jim acosta over at the white house. jim, once again, making it clear, he has no intention of firing the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. >> that's right, wolf. and i thought it was interesting, there was almost -- i don't want to call it a bromance between the president and rod rosenstein. that might be taking things too far. but he was certainly giving him the air force one treatment. he was there in front of the cameras, traveling with the president. and the president making it clee clear, he's not going to fire the deputy attorney general. he may be concluding, wolf, he may be better off in terms of the russia investigation by, you know, showing rod rosenstein some respect. more respect than he has shown to the attorney general, jeff sessions. and that may be just the strategy at this point, moving forward. the russia investigation has been sort of on a slow burn, on the back burner through this midterm election cycle. and we haven't heard a whole lot of that. so perhaps that is the thinking there on the pres

jim acosta, thank you very much. let's get more details now from our chief national security correspondent, jim sciutto. jim, a source tells cnn that turkey has, what, shocking audio and video evidence of what they say was the killing inside this consulate in istanbul? >> the request he is to what extent they have shared. the british authorities have not viewed this evidence yet. but they did say that britain's assessment of khashoggi's disappearance is worrying and that britain has shared that directly with saudi officials. and that is becoming really the unanimous view of folks, including u.s. lawmakers, who have been briefed on the intelligence here. that the evidence points to saudi responsibility. >> reporter: tonight, turkish authorities claim to have shocking audio and visual evidence that jamal khashoggi was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul. a source familiar with the investigation who is briefed by western intelligence tells cnn, the tapes provide proof of an assault. a struggle. and capture the

jim acosta, thanks very much. and secretary of state mike pompeo just speaking out about punishing those saudis who were involved in the murder of that journalist. much more on that coming up. but there is other important news we're following right now. much more substantive issues. breaking news this hour. sources now telling cnn that the former trump foreign policy adviser, george pexpected to testify. >> he's difficult to pin down. you may remember when he pleaded guilty to federal crime, and at his sentencing, he was very apologetic, and i'll quote from him what he said on that day. he said i made a terrible mistake for which i have paid dearly. i'm terribly ashamed. he said, i wanted to do my best to help this investigation. and did i understand now that in trying to do this i was not honest and might have hindered the investigation. well, since those apologetic words, when he was sentenced, if you follow george pap on twitter, he's been accusing the uk, australia, u.s., fbi, of being involved in a conspiracy

the board of immigration appeals and acosta said we don't really know what social group means. but if we look at the other grounds, race, religion, nationality, we know they share something in common. they refer to characteristics of a person that they either cannot change and that would be country of citizenship that would mean race can change or that a person shouldn't have to change to avoid persecution. that would be religion and political opinion. what the court said in a matter of acosta is a particular social group must be a group defined by characteristics that he there are immutable are fundamental. a person shouldn't have to change than because it would violate their identity or their conscience. and in matter of acosta the board explicitly and expressly said come it didn't use gender come into use the word sex that it could be the basis for defining a particular social group. that concept was again built on an affirmed in the 1996 casino decision granting asylum to female cutting which i mentioned earlier. there have been numerous circuit court decisions that have ac

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he has attacked jim acosta.o him at press conferences. >> me. >> it is true -- >> april, you. >> it is true that the way the president and officials speak to non-white reporters is very different. we have seen it for over a year. it's very troubling. it happens off camera as well. i think that to talk about this as though it's a problem with female reporters is a simplistic way to put it. i think it misses the point, which is that this is an anti-press freedom president. he does not understand or care about the first amendment. that's a bigger issue. >> we have gone from daily briefings to basically monthly briefings. trump takes questions when he feels like it. often butchers the facts. i agree there's a broader context. april? >> here is the problem. i am a reporter who happens to be black and who happens to be a woman. the reality is, when you see me, you see my color and my gender. you see my color first and then my gender. then i keep going back to this conversation i had with steve bannon last night -- not

jim acosta he white house, thank you. we will have more on the breaking news coming up, including more on the u.s.-russia relationship right now as president trump tries to lock down a meeting with vladimir putin next month. tensions between the two countries on display between putin and the national security adviser. our senior international fred pleitgen is on the scene, what are putin saying about their discussions there today? >> well, it was interesting, john bolton earlier at a press conference, he said the discussion were frank and honest, you could clearly see, there was a lot of heat in the air, especially during his meeting with vladimir putin. here's what we saw. a tense meeting between russian president vladimir putin and national security adviser john bolton. putin immediately taking a swipe at the u.s. the emblem of the u.s. depicts an eagle. in one claw, it holds 13 arrows. in the other, an olive branch, a symbol of the peace loving policy of the states together with 13 olives. the question, it looks as if

law, the 1985 matter of acosta, which explained that a social group, and i'm picking up on something chris said correct, correct about this social group. the board of immigration appeals in acosta said, well, we don't really know what social group means. but if we look at the other grounds, race, religion, nationality, and political opinion, we know they share something in common. they refer to characteristics of a person that they either cannot change, so that would be nationality, if we mean country of citizenship. that would mean race, can't change. or that a person shouldn't have to change to avoid persecution. that would be religion and political opinion. what the board said in matter of acosta is, a particular social group must be a group that is defined by characteristics that either are immutable or fundamental. person shouldn't have to change them because it would violate their identity or their conscience. and in matter of acosta, the board explicitly and expressly said it didn't use gender, it used the word sex, sex could be the basis for defining a particular social group

let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta.he president has been busy tweeting about the saudis and stormy daniels. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. the trump administration is scrambling how to figure out how to contain the fall-out of the apparent killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. mike pompeo was in saudi arabia, had what a spokesperson for the state department called a direct and candid conversation with the saudis about khashoggi. president trump said earlier this afternoon the saudi crown prince has, quote, totally denied what happened to khashoggi as he injected bright, shiny objects into the news cycle that can be summed up in one word, horse face. secretary of state mike pompeo appeared to be all smiles as he met with saudi arabia's crown prince, mohamad bin salman just as grime details were surfacing in the murder of khashoggi, who turkish officials say was dismembered bis his killers. president trump said the crown prince totally denied knowledge of what took place in the turkish consulate. answers will be forthc

jim acosta is with us here in studio. a couple things i want to pick up on. he's continuing to drill down on his idea of what is happening, not only at the border or far below the border. the president saying it's much bigger than 5,000. he's right on that. because our most recent reporting is that we're now talking about a caravan of some 7,500 people. but what he continued to drill down on is, he said, there's middle easterners in this caravan. if you go to the middle of the caravan and search, in five to ten minutes you'll find them. i should point out, our reporters have been there for days talking to folks and have yet to meet anybody from the middle east. and it's unclear what he believes would happen if there were a middle easterners in this caravan of folks that's still a the far cry from the u.s. southern border. >> and i talked to somebody this morning who said this caravan issue doesn't need any additional messaging. they don't need to go get their surrogates fired up this caravan, because they think it plays so strongly to the trump base. but you

jim acosta, thank you very much.ng us now, democratic congressman, eric swalwell of california, a member of both the intelligence and judiciary committees. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. what do you think of the way the president has been dealing with all these crises over the past few days? remember, we're a week away from the midterm elections. >> we need a consoler-in-chief right now. and i think back to the different presidents in my lifetime. whether it was reagan after beirut, president clinton after oklahoma city, george bush on september 11 or barack obama. they brought the country together. and to see so many people protesting at a tragedy is heartbreaking. because the office of consoler-in-chief is vacant right now in america. and i think the president certainly didn't send the bombs. he didn't fire the weapon that was used. but he has created a permissive environment in our country where he stokes hate, and it looks like it's inspiring individuals to carry out these deadly acts. >> do you thin

jim acosta, thank you very much. there is important news just into cnn. one of professor christine blasey ford's friends is now disputing a republican attack over a polygraph. i want to go over to josh campbell working the story. tell our viewers what you have discovered. >> reporter: the ongoing controversy surrounding brett kavanaugh, continued disputes between stories with different parties has taken a new step. the latest development that we've seen stems from a report yesterday from fox news where a former boyfriend of christine blasey ford, this is the california professor who has accused judge kavanaugh of sexual assault, we all remember the testimony last week where she was testifying to the fact that she had taken a polygraph exam, she was asked whether or not she had intentionally helped anyone else, whether a famiiar experience with the polygraph, whether she helped anyone beat that 308ly graph. a former boyfriend submitted a letter to the senate certifying that he witnessed back in the '90s dr. ford helped coach one of her friends on how to be

with that, let's go to cnn's jim acosta who did much of the questioning you heard there. jim, the president very clearly and very directly there saying there is no proof of anything referring to the stuff he has been saying. >> that's right, anderson. ee should point out of our viewers, and you know, this shouldn't be pointed out but it has to be pointed out, i suppose, there is proof for some things. there is proof for lots of things, but the president in this post-truth world that he's trying to impose on the american people and much of the world, he's trying to say, well, i can just about say anything i want and get away with it, and it sounded as if today what happened in the oval office, anderson, with the president and the vice president, i'm glad you showed that clip because the president kept going to the vice president to bail him out, is that they're just telling tales and hoping that the facts will bail them out later. there's just been no evidence provided by the white house up until this point, and keep in mind, this is not the first time the president has be

let's go straight to new york where our financial correspondent jim acosta is standing by hi yes well we've seen these tariffs they have been in effect a few months now have they really had any effect on u.s. business at all. you know we do see that costs are going up for companies who produce canned soups for example. all the way up to companies who make planes or cars but when we talk about steel we have tariffs of twenty five percent when it comes to minium it's only only ten percent or so that is manageable to a certain degree but we hear some companies actually pointing to some margin pressure and for sure they try to actually which those those cost increases to the consumers will feel some of the pain at the end and then on the other side we also have some companies who profit from those higher tariffs a million prices here in the u.s. have gone up and companies like your maker our core for example is actually profiting from their stock of. traded all the way up to some point of ten percent here in the thursday session you mentioned in the end so it is up a lot but the rest of t

boosted the netflix stock more than four percent over to our new york financial correspondent jim acosta hi yes well it seems like netflix could do to a t.v. what amazon did to retail is that right. well i mean in a certain sense yes but then again there's also some competition out amazon and the company you just named is also into the streaming business or on demand programming but yes i mean almost every second household in the u.s. has a subscription of netflix so that is a quite impressive number the big question is what's going to happen when we look good further down the line and in the past for example studios like walt disney or warner brothers they actually sold their content to netflix but now disney or a t. and t. the parent company of warner brothers they're building their own on demand services so the competition will probably increase for netflix but so far investors were thrilled by those numbers the stock of netflix even before we got the quarterly results is up so far this year by eighty percent and here in the wrens this session added another five percent it's going to

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it first hand for that we are now crossing over to new york where our financial correspondent jim acosta is standing by hi ends well that's a pretty impressive recovery there what's going on exactly. last week we saw the worst week for wall street since march and now on tuesday we had the best day on wall street since end of march well a couple of factors under play here on wall street first of all we got some really good economic news from the labor market job openings with a good seven million reached a new record and there is almost a million more job openings then people are obviously were officially claimed unemployed saw that shows that there's almost a full employment here in the united states and then we also got a bunch of pretty solid earnings reports from banks like goldman sachs and morgan stanley about all sorts specially from the health care industry from health insurance your night of health from johnson and johnson beating earnings expectations all those were some factors why blue chips popped up by more than five hundred points in talk of the world's largest ever i.p.o.

which brings us to the historic moment for the alternative to jim acosta he made their debut and ready to be an opposition force within the government but another party with the spike in votes with the greens who recorded strong and now the second largest party in the region oversold so much stuff to the states while buying so relatively little in return america what tolls on china in january next month beijing only so. the more same of the fresh us fees in july august and september now panic after this month's record sales by beijing to america is trump's plan working or is he just talking the talk china's market distortions. and the way they deal. cannot be tolerated china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight. election i've done a lot of business which china china china sees route china talking about china from beijing also hold a nuclear option up the sleeve it owns over a trillion dollars of u.s. debts because that cash in something washington has a problem there are talks for the g. trump summit next month where u.s. way out the chinese finger trap can be

our jim acosta joins us now and starts us off. jim, the president weighed in on all of this on air force one just a short bit ago. what did he say? >> reporter: yeah, anderson, he says he has a list of replacements down to five different candidates. that's a short list at this point. he mentioned that deena powell, the former deputy national security adviser over here at the white house, that she is on that short list. he also mentioned that richard grinnell, the current u.s. ambassador to germany who had been talked about inside the white house earlier today, that he is not on that short list. that the president wants to keep him in germany at this point. and of course much of the speculation all day long, anderson, was about whether the president's daughter, ivanka trump, might actually get this job. the president talked her up when he was speaking with reporters earlier today saying he couldn't think of anybody more competent than his daughter. but she put a rest to that speculation, put out a tweet saying that the replacement

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chief political editor michelle acosta spoke to one of the yes used top politicians in bavaria at the party's final campaign. i much blame lies the chancellor for this election campaign and the potential disappointing results. are always good for me i don't think it's about laying blame but about realizing that national issues have played a key role in this state election with all the recent surveys show that these issues are affecting up to half of floating decisions and that's a long and it's unfortunate because bavaria is doing exceptionally well we have full employment we have record economic growth we're paying down our debt slike never before because we're investing massively in the future and we have a great education system so that means from the basic data that everything is fine but of course there are people who are worried and that has to do with issues that have a national or even european dimension. france's financial prosecutor's office is investigating suspicions of match fixing in the champions league match earlier this month between paris shane st germain and red sta

. >> and of course jim acosta of cnn. and find someone who loves you he tried to blame president trump for the democrats mob strategy. >> have you been to a trump rally? you do here rhetoric at those rallies that would conjure up images of a mob. perhaps the president knows what mob rule looks like because he encourages it himself. >> ben: the media attempt to cover it is nothing new. neither democratic and braces. the truth, this strategy emboldening political mobs to strengthen political power has been a mainstay among democrats for generations. in the 1960s, democrats across the country engage in what is called the bryant ideology. the belief that riots are a reflection of deep underlying social ills that can only be cured by more government. demagogues who would later become mayor washington, d.c. up embrace this. he said of the black panthers, i know that white people get scared of the panthers and they might look at someone or modern say welcome us give them some money. the new york city mayor, john lindsay said mes

finishes from the slovakian but frankfurt it back sebastien hala stretching to reach a pinpoint diamond acosta crossed well into injury time all square in the end not really the result either side was hoping for now one team so for a spectacular fall from grace is shall last season's runners up are languishing in the bottom half of the table they've scored a measly five goals in nine games worse than any club in the bundesliga now their clash against leipzig was yet another disappointment the royal blues rarely looked dangerous only this corner from korea and came so more close to helping the league strugglers find the back of the net leipzig two were far from impressive nil all the final score and another first writing week for. now let's see have those results affect the table dortmund are still top this weekend biron creep up to second followed by an braman who missed their chance to take second down the other end of the table laver coups and move up to twelfth shall go also move up ever so slightly or stuttgart remain bottom of the table. now let's i want to ask you a question about these

in matter of acosta, the board explicitly said they didn't use gender. it used the word sex, that sex could be the basis for defining a particular social group. the concept was wilpon and affirmed in the 1996 decision granting asylum to a woman fleeing female cutting, which i mentioned earlier. there have been numerous circuit court decisions that have accepted that a particular social group could be based on gender in combination with other tourist decks, which the person cannot or should not change. and so, if we look at, for instance, this issue of salvadoran women in a relationship that they can't leave who have children in common, if we break down each of those characteristics, and they are immutable or fundamental, based on nationality, based on gender. she's a woman. she's in a relationship that she cannot leave because in this case she tried to leave and her husband tracked her down. he would not expect that she could leave. the fact they had children in common is just a reality. it is something she cannot change. i have to say there were numerou

general jeff sessions ryan, alexries acosta, alec cesar, ben carson, betsy devos, robert wilkie, anden nears -- nielsen. thank you. know how hard you are working on this. thank you also to kellyanne conway for her tremendous efforts. thank you. i appreciate it. we are also honored to be joined by state and local leaders, private sector partners, along with families who have suffered terrible heartache from the opioid epidemic are together, we will end the scorch of drug addiction in america. we're going to end it or at least make an extremely big dent in this terrible, terrible problem. last year, we have mobilized the entire federal government to address this crisis. we secured $6 billion in new funding to combat opioids, the most money ever received in history. thank members of congress in attendance today, terrific people who have been instrumental in the effort. alexander.mar thank you very much. rob portman. thank you, rob. congressman greg walden. also, right to try, all of us. it is having a tremendous impact already. thank you very much. city, maggie, representatives gus and

listen to what the president said when cnn's jim acosta asked him if it was a racial dog whistle. >> mr. president, just to follow up on your comments about being a nationalist, there is a concern you are sending coded language or a dog whistle to some americans out there what you really mean is you're a white nationalist. >> i've never even heard that. i'm a nationalist. i never heard that theory about being a nationalist. i have heard them all. when i say a nationalist, i don't like it when germany's paying 1% of gdp for nato and we're paying 4.3%. i don't like that. >> i'm proud of our country. i am a nationalist. it's a word that hasn't been used too much. people use it. i'm very proud. i think it should be brought back. >> no doubt, nationalist is a broad term. it can come down to love of country and wanting to do what's best for your countrymen. but a lot of people avoid using ooh the term not just because of its bloody history in europe and here in america but because some of the folks who embrace the term nationalist include these people. >> jews will not replace us. jews wil

thank you, jim acosta. appreciate it. the president campaigning tonight after his top aides got into a screaming match over immigration. cnn's kaitlan collins has the details for us next. could listening to audible bring out your best? i want you to own it. go after that goal. the most inspiring stories, fitness, wellness and more. download audible and listen for a change. ♪ cleaning floors with a mop and bucket is a hassle, fitness, wellness and more. meaning you probably don't clean as often as you'd like. for a quick and convenient clean, try swiffer wetjet. there's no heavy bucket, or mop to wring out, because the absorb and lock technology traps dirt and liquid inside the pad. it's safe to use on all finished surfaces tile, laminate and hardwood. and it prevents streaks and hazing better than a micro fiber strip mop, giving you a thorough clean the first time. for a convenient clean, try swiffer wetjet with a money back guarantee. brand power. helping you buy better. >>> a heated shouting match in the west wing betwe

it's not going to make it to liver more valley or continue acosta county -- contra kosta county. you see it there. it's cooled off. last night we had temperatures in the 60s because of the strong high pressure. that's the bay bridge. traffic is moving nicely, as we press into the forecast for the overnight lows, that's the fire danger, it's santa rosa 36 degrees, areas in the north and east will have frost in the areas like napa. so it's going to be a chilly one as you send the kids off the school tomorrow morning. you will see -- pulls back away from the coast and comes back in. >> less fog than today. but fog. these are the forecast highs tomorrow. warm along the coast, in this pattern is sticking around, it will be here through the bay area weekend as the top tier numbers hold steady. the bay area is upper 70s. you notice the microclimates are existing inland, bay and coast, but they are closer together. this is typical. here's the five-day forecast, a good one for firefighters firefighters. air quality. it will be a nice week or is ne highlights from two baseball playoff game

>> jim acosta, thank you so much.ere is what former mayor bloomberg said today. >> the president's words matter more than anybody else. his job is to be a unifier, not the leader of the party but it of this country. there are consequences to words. >> cnn political analyst, david gregory author of "how is your faith: an unlikely spiritual journey." calling the quote fake news media the true enemy of the people, he clearly understands -- some people have said maybe he doesn't understand the impact or the fact that, you kn know, it hasn't dawned on him that he's president of the united states, he's not just the flashy real estate developer anymore. but this is clearly a deliberate strategy on his part. >> we're two years into his presidency. i think he gets it at this point, he's no longer just a real estate developer, number one. number two, he is smarter than these people like to tell himself and more aware of of what he is doing and that includes his own aides sometimes, who want to be able to understand why it's not

so let's go straight to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. and jim, i want to go straight to the president's words, saying that kavanaugh's nomination was caught up in a hoax by the democrats and he didn't stop there. what else did he say? >> well, it's pretty remarkable what he's saying, brooke. we should point out a few minutes before you came on the air, he was making additional comments at this law enforcement speech that he's giving down in orlando, florida. he was talking about the battle over brett kavanaugh and some of the allegations that were brought forward. and he said, quote, it was a disgraceful situation brought about by people who are evil. so the president is putting this in some very stark, i mean just the most pointed terms possible. it is unclear, brooke, whether or not the president is lumping in the accuser in that brett kavanaugh saga, christine blasey ford, into that comment when he says that this was brought forward by people who are evil. if you talk to people inside the white house, inside the republican party, obvi

jim acosta reporting. joining us now, democratic senator, bill nelson of florida, a member of the armed services committee. senator, thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. >> i want to get your thoughts on the rescue and recovery effort under way in your home state of florida right now. but first, let me get right to the breaking news oppoon this s journalist murdered in istanbul. what do you make of this new explanation, the saudis are apparently preparing? >> well, it sounds like they've concocted a cover story. nothing has changed. he was lured into the embassy. they even admit they were going to abduct him. and he ends up being killed. and they admit that. so it seems that they're just trying to lessen the impact. but there should be some severe consequences if this is, in fact, what happened. >> what do you mean by severe consequences? >> well, to be determined. let's see what the final story is. but this was a person who was a resident in the u.s. he has an american family of u.s. citizens a

jim acosta, thank you very much. now to the extraordinary west wing shouting match between the national security adviser john bolton and white house chief of staff john kelly. let's bring in our white house correspondent kaitlan collins who is doing a lot of reporting on this. what set these two guys off? >> reporter: it got really ugly, talking about a recent surge in border cross, something that has infuriated president trump because he's been tweeting about it and it got really ugly between john bolton and john kelly where it startled other people in the west wing. that's not normal. a lot of fighting in this white house, it's bitter and divisive and this is more dramatic than that and someone equated it as a falling out. they were talking about the surge in borders crossings, and really what set john kelly off is when john bolton, the national security adviser, criticized the dhs secretary kirstjen nielsen. now she is a protege of john kelly's. he brought her when he became chief of staff to the white house for a

our jim acosta joins us from the white house with that. so you were in the east room just now for the ceremonial swearing-in. i'm just wondering what it was like in the room. >> reporter: well, anderson, it was a fascinating thing to watch. obviously you don't get to see living supreme court justices there in the flesh in the east room of the white house, so that obviously lets you know that history is in the making here. anderson, one of the big questions going into tonight's ceremony over at the white house is whether or not we were going to hear fire and fury or fence meddling. really we got both. anderson, i think probably the more striking thing of the night is seeing mitch mcconnell receive not one but two standing ovations. he was as much the man of the hour and he was the one that blocked merrick garland from being put on the supreme court when barack obama was president and essentially delivered this moment to president trump on a silver platter. >> and for days the president has not been shying away from a very strong defense of

jim acosta is at the white house. what did the president say? >> reporter: he was down in florida and georgia taking a look at the storm damage. he was asked about the latest report from cnn and from others that this was the result potentially of a botched interrogation, that jamal khashoggi died as a result of an interrogation that went wrong. the president, as you noted earlier today, was saying that perhaps rogue killers were to blame for all of this. he was much more careful in the way he responded to this question about the latest reports on all of this and here's what he had to say earlier tonight. >> i'm going to have to see what they say and we're working very closely with saudi arabia and with turkey and they're working together to figure out what happened. and they want to know what happened also. so a lot of people are working on it, a lot of people. and we'll be bound very much by that. we'll see. i've heard that report. nobody knows if it's an official report. so far it's the rumor. the rumor report coming in. >> reporter: and, ande

our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta, was in the briefing room. i wondered what you made of sarah sanders' responses, jim? >> reporter: well, wianderson, you heard, the press secretary did say that the president and the first lady will be heading to pittsburgh tomorrow to remember the victims of the tree of life synagogue massacre. but then it got pretty contentious, as you saw, in that briefing. members of the press, including myself, were trying to press sarah on some of the president's rhetoric, which the white house doesn't want to take any responsibility for. they're obviously pushing back on the notion that the president's rhetoric has anything to do with any of these violent acts we've seen over the last week. at one point, sarah sanders said that we and the press were blaming the president for these acts, which i don't think is the case. i suppose there might be some individuals out there who are blaming the president directly for these attacks. but i think what has been said, by cnn and other news outlets, is that the president's rhetoric

cnn's jim acosta has been reporting from these rallies. well, today he spoke at the citizen cnn conference. it's right here in new york city. i just want everyone to hear jim describe what happened to him at a rally in montana. watch this. >> i remember looking over to the supporters in the crowd, and there was one guy, one young man, who was doing these body slam moves. you know. and he and his buddies were all getting a laugh out of it. and then looked at me and he goes like this. like i'm going to cut your throat. and you know, just -- i went up to him after it was over and i talked to him about it. and he was just sort of laughing about it. i guess he wasn't serious about it. but to me that's the trump effect on america. it has normalized and sanitized nastiness and cruelty. >> do you agree with jim, susan? is this the trump effect? and could it get worse? >> well, yes and yes in a short answer. i recently watched six straight trump rallies from the beginning of october, and what i was struck by was that the press bashing and the attac

it could be undone tonight. >> jim acosta, thank you. let's go to capitol hill where we're told republican senator susan collins of maine is reading the fbi report in that secure room. our senior congressional correspondent manu raju is at the capital. how do we expect this key republican? there are a few key republican senators who are still technically undecided to vote. >> we don't know yet i caught up with susan collins and i said do you have any new concerns? she said, quote, i'm not going to draw conclusions before i'm finished reading. this is after she made positive remarks saying it appeared she had don a thorough investigation breaking significantly from democrats who said it was not a thorough investigation. susan collins doesn't think so. also jeff flake, that other key republican said something similar. he said he agreed to there appeared to be a thorough investigation and suggested that jeff flake also said it was nothing to corroborate those allegation allegations. when we caught up with lisa murkowski of alaska she was no

here is cnn's jim acosta in san jose last night. >> make no mistake, these events have stiffened our spines. they have made us more determined than ever to do the news, and to get at the truth, as to what's happe i >> acosta was at san jose state accepting the foundation award for excellence in journalism. he spent the day talking with students about the industry and said "truth is bigger than a bully and truth is bigger than bombs." >>> we're keeping a eye on the latest developments on the caravan. president trump may use the same authority he used to create the travel ban to shut down the border turning people away seeking asylum, that would be an american first. full report on that coming up at the top of the hour. >>> in the meantime, as things move quickly, especially on these suspicious packages, you can follow us on twitter, you'll find me @scottmcgrew. >> thanks, scott. >>> switching gears for you right now, hey, we want to see your halloween costumes. lot of you will dress up and get out and enjoy it this weekend. be sure to tag @nbcbayarea on facebook and twitter and tune i

let's go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta., the president continues to blame at least in part the violence on the news media. >> reporter: that's right. everybody but himself, wolf. the white house says the president and first lady will travel to pittsburgh tomorrow to remember the victims of the tree of life synagogue massacre, but the white house is offering no apologies, no regrets for the president's rhetoric after he once again referred to the press in this country as the enemy of the people. with his own incendiary rhetoric under a microscope, president trump will visit pittsburgh tuesday and come face-to-face with a community that is divided over his mere presence after the mass shooting at the tree of life synagogue. >> the american people reject hatred, bigotry, prejudice and violence. >> reporter: white house press secretary sarah sanders angrily pushed back on any notion that the president's tendency to rip into his adversaries had anything to do with the carnage in pittsburgh or the pipe bombs sent to democratic po

>> jim acosta reporting for us. thank you very much. joining us now, congressman mike doyle of pennsylvania, whose district includes that pittsburgh area where the synagogue is located. congressman, our hearts go out to all of your entire community there, and all of the people impacted. first of all, how is the community holding up right now? >> wolf, thank you for that. and i can tell you that squirrel hill and the pittsburgh community is a very resilient bunch. this is a great neighborhood in pittsburgh, where people of all races, all religions, live together and something like this is just unimaginable. but they're strong, good-hearted people. and when something like this happens, they come together and they support one another. and the entire pittsburgh community has been supportive. we had a vigil last night that over 5,000 people that you couldn't fit them all in the soldiers and sailors hall where it was. and we heard not only from the three rabbis who were directly -- their congregations directly affected, but by people from eve