for that.ked us they never asked us for that. nobody's ever said you should pay. theseearey wealthy countries. i mean, to be honest, i just askedjapan. we're defending you, we're a wealthy country, sending us millions of cars, making a fortune, tremendous trade

deficit with you, and we're arfending you, and we're subsidizing mil with a massive amount of money. i said it to south korea. we have ,000 soldiers in south korea. they are very wealthy. these are great countrie wealthcountries. i said, why aren't youg reimburs for our costs? they looked at me, and they can't answer it because there's answer. if they are a poor country and needed protection and people were going t die, i'm all for protecting them. i don't want ten cents, but when wealthy countries that have massive trade surpluses with us, massive, and then top top of that, we're paying for their f military o a lot of their military, that doesn't work. two more. >> mpresident, quickly, mr. president, you said you feel a kinship, you said you feel a kinship with brett kavanaugh -- quickly, a kinship with brett kavanaugh and said you also -- your false allegations you feel like were made against you and

make you feel like you dli't want to e the women. >> why did you say that? did i say that? >> explain what you requestwereg about. >> you do a good job, io watch you, and you do a good job, but i didn't say that. i said i loo forward to watching her. i do want to hear what she says. and maybe she'll say -- i could be convinced of anything. maybe she'll say something but he's one of the highest quality humaings, a tremendous man. a great intellect at yale, a great student in law, and i naheard the , i didn't know him until this thing, but heard the name for ten years, how? everybody was saying he should be on thewhupreme court. is he? brett kavanaugh. and h should be, he's the most

brilliant person and lawyer. they were talkingbout him on the supreme court ten years ago i want to hear what she has to say. >> you feel like there's been numerous false allegations against you. >> oh, i had many false statements against me, and if the press would have reported it, i would have been very happy. i think john would tell you you covered the story where the men were paid to say bad things about me, and hannity covered it. i will tell you when i saw that on hannity, i actually called him. believe it or not, i don spe to him very much, but i respect him, i called him. i said, this is the biggest story. this is a big, big hstory, and agreed with me. next day in the papers, not one word about it. next day, i watchedabc news, nbc, i watched cbs, not cnn, but

xt time i will, i watched everything. there was not one story other than fox. it's a big story. it's a shame. okay. enough, thank you, thank you. go ahead, that's ough, ease. good job. good job. >> mr. president, can i ask a question since i am from the new york times before this i'm actually from the new york times. we misher, our former colleague, but -- >> i don't blame you. i'll let you do it after he does, is >> perfectly well. >> in honor of a paper i once loved. thank you. [ laughter ] decide. >> mr. president, i'm edward with true news. today you met with benjamin netanyahu from israel and brought up you supported two state solutn for the palestinian-israeli crisis there. >> i do. >> do you ha a preview what the great deal, the peace deal -- >> i'd love a deal with israel

and palestine, i was told it was the toughest deal, but isa ee, health care is tougher if you want to know the truth, but it is tough. we're going to take care of that too. that will be taken care of. we've taken care a lotf it, but my whole life, i heard the deal between,u as ow, israel and the palestinians is the toughest deal. every possible thing is tough about that. i think wooelt make a deal. at one of our manygs meet a man i have a lot of respect for and been extremely nice to mepy very h i did the whole thing with jerusalem and theem ssy, which, by the way, we open in four months for less than 500,000, and the budget was over billion dollars, right? >> dwryeah. >> saved a billion dollars, and it's open and beautiful, by the way. jerusalem stone, one of my favorite stones.

i'll tell you the question somebody said today this is the arst news conference i look time. i said, what do you mean? i did five today. every time i aksit. i a lot of questions. one of there rters, but one of the -- it was, but that's okay. don' feel guilty, john, but one of the reporters that was screaming asked about the one state/two state, and i said i think the two state will happen. i think it's difficult because it's a real estate deal b nause youd meets and bounds and carveouts and lots of everything. i's a tougher deal. in another way works better because you have people governing themselves. >> yeah >> so they asked me about that. i said, well, i think the two-state will happen, we'll go down theo- ate road, and i'm glad i got it out, and jared who is so einvolved, loves israel.

he loves israel, but he's also going to be fair with the palestinians a understands it takes two people to be happy. two groups of people to be happy. everhaody's got to be y. that's why it's so tough because there's been so much hatred and anger for so many years. that's the number one ingredient of this, but they asked, think it's a two-state, and you know what i did today? by saying that, i put it out there. and if you asked most of the people in this field, they agree with that, but nobody wanted to say it. it's a big thi to put it out. it's a very being thing to put it out, and bottom line, if they want one state, that's okay with me. if the want two states, that's okay with me, and i'm happy if th are happy. i'm a fa ticilitator. i want to get a deal done so people don't get killed anymore.

in saudi arabia, we had one of the greatest conferences in history, thatchnd a, two of ,he most incredible events i've ever se never seen nigh like it. and we had, i believe, 58 muslim countries, the leads, the kis, th absolute leaders from every -- there was nobody in cond place. they were the leaders of the thing. and unbeknownst to anybody else, people would come up to was not a setup -- they would come up to me and say, sir, you can't have peace in the middle east without pea between the israelis and the palestinianpal. i said, why? what di derence? whs it matter so far? d it's just impossible to make peace in the middle east unless it's between the israelis. i heard that from on the king of saudi arabia, a greatuy,

king solomon, and then somebody else came up, and he was not told, oh, go up and say it. i know where they are coming from, and i must have had 12 leaders say it, and they just said it. i startedze to reahat peace between israel len the palestinians for the middle ea is a very important thing. and we're trying very lard to it. i think probably two-state is more likely, but you know what? if they do asingle, a double, i'm okay with it if they are both ppy. if they are both happy, i'm okay with iereither. think the two state is more likely. >> new york times. >> oh ay. >> thank you, sir. >> i would have got a bad story in the new york timesut i will anyway. it doesn't tter. >> we're thriving not failing these days. >> doing veryll, say thank you, mr. president. >> i'll stop short of that. >> youknow, ally life, i had very few stories, but i had some

on the front page of the "new yotimes," and now i average three or four a day, and they are all negative, no matter what, but you know what, that's okay. i still love the pape ahead. >> i wanted to come back to china because i think what youn ced today was really important. >> i think. talk about this friendship you have with xi, and yet essentially what you did today was accuse the government of interfering in ouraffairs, perverting our democratic process to hurt you, the republican parti -- >> doing it to help them. >> how can a guy who does that your friend? >> i think that we are able to -- and maybee's not anymore. i'll be honest with you. we had a good friendship, a good relationship, we understand each other, and they are doing studies on donald trump trying to figure it out because this has never happened to them before. it's never happ ed. think oit. you covered very well, never

seen this happen. they are having big problems. i don't want them to have make ms, but they have to a feel deal like canada has to make a fair i al. lieve that he and i have a very good chemistry together, eland i can you that about many leaders and can tell you a feel where i don't feel i'll have a chemistry with, and for those people, i have pompeo, bolton, jared, i can go our general, have our general, or if they can't do it, i'll have darah huk bckabee do it, right? very g with prime minister abe, very good with president moon. the way, what president moon last night, you won't report it, but brett interviewed him last night and asked about me. i can't say because you'd say i'm too bragdocious, but what he saidab was an unbeli thing. couldn't have happened without

president trump and never would happen witut president ump, and nobody else could do it. i mean, you'll take a look, but i will tell you, china is very special, very special. they are incredible people and a special country. it started with the wto, a defective deal, and without the wto, i china not china as we know it today and started also by our people that are standing right in this position that are in the oval office, another way of saying it, allowed them o geaway with murder, allowed a lot of countries to get away murder. i think we still probably have a very good relationship, but in honor of you, i will, tomorrow, make a call to him, say,hey, how you doing? okay?d you don't m paying billions of dollars a month in tariffs. >> one follow-up i how would you compare the level of interference you see today from

th chie naenese to what russia in 2016. >> i think it's different. if you look at the "des moines register," they have ads made to look like editorials saying about, oh, you got to stop tr p trump, stom, they are patriots, you know, on a network that doesn't like me very much, which is most of them, but a network that doesn't treat me very good, they interviewed farmers, and they got hurt because china -- they started buying again,s soybere going up, and things are going up, and we had very little hurt from what i've done. in fact, the markets have gone up, and the farmers are going to do great, ultimately, they had farmers, and the guys are amazing. i love them. they voted f me. they love me, and they said, we don't care i we g hurt.

he's doing the right thing. and, you know, a lot of ople, 's a complex game. a lot of people don't know exactly what it is. they don't how to define tariffs or that it is really different than a tax,gh alth it's getting close, but they know for the first time in many, many years they have a president fieging for them t not letting their jobs be taken to other countries. that's not allowing the abuse that we -- i mean, when you look at what happened aspln ex with nafta and for years, because it was never changed, nafta was a defective deal the day it was signed. because they had a vat tax of 17%, and nobody from this country knew that, and by theou time they out, a week later, nobody changed it. you went many years and theyed never chait. there was a vat tax that mexico got. so we were 17 or 16 points behind before we evente st

nafta was a horrible thing. so the farmers and, by the way, the steel workers, you know, i stopped the dumping, the dumping was horrible. and now if they want to dump, that's okay, but they got to pay the united states of america 25% on everything they dump. that's okay. but as i old youbefore, steel is doing phenomenally well, but the farmers say this man's fighting for us. no fresident has ever fough us before, and you really have to study what's happened over the 15 years. the farmers have been decimated over a 15 year periods, decim e decimated. farmers are going to come out great. these are great people. they are great, great patriots. i think we should finish with that one, is that okay? okay. >> you're watching news 4 at 6:00. you're wching news 4 at 6:00, president trump holding the news conference at the u.n., his takingn months,

questions on a variety of topics. are here live at capital one headquarters awaiting the debate for the virginia senate seat, and we're fortunate enough to have with us the moderator of tonight'sdebate, chuck todd, chuck, a lot to unpack here. he seemed like he wasn his almost this afternoon. >> no, he had not done this in a while. he loves it. his staff doesn't like him these things cause, while 80% goes fine, it's the 20% when he makes unintentional ns orays certain things they were not ready for to be public, but this is what he loves to do. he loves to command a press conference because no press conference is easy f politician because you deflect questions you don't like, and yet at the same time look good. that's what he does well. he made a few pieces of news.

rosenstien's jobs safe. he clearly -- the biggest part of the press conference and the redon why he wan to do this, is because he thinks kavanaugh is doing a poor job of defending brett kavanaugh. >> did he help or hurt him? >> ithe eyes of beholder on that one. i think he polarized the situation a little bit. he got -- he probabl got his base more fired up about defending brett kavanaugh which has been an issue. there's not beenxcement about kavanaugh. now that he's under siege in some ways, that's what the president's done, but the problem is not the debate on the supreme court, and, look, tomorrow going to be more than just about politics, even though that may be how everybody reacts to it. there are actual human beings that are going to be testifying and non-political people who are going to be reacti tohat they see and hear. with the backdrop of me too and

backdrop of where we are today, so i don't know politically if he was as helpful as he thinks he was. >> how much damage control is this staff going to have to do tonight and tomorrow from anything that came from this? >> in som ways, there's nothing -- it's -- there'smo -- there's so much that you don't bother, and that's what aually makes this oddly effective for trump. even though it seems like a man hunt, even though seems like he's creatin a public spat with canada that seems to be unnecessary and negotiating in public with north korea, and goern negotiating in public -- some things a do, this is who he is, so in many ways, he is who he ndis, that was trump, that was the trump from the campaign. the trump -- >> the real donald trump. >> we have not seen that because the staff tried to protect the their nt from himself i minds. >> do you think we'll see more of this as the midterms approach? >> i think there is a -- you got

nothing left to lose approach, and the fact of the matter is his base reacts well tohim, and the big missing piece for republicans has been hisntase being the campaign. they are not. i've had a trump strategistsay ther a reason. many voters didn't like ryan or speaker pelosi. trump's the checkup they do not fully care who controls congress, but view it as elitists that are out of in that sense, he has yet to give a reason to come up andpu vote ican. maybe the kavanaugh stuff does it. ,hat's where i have some questions about ut they need the president out there being him. because it fires up base up. >> all right, you have a busyec night aheadse of the debate. we'll let you go. meet the press modetor, chuck todd, and moderator of tonight's debate for virginia senate. i should add as a footnote, both candidates are in the house, one a big trump supportest art, who said he was trump before trump was, i happened to see tim

caine 45 minutes ago asking if heul thought kavanaugh s withdraw and he said the hearings should go forward tomorrow. debate at 7:00 here on nbc 4, back to you in the studio. we have a lot to catch up on on thi very busy wednesday. we'll get to that because we are going to "nightly news" at 6:30. >> that's right. ebat and urs eyes on wha geinack than 4 pp inhag den is au ites, bn ut the weather big topic right now this hour. we have severe weather with amelia. what's it look like now? >> well, i'm tracking some very sthunderstorms moving through areas of montgomery and fredericnties now. the national weather service issuedth a severderstorm watch for about the entire area until11:00 p.m.nd severe thunderstorm warning in montgomery county in effect until 6:45 thisevening, so the

warning here in orange, and the watch for all of the counties here inpink. here's the latest on storm team 4 radarradar. strong thunderstorms passing over 270 right now, our news rtner saying traffic out there is a nightmare because of the weather. here's some impact times for you the g through at 6:32, district at 6:50 to 7:00, and frederic fredericksberg at 7: 10, and waldorf at 7:45 this evening. 64 degrees. we're under the gun until 7:00 cloudy and erwise humid through the evening hours. as we dry out everywhere by 11:00, it's 73 degrees. we are in storm team 4 alert mode because storm have not only heavy rainfall leading to ponding ofs water on rod reducing visibilities, but gusty winds could lead to wind damage out there. future weather intourhe evening

9:00 p.m. with a few areas of rain, heavier rain crossing over the bay at that point, and tomorrow, big changes out there. 6:00 a.m., tracking showers and drizzle, and temperatures in the 6 os tomorrow, in the 60s throughout the day with more rain moving in in the afternoon and evening hours, and i'll have more on tomorrow's forecast and the weekend coming up. >> all right. got it, thank you. >> yeah. now to the breaking big news today, a singur moment i our history. >> on the night before the senate reopens the supreme court confirmation hearings for brett kavanaugh, there's a new accusation made by a woman in the district. >> in a sworn affidavit, she alleges that kavanaugh was present at numerous high school parties where women were targeted for potential gang rape. she alleges she was drugged and gangaped at one of the parties. her statement, however, does not directlyus a kavanaugh of that rape. but her account raises questions

about statements he's madely publnd under oath. blayne alexander has the latest on this ever-unfoldi story. >> the times of the allegations is what are so they came out, really, just hours before we expected to hear fromkaudge naugh's first accuser. now, keep in mind, even though everince this hearing was first scheduled, two other women testify, are willing to speak under oath about their experience, and it seemed all bute inevita they will not get that opportunity. on the eve of a senate judiciary hearing, a third accuser coming forward with the most explosive and detailed allegations yet against supreme court brett kavanaugh. ke says in 1981 or '82, she was aware thatanaugh and others would spike the punch at house rties with drugs and/or grain alcohol so girls lose their inhibitions and ability to say no. she says she saw kavanaugh and a

friend get girls drunk so they could then be gang raped going on to say she was the victim of such an assault and kavanaugh was present. kavanaugh strongly denying all of it writing this is ridiculous and from the twilight zone adding he doesn't even know her. >> there's scores of people supposedly involved over the years. why is it that noneop of those have come forward? >> reporter: today, the president saying he'll watch tomorrow's hearing with an open mind, but sympathizing with ouvanaugh. >> i've been a f person for a long time, but i had a lot of false charges made aga,st me hen i see it, i view it differently than somebody sitting home watching television. >> reporter: she holds active government security clearances told her story i a signed declaration under penalty ofy. perj she's remitted by stormy's attorney who release the the allegations this morning after days of teasing them on twitter. these allegations released just

one dayefore kavanaugh and his first accuser, christine ford, are set to testify before the senate judiciary committee. democrats demanding a delay. the committee says the allegationings are under review, but mo plans to delay frid's committee vote. nb ws, washington. thank you. now we got more breaking news coming in from the ronald hamilton guilty on allharges on the murder of his wife and policefficer ashley, andhe army staff sergeant shot his wife crystal four times in february of 2016, and then fired on prince william county police arriving at the scene, including officer ashley. she was killed on her first day on the job. two other officers were seriously injured that day.nc hamilton's seng begins monday. traffic on indian head highway southbound is movg again after this horrific crash in prince george's county involving a cement truck and two vehicles.

paramedics checked out a woman and two children at the scene appearing to be okay, but two other adults went to the hospal andorthbound indian head highway is closed at this time. bloodshed on benning road, seven people shot since friday on the same street i neighbors say it feel like a war zone. we are right now keeping an eye what's happening there on benning road, a they are set to talk about the outbreak any minu nownd more comments at 11:00. this rash of shootings began o friday. four people were shot outside a liquor store. heraveighbor a life. >> i just went into shock, and i couldn't move, and i didn'ter kw to go, and the young guy put his body over me and took a bullet to the right thigh and main artery. protecting my >>life. on monday, another man was shot and killed outside a convenience store on benng road. and then last night, two men were shot in a restaurant

parking lot. turning now to low cam politics and the virginia senate ce. tim caine squares off with corey stewart. >> the campaign nasty at times, and, of cose, so much reinvolves around president trump who we heard a lot from, and jim handly is where the candidates take the stage tonight,handly? >> reporter: this is their largest audience so far face to face. this is the statewide televised live debate at 7:00. you should know corey stewart has a 19-point deficit and trails in fund raising. i talked to tim caine, senator caine, just moments ago, about an hour ago, asking if he thought brett kavanaugh should step down, withdraw hisname. he said the hearings should go forth tomorrow. likely we'll hear kavanaugh's name tonight. mo assuredly, president trump's name will come up, corey

stewart called himself trump before trump. you can bet the w presidentl be topic one in this debate tonight at 7:00. you can watch it on our nbc washington app. we're live atap theal one headquarters, news 4. y. o reminder because of the debate, there's a change in programming and nbc nightly news with lester ho start

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see what you might save at cvs pharmacy. . breaking news tonight, explosive new allegations against embattled supreme court nominee brett kanaugh. another woman goes public. what she says happened at a house party in the 1980s. kavanaugh saying it's ridiculous and from a twilight zone. president trump standing by his nominee. >> and t a big, fat cjn job and these are all false to me. these are false accusations. >> tonight we have the polygraph test from the first accuser. what it reveals. i theensifying search for a 6-year-old boy missing. he has ate 'twe