and bob has done it and added up from those closest to him to the president a really dramatic narrative that shows us in realtime what has been happening. >> and the vacuum here, if i may say, and i think carl would agree, we never got -- or trump never released his tax returns. you talk to people about following the money. those tax returns are a trail to understanding not just how he made money, how he lost money, what these bankruptcies were about, but who he is. it's a shame and i would be quite frank here. i fault myself for not being more aggressive in trying to get those tax returns. it would be such a window into all kinds of things, not a perfect window, but it would be something that would tell journalists and book authors and the public who this man is. >> but both of you, woodward and bernstein, this is obviously the most leaky white house in recent memory. everything seems to pour out one way or another. do you think that these tax returns could leak out? i mean, they exist. the federal government has them, doesn't it. >> yeah, it's hard. >> one is going to presume that mue

every time bob has written a book about the administration, officials say it is not true, and over the course of history we see that r more often than bob was right, bob was very e-- far m often than not, bob was right, bob was very close to what is going on. he's a very good reporter. jane: kevin sullivan, thank you for joining me. you are watching "bbc world newc amera." still to come, homecoming aftero the or. a yazidi family reunited f q. four years after the atrocities in i recovery efforts have begun in tcoe after typhoon jebi through thtry. thousands of stranded travelers are being transported from kansai international airport, islandn an artificial linked to osaka. reporter: they came to get on the plane. a day later, they were waiting to be rescuedy buses. at kansai international airport, thousands of passengers cute, the luggage by their -- queued, the luggage by their side. andbut submerged in water cut off fr a bridge was damage. the power of the wind shown in full view once the air a ship was torn away. this was the airport at the height of the sto. the runway just visible

so he says that bob has been very fair to him. has tweeted in the past about how bob's reporting was great. to all of a sudden do what i now call a trump 180, which was as he did with saying, oh, nobody ever told me you wanted to interview me. then he says, oh, yeah, lindsey graham did, that's true, that's true. i think that trump is going to punch back because that's what he does. i think as he learns more about the book, it may get more heated. we'll see what those tweets look like at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. but bob woodward has a lot of credibility. he has written major books on eight different presidents, won two pulitzer prizes. he is known for his investigative reporting and his accuracy. >> thank you all. i appreciate it. it was a great conversation. >> thank you. >> i'll see you next time. when we come back, another stunning primary upset tonight. boston's first woman of color to serve on the city council, ayanna pressley. tonight, defeating a ten-term democratic congressman, michael capuano in the race for his own sea

happened inside the room in washington than bob woodward. and no one has more sources than bob woodward. when bob woodward was working on a book about the clinton white house called "the agenda," he came to me because so much of the clinton white house agenda had to pass through the senate finance committee where i was the chief of staff. and i will never forget, bob woodwa woodward's first question to me, with no smalltalk, no beating around the bush, he wanted to know about what happened in a meeting with president clinton and congressional leaders in the cabinet room at the white house. and so his very first question to me was everyone in the cabinet room meeting says that you were taking notes, can i have your notes? if those days there were plenty of reporters who were trying to get me to tell them what happened in the meetings in the white house, in the senate majority leader's office, in the speaker's office. but no one ever asked if he or she could have my notes. bob woodward always goes for the best possible sources and notes are always better tha

statement saying that this is basically fake news and the president's come out and said that bob woodward has a credibility issue he really hasn't ever had a credibility issue and he has said today he stands by his story still the president's taking to twitter we've seen kelly matt is the transformer lawyers come out and flatly deny all of these allegations again the president saying that this is fake news bob woodward say that he stands by his reporting well as patty mentioned that trumps been tweeting in his response he quoted a statement from secretary of defense james mattis that said the contemptuous words about the president attributed to me in woodward's book were never by me or in my presence what i generally enjoy reading fiction this is a uniquely washington brand of literature and his anonymous sources do not lend credibility and another from chief of staff john kelly saying the idea of a cold a president and idiot is not true as i stated back in may and still firmly stand behind i spend more time with the president than anyone else and we have an incredibly candid and strong relat

i suppose everyone who confides in bob has his or her own reason. but one thing i know -- as a former colleague of his at the washington post who has on occasion reported in bob's wake one thing i know is how hard bob prepared and how hard he pushes and probes. he's methodical and relentless, about facts -- and hell bengt on obtaining documents whenever he can get his hands on them to verify whether something did or didn't happen. let me just say too, again, as a former colleague of bob's that bob can be truly generous with his time and his advice. many of us at the post have been grateful he's remained on the staff as an associate editor. contradicting to paper and coaching other reporters when he could have chosen a number of other career paths. bob will be in conversation here this evening with with another first rate journalist michael schmitt. michael is with "the new york times" and he started there as a news clerk 13 years ago. and now covers national security and federal law enforcement. he was part of two teams that won pulitzer prizes this

just pretend facts are not facts the person who complained that bob woodward has a credibility problem but in fact bob woodward has no credibility problem whatsoever the person with the credibility problem is donald trump and i think that's well acknowledged as are saying so definitely from donald trump himself as well as from the white house will the administration manage to discredit woodward i think that's impossible bob woodward has had a career in washington for over forty years he's one of the most respected journalists in the country he has. written book after book about white houses with different administrations and he's never been shown round before there's no reason to believe that bob woodward would be shown here already as. well reputation further people with less reputations like arrows out of his book came out a couple of weeks ago she's also been proven to be correct in the white house tried to discredit her book so it seems that most of the things that come out in these books these tell all books are true and it all seems like it's crazy town until people wonder can th

a new book by the washington post journalist bob woodward has claimed that u.s. president donald trump wanted to have the syrian president bashar al assad killed. a request that was ignored by his defense secretary trump in the white house his quotes from the president's aides questioning his ability to lead the white house says the book is full of fabricated stories woodward is known for his investigative reporting that helped bring down president richard nixon in the one nine hundred seventy s. watergate scandal as he called again has more from washington. some really explosive reporting coming from bob woodward the preeminent and prickly one of the more credible journalists in the entire country his book comes out and he says that the president don't trust top aides had some very disparaging things to say about their boss he says that chief of staff john kelly has called the president an idiot saying he has come often gone off the rails and saying this is crazy town he reports that secretary of defense jim mattis basically compared the president's ability to u

president richard nixon in the watergate scandal at the washington post has published all yo of a telephone conversation between trump and bob woodward in which they discussed the book. very much is going to be a negative book but you know. my goodness. a particular line has more now from washington. some really explosive reporting coming from bob woodward the preeminent and prickly mole one of the more credible journalists in the entire country his book comes out and he says that the president don't terms top aides had some very disparaging things to say about their boss he says that chief of staff john kelly has called the president an idiot saying he has come off and gone off the rails and saying this is crazy town he reports that secretary of defense jim mattis basically compared the president's ability to understand to a fifth or sixth grade level and that he reports to gary coleman once the president's chief economic adviser once took paperwork trade paperwork off the president's desk saying that he wouldn't remember and he was trying to protect the country you also reports that the president has had very nasty things

batters japan the government has issued evacuation advisories for more than a million people and canceled hundreds of flights. a new book by the washington post journalist bob woodward has claimed that president donald trump wanted to have syrian president bashar assad assassinated last year a request that was ignored by his defense secretary the book titled fear trumping the white house is set to have quotes from the president's own aides questioning his ability to lead the white house says the book is full of fabricated stories many by former disgruntled employees told to make the president look bad so. there have been protests on the first day of the senate confirmation hearings for u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. president trump's pick to replace retiring justice anthony kennedy those are the latest headlines on al-jazeera we'll have more news in less than thirty minutes time that's right after inside story coming up. are african countries getting into a dextre with china president xi jinping i'm not high level the king of egypt and promises no strings attached billions of dollars in new financing but what are the long the financial risks th

a new book by washington post journalist bob woodward has said that president donald trump wanted to have syrian president bashar al assad killed last year that request was ignored by his defense secretary the book titled fear trump in the white house has quotes from the president's own aides questioning his ability to leave the white house says the book is full of fabricated stories the leaders of pacific island nations have been meeting in now real that's where australia has an offshore prison camp for refugees for a forum is focusing on regional peace and security and improving the health of the islands people but the prison camps and the treatment of the refugees there is casting a shadow over the conference there are around one thousand six hundred people being held in two camps one in now the other on papua new guinea's mannish arland those are the headlines the listening post is next. one of the best health care systems in the world. trust with local doctors as the gatekeeper we have really good consumers who care now and people well makes you a better job but as the populatio

but in bob woodward's defense, lets your member that he has been a critic both of the steel dossier endcollusion -- >> and that's in the book. >> that's in the book. he doesn't think it's there. that's his view. bob woodward is not infallible, he thought donald trump would not be elected like many of us. he admits when he is wrong, and he admits when he's made a mistake. i think that's one of the hall marks of a good reporter >> harris: when you have a book like this, at the same time you've got the new york op ed, all of those recordings by omarosa -- make of it what you will, but she's also on a best-selling list or two is well with her book. when he put all that onto one universe, what happens politically, dan? >> what happens is it distracts the public's attention away from the business of the trump radisson c. including the midterm elections, which are upon us. you've got voters trying to decide on what basis they should be voting for or against these republican candidates. >> harris: who does that help, and who does it hurt? >> i think it's hurting the republicans, because it is d

a new book by washington plays journalist bob woodward has claimed that u.s. president donald trump wanted to have syrian president bashar al assad killed last year a request that was ignored by his defense secretary fear trump in the white house has quotes from the president's aides questioning his ability to lead the white house says the book is full of fabricated stories woodward is known for his investigative reporting that helped bring down president richard nixon in the one nine hundred seventy s. watergate scandal puffy culhane has more from washington. some really explosive reporting coming from bob woodward the preeminent and prickly more one of the more credible journalists in the entire country his book comes out and he says that the president don't trump's top aides had some very disparaging things to say about their boss he says that chief of staff john kelly has called the president an idiot saying he has come often gone off the rails and saying this is crazy town he reports that secretary of defense jim mattis basically compared the president's

and to date, bob has given out more than 6,000 hershey bars to people in his small community of 850.take long for hershey's to learn about him, documenting some of his journey. >> thanks, bob. i love it! >> i'm going to share it with a bunch of people. >> reporter: we're not sure if she shared it after all. and how does bob choose who he picks? it's simple. >> people in my neighborhood that i spot them, i give them a couple hershey bars. >> reporter: sometimes he asks that others pay it forward. >> he'd leave one and say, you give that to someone who you know needs a smile on their face today. >> you'd think that i'd give them keys to a new car. they're thrilled. >> thank you, neighbor bob! >> thank you, neighbor bob! >> thank you, neighbor bob. and we should all pay it towafod for bob. thanks for watching here tonight. i'm david muir. i hope to see you right back here tomorrow. good night. at at&t, we believe in access. the opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. connecting with the things that matter most. and because nothing keeps us more connected than the internet,

what's been interesting is how he has been able to operate, given that trump has been hands off. bob lighthizer has been able to make inbounds. carol: i don't think we have a concept of what it takes to renegotiate a complicated trade agreement. a year is not a long time for this to drag on, considering how long it takes to get nafta to be a deal. matthew: a trillion dollars of trade happens under this deal. the idea of putting this into hyper-drive was never realistic. bob lighthizer's plan was to browbeat canadians into submission one year ago. that has gotten bogged down into something like trench warfare. even though all three parties wanted a deal, it was for different reasons. the canadians and mexicans wanted to modernize nafta to cut through the red tape and encompass more trade, whereas the u.s. simply wanted to get a better deal for the united states. jason: all three parties came to the table with different objectives. bob lighthizer has had a certain amount of autonomy, given his experience -- he came less able to haggle as maybe the mexican and canadian counterpart dead.

bob woodward has written 18 books.e is many would argue the greatest journalist of his generation, of our time. then you compare him with the president who is flailing about. he is the man of the lie. "the washington post" fact checker last week had him telling 4,713 lies in his presidency, averaging out about 15 lies per day. this is why in your cnn poll 65% of americans do not believe the president is truthful or honest. who are you going to believe? i think woodward gets the nod. >> rick, is this where you say, yeah, but people knew that about him and taxes are lower and the economy is up? >> the president has to do what he did during the last election, which is when things got down to the end, what you saw was trump sort of becoming more of a typical presidential candidate. i'm not saying he was. but i'm saying, he quieted things down, he focused more, he was on message more during the debates and some other things. i think he has to go into that mode right now. he can no longer continue to do what he has been doin

he has a lot of staffers who don't agree with him. pete: bob, what will the white house do? >> they're trying to figure out theepper but they're lost, talking with some of the president's closest advisors today. they say they don't know what to do. the president is urging the department of justice to get involved but they know that's a maze that's not going to go anywhere. they're trying to figure out who could be disloyal but k theynow that so many people have been leaking inside of this administration since january of 2007 as much as people are coming out with their own lists they have as much of an idea in the white house as we do on this show. pete you're a current number reporter, you're a former one. do you think we'll ever know who wrote this? we might. we were reminded this week but for almost 3years, mark -- wrote "deep throat" and yet he s deep throat. it may not be tomorrow, it may be years from now but i spect one day we will. one thing to keep in mind, the term "senior official" could conceivably apply to as many as 4,000 confirmable positions and hiredolitical

has already claimed lives and cools dozens of injuries many here and now hoping for a break from the deluge ever heywood al-jazeera. a new book by famed watergate reporter bob woodward has revealed that president donald trump wanted to have syrian president bashar al assad assassinated last year a request that was ignored by his defense secretary xx. it's from the book which is called fear trump in the white house for trey's the president as prone to profane outbursts and impulsive decision making the book is the latest the detailed tensions within the white house on the trans presidency well the washington post has published the ordeal of a telephone conversation between trump and bob woodward in which they discussed the book. breach of. the right to reuters your image is going to be a negative book but you know i'm sort of fifty percent used to that i've heard so much good and very very good to be a. while let's go live to patty culhane in washington let's look first at that allegation that donald trump allegedly a wanted that the syrian president bashar al assad assassinated last year and that didn't go ahead because effectively his defense secretary. re

again, it's somewhat strange here, the president saying what he is saying about bob woodward, quote, that he has, quote, had a lot of credibility problems because when he called bob woodward last month to say he regretted not talking to him before the book, the one he is complaining about, he had this to say. >> it's really too bad, because nobody told me about it, and i would have spoken to you about it. you know i'm very open to you. you've always been fair. >> so who are you going to believe on this one? president trump or president trump? by the way, the president in that actual recording when he said nobody had told me about it, meaning the book, in that very same recording later on, woodward points out to him that senator lindsey graham had told the president about the book and woodward's desire to interview the president. oh, yeah, he had been told by senator graham. so what he had been told about not being told he contradict he had been told. joining us david axelrod, carl bernstein of bernstein and woodward fame, david gergen who has served numerous presidents dating back to the nixon a

rick, infallible and credibility, those are two separate words with separate definitions. >> bob woodward has i've watched this as i've been in politics for 30 years now. and everyone speaks to bob woodward, they know that he is the first draft of history. everyone bitches and complains, says oh, he got the story wrong, he got this detail -- the guy goes back, he does dozens of interviews with all these principals and the people that deny it are embarrassed in the end. everybody makes mistakes. but the scope of bob woodward's work, the overall content of his work, has proven to be an incredibly infallible guide to presidential history. he's had an insight into operations of the oval office, and when he looks at this as the most chaotic, shambolic and dangerous he's seen i believe him. >> i've got ten seconds if you want to respond to that. steve or april. >> look, i would say this. i do think when you talk about the scope, i do believe this is happening. i believe there's a cabal of crony insiders within the administration who are working to thwart the president. we know that from the "new yo

. >> laura: bob woodward has a new book about the trump administration which is sending shock waves through washington. >> did you expect anything different? more on how team trump is responding, let's go to ed henry here in washington. ed? >> the book doesn't even come out until september 11th and already, washington is abuzz and breaking tonight, the president is fighting back charging that bob has a credibility problem and that the accusations are false. one charging that the mr. trump told the defense secretary james mattis about bashar al-assad, "let's bleeping kill him, let's go in and kill the bleeping lot of them." mattis humored the president saying he would get right on it but was stunned that the president ordered an assassination. the retired general said tonight this is fiction and any claim he uttered contemptuous words about the commander in chief is a product of someone's rich imagination. john kelly also denying the claim that he told the president he was an idiot, we are in crazy town. i don't even know why any of us are here, this is the worst job i've ever had. kelly say

perhaps, the white house has not used the term fake news, it is the usual blanket condemnation of the media. maybe that will come, but it is worth remembering they are up against bobness. he has written about eight presidents, and has been critical of democrats and republicans. even the president, in that phone conversation with bob woodward, admitted that he was fair. so i think many readers will see in this book an accurate rendering of history. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme... japan takes over the chair of the international whaling commission, with fears they may weaken the global ban on commercial whale hunting. she received the nobel peace prize for her work with the poor and the dying in india's slums. the head of the catholic church said mother teresa was a wonderful example of how to help people in need. we have to identify the bodies then arrange the coffins and take them back home. parents are waiting and wives are waiting, so... hostages appeared, some carried, some running, trying to escape the nightmare behind them. britain lost a princess today, described by all to whom she reached out as irreplaceable. an early—m

bob woodward's new book. here are your late-night laughs. >> "washington post" has released some of bob woodward's exposÉ of thenistration "fear." a book named after the emotion trump feels wherever he sees a book. [ laughter ] >> the president was upset that he wasn't interviewed for the book. in fact, he called bob woodward to say so and woodward got that all on tape. it's quite a conversation. unbelievable. at this point the trump administration has had more men tell alls from the bachelorette. >> president trump once told rudy giuliani that he was a baby and then out of habit he added "but i'm not the father." >> jim mattis struggled to convince the president to keep troops in south korea. afterwafrds mattis told associates that the president acted like and had the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader. it's all in the hit new game show "are you smarter than the president?" the show where everyone's a winner. >> was that jeff foxworthy, this picture they used there? >> these guys were on vacation for two weeks and you can tell they were itching to get back in their game. >> and unshaven. >> interesting,

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bob woodward has an explosive new book about life in this white house.ter describes an administration where senior officials view the president himself as a threat to national security. he quotes the chief of staffjohn kelly as saying it is "crazytown." the opening day of hearings for the next us supreme courtjudge turn riotous with loud protests. protest throughout. so, here are the facts. judge kavanaugh is one of the most distinguished judges. mr chairman, i think we ought to have this loudmouth removed. the uk's most senior police officer calls for social media giants to cooperate more quickly after detectives were unable to access the facebook account of a suspect in the murder

think that we will see a play off potentially right here. >> bret: more of this comes as bob ordered spokes hasus quotes" that people in the book who are quoted i think from other sources -- bob woodward doesn't say where the sources are -- are pushing back on whether they actually said what they said. there are some interesting things that have already dropped in washington. >> for me, color me unimpressed. it seems like a typical new cycle on these books. the trump administration official come out to denied all the salacious things that the author of the book said, it continues with the same big picture narratives about the president and his competency that the left likes to attack them on. i think -- at the applebee's in florida, no one is talking about the bob woodward book tonight. no one. that is the bottom line for how this relates to everybody watching the show. >> bret: the suggestion is that aids are doing things and protecting from what the president's instincts are and for example, the secretary mattis had said, we are not going to follow an order directly from the president as far

bob woodward has written dozens of books on presidents and politics. he has appeared on book to be more than 20 times. in 2002 he was our guest on her monthly: program in depth. >> if you can get close to what is spoken at the time and what the memos in the communications are but presidencies are run orally by and large because there are lots of things on the plate. they run in and out. if you can get that gives you the best slice of the reality. you can watch this and all other book tv programs from the past 20 years at book tv.org. so robert we are showing the cover of the book you edited. pope francis in a caring society. whatever you find in here. the book is written mainly by economists and we are writing it in response to what came out a few years ago. on the care of our common home. nones as the hope environmental. they are trying to engage the dialogue and hopefully kind of fill in some blind spots that he has. we all had blind spots. that is kind of the aim here. to get there. about ways that we can make markets work as a carried society you h

of course, the white house has come out and denied every word of this. bob works inside the white house. >> also, along that line, this has been going on for a long time. you know, mika and i went to visit him in trump tower back in 2015, i think it was, and everybody was shocked and offended that i had given him campaign advice and you know what my campaign advice was for him? read. i said do you -- this was in like maybe october of 2015. it was a little awkward. do you read? do you ever read? can you read? and i wasn't being sarcastic. and he just said people around him -- people around him who also said during the middle of that campaign that he had -- i'm sorry, we got to keep saying it -- he had early stages of dementia, that they had to treat him a certain way -- >> be kind to him. >> they had to act a certain way around him. it's not me saying he had early stages of dementia. this is what they were saying during the campaign. talking about how they had to work around all of his limitations. >> well it may not be new or surprising but it's no less disc

think bob has really said so much, she said it all in terms of why we are here today. we are here, and i don't just mean in a superficial way, but we are here because we are taking the situation very, very seriously. women's march and other organizations started out coming to washington for the very first hearing. we have been here. we knew all along that brett kavanaugh was not someone who should be appointed to the supreme court of the united states. we knew he was problematic. and the stories that we are beginning to hear our only confirmation of what we originally were fighting against. societyto live in a where it is clear that you can do whatever you want, but there will be a response from the people. there are others who have said to us, they are still going to try it, they will still try to push him through. that is fine, but just know that these spaces that you see here represent millions of people, siblings,ilies, our and we will continue to fight. we can never give up. and ever get too tired sit to the sidelines while our democracy is threatened. when i thin

individual who has not interfered in any way in the political arena, and he's being targeted by the president of the united states. that's something that should really concern us all. bob has given his life, given 30 years to the department of justice to trying to stop organized crime and other crimes, and to target him because of the information he knows and possibly because of who his wife is, is completely unjust, and improper for the president. >> especially now that we know the "new york times" reporting he was part of the secret program to flip russia oligarchs as well. liam brennan thanks for being with us. >> thank you, frances, have a good one. >>> michael cohen and the betrayal some trump associates say terrifies the president, we'll have that next. let's do this. ugh we're gonna be late, we're gonna be late! hold on, don't worry, there's another way [siri: *beep beepá] directions to the greek theater. ♪ can i get a connection? can i get can i get a connection? ♪ ♪ i can see it in my, see it in my reflection. ♪ ♪ ohhh can i get a connection? ♪ tryna find the old me as king midas, i here, you will too.nt. your oil change comes with a tire rotation as well. ooo

he's good at b.s., salesmanship, but truth is bob woodward's game. >> bob woodward has a long record of meticulous reporting. none of us sitting here having this conversation, nobody in washington is going to take donald trump's word over bob woodward's. but donald trump is not necessarily playing to that crowd and his base will assume that bob woodward is just part of the deep state and the elitist -- >> really? >> yes, to trump's base, absolutely, yes. everybody else will believe woodward. >> ryan, i've known bob woodward 40 years. i don't even know what party he's in. never heard a liberal sentiment once come out of his mouth, annie. >> he comes across as a sober mind the counter point to trump. the recording that was released to the washington post of donald trump talking to bob woodward was such a sober minded individual talking to him very calmly, which is -- to your point, the exact opposite of trump's demeanor, which is to kind of go nuts on someone. >> you have bob woodward, amoroso's book and this article running in "the new york times" a couple days ago. the president is co

bob hasbeen observing and reporting on major developments in washington for nearly half a century . working for thewashington post, he discovered nine presidents . he has shared two pulitzer prizes, first for the post coverage of the watergate scandal and second in 2003 as the lead reporter for coverage of the 9/11 attacks. "fear" is bob's 19th book. all have been national bestsellers and "fear" marks bob's 13th book at the top of the bestseller list. i think he holds the record for the most number one nonfiction bestsellers of the author. each time oneof his revelatory books appears, the question comes out , how did you get people to talk to him? why did people agree to share their stories? i suppose everyone who confides in bob has his or her own reason, but one thing i know is a former colleague of his at the washington post who has on occasion reported in bob's wake, one thing i know is how hard bob prepares and how hard he pushes and probes. these methodical and relentless, fastidious about facts and hell-bent on obtaining documents when ever he can get his hands on them to verify whether something did or didn't happen. let me just say also again

has issued evacuation advisories for more than a million people and canceled hundreds of flights gerri is the strongest typhoon to hit japan in twenty five years. a new book by washington post journalist bob woodward has claimed that president donald trump wanted to have syrian president bashar as said killed last year that request was ignored by his defense secretary the book fear trump in the white house says quote from the president's own aides questioning his ability to lead the white house says the book is in its words full of fabricated stories woodward is known for his investigative reporting that helped bring down president richard nixon in the watergate scandal the been protests on the first day of the senate confirmation hearings for u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh he's president trumps pick to replace retiring justice anthony kennedy long seen as the court's swing vote on many contentious issues democrats fear cavanagh will pull the court even further to the political right the leaders of pacific island nations have been meeting in narrow that's where australia has an offshore prison camp for refugees before they form is focusing on regional peace and security and im

>> there has been some pushback, susan collins, bob corker, the usual have defended sessions. senators have been asked what do you make of the way president trump is describing southerners here? there has been some kind of muted pushback. it's interesting in president trump's statement, though, he does say i didn't use these words to describe sessions, but you've seen the kind of language he uses on twitter to attack sessions. it's not shocking that he would go in that direction. what he did say is being a southerner is a great thing. i wouldn't describe a southerner that way. his base is heavily southern, obviously. and he doesn't wantomy want peo thinking he insults people from the south. don't get him wrong. >> let's switch gears and talk about the senate confirmation of judge kavanaugh. protests inside the room from the democrats as well as some of the protesters there in the room. not holding back, what is behind all of the hostility right now against judge kavanaugh? >> yeah, i think if we take a step back and look at what's about to happen to the supreme court. right, yo

woodward de idiota, bob woodward ha dado hoy sus primeras declaracionesdel premio pulitzer, javier? >> asÍ es felicidad, hay mucha expectativa por el lanzamiento de maÑana sobre el libro sobre nuevas revelaciones sobre lo que pasa en la casa blanca, su autor el libro miedo en la casa blanca, bob woodward dio una entrevista a today show de nbc, dijo que el mandatario estÁ prÁcticamente desconectado de la realidad y que algunas acciones estarÍan poniendo en riesgo de la seguridad nacional, sobre las crÍticas por citar fuentes anÓnimas se defendio, dijo que todos los acontecimientos tienen fecha lugar y nombre de los participantes, si te parece veamos lo que este periodista ganador del pulitzer y del caso watergate comentÓ mÁs temprano (informaciÓn en pantalla) . >> durante el fin de semana el vicepresidente mike pence dijo que este libro parte de un total desconocimiento de lo que realmente ocurre en ha casa blanca, mike pence se dijo dispuesto a someterse a una prueba de detector de mentiras para que quede claro que Él no fue quien escribiÓ la editorial de

>> you've always been fair, that's the president in august of this year describing bob woodward who he now claims hasten a piece of fiction. rebecca berg. >> the difference, of course, being, jim, bob woodward has written something very negative regarding president trump, something that doesn't cast him in the most positive light and president trump has a very thin skin. he doesn't take criticism well. if someone writes something or says something negative about him, he takes it personally. that's why you've seen members of congress, for example, walking on egg shells whenever they criticize the president. they always focus on criticizing him on policy, nothing personal, nothing having to do with his capacity as president because they know just how sensitive he is to those criticisms. so for bob woodward, who is a very well-respected, a legendary journalist to write this book that casts the president in a negative light, he takes it personally. >> how do you read this sort of litany, rachel, david, ron, of people quoted in the woodward book who are now releasing statements of sort of fealty to the pr

veteran journalist bob woodward has made explosive revelations about president trump's white house, claiming that even the president's closest aides see him as a danger to national security. and this story is trending on bbc.com. the ruby slippers worn by the american actressjudy garland in the wizard of oz have been found thirteen years after they were stolen. the shoes, said to be among the most valuable props in movie history, were taken from a museum display case in minnesota. and the top story in the uk: labour's ruling body, the national executive committee, has now agreed a new policy on anti—semitism to settle a dispute that's divided the party for months, and tested jeremy corbyn‘s leadership. now on bbc news, live to singapore for asia business report. first apple, now is on the online retail giant pushes over the $1 trillion mark. —— now amazon. will be chinese investment in africa pay off for both sides? bashing the. —— the. good morning asia, hello world. it is wednesday. glad to join us. —— glad you could join us. we start off with amazon and the e—commerce beating myth has don

the way i would describe it is in watergate bob woodward had deep throat as his source. he hasn this book dozens of deep throats. the other thing that happened that was interesting is president trump is clearly upset about this book and on august 14th he called bob woodward when he found out it was coming out and bob, with the president's permission, recorded the phone call and we're going to play you a clip of it. this is where it becomes apparent to the president that bob has sources inside the white house. >> i've got to go talk to people and see them outside of the white house and outside of their offices and gained a lot of insight and documentation and it's -- you know, it's a tough look at the world and your administration and you. >> right. well, i assume that means it's going to be a negative book, but, you know, i'm sort of 50% used to that. that's all right. some are good and some are bad. sounds like this is going to be a bad one. >> it's really a turning point where bob says a tough look at you and even though the president is sort of funny, he says 50% of the time