announcer: ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the best-selling author of "brown is the new white," steve phillips[applause] steve: good morning. audience: good morning. steve: i'm delighted to be here. this is my first bioneers conference, so i'm honored to be with youou here. [cheering and applause] and i'm particularly delighted to be able to introduce the keynote speaker vien truong. her bio and all of her accomplishments are online, and you can read that, anth

steve: man behind that cabot phillips.o vote for him. >> they were very enthusiastic about support of him. many had beto o'rourke stickers on their backpack. when is what happens when you go through life never having your point of view value challenged. so many young people go to campus and told by professors, celebrities, social media you have to be a democrat. a lot of students fall in line with supporting democrat candidates. they put on the front yeah i'm excited about this because they see what happens to anyone that dares to support a conservative or republican candidate who is young that peer pressure leads them to support candidates that they know very little about. that's sad when their vote counts as much as anyone else's vote. that's what sad. steve: absolutely, texas. you go down to texas a&m. very strident reporters who intend to vote for him. when you ask some questions, watch. >> you may not have any experience but you can be as informed about a position without actually doing it. >> beto -- young people bec

phillips is september 20th. steve: we can move on.s been united. they have been so divided. i think them standing for him because a lot of people didn't think mitch mcconnell was doing a good job months ago and now everyone standing in unity for him. agree with both of you it was wonderful to see all the justices there because they care about the honor of the court and reputation of the court and putting that above all. brian: president putting the welcome mat out for moderate democrats he can work with joe manchin and at times chris coons. he will went out of his way. for the longest time he held his fire when it came to dr. ford and her allegations. now he is pretty clear. he feels as though the allegations might be real. brett kavanaugh had nothing to do with it listen u. >> on behalf of our nation i want to apologize to breath and his family for the pain and suffering have you been forced to endure. those who serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation. not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on li

steve: yesterday zero chance. brian: abby phillipswas confirmed and the way the administration backed him which is just farcical. i don't think there is any way. now you find out, too. that she wrote a resignation letter october 1st or 2nd. the president said can we hold on to that until after? and the fact is 10:20 eastern time. we get word of this. at 10:30 there is a presser at which time both are throwing praise at each other and saying i will be campaigning for this guy in 10:20. which brings you to who could be next? in this administration, that position really matters. and some of the speculation dina powell, of course, the president said ivanka could do it but nepotism could come in. she doesn't want to do it so she is out. i think ric grenell would do it but the president also indicated he likes him in germany. i think ryan zinc were would work out. i think kelly ayotte would be somebody if the president wants to put a won in there. steve: sure. brian: and joe lieberman. steve: dina powell deputy national security advisor. sh

phillip mena is in new york with that >> good morning. breaking overnight, former usa gymnasters president steve penny has been arrested and charged with evidenceampering in the larry nassar abuse case. penny is accused of removing documents from the karolyi ranch where some athletes say they were molested by nassar. penny who resigned last year has denied coverups. he could face ten years in prison if convicted. earlier this year dr. nassar was sentenced to 125 years in prison after he pled guilty to molesting ten girls. >>> there are reports a migrant caravan from honduras en route to the border has doubled in size, growing to 4,000 people. in response the white house confirmed it is considering renewing the policy from earlier this year that separated a large number of children from their parents. >>> the voice behind big bird is retiring after nearly 50 years on "sesame street. 84-year-old carol spiny is the man behind oscar the grouch also he stopped physically performing a few years ago and now only provides the voices. he will stop today the end of an era. >> it's amazing to think the big bird that my kid hears now is the same guy that i

phillip hammond warned the next few weeks in negotiations will be critical. the chancellor stressed businesses are sitting on their hands as uncertainty continues steve has been in birmingham steve, you've spoken to a lot of people from the outsider view, it looks as though her allies in the cabinet, and there are a few of them, are actually directing their hatred or their anger towards the e.u. rather than internally focused this time around. >> reporter: i think you're right and i think this is a very important meeting generally for the prime minister had quite a disastrous conference last year we have spoken to five government ministers already in the 12 hours we've been on the ground in birmingham it's arguably the opposition in her own party that she needs to worry about. if i told you the mp for somerset, people would be scratching their heads, who is this is it boris johnson, david day, no, it's david reese smock he held court yesterday. he is det against chequers they are dedicated to chequers guess what, cnbc has spoken to him this morning and i started off asking bhim his competing visual for this. >> the ch hequers is not leaving the rule book. you

steve holland of reuters. the "washington post" has some new reporting about what's going on inside the white house tonight. robert costa, josh dossy, and phillip rucker write, "in days of private phone calls and oval office huddles, trump has repeatedly reached for reasons to protect the u.s.-saudi relationship according to administration officials and presidential advisers. trump has stressed saudi arabia's huge investment in u.s. weaponry and worries it could instead purchase arms from china or russia. he has fretted about the oil-rich desert kingdom cutting off its supply of petroleum to the united states. he has warned against losing a key partner countering iran's influence in the middle east." with all of that let us bring in our lead-off panel for a wednesday night. ashley parker, pulitzer prize-winning white house reporter for the "washington post." jeremy bash, former chief of staff at cia and the pentagon. and josh letterman, veteran of the associated press who is now national political reporter for us at nbc news. josh, i'd like to begin with you. is there a sense as we come on the air since you last did a round of reporting on this

participar en la maratÓn, steve bajÓ 110 libras, sin lugar a duda esta pareja ha demostrado que nada los detiene y cruzaron la meta siendo marido y mujer, seÑor y seÑora phillipos Ángeles el sabado durante 6 horas se llevÓ a cabo el concierto "latinos unidos" en apoyo a los niÑaos separados en la frontera. >> el gobierno tiene que ser un poquito concierto, sino los quieren aquÍ que los regresen y les den un dinero para que los hagan crecer a esos niÑos y educarlos. >> no te lo digo como artista, te lo digo como mamÁ eso es una cosa horrible, es muy feo, si te unes se hace uno voz grande. >> tengo que formar parte de la persona que estÁn haciendo la diferencia y que quieren que esto no siga pasando. >> yo creo que hay que unirse y seguir denunciando, hay que utilizar todas las herramientas que ahora nos ha dado la tecnologÍa como redes sociales para seguir clamando por libertad. >> definitivamente el concierto lleva un mensaje de unidad a toda la comunidad hispana los cantantes tambiÉn se hicieron presentes para enviar un mensaje al presidente. >> que hagan cosas buenas que ayuden a la gente que estÁ muy necesitada la gente asÍ que les agradecerÍa de corazÓn q