but he's planning to be in bedminster long before this story broke today.is state of mind matters. the degree to which he's watching cable television at any given moment matters, and the messages he'll get from folks like sean hannity who say this is a trap, don't fire rod rosenstein, i think will also matter. >> and josh, the scenario under which -- by the end of this weekend, this blows back more on jeff sessions. >> yeah, it's totally possible, brian, that we could see that. he's always, i think, been in more jeopardy than rosenstein. we've seen the president's public frustration come out with sessions again and again. he's now at the point of openly mocking the man's speaking habits, his accent and mannerisms, which is extraordinary, going beyond simply saying you don't like the conduct of a cabinet official or you may have made a mistake in hiring him, we're down to protracted personal humiliation. also just how many times rod rosenstein seems to have gotten crossways with the white house and escaped from that situation, it almost is sort of a movie-li

bedminster, new jersey. i have a highlight for you. this got our attention. this happened on nicole's broadcast this afternoon. someone we all know, frank figliuzzi of the fbi was talking in the moment as the story about what this may mean for the time remaining over target for the mueller team. >> i have to tell you, their time is shrinking. they have an even shorter shelf life today because i believe this is going to eventually result in rosenstein's removal, sessions' removal, perhaps even faster than we realized, and that means that mueller's tenure is very limited. >> julia ainsley, we have to remember things are moving fast. that is a viewpoint that many people will hold going into the weekend. >> yeah, that's absolutely right, but i think that robert mueller did something smart here, he actually broke up a lot of pieces of this investigation and put them in attorneys' offices around the country. we know that sdny, eastern district of virginia, these are places where pockets of this investigation already have branched off. michael cohen holds a lot of t

you know, he's going to bedminster this weekend. the last time, if i recall, he was at bedminster a while ago, that was when he wrote a letter saying he was going fire jim comey. so who knows what's going to happen. >> i guess the other question, david, is what impact would rod rosenstein have? >> i think it would be to take action against mueller and what adam schiff talks about is right. it puts pressure on the democrats to try to get republican votes to build a wall to protect the mueller investigation. you know, the republicans have said we obviously don't need it. this suggests quite the opposite. the day is coming when you do need it. let me go back if i might. i want to bring up something. is the president fit. that's not a big deal. we talk about it all the time here. what is different is if you begin to say maybe i'll take a wire and i'd like to go over and talk to general kelly, chief of the white house, i'll talk to sessions and maybe we can get a group to plot the downfall of the president of the united states, that's a

you know, he's going to bedminster this weekend.time, if i recall, he was at bedminster a while ago, that was when he wrote a letter saying he was going to fire jim comey. so, who knows what's going to happen. >> i guess the other question, david, is what impact would firing rod rosenstein have? >> i think it would be to take action against mueller and what adam schiff talks about is right. it puts pressure on the democrats to try to get republican votes to build a legal wall to protect the mueller investigation. you know, the republicans have said we obviously don't need it. this suggests quite the opposite. the day is coming when you do need it. let me go back if i might. i want to clarify something. is the president fit for office? that's not a big deal. we talk about it all the time here. what is different is if you begin to say maybe i'll take a wire and i'd like to go over and talk to general kelly, chief of staff of the white house, i'll talk to sessions and maybe we can get a group to plot the downfall of the president of th

tonight the president is in campaign mode hosting a fund-raiser at his bedminster home for the republican governor's association. jose? >> kelly o'donnell, thank you very much. and now let's turn to jeff bennett at the white house who's been reporting today on the explosive report that rod rosenstein discussed involving the 25th amendment to remove president trump from office last spring. rosenstein says the report is absolutely false. but it's consequences could be significant as he's the man overseeing the special council's russia investigation. right, jeff? >> reporter: that's right. the new york times report could provide the president with a pretext to potentially fire rosenstein and provoke a showdown over the mueller investigation. democrats fear the president would pick a replacement who could derail the russia investigation which the president blasts as a witch hunt. today some of the president's key conservative allies appear to take a cautious approach. the two republican lawmakers who once led a charge to impeach rosenstein this summer, they're now stopping short of calling fo

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 conw

. >> the president is spending the weekend at his golf club in bedminster, new jersey, after a rally last night in missouri. white house correspondent boris sanchez joining us live from nearby berkeley heights, new jersey. boris, rosenstein on his mind? >> reporter: yeah, we're anxiously refreshing our twitter feeds to see if the deputy attorney general still has a job this morning. president trump very liking, he enjoys, i should say, firing people on twitter and tweeting early on weekend mornings. we'll see where he goes with that. it's no secret that president trump is unhappy with his department of justice and talked about that they don't prosecute his political enemies and don't investigate those such as duncan. in part, rosenstein has given free rein to robert mueller to run the russian investigation which as you know the president it calls a witch hunt. this before rosenstein speculating about using the 25th amendment and wiretapping the president. no direct response from the president just yet. he was asked about this on a tarmac yesterday as he arrived for an event in spring

ellison barber is in berkeley heights new jersey near the president's golf club in bedminster where he's spending the weekend. first garrett tenney with high-stake negotiations involving dr. ford. >> sources tell fox news that negotiations about dr. ford potentially testifying went late into the night last night and shortly before deadline dr. ford's attorney requested another day to make a decision. judiciary chairman grassley extended the deadline sometime today, that was done at urging of several gop senators but grassley's patience is wearing thin, late last night he tweeted this, five times we granted if she wants to pursue her desire stated one week ago that she wants to tell senate her story, dr. ford, if you change your mind, say so so we can move on. i want to hear your testimony, come to us or we to you. now, the offer senate republicans made to dr. ford's attorneys was to have wednesday hearing with female attorney asking questions with ford testifying first and judge kavanaugh, but ford's team says she can't make it to dc until thursday at the earliest and they don't want any

he was at his golf course in d bedminster at the time.indication he was getting briefings about the storm. i think this time is different. advisers are trying to get him engaged on this pretty early, and i think the emergency management apparatus in the government is working as hard as they can. but the situation is totally different now. we're dealing with states that have pretty robust infrastructures that have pretty good communication between the federal government and between the states, and i think that is going to go a long way here. but president trump clearly -- he's looking at this in a silo. i think from his perspective, he thinks at the end of the day what he did was fine, but i think a lot of people looking at this situation disagree, and you can see the disagreement in the fact that things are happening a little differently this time around. they're a little bit more ahead of the ball this time around because they want to avoid a bad situation like what happened last year. >> a lot of people who disagree happen to live in pu

jon: ellison barber is in berkeley heights new jersey near president trump's golf club in bedminster where the president is spending the weekend. does the white house ellison view these latest statements from dr. ford's lawyers as significant? >> they don't seem to see them as particularly significant, jon. they also don't seem to think they are being made in good faith, and they do not seem to think this dramatically changes anything from where things stood last night. a senior white house official tells fox news quote this is an ask to continue negotiations without committing to anything. it's a clever way to push off the vote monday without committing to appear wednesday. the president and his administration have consistently supported kavanaugh as the nominee, and they did not waiver when these allegations initially surfaced, but yesterday, the president did take a more direct arguably aggressive approach tweeting that if the attack on dr. ford was as bad as she said, charges would have been immediately filed with local law enforcement authorities. in another tweet he accused dem

he's at his golf club in bedminster after a rally in missouri.nn white house correspondent boris sanchez joining us live from berkeley heights, new jersey. anything from president trump so far on this? >> reporter: not directly. at least not yet. we're watching twitter to see if the president has announcements as far as personnel changes to his department of justice. look, it's no secret that president trump has been angry at the doj publicly. previously some of his grievances include the department of justice not shielding certain republicans from investigations, not prosecuting some of his political enemies, and specifically what the deputy attorney general, the president according to sources, has voiced displeasure about the fact that rod rosenstein has given robert mueller free rein over the russia investigation which, as you know, the president describes as a witch hunt. the president, again, is not directly addressing this. he was asked about it on the tarmac as he was walking to an event in springfield, missouri, yesterday. though at that

ellison barber is joining us from berkeley heights new jersey which is close to bedminster where the president has been spending this weekend. hi, ellison. >> hi, eric. there's been a lot of back and forth about how these comments were allegedly said. sources who were if a meeting or sources who were -- sources who were in a meeting or sources familiar with the meeting, they have not denied these comments were made but they have told fox news and other outlets that the comments were made sarcastically. the new york times is standing by their reporting saying the story is based on months of reporting and the doj claimed that rosenstein was sarcastic when he suggested he would wear a wire on trump is not supported by our reporting. the president has not publicly really gone out and talked about this. we know rosenstein adamantly denies the reporting. but some have speculated that this report could be used to justify firing rosenstein the man who oversees the special counsel russia's investigation. a key republican in the house, says if the allegations are true, it would be reasonable f

ellison barber is in berkeley heights, new jersey, here president trump's golf club in bedminster, where the president is spending the weekend. but we begin with garrett tenney who has the latest from washington. garrett? >> well, arthel, this around attorneys for christine ford once again informed the judiciary committee that she is willing to testify next week. the letter states, quote, dr. ford accepts the committee's request to provide her first-hand knowledge of brett kavanaugh's sexual misconduct next week. although many aspects of the proposal you provided via e-mail on september 21st are fundamental inconsistent with the committee's promise of a fair impartial investigation into her allegations and we are disappointed with the leaks and the bullying that are in the process. ful -- we are hopeful we can reach an agreement on details. particularly the timing of the m the and the format, republicans offered to hold a hearing on wednesday but her attorneys said she couldn't be in d.c. until thursday at the earliest. in essence this letter is repeating what her team has already said w

his way to las vegas, nevada where he will give a speech for veterans affairs before heading to bedminsterou for watching. charles payne, my friend, is here with "making money." charles: good evening, everyone. i don't know if you were under a rock today. the dow and s & p soaring to all-time highs. the dow make its 23 record close since election day. $17 trillion since election day. jobless claims fell to 201,000. that's the lowest level since november 15, 1969. that was my 7th birthday. president trump weighing in on today's huge economic data tweeting financial

for more, let's go to kelly o'donnell near the president's bedminster, new jersey estate. and liza collins, and host of the faqnyc podcast. thank you for being with us this hour. i'm going to start with you on this, kelly. reading through the statement that came through, help us understand what was said and what wasn't there, kelly. >> good to be with you, richard. this is a letter from the legal team helping christine blasey ford through the process to the senate judiciary committee, so it is in the form of a letter. it raises some interesting questions but doesn't move the ball as far as perhaps we thought it did initially. there's a willingness to testify and that is something that in substance they have said for a period of days now, but it is not telling us when, where, under what conditions. that remains to be negotiated. within the letter from the legal team to the committee they reasserted some concerns about fairness, suggesting there's been bullying, that some of the deadlines set have been arbitrary, and putting a lot of pressure on a woman that says she has a l

and i think that how this plays out in the next couple days, especially by himself in bedminster right now, what are we going to see? >> hey, pete williams, do you think rod rosenstein will do one of these offer his resignation and make the president either accept or reject? >> no, i don't think so. i mean, you know, i think the conventional wisdom is that jeff sessions, the attorney general, will not be around after the midterm elections. my guess would be that he chooses to step down himself rather than waiting for the inevitable to happen. and then there's going to be a question by the way about who succeeds him. the law says the deputy attorney general becomes the acting attorney general. but there's another law that says the president can put any presidentially appointed senate-confirmed person in that j job. does this story make it allot less likely for rod rosenstein to succeed as attorney general? perhaps so. >> matt apuzzo, one point you also make in this story is in that weird week where comey was fired, we also had that bizarre incident when the russian delegation was in the

the president is back at the white house after a ten-day stay at the trump national golf club in bedminsternew jersey. trump has now spent more than a quarter of his presidency, more than 180 days, at one of his golf properties. tiger woods doesn't spend that much time at golf clubs. [ laughter ] but after his ten-day break he was back tackling the issues that matter most to the american people, and his first order of business was this. "wacky omarosa who got fired three times on the apprentice now got fired for the last time. she never made it, never will. she begged me for a job. tears in her eyes. i said okay. people in the white house hated her. she was vicious but not smart. i would rarely see her but heard really bad things, nasty to people and would constantly miss meetings and work. when general kelly came on board she told me she was a loser, nothing but problems. i told him to try working it out if possible because she only said great things about me until she got fired." [ cheers and applause ] i mean, imagine how dumb the guy who hired her four times must feel. [ laughter ] wond

over the weekend at two of his favorite haunts his private golf club in bedminster, new jersey and trump tower in manhattan, the president mused about wanting to inject new chum into the news cycle to deflect the spotlight from kavanaugh according to a former official in frequent touch with the white house. >> that's one of the first times that someone has mused chum by the way. >> it's breakfast. >> despite all of that, despite trying to create a new spectacle, paul, it also sounds, if you listen to the president on geraldo's radio show yesterday, that even he does not know what he will reveal and what will happen on thursday. let me play this moment for you. >> will you fire rod rosenstein based on -- >> i don't want to comment on it. i don't want to comment on it until i've gotten all the facts. i haven't gotten all the facts, but certainly it's being looked at in terms of what took place, if anything took place, and i will make a determination sometime later, but i don't have the facts. >> paul. i mean, first of all, the news is the president isn't going to comment until he gets all

in las vegas last week, then he went to missouri, then he spent the weekend at his golf club in bedminsterw york for the first dpu days of this week with all the meetings with the world leaders. john kelly is one of the few people not up there in new york with president trump and instead is back at the white house. we know rod rosenstein and john kelly met on friday. that's when we reported the white house wanted rosenstein to issue a firmer denial after "the new york times" reporting. he did put out a second statement despite saying oermy he wasn't going to comment further. we know they have been having conversations for several days now, since that bombshell story broke. but it's unclear where they stand right now. if they're on two pages or not, and that's what they're hoping to get together once they sit down at the white house, whatever is going to come out of that, they're trying to get on the same page. we're hearing two different things from the white house, from the justice department, but what we do know to be true is that john kelly and rod rosenstein are going to meet. we know