i served with chris wray. and chris wray acted as my lawyer.hey're not going to respond to this stuff. it's unfortunate, but it's white noise to them. they'll follow their job. and by the way, the indictments of these republican congressmen are a perfect example of that. they knew the president wasn't going to react well to this, yet, you know if you'll indict a member of congress, that the highest levels of the justice department, the deputy attorney general or the attorney general himself signed off on those indictments. and so they're not being affected by the white noise of the tweets. >> here's hoping. this as the president is expected to declassify more documents around the surveillance of carter page and bruce here. i hope governor christie is right but i've seen the justice department and fbi bend a whole lot of political whims, white noise that broke through when the president was able to align paul ryan who has been spine unless the face of the political calls from the white house and devin nunes of the house intel committee to declas

chris wray still has professional pride.g that goes on with the investigation casts doubt on whether it was done correctly. so, for example, you know, various different forms of language, people have said it should be limited in scope. but what happens if you go interview somebody at yale who may have been present at a particular party with brett kavanaugh, is alleged to have engaged in some kind of bad conduct, and that person says, well, here is my recollection of that event, but let me tell you since you are asking and since you came to see me about three other things that happened. what happens often whether it is an investigation of the background or criminal investigation, you take a look at something and because you are looking at it appropriately within the scope of what your responsibilities are, you see these other three things happen and you must look at those. when that happens, if that happens, i guarantee you there will be an outcry in congress and at the white house, but that's a potential way that the investi

i served with chris wray and chris wray acted as my lawyer.y're not going to respond to this stuff. it is unfortunate, but it's white noise to them. they're going to follow their job and, by the way, the indictments of these republican congressmen are a perfect example of that. they knew the president wasn't going to react well to this. yet, you know if you're going to indict a member of congress, that the highest levels of the justice department, the deputy attorney general or the attorney general himself signed off on those indictments. and so they're not being affected by the white noise of the tweet. >> got to take a break. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. 250k servics who transition out of the u.s. military every year... ...one of the toughest parts is the search for a job that takes advantage of the skills you've gained while serving. you can now search with the phrase 'jobs for veterans' directly on google... ...and then enter your military occupational specialty code. google brings together job openings from across the web tha

. >> what about his new director for the fbi, chris wray. he came out and talked about the lingering stench over there. at some point chris wray is going to have to come out and defend his people and defend his department. so i don't think anybody is safe over there. i think it's a question of timing. it's very clear sessions is going to be gone, probably after the election. and i think sort of the game right now inside the white house is to control the president and to try and say, look, don't do anything right now because we have this election coming up in 40 odd days and we want to get kavanaugh passed. this is important to your base. sit tight if you possibly can. we all know with donald trump that may last a couple of days, but we just -- we just can't predict. 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 r

. >> right, and what about his new director for the fbi, chris wray.dent just came out and talked about the lingering stench over there. at some point chris wray is going to have to come out and defend his people and defend his department. so i don't think anybody is safe over there. i think it's a question of timing. it's very clear sessions is going to be gone, probably after the election. and i think sort of the game right now inside the white house is to control the president and to try and say, look, don't do anything right now because we have this election coming up in 40-odd days and we want to get kavanaugh passed. we have to get him confirmed. this is important to your base. sit tight if you possibly can. we all know with donald trump that that may last a couple of days, but we just -- we just can't predict. 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 to fire jim comey. so, who knows what's going to happen. >> i guess the othe

the president is now basically overruling the conclusion that rod rosenstein and chris wray already came to. they're in a tough spot. i think they have to fight but ultimately it's the president's call and he is making clear he's not worried about the national security implications. >> and phil rucker, he's siding with or takeing the advice of devin nunes. i asked someone today why he would do that, why not listen to men like christopher wray and rod rosenstein who are republicans, hand-picked appointees to run the justice department and the fbi? this person said to me, because he doesn't like their answers. is this where we are? is there -- do we even pause anymore when the president of the united states obliterates a norm, one with national security implications or are they unashamed? sort of as the anonymous writer of the op-ped in "the new york times" said, it's a two-track presidency, and where they can, they're going to try to save america from donald trump. >> yeah, nicolle, i think there are a couple things going on. one is, the president is rather conspiratorial by nature. so he

david: the way chris wray in that race, particularly after the votes are counted and he still would not concede, and that hurt him a lot among republican voters there. he is the more conservative but i don't think he has at this point the ability to win. early on as we were choosing what races to get involved in we decided to go somewhere like montana where i think i can conservative has a chance to win and we can help them do it. on theet's zoom out history of the club for growth in groups like it in the republican rome. this is the first cycle in as long as i can remember the club has not mounted a campaign against a sitting republican incumbent. what does that tell you about the state of the republican party? had a fixed as much as you can? for somehe new normal of the president trump is just so all-consuming he is the face of everything? i still think the divide in the republican party between more moderate and conservative -- i think the real more liberal republicans have left. there is not that type of divide. honestly, in this case, we looked at the map and saw in 10 states where

>> the president has in recent days gotten very skeptical of the fbi director chris wray.is not happy with the speed to which he is doing the things he wants him to do like look into things like uranium one. he mortgaged an enormous amount of political capital to fire comey. and now he doesn't like wray. >> who does he like? >> donald j. trump. >> the russian investigation has raged. sessions has been the constant of trump attacks. number his up coming book "fear," quote, trump tells porter of sessions. this guy is mentally retarded. this dumb southerner. trump writing i said neither. and being a southerner is a great thing. zerlina for you, i think you might enjoy the absurdy of this. he got enormous support in alabama, they love donald trump. how can he now quote on "dumb southerners," he is not dancing with the one that brung him. >> a bad political move. his base is those folks that you are talking about, in alabama, louisiana, and mississippi. it is normally to those places, the places that are the most red and contain the most members of his base. which believe in th

who did senate republican call when they couldn't get chris wray on the phone last week when they weree's fears about this investigation? rod rosenstein. it will be interesting to see how that meeting goes. >> the government will not be shutting down when the clock strikes midnight. low bar for success but it characterizes the appropriations process has moved forward. 75% of the fiscal will be funded through the entire fiscal year. that's the first time that's happened in 22 years. but 20% will ohm be through december. everyone thinks there will be a government shutdown december 7th. they wanted to give themselves a couple of weeks before christmas, alcohol nonling there will be at least a one or two-week shutdown. we'll go back to shutdown watch in a couple of months. >> he's making a list, the walls on it twice. >> yes. >> president trump was at the u.n. and it was hardly even a top five story in this administration but he made a number of interesting proposals there, trying to cut foreign aid to countries. trying to end the eu. we saw, you know, one indication at the u.n. of where t

. >> reporter: if it comes to the point that sources and methods could be compromised, chris wray and dan coats should resign. >> the right them for them to do, to signal the alarm, is to say, if you want this done, mr. president, it has to be done by someone else. we may be getting close to that point. >> reporter: jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >>> another interesting detail in the interview with "the hill." all of the documents he wants released, he hasn't read them. he said he is calling for their release because some in congress said they want him to. >>> let's turn to korea. and america's top diplomat says the united states is ready to resort negotiations with north korea with goal of ending those talks by 2021. this comes on the heels of the interkorean summit, where kim jong-un said he vows to remove part of his nuclear program. let's turn to our paula hancocks. she joins us live from seoul, in south korea. good to see you again, paula. after all of the excitement following day two of the interkorean summit, the skeptics are casting doubt if real progress was made. but th

one of the things that chris wray, the fbi director, said over the summer at a conference that i attended, essentially we're ignoring the president when he says we should stop investigating the russia matter. >> barbara, some surrogates for the president appearing on cable news channels tonight were expressing relief over the direction the mueller talks are apparently headed. do you believe any of it regarding leaks out of the white house on the mueller talks? >> it certainly wouldn't be his first choice. written answers are certainly not preferable because you can't follow up with follow-up questions. you can't look at someone's tone or inflection or body language to determine whether they're telling the truth. it could be robert mueller has reached a point where he's decided that donald trump is not going to sit for an interview and robert mueller is not willing perhaps to litigate this matter and risk an adverse decision in the courts, though i think he would win that battle. maybe he perceives trump sit for an interview as his opportunity to tell his side of the story. if he wants to

the director of fbi was chris wray. that wrong, that was right around the time of jim comey was fired, mae of 17 '. this is part of what the presidenter is -- president perceives this is long standing when he was a candidate in 15 and 16, to use the tools of law enforcement to embarass him, or, or it is as mr. strzok's lawyer said to fox news and other this is morning they were concerned with plugging leaks and they just used the phrase media news leak. now -- trish: media leak strategy. >> running against that argument is the fact that two days after this email exchange between strzok and page there were two very negative pieces in major media outlets about quote, your namesake, that is her namesake, carter page, who was the guy whose surveillance we believe started the whole thing. so look strzok is the subject of an ongoing inquiry by the house intelligence committee. at some point they are going to ask him under oath what this was. he may not be a nice guy and may not have been loyal to the president when he was in

and jeff sessions, rod rosenstein, chris wray and others could be offended and think it's laughable tonk that somehow their will, their decision making their power is somehow being undermined by others who are subordinate to them. it simply doesn't work that way. >> would it be a manage take if the president fired rod rosenstein at this point? >> when it comes to signing things like fisa warrants have to take the word of the career level people that the facts are as they've been described. what it be a mistake to fire him? politically it might be, but i have to say, if i'm the ceo of the company or the president of the united states, and somehow working for me has been subverting my will, has claimed i'm unfit, and is trying to get cabinet members to sign off on the president is removed from office, i'd fire him. >> do you believe his denials? i get a sense you're skeptical? >> i'm saying if what they're saying is true, what the media is reporting, if rosenstein engaged in that kind of conduct where he's tryabinet level officials to sign off on the 25th amendment, the president would b

this is chris wray talking about current threats.yber and others. >> today's terrorism threats still includes sleeper cells, al qaeda, all the kind of major terrorist organizations that you would think of. but we are also very focused now on homegrown violent extremists which are people who are largely here already in the united states, big cities, small towns, coast to coast. these are people who are largely radicalized online. terrorism today moves at the speed of social media. >> greg: i think this is a real challenge for us because all it takes is one person who was radicalized and can go on the internet and find a way to make a bomb. it is chilling. >> juan: to me, it's an idea. you have to cope with it as ideological cancer. something that is spreading in the body of the world, global world, as opposed to just the united states. i was just listening to dana and jesse and thinking how much of this moment we all have a sense of grief and loss over what happened that day on the tragedy of it. i just hope that as people look back,

they take direction from chris wray, the fbi director, and the white house. it is an executive branch agency. i can talk about what i hope they will do, what i think would be reasonable for them to do but i am not able to direct them in any way. >> understood. >> i would think if they take up a supplemental background investigation they would test the allegations made by dr. ford. >> just ford? >> they would question some of the folks -- and they would question some of the folks who have already come forward in the public and made statements about judge kavanaugh. for example, you were talking at the opening of the show about the credibility of his categorical denial, his categorical denial that he's ever had a night that he can't remember from drinking. there are already several folks who have come forward, college classmate, roommate, acquaintances to say that's not true. we were with him. we have evidence. there's obviously a list of folks who are classmates or friends who have come forward to say we support judge kavanaugh and we support his characterizat

it doesn't come from the fbi director chris wray who he appointed and hand picked to select jim comey. it didn't come from matt itimat comes from these names. are you ready? lou dobbs, the great sean hanni hannity, the wonderful and great gd piro. that is who gets his national security advice from. >> those are the people who are really -- whose advice and council the president is really listening to. and so they go on the air every day andleadfor him and they encourage him and bash anyone who is critical for him or heaven forbid trying to hold him accountable in any way. and he lives interests that bubble, that disinformation bubble which is very dangerous situation for the country. and david said this would set a terrible precedent, but it is not just the precedent. there can be information here and now that the president is ordering to be released that can compromise sources and methods in a way that can get people killed. i mean, can result in serious harm, that can cut off valuable sources of intelligence that we've relied on and will horrify the allies with whom we share intelli

and is calling friends and allies to vent about his selection of sessions as attorney general and chris wray has fbi director around the clock. welcome to sent, everyone. here to help us, some of our faif ris repovorite reporters a. phil rucker, mike schmidt, joyce vance is back, and about the table, john heilman, and former democratic congresswoman donna edwards. phil rucker, you have the byline on the new story about bob woodward's book. first, did you read the whole book and take us what seems like explosive new reporting about john dowd's concerns about donald trump. >> yeah. so nicolle, yes, i read it in its entirety. it's a pretty complete and i think you hit the nail on the head when you called it a devastating portrait of the presidency and his power, to focus in on the john dowd examples, there's that practice session in january of this year. woodward describes this in a lot of detail, page after page after page, reconstructing the dialogue between trump and john dowd, as they rehearsed questions that trump would face should he sit for an interview with mueller. the whole point in b

attorney general sessions, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, his own fbi nominee director chris wray, they have held this off. they have run the justice department the way that it's supposed to be run, insulating the career lawyers and the prosecutors from political influence of the president. but he's doing this out in public, and he has an intent, i have thought throughout his presidency going back to the campaign to be able to influence the justice department in a way that's completely inappropriate and that contravenes the rule of law. it's unamerican what he wants to do. but he doesn't care. he hasn't learned over the last couple of years, and so he continues on this tack. and really, the question is when are other members of congress, republicans in particular going to say that this is not only not okay, but that they are opposed to his firing attorney general sessions or rod rosenstein. >> you know, ambassador eisen, earlier when i was talking to jeff zeleny, i said it's normal for him to attack the attorney general. it's not normal in any other time, but it has become normali

first of all, if you're the director of the fbi, chris wray, your responsibility is to conduct a professional investigation to ensure that you don't get a question in three weeks saying, did you do everything you could during that time period to determine what happened all those years ago? let me give you one specific example that i think will be hugely significant. we're talking about, for example, yesterday one accuser. so you could read those words, i think, the charge to the fbi, and say, well, they're just going to determine what happened in that room 35, 36 years ago, whatever it is. that is incorrect. as soon as the investigation starts and somebody says, well, a lot of people aren't going to remember what happened because every all the time that summer was dead drunk, all of a sudden you say, well, did that include judge kavanaugh? and you open the door to determining what his lifestyle was. by the way, to close here, i think the most significant story we will see within a week or two has nothing to do with an assault. it has to do with what we called in the business lack of candor. d

depends upon how many people, chris wray dispatches and how many people -- those, investigators generate other witnesses. they will talk to dr. ford. she is going to give them five names. those people will give them five more names. this is what happened in the clarence thomas case. they ended up interrogating 22 people but did it in four days. we have much larger, more technologically efficient fbi now. this can be done, if the senate wants it done. trish: let me ask you this would i like your legal opinion on this, sir. not moral -- i think that all of us are conflicted, right? i think both, and president said, she seemed credible, he seemed credible, but legally, this is 36 years ago, there is no evidence of anything. so, how can you prove a crime? >> so yesterday was a political experience using the tools of the legal profession. swearing people to tell the truth. interrogating them under oath. preventing cross-examination. but if yesterday were a courtroom then the plaintiff, the person bringing the charge would have what is called the burden of proof, the obligation of producing mo

chris wray as director does not want the fbi acting as praetorian guard where they go it to investigate are told to investigate that. the legal part is very clear. there is no federal crime under any circumstance. they're going outside of their lane if they were to do a investigation. the primary investigation here is by the senate. the senate has the authority to investigate, to question, to bring people in. they seem to be doing that. so why would we bend the rules and have the fbi do something beyond their charter? david: there is another problem as we saw with peter strzok and other members of the fbi who seemed to allow bias to affect the way they did their investigations there is a problem. i know it may be unfair but it is hanging over the fbi right now and there would be judgments have to be made by fbi agents investigating this no? >> i think the day is coming where a lot of this will see daylight. for the fisa applications if carter page had been charged there would be a vehicle to be hashed all this out very openly which is a criminal case. we're left with a different set of

you call chris wray, the fbi director.weeks, three weeks. but a week sounds really fast to me. >> phil, kavanaugh's high school friend, mike judge's lawyer says judge will cooperate. all we have seen is a sworn statement about the allegation. is there anything the fbi could learn from him they didn't get from the statement? >> oh, heck, yeah. you learn a lot about what people say and what they don't say. this is why time and multiple interviews is important. if he chooses not to say things about what happens or what happened or what he remembered happened years ago, and people in his circle contradict him, he's in trouble. so it's not just what he says, it's what he doesn't say. be careful. . >> and what about changing stories? is it possible? does it happen in investigations somebody submits a sworn statement and then they later investigate it and contradict it? >> oh, constantly. we lost cia applicants constantly for changing stories. you say you didn't smoke marijuana in college? six of your college friends say you did.

the president is going to get this request and maybe he'll call chris wray and say do you promise me this is going to be non-biased -- >> hold on. senator leahy will speak. he's walking away right now. hold on. senator klobuchar. >> they had been working together on this for quite a while and a number of us have been urging them along. this was kind of a surprise to all of us. senator flake has expressed including in his speech yesterday, his concern about the divide in this country that is being exacerbated by what's happening here. of course we have been asking over and over again for follow-ups on the evidence. so senator flake is basically saying to his leadership i want to see this additional investigation before i vote for this nominee. and if he is joined by one or two other republicans in this request, then they wouldn't have the votes unless the investigation occurred. >> reporter: has anybody else committed -- >> i don't know, you'll have to ask them. it is one week -- one week is what senator flake was interested in and you can do a lot if you have the whole fbi looking at

constantly take the side of harsh partisans like devin nunes over republican appointed fbi director chris wray opposite true? does the democratic party have any sort of peril if it calls for the impeachment of a sitting supreme court justice after he goes through what is the process we have. deeply imperfect, but we do have a deliberative process in the senate. you saw senator chris coons moved to tears, sort of relief that that process seemed to be working. is there peril in moving forward with what jonathan swan reported today about trying to impeach a sitting supreme court justice at the suggestion of michael avenatti, no offense to mr. avenat avenatti? >> we shouldn't threaten that until the senate completes its course. we shouldn't step on their proceedings and presume what they're going to do or not going to do. yesterday was excruciating. one of the hardest days in my six years in public service to watch. you know, 27 years ago, that hearing with anita hill was regarded as a disgrace, yet 20 witnesses were heard from. now we only heard from two witnesses, and it feels like we've gone ba

in jacksonville, north carolina, chris wray has returned to see his home destroyed. >> hopefully fema helps. not just me but every citizen around here gets the help they need. >> rep florence who dumped 40 inches of rain on south carolina, mandatory evacuations have been ordered for hundreds of people who live within a mile of the cape fear river in wilmington. that riv expected to crest at 62 feet tuesday morning, nearly double its normal flood stage. s thisrm has never been more dangerous than it is right now. >> rep much water in the coatyal no ae can get to it. >> our roadsre cut off. there's no access to wilmington today. >> reporter: the cy now basically an island, cut off from the world. i surveyed a flooded neighborhood with newhanover chairman commission woody white. where did all this water come from? >> this is rainfall over the last 12 to 20 hours. >> reporter: we found chris trying to jump start a flooded truck. it stalled out when he was trying to drive his family to safety. >> i'm from wilmington.ee i've bn through every hurricane since the '70s and i've never experienc

i recently sat down with the fbi director, chris wray, and one of the interesting things he told -- ihis, that china is our biggest counter-intelligence priority with the hacking. how is microsoft dealing with that and have you seen that with china? >> cybersecurity is almost job one these days for every consumer, every business, every government on the planet. that's why we're rolling out new security features even today. there are plenty of governments that are worried about each other these days. i don't think that this is a problem that one can use to point at a single government. i think it's one we need to think about from a global perspective. we need stronger technology, we need people to implement the technology we provide, and we also need stronger international laws in this space as well. >> picking up on norah's question, the associated press says the microsoft has emerged like an internet cop by avoiding critical resorts to russian hackers. okay, you've got the russians but what about the chinese, and are you the first line of defense before even the government gets there

in jacksonville, north carolina, chris wray has returned to >> hopefully fema helps. not just me, but every citizen around here gets the help we need. >> reporter: by the time this ends, florence will have dumped 40 inches of rain on southeastern north carolina. mandatory evacuations have been issued for hundreds of people who live a mile from the cape fear river in wilmington. that river is expected to crest at 62 feet on monday morning.ha now. >> reporter: there is so much water in the coastal city that no one can get to it. >> our roads are cut off. there's no access to wilmington today. >> reporter: the city, now, basically an island, cut off from the world. i surveyed a flooded neighborhood with new hanover county commission chairman woody white. where did all this water come from? >> this is rainfall over the last 12 to 20 hours. >> reporter: we found chris tyner trying to jump-start a flooded truck. it stalled out when he was trying to drive his family to safety. >> i'm from wilmington. i've been in every hurricane since the '70s and i never experienced anythin

chris wray needs to be replaced by somebody that's not going to try to keep slapping president when he's wrong about the f.b.i. -- slapping the president when he's wrong about the f.b.i. hopefully we'll see that come in the next few weeks, we'll see. i yield back, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. frelinghuysen: mr. speaker, pursuant to clause 7 of rule 22, i present a privileged report. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title. the clerk: conference report to accompany h.r. 6157, an act making appropriations for the department of defense for the fiscal year ending september 30, it 2019, and for other purposes. -- 30, 2019, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: ordered printed. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. frelinghuysen: mr. speaker, i move that the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly, the hous