don jr. was now don, manafort, jared. >> who would have their campaign manager, their son, their son-in-law all attend this meeting? to talk about adoption? it didn't make sense. >> it could have been used as a green light back at the kremlin. >> most campaigns never would have taken that meeting this campaign was happy to take it. >> he's talked to congress, the mueller team, the grand jury and now to us. rob goldstone with the inside story of the trump tower meeting. >> tell us what happened. was the dirt on hillary clinton forthcoming? >>> it was the email that set off a chain of events leading to the meeting. just a few sentences long, but every word subject to intense scrutiny and speculation. >> would you read it to us. >> sure. good morning. amon called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting. the crown prosecutor of russia met with his father this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information that wou

don jr. was now don, manafort, jared. >> who would have their campaign manager, their son, their son-in-law all attend this meeting? to talk about adoption? it didn't make sense. >> it could have been used as a green light back at the kremlin. >> most campaigns never would have taken that meeting this campaign was happy to take it. >> he's talked to congress, the mueller team, the grand jury and now to us. rob goldstone with the inside story of the trump tower meeting. >> tell us what happened. was the dirt on hillary clinton forthcoming? ♪ >>> it was the email that set off a chain of events leading to the meeting. just a few sentences long, but every word subject to intense scrutiny and speculation. >> would you read it to us. >> sure. good morning. amon called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting. the crown prosecutor of russia met with his father this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information that w

i want to play don jr.d about the russia investigation. >> reporter: when you're out here on the campaign trail and you talk about this, what's the reaction that you guys get? >> honestly, no one has asked about this in two years. everyone has known it was nonsense. it was a big catalyst because the media needed it to be true. they needed something out there to say this is why trump won. >> the media did not fire comey or hire mueller. what's he talking about? >> we're going to find out shortly what bob mueller as. we should do this as a public service announcement, that nobody know what is he has. we don't know what this evidence is going to show, but it's a lot more than anybody will know. but this president with his alternative realities has really proven his ability, though, you know, to create these alternative -- there's nothing here to see, there's nothing here to see. just take the saudi arabia issue. he says he didn't do it. well, he must not have done it. this ability he has to sort of gaslight th

>> well, generally speaking, i'd say for folks like don jr. would be worried if everybody close to me has been interviewed. but i'm still not. it's a game of musical chairs. if you're the last person out, you might be the one getting indicted for that. there's been so much grand jury activity recently that i find that interesting juxtaposition to the idea that mueller may be finishing up his report. almost seems like it's inconsistent, but perhaps there's going to be an interim report of some kind. but it does seem like there's been so much grand jury activity that it's hard to imagine that the report's finalized and wrapped up at this point. >> i think it is in at least one sense which is that mueller has said he wouldn't accept written answers on the instruction part. and to the best of our knowledge, that's never been resolved. so mueller will either have to decide he proceeds without interviewing trump about obstruction of justice or he goes again and tries to get trump to come in. on the family thing, my personal view, having been a estat

drop flirty little nuggets, pet names. >> that don jr., i call him junior mints. >> reporter: with a e moos, cnn, new york. >> thanks for joining us. ac 360 starts now. >>> good evening. senior u67enior u.s. counter of tells us no evidence isis is trying to get into the border. no evidence. no evidence of terrorist infiltration in the migrant caravan now making its way through mexico. zero, none. now we're saying it at the top of the broadcast and we'll keep coming back to it because simple facts matter and the quiet truth bears repeating. with just two weeks to go until mid term elections president trump was in texas tonight has chosen to fill the public arena with the exact opposite of a quiet truth or simple facts and he's doing it in a way that seems designed to scare

what did don jr.? what did john jr. know? what did jared kushner know. mueller now knows the answers as well. >> matt what do you make of the escalation of house republicans on rosenstein? >> the republicans are obviously upset he did this interview, but they're also upset with members of their own party. if you look at the reports, rosenstein is going down to the hill to talk to the chairman of the oversight committee. and i should say the democratic members, the ranking members as well. but the people that won't be in that meeting are mark meadows, jim jordan, other members of the freedom caucus. when you see him come out and do this interview, there are a couple things he was trying to do. he was trying to push back against this criticism from republicans on the hill. i think, two, he was trying to set up, you know, for after the election of what, you know, bob mueller is going to do to assure the american people he's been acting appropriately. and the result of these investigations are going to be appropriate when they're rolled out. and i also think

the purpose of that meeting was set up so that the russians could give dirt to don jr.llary clinton. >> but kushner's lawyer insists that jared was in the dark about the meeting's agenda. >> everybody needs to understand the chronology of that meeting. jared was told about a meeting that happened in trump tower somewhere in passing with his brother-in-law. no topic was mentioned and the date and a time was set. when jared got into the room, the conversation was about russian adoption. >> kushner said he asked an assistant to contact him so he could excuse himself from the meeting. >> he was probably in the meeting for 10 or 12 minutes, what happened before he came in and what happened after he wasn't there to see. >> while there's no evidence that useful information was conveyed in the meeting, alleged connections between russians and the trump campaign are major subjects of the mueller probe. the trump teen was thrown into panic by the release of the notorious "access hollywood" tape one month before election day. >> when you're a star, can you do it, you can do anythi

after joe manchin, a real profile in courage from lying liberal joe manchin, don jr.weeting, waiting until kavanaugh had enough votes to secure before he announced his support. i bet he had another press release ready to go if collins went the other way. i think at this point it is the republican party's attempt to try to spin man chin's vote in favor of kavanaugh as some kind of negative because they know it is a tough race in west virginia. if joe manchin could eke out a win in part because he came out in support of brett kavanaugh, that foils a lot of republican plans to overturn that seat and turn it red. >> the president, as we know, spent a lot of time in west virginia campaigning against joe manchin. >> reporter: that's right. >> let's get more on all of that. democratic senator bob menendez is joining us. thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> let me get your thoughts on today's dramatic development. looks like brett kavanaugh is on his way to becoming a supreme court associate justice. your reaction? >> it does look like that at this point, and i r

that donald trump has shown more affection for brett kavanaugh this week than he has for eric and don jrin really all of their entire lives. [ laughter ] he even tweeted, he tweeted the democrats are playing a high-level con game in their vicious effort to destroy a fine person. it's called the politics of destruction. behind the scene the dems are laughing, pray for brett kavanaugh and his family. do you really think -- do you think -- is there any chance that donald trump has actually prayed for brett kavanaugh and his family? [ laughter ] i mean, really. you think -- maybe we should ask god if donald trump is -- god? god? [ heavenly music ] oh, god, let me get out of your way. wow. it's god. >> hey, jimmy, jimmy. >> jimmy: hi, there. >> how you doing, man? >> jimmy: doing well, is that you? >> yeah, ain't oprah. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i didn't expect you to be so -- um -- >> jewish? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yes, no. so casual. >> oh, this, yeah. jimmy, it's casual wednesday yeah. >> jimmy: oh, okay. >> yeah, i'm going over to the driving range, hit some balls with arnold palmer. >> jimm

. >> reporter: but for her husband and stepson, don jr., it is men, not the women, who have spoken ofr of the "me too" movement. >> a scary time for young men in america when you can be guilty of something you're not guilty of. >> i think we need to be concerned for all of them. not just boys or girls. i think for all of them. >> is this sort of a tough conversation you'll eventually have, do you think, with your son? >> i teach my son to be respectful. and responsible. and i have a conversation with him already. he's 12 1/2. and i think it's very important, especially the world changed so much. >> do you think men in the news that have been accused of sexual assault, sexual harassment, have been treated unfairly? >> you need to have evidence. you need to have really hard evidence, that you know, that if you accuse of something, show the evidence. >> reporter: coming up, for the first time, melania trump addresses questions about her husband's alleged affair. and the personal storm that hit the white house. has your husband apologized to you since you've been in the white house? en as

i understand. >> i think we can all agree that don jr. is -- if you are in the war room for brett kavanaugh and you saw that, you would cringe and say that's a set back for us. >> i think we can agree with anita if there is a silver lining this is a teachable moment for our sons and daughters. >> but the teaching has to be done by the men at this point. women have made their point and jeffrey made an important point yesterday -- >> you mean -- >> women keep coming forward and the train keeps running them over. >> we have to do it together. >> men have to take the lead on teaching our sons what's right and -- because otherwise if the white male who jeffrey is crying himself to sleep every night sits back and says this doesn't impact me, then women's voices will not make change. men have to make the change. >> can i add just one thing. i think, you know rk, judge kavanaugh in his defense of raising two really terrific little girls and also has been a terrific mentor to women in the legal system and the law clerks who have worked for him wou

. >> i haven't declared war on anybody and certainly when don jr. and his family were sent a suspicious looking powder, i publicly and private live expressed concern to don jr. because that's what human beings do. >> let's get it going in that direction. i would agree with you. >> good luck with your book and thank you so much for your time. let's talk about this with our panel and jonathan wiseman. let me start with you. because you have become something of an expert on anti-semitism and written a book about it. what's your take on the ugly environment of -- that we've seen revealed in the last week? >> anthony scaramucci just called -- talked about cosmetics. how president trump if he could deal with the cosmetics of this. it's not cosmetic if words do matter and if you foment hate and you actually are or the scent semitic or bigted followers feel you're on their side. you're not just doing something cosmetic. you're actually doing something very real. i think what's happening right now is a product of the last three years or more and is now burst

. >> reporter: while his son, don jr., denied the president was mocking blasey ford, her attorney sending this scathing quick, calling the remarks a vicious, vial and soulless attack, going on to say he is a profile and coward else. blasey ford's team saying they have sent letters and e-mails to the fbi with no response, calling the situation in conceivable, demand to go speak to the agent in charge. overnight, the "new york times" releasing this 1983 her from kavanaugh to his prep school friends ahead of a trip to the beach saying, warn the neighbors that we're loud, obnoxious drunks. before leaving the white house for tuesday night's rally, reporters asking president trump what message he's sending to young men. >> well,ive say is that it's a very scary time for young men in america when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of. this is a very, very -- these are very difficult times. >> reporter: and his message for women. and as we get closer to the friday deadline, fbi investigation sources are saying it can could be wrapped up soon, even as early as today. >> emil

it's just like don jr. saying we love the russians, we get most of our money from them. >> to me, the most striking comment came from the president in the oval office when he talked about khashoggi and we heard the president, is he actually a citizen? he is a legal resident, by the way. but his defense for not wanting to act on this now was that $110 billion arms deal and the president of the united states talking about a man who has credibly been act ducted and murder, what am i going to do, give up the deal so china can get the money or russia can get the money? it all comes down to money with them but we are talking about a washington post reporter who is a legal resident in the united states state of virginia. >> and the reports are, and they're still just reports, but most people believe, mika, that he was lured to the embassy on a plot that the leader of saudi arabia knew about, mbs, and then he was killed and he was dismembered and donald trump's response? hey, we get a lot of money from them. >> he

it's a crystal-clear reason why they're there. >> what does don jr. write back in an email? "if it's what you say, >> "i love it, especially later inhe summer." >> coming on top of everything else that had come out about all these russian contacts with the campaign, the trump tower email trail was incredibly damning.re >> ts no ambiguity about this. this is there in black-and- white. allywhatever they ac talked about in the meeting, the adverted intent of the meeting was collusion. >> narrator: for his part, the president would downplay the importance of the meeting.>> othing happened from the meeting, zero happened from the meeting. and honestly, i think the presse very big deal over something that really a lot of people would do. >> now we've got another email, an email that could...r: >> narraut special counsel robert mueller was paying close attention. the queson-- was there anything illegal about the meeting or the misleading statement? >> the president's lawyers, they're intensely concerned that the president has essentially now added to an obstruction case. >> narrato

. >> reporter: while his son, don jr., denied the president was mocking blasey ford, her attorney sendingcathing quick, calling the remarks a vicious, vile and soulless attack, going on to say he is a profile in cowardess. blasey ford's team saying they have sent letters and e-mails to the fbi with no response, >> well, i say is that it's a very scary time for young men in america when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of. this is a very, very -- these are very difficult times. >> reporter: and his message for women. and as we get closer to the friday deadline, fbi investigation sources are saying it can could be wrapped up soon, even as early as today. reggie and jessica. >> emily, what's the overall reaction this morning about president trump's comments regarding christine blasey ford? >> reporter: you saw in the video, jessica, that people really reacted well to it at the rally. they were very energized and chanting back at the president. this morning senator flake, the one who really forced this fbi investigation in the first place, he said it really wasn't tal

jesse: avenatti is trying to challenge don, jr. to a cage match. i don't know if he has stormy daniels cell phone number now that she dances for dollars. >> book receive of "the republic" by plato. it happened, and that's a sign obviously the people making the decisions did a bad job. they are the on ones who don't know that. they are instead blaming voters for this. we need to be clear about what happened and why. we can't learn anything from it otherwise. >> he knocked woodward washed off the number one slot. there he is, tucker carl somebody. thank you very much. coming up. diamond and silk. and they are pretty fired up this week. so i can buy from enterprise car sales and you'll take any trade-in? that's right! great! here you go... well, it does need to be a vehicle. but - i need this out of my house. (vo) with fair, transparent value for every trade-in... enterprise makes it easy. jesse: the liberal media melting down over kanye's meeting with the president on thursday. here is some of what kanye had to say. >> when i put the hat on it made m

shery: that is interesting, don jr. campaigning for gop candidates. how is he doing among voters? kevin: if you look at his social hasa, he as inherited -- he non wing. the steve banon build a wall to between the trump organization and the political apparatus that's up rounds -- that surrounds the administration. we have not seen anything stick. he is going to be hitting the campaign trail aggressively in the heartland. there have been rumors about him for laying the groundwork for a future of his own. shery: we know that if the democrats take over, they have promised investigations into the organization. this is personal. kevin: it is. in previousback iterations of how this has gone, a divided government has been good for markets. it is not good for the type of t regulatory reform markets are looking for. the democrats were to take the house of representatives, there are going to be more investigations. shery: talking about the markets, president trump blame the federal reserve for hiking rates. we are seeing a rebound. let us get a check of where we stand. rebound, offing a the

jesse: avenatti is trying to challenge don, jr. to a cage match.if he has stormy daniels cell phone number now that she dances for dollars. >> book receive of "the republic" by plato. it happened, and that's a sign obviously the people making the decisions did a bad job. they are the on ones who don't know that. they are instead blaming voters for this. we need to be clear about what happened and why. we can't learn anything from it otherwise. >> he knocked woodward washed off the number one slot. there he is, tucker carl somebody. thank you very much. coming up. diamond and silk. and they are pretty fired up this week. deny thy father and refuse thy name. or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and i'll... so she's telling romeo to ditch his parents and then she'll be his boo forever. oh. there are multiples on the table: one is cash, three are fha, one is .a so what can you do? she's saying a whole lotta people want to buy this house. but you got this! rocket mortgage by quicken loans makes the complex simple. understand the details and get ap

and the president's son don jr. was targeted with a package forcing his wife to become hospitalized. prominent republicans have been run out of restaurants, airports and more. all of this has to stop. every person is responsible for his or her own actions, we have been calling for calm, peace and security. americans can settle their differences at the ballot box in 8 days. holder said kick them. and maxine waters said create a crowd and follow them into restaurants and stores. tell them they are not wanted anywhere. 8 days from now, we have the chance to settle your differences in a peaceful democratic way. we have so many updates from races across the country including more shocking developments out of arizona. we first showed you the democratic senator calling arizona the meth lab of democracy and calling arizona people crazy. the state was famous but only in a lindsay lohan way and said it was okay for americans to fight with the taliban after 9-11 and she promoted an event representing the blind sheik. and mcsal

don jr., the son of the president, retweeted someone on twitt twitter.nother outlet called khashoggi a friend of a long-time terrorist. khashoggi was photographed carrying an a.k.-47. any journalist worth their salt would have vjumped to interview bin laden at the time. >> alex, thank you. president trump said he wants any audio and video evidence connected to the khashoggi case, quote, if it exists. joining us now, david priest, former intelligence officer and author of "the president's book of secrets." do you think the saudis have been forthcoming of what they know? >> i don't think so. and that's actually a good thing. if they did collect such intelligence in a realtime manner, if you reveal that now, you give up some of those sources. those same sources might be very valuable, whether it's human collection, information coming from spies or whether it's technical communications intelligence, picking up on conversations. that's the same stuff that's really useful right now to figure out what the players are doing, if there's a coverup, what kind of co

so we have seen things in that area, we don't know what's going on with john, -- don, jr.shner. doesn't mean that the probe has veered off track. charles: although, ford, i guess there is no track, that's the point. >> that's the problem. this is getting to be like the kavanaugh probe. the democrats move the goal post. that's misleading, this did start about russian collusion, we do not seem to have that and now she's talking about financial crimes, who cares about financial crimes because financial crimes didn't sway the 2016 election as democrats originally posed. charles: do you think there's pressure now because millions of dollars have been poured into this, the public opinion that he's got to come up with a few more scouts to matter what it is justified at the very least? >> there's no question about it. on top of that they will give report to both parties to keep at bay and democrats and republicans will be screaming at one another and nothing will get accomplished. >> i wouldn't go that far but if trump pays 210 million in back taxes that -- charles: all right. >>

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he hasn't blamed don jr. for bringing russians into the trump tower in the middle of the campaign. this is what the president does, thanked don mcgahn and i'm sure he's happen to be off the block today. >> let me read this tweet. paul ryan, he said, should be focusing on holding the majority, rather than giving his opinion on the birthright citizenship, something he knows nothing about. ouch. >> ouch is right. number one, the president wants to close on immigration, he trusts his instincts. the speaker respects the constitution more than the president of the united states and thinks this birthright issue might be going too far. he doesn't mind the president saying let's build a wall but the birthright is the scitizens step too far for the speaker. everyone is going to get asked, who is right, the president or the speaker? that's not right in the final days to have message dissidence. >> so what's your take in the final days? so florida tonight, then missouri, west virginia, indiana, montana, his final stop before election day is missouri. what does that tell you about his strategy a

the reasons we did this investigation is because last year we did a story where we looked at how don jrka were almost indicted for a similar series of misreputatiomis reputatiresen representations. you can't say something specific that can influence a financial decision if it's material. this isn't saying the trump soho building is the greatest in the world. this is saying something specific about its value. in that case there were felony fraud charges that were considered. but there was a lot of legal advocacy on behalf of the trump organization and there was a visit to the manhattan d.a. by a campaign donor. after all of that, the case was dropped. so the trumps have had a very aggressive legal strategy to keep regulators away, to keep people from looking away. in this specific panama deal, everything got rolled up into the whole global financial crisis so there wasn't so much scrutiny on this specific deal. but when we talked to people, they said if this keeps happening over and over again, in mexico, in soho, in panama, what it suggests is it's a business model. it's not a fluke. th

. >> reporter: while his son, don jr., denied the president was mocking blasey ford, her attorney sending this scathing quick, calling the remarks a vicious, vile and soulless attack, going on to say he is a profile in cowardess. blasey ford's team saying they have sent letters and e-mails to the fbi with no response, calling the situation in conceivable, demand to go speak to the agent in charge. to the agent in charge. overnight, the "new york times" releasinhe beacsayingrn the neibo that we're loud, obnoxious drunks. before leaving the white house for tuesday night's rally, reporters asking president trump what message he's sending to young men. >> well, i say is that it's a very scary time for young men in america when youcan be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of. this is a very, very -- these are very difficult times. >> reporter: and his message for women. and as we get closer to the friday deadline, fbi investigation sources are saying it can could be wrapped up soon, even as early as today. reggie and jessica. >> obviously the crowd in mississippi had a big reaction

emily: why do you think it is important for the public to see these transcripts, from don jr., from steve rep. quigley: i think it will help them begin to understand what i have learned for the last two years of this investigation. there was an attack on the democratic process. it was the russians who acted alone. they did it to benefit one candidate and hurt another. there were those in the trump world communicating on an ongoing basis, attempting, at the very least, attempting to conspire with the russians. i believe the transcript ass -i believe the transcripts as released will- bear that out. finally, there's a lot more to learn. many pointsied that in this investigation trying to , a gagt what took place order from the white house, the fact that witnesses were not subpoenaed, at least 40, and those that did show up were not required to answer questions. emily: facebook said it is on the misinformation platform about voter suppression, whether their vote will count. how you can vote. do you think this is enough, or should facebook be doing more? they are outsourcing other factmation t

that sentiment echos what we heard from his son don jr., that he actually fears more for his sons than his daughters given the climate in america right now. >> yeah, i think that those comments are exactly -- president trump kept saying over and over again how he wasn't trying to get in the middle of this but those koncomments -- >> that's getting right in the middle of it. >> they're very unhelpful to republican around the country, as they're trying to maintain control not just of the house but of the senate at this point. there will be many women voters out there who make up their mind about how they feel about those comments. we've seen it over and over again about how the president takes it too far and then everyone in his party has to comment about he said about it being a scary time for young men in america. we have to look at the ripple effects of how all the comments are having across the country. i don't think anybody really knows right now which way the kavanaugh energy will go. >> five weeks from today. and as far as beer is concerned, we've heard from the president a bunch

think he's got to worry at this point, not only about possibly liability for himself but also for don jrthe famous trump tower meeting in 2016, as well as jared kushner at that meeting. paul manafort was also at that meeting and now paul manafort is cooperating and we have to believe that in exchange for the plea deal that he got, he's giving information to the special counsel. >> it's pretty hard to accuse somebody who's already pleaded guilty of lying under oath. >> it's going to hard for this president to separate himself from michael cohen with whom he worked with so closely. the white water investigation began with an investigation into the -- so there's the president is using that clinton playbook to go after a special prosecutor who may be lunching in all kinds of directions who he believes may be beyond the scope of the investigation. >> it's pretty extraordinary. stand by, there's more news we're watching right now. up next, fed up, the president says the biggest threat he's currently facing, the biggest threat is the central bank and rising interest rates. plus, if the gop lose

that was sent to susan collins, secretary of defense matus, fbi director ray, and don jr.'ex-wife was hospitalized because of that package. a truck with trump bumper stickers was set on fire. dozens of more incidences of vandalism, assault and harassment. don't forget about all of the republicans run out of restaurants. many women. republicans stocked in airports and spit on at capitol hill. despite all of this, no calls from the left, no statements of unity and virtually no one in the democratic party publicly condemning those acts. in the media, all but ignoring the stories. on this program, we have long said that every person is responsible for their own behavior. i don't try to blame bernie sanders, and steve's police was assaulted on a baseball field last year. but it's sad that the media, the left and the democrats only cared about scoring cheap political points and political rhetoric and vitriol but only when the left is a target. that's like they only care about russian collision if it's trump, just like they only care about potential sexual assault from 40 years ag

don, jr. and eric are ridiculous. >> they're a laughingstock all over the world. ( laughter ) >> stephen: that they are. up top. come on. come on! ( laughter ) what's up? do it! tap it! come on. ooo. ( laughter ) space, space platform, waiting for your rocket. okay, moving on. thinagain, do youge w unprented moin of li? >> i'm president and you're not. >> stephen: okay, someone sounds a little cranky. is it nap time? do you want a warm bottle? >> i'm not a baby. >> stephen: only a baby says he's not a baby. >> i'm not a baby! >> stephen: shhh. blanket. ( snoring ) ( child-like bedtime music ) there you go. ( cheers and applause ) >> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, a saudi state of affairs. plus, stephen welcomes... melissa mccarthy. and phoebe robinson. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: woo! hello! hey! ( cheers and applau

came on this network and said the president had absolutely nothing to do with the statement from don jrt what that russian meeting was about. well, it turned out the president drafrtd thted that an sekulow was wrong. whether he was lying or whether his client had lied to him is still unclear. but what comes out of the president's legal team's mouth is not always necessarily true. so consider the source as we learn things about this agreement. >> will investigators feel that they need an in-person interview definitively? does that have to happen to get to the bottom of what happened? >> they'll want it. i mean, i think mueller knows that he has to make every opportunity. because first of all, you don't want to do something and write a report and have people say, well, the president didn't even have a chance to respond. so mueller needs to make every effort to get the president's response, just from an optics point of view. from a prosecutor's pave, he also needs to. whether or not the president knew about this neegt june which was deciding to get russithe an, he may have to respond to th

jesse: avenatti is trying to challenge don, jr. to a cage match.has stormy daniels cell phone number now that she dances for dollars. >> book receive of "the republic" by plato. it happened, and that's a sign obviously the people making the decisions did a bad job. they are the on ones who don't know that. they are instead blaming voters for this. we need to be clear about what happened and why. we can't learn anything from it otherwise. >> he knocked woodward washed off the number one slot. there he is, tucker carl somebody. thank you very much. coming up. diamond and silk. and they are pretty fired up this week. when you rent from national... it's kind of like playing your own version of best ball. because here, you can choose any car in the aisle, even if it's a better car class than the one you reserved. so no matter what, you're guaranteed to have a perfect drive. [laughter] (vo) go national. go like a pro. see what i did there? i can do more to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. i take trulicity once a week to activ

don jr. was tweeting if democrats take the house they will come for him and they know anger can be a huge motivator for the democratic women who are upset and they need to put a threat on the line to bring their base out to vote. >> mid-term elections are base elections am not a presidential year. that faces the most angry. that dissipated because they got their guy. he starts his job tomorrow. that's a key point. let's look at the house races in this poll. it shows 65 competitive congressional districts say look, 2016, the districts went 15 points for republicans. 56 to 41%. the democrats have a narrow lead. if thank you are democrats, you say not only are we competitive, we are ahead in areas that were overwhelmingly republican. you are ready, but that's four points and comes down to the intensity of the turn out. >> i do think if you are seeing that, democrats are probably winning districts in the five-point range. winning a few that are 10 points and so on. that's a great poll for democra

. >> speaking of embarrassments, don jr.mp was also asked about his son's famous trump tower meeting with all those russians. donald trump explained, "nothing happened out of that meeting. my son's a good young guy." well, we've fact checked that and we have the accurate version of that statement: "my son's a guy." ( laughter ) for the-- for the record, for the record, sir, he's 40. ( laughter ) and after a year of massive storms causing untold damage and our glaciers shrinking in every direction, trump was still ambivalent on the concept of climate change. he told the reporter, "you have scientists on both sides of the issue." that is true. no, that is true. there are scientists on both sides. on one side, all the scientists. on the other, one guy who runs a blog called "real true american science eagle.jesus." forecast rapture. ( cheers and applause ) but trump wants us to know that he's got the bona fides to back up his claim: "my uncle was a great professor at m.i.t. for many years. dr. john trump. and i didn't talk to h

>> that is actually a preview of what voters in texas could hear today when the president's son, don jr for senator ted cruz. cruz is in the fight of his life, reigniting the dream to turn texas blue. let's bring in cnn senior political writer and analyst. things are looking up. how real is this? >> i mean, it's realer than it probably has been in a while. democrats have forever been saying that we will change texas blue, the demographics are on our side. but the fact of the matter is ted cruz is still favored in this race. is it a three point race, four point race, five point race, i'm not sure. my forecast has it closer to three. cruz has led consistently throughout. >> who are the voters he has to turn out? >> i think there are two he has it to turn out, latino voters. they don't seem to be turning on as high numbers as we might expect. latino voters are more democratic leaning. number two, white college voters in the suburbs of houston and dallas. those are key voters who switched over to clinton's side. if you see it in the district polls taken around those two places we see that o

today john dominic don jr. tweeted "as someone who has been directly the victim of these threats, i condemned whoever did this, regardless of party or ideology. this has to stop and i hope they end up in jail for a long time. amen, so do i. because i know from personal first-hand experience it is a horrible thing to go through. what's happening too many people tonight, it has happened sadly many times to me in my career. we have been saying for months that the rhetoric we are seeing, the mobs we are seeing in this country that everybody needs to calm down. rand paul said it, i said it. before someone gets hurt or worse. i've been saying it nightly. recently we reported that republican congressman kevin mccarthy's office, they threw a boulder through the window and night after night we show you, what, disturbing videos, republicans stalked, harassed, kicked out of restaurants and worse with kids and children even involved. take a look. >> we call on you to end family separation. and abolish ice! >> abolish ice!

he's a real [ bleep ]head." [ laughter ] and don jr.'t the only trump son showing up on tv to support his father and get republicans out to vote. yesterday, eric trump went on fox news and rambled about the possibility that democrats might impeach trump if they win in november. but the most jarring part of that interview came when eric was asked about famed journalist bob woodward's new book "fear: a damaging insider's account of the trump white house." and he decided to toss out some casual, anti-semitism that was not only offensive, but very hard to follow. >> you can write some -- a sensational, nonsense book. cnn will definitely have you on there, because they love to trash the president. it will mean you sell three extra books. you make three extra shekels. i mean, at the behest of the american people, the behest of our country. >> seth: not only is that anti-semitic, but you don't know what the word, behest, means. [ laughter ] "my father's amazing. he's the behest president we've ever had." [ laughter and applause ] but democrats

the president's son, also targeted with a suspicious package, don jr.'-wife hospitalized because of that package. a truck with a trump bumper sticker per set on fire. two republican candidates in minnesota were punched, one, a man, six weeks, bad concussion. republican campaign manager was assaulted. dozens more incidents of vandalism, assault, harassment, including top republicans stalked inre airports. run out of restaurants. while we constantly condemn acts of violence on both sides of the aisle, when something happens to a conservative, democrats have been missing in action, noticeably silent. we will have a lot more on this throughout the show but first, more big news in the looming crisis at our southern border tonight. the migrant caravan continues to move north, even as we speak. defense secretary mattis approved a request to send even more troops to the border. now 800 soldiers have officially trying -- president trump recently told the migrant in the caravan, set it again tonight him and turned back. he is reportedly mulling anpr executive orde

because of what's going on, he could get started on don jr. "did you help him write the letter?n you talk about on air force one customer" i have been talking about a uranium o. >> dagen: i sit over and over, talk it to stewart if you lied to the fbi. they can lie to you, and if you don't tell 100% truth to the fbi, they can throw you in jail. you never know what they know. throw away the key. >> alex: that's good legal advice. i'm not sure it's the best p.r. advice. >> dagen: i don't think donald trump needs any p.r. help, actually, alex. [laughs] he is his best p.r. represented. in the meantime, hurricane michael slimming the southeast, cutting a path of destruction through five states. a closer look at some of the hardest-hit areas as people begin to pick up the pieces. plus, a firestorm of criticism from the left over president trump's white house meeting with kanye west. including some remarks about the wrapper that crossed the line. we will debate it, next. ♪ what do you have there? p3 it's meat, cheese and nuts. i keep my protein interesting. oh yea, me too. i have cheese

then don jr. is on record saying he's more afraid for his sons then he is for his daughters. wow.other words, professor ford, who steps forward, puts her name out there, comes forward and testifies before congress, professor ford. your trauma, your difficulty, your lifetime of trauma -- stroke what we are really worried about his boys. how ridiculous? >> greg: juan, you have sons. wouldn't you want them to have due process. >> juan: he was not charged with the crime. >> greg: court of public opinion may be worse. >> juan: here's the thing. if you put someone on. you say did he lie? he says -- specifically he said he had no knowledge about this new yorker article and then it turns out guess what. he is trying to get people to refute. >> dana: no, that's not true. >> tucker: many say this is not a legal proceeding. it's a job interview. due process doesn't apply. the rules of basic fairness don't apply. is that the standard you want? hold on. hold on. for due process, it's a legal term for fairness. if i accuse you of something, i have to show you did it. that doesn't just apply to

individual misrepresentations, this is a pattern across the globe where donald trump and his children, don jr., ivanka and in some cases eric made these claims. when the projects failed, which they often did, people lost money, the projects went bankrupt, individual investors lost out, the trumps were like, no, no, no, we were licensors. this wasn't our project, we weren't the developers. it's this -- >> these are material misrepresentations. you have lawyers in the piece say i have seen people face charges for similar activity. >> that is correct, that you are not -- you are allowed to say if you're a real estate developer. oh, i have the best building. it's the tallest and the most beautiful. i have the best hot dog stand on broadway. that's fine. you can say that. but you can't say something specific that would lead someone to make a financial decision that is fraudulent. and that is the -- >> like i sold most of my units. >> like i sold most of my units. the news of the mueller investigation, i mean, it's fascinating to watch sort of iceberg beneath the surface, as we entered this period

each week reminding don jr.2008, russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. trump in 2015, saudi arabia, they buy apartments from me. they spend $40 million, $50 million. the president does have a long history of past financial dealings with the saudis, including real estate sales, even more than a quarter million dollars that saudi lobbyists dropped at the trump hotel in 2017. we are hearing more from president trump about all of this late this afternoon with an interview with the associated press. trump thing saudi arabia being blamed for the disappearance of the saudi journalist, jamal khashoggi, another case of guilty until proven innocent. >> bret: thank you. you may have noticed you were seeing a lot more of president trump these days, and a lot less of his media people. that is no accident. fox news media analyst howard kurtz tells us is all part of the president new approach. >> i never knew how dishonest the media it was, and i really mean it. >> that sentiment from

don jr.'s ex-wife hospitalized becausee of the package. trump, truck with trump bumper sticker set on fire. don't forget about all of the republicans run out of restaurants, many women prayed republicans at stockton airport, spit and capitol hill. and o despite all of this, no calls were called from the left. thoseal statements of unity, virtually no one in the democratic party condemning those acts. on this program we have long said that every person is responsible for their own behavior. i don't try to blame bernie sanders, and i didn't try, would mourn fa supporters tried to assassinate a republican congressman last year, steve scalise, on a baseball field. but tonight, it is sad that the media, the left, democrats seem to onlyhe care about scoring chp political points and political rhetoric and vitriol, but only when the left is the target. it's like they only care about russian pollution efforts trump, justt like they only care about potential sexual assault from 40 years ago when it's kavanaugh, but not, let's see, cory booker or kei

which is something both eric and don jr.an confirm he has never done before, think of his sons. [ laughter ] team trump went all-out to defend the president. they said he was not mocking dr. ford. kellyanne conway said dr. ford has been treated quote like a faberge egg by all of us, beginning with me and the president. and white house press secretary sarah sanders says he was just stating facts and she blames this mess on the democrats. >> this entire process has been a disgrace and the only reason that it's been that way is because senate democrats didn't do this the way that it should have been done and they circumvented the entire system. frankly they've undermined our entire judicial branch by the way in which they've acted and the inappropriateness with which they've conducted themselves. >> jimmy: underminded? as in no whole administration is woefully under minded. senators distanced themselves from the president's comments today. he even got a bad review from his closest friends. "fox & friends." they say trump blew i

we go inside the room with a first-hand account. >> suddenly what should have been two people and don jr