. >> fred: it cleans the streets of ebola. >> anthony: the cold? >> fred: yeah. >> david: yeah.out of the city, for sure. >> anthony: fred morin and david mcmillan. restaurateurs, chefs at the legendary joe beef, bon vivants, raconteurs, historians of their beloved great white north. princes of hospitality. and what do men like this do for fun when the rivers turn to ice three-feet thick? when testicles shrink and most of us scurry for warmth and shelter? if they were like so many other canadians, they would go ice fishing on the st. lawrence river. >> david: the cabin fever induces in the québécois family. because we are confined, perhaps, to spend so much time indoors, a lot of the families love to do, you know, activities together like this. go to the cottage. go ice fishing. you know, it, like, gets you out of the house. and it's very much a family thing. >> anthony: like many of their ilk, they'd seek one of the temporary small towns of sled-borne cabins, drill a hole in the ice, and wait. but these are not normal men. so is quebec better than the rest of canada? >> fred: o

hollywood, the fred harvey facility. even though it was in hollywood, this greatas if southwestern motif, with the government and the adobe, the prices and the foot quality and the varieties are just amazing differentm the pyramids of time. the foot had traditionally been pretty awful, often times it was put right back into the pot and served back to the next willing victim who came along, the kind of thing. fred harvey produced a quality many of food that can be served in fairly efficient times. they pioneered a way of having people give their orders while still on the train and telegraph that information forward to the restaurant, so that when people arrived, their foot was waiting them. the second thing about fred harvey company that i think is very, very important, is the role they played in creating jobs for women in the west. traditionally, there weren't a whole lot of professional jobs for women. they could be teachers, nurses, that kind of thing. that was pretty small pickings. with the advent of the fred harvey

and this is from hollywood fred harvey facility. even though it is hollywood, california this great southwestern motif with the agave and adobe and the prices and the food quality and the food variety is simply amazing to see from the different periods of time. food service traditionally was pretty awful. oftentimes left overs threw back into the pot and dealt to the next willing victim that came along kind of thing. fred harvey produced a palatable menu of quality food that could be served in fairly efficient time. the pioneer way of having people give their orders while still on a train and telegraph that information forward to the restaurant so that when people arrived, their food was waiting for them. the second thing about fred harvey company that i think is very important, the role it played in creating jobs for women in the west, traditionally there weren't a whole lot of jobs for women. they could be teachers, nurses, that kind of thing. that was pretty small pickings with the advent of the fred harvey company, they hired la

off to a great start, fred. >> fred: yeah. [ laughter ] >> seth: what's it about? about -- it's very literally about a clock. [ laughter ] and so the main character is like, "i'm going to design a clock. it's going to be the best clock ever, because it's going to last for centuries." >> seth: okay. >> fred: right? so the protagonist, who turns out to be the antagonist, too -- [ laughter ] i won't give too much away. [ light laughter ] plants some seeds in the shape of a clock. and what happens is, the book is a description of the seeds growing into cacti. [ laughter ] you see? there are two of them. so -- [ laughter ] >> seth: that would be -- so that -- >> fred: yeah. >> seth: you mean that would be that one and this one. >> fred: right. >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> fred: so the protagonist wants to tell time according to this, but it takes so long that he dies before the end. [ laughter ] before he's able to -- so he's about to say, like -- >> seth: his plan -- i'm sorry, his plan to invent a clock was to plant seeds in the shape of a clock. >> fred: that's wha

>> fred: yes, sir.thor -- you know, this is their creation, not mine. >> seth: okay. [ light laughter ] >> fred: i would use -- for me, i would use some kind of cheese, some manchego cheese -- >> seth: oh, i don't want this to be about how you make lasagna. >> fred: okay, got it. so, it plays out in that the chef making this didn't have the right kind of knife and all he had was this sort of sword. >> seth: uh-huh. >> fred: so the family sits around. they're like, "oh my god, i can't wait to have this lasagna with the frosting." and he's like, "well, i want you all to have some. i can't really cut it the way you want me to. i'm going to use this sword and just jab it into the middle of it." and they're like, "you know something? this feels very much like a rising sea." and he's like, "what do you mean by that?" they're like, "none of your business. [ laughter ] this is our family. we don't share everything with you." [ light laughter ] >> seth: fred, that's um -- this book is over 400 pages. >> fred: ye

this is from hollywood fred harvey facility. is hollywood, california, it has this great southwestern motif with the agave and the adobe and the food quality and the food varieties are simply amazing to see from the different periods of time. food service traditionally had been pretty awful, oftentimes left over and script back into the pot and served up to the next willing victim who came along. when people arrived come other food was waiting for them. the second thing about fred harvey company that is very important is the role it played in creating jobs for women in the west. there weren't a whole lot of traditional jobs for women. there -- they could be teachers and riches. .hat was small pickings with the advent of the fred harvey company, they hired large numbers of women to staff their restaurants and cafes all across the rocky mount west. they became the largest employers of women. for a time, they were the largest employer in the united states. this was a company who really had a big impact on america in -- 1890's. 1990

>> fred: sure. >> seth: okay.ar-old dog who must travel through the centuries in search of the man who granted him immortality. his adventures take him to the london frost fair, the strange court of king charles i, the wars of the spanish succession, versailles, and the golden age of amsterdam and to 19th century venice. >> fred: yeah, that's what i said pretty much. >> seth: i will say, your version sounds less crazy. [ laughter and applause ] by damian dibben. definitely worth the read. either version, i feel like, highly worth the read. our first guest tonight is an oscar nominated actress you know from films like "pride and prejudice," "atonement," and "the imitation game." she stars in "colette" which is in select theaters september 21st. let's take a look. >> madam colette? >>> announcer: this is an nbc news special report. here is peter alexander. >>> good morning, i'm peteral exand ner new york with this report. it is 4:01 a.m. on the east coast. hurricane florence battering the carolinas. damaging winds,

>> fred: sure. >> seth: okay.ar-old dog who must travel through the centuries in search of the man who granted him immortality. his adventures take him tohe ndon frost fair, the strange court of king charles i, the wars of the spanish succession, versailles, and the golden age of amsterdam and to 19th century venice. >> fred: yeah, that's what i said pretty much. >> seth: i will say, your versiosounds less crazy. [ laughter and applause ] by damian dibben. definitely worth the read.er eitheron, i feel like, highly worth the read. our first guest tonight is an oscar nominated actress you knop from films likde and prejudice," "atonement," and "the imitation game."e ars in "colette" which is in select theaters septber 21st. let's take a look. >> madam colette? what are your impressions after tonight? >> my impressions? i'm disgusted. the people who threw things tonight are cowards and the only reason i didn't get a footstool to the face is because i dodged it. >> let it go, colette. there was some gentleman who came

how are you, fred? hey, thank you. >> seth: fred you are a busy guy. you are currently working on so many projects. it's always so exciting when you have time to take off from your business schedule and be with us. but you have said to me that one of the hardest things about your schedule is that you no longer have time to read works of fiction, which is very sad for you because you are an avid reader. >> fred: i am and i miss it. >> seth: you miss it? >> fred: yeah. >> seth: but then you also told me it's okay, because you have developed a process wherein, you can look at the cover of a book and immediately know the entire plot from that image. >> fred: yes, i know it as a fact. [ laughter ] >> seth: this isn't something you're just saying? >> fred: no. >> okay, then it's time, once again time, to test that in new segment "fred judges a book by its cover." ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: okay, let's put it to the test. here we go fred. today's book is "takeoff" by joseph reid. fred, what is this boo

give it for fred, everybody!plause ] t seth: fred, we've got about two more weeks l the summer. we were talking about how great our summers have been. the one thing you were lament don't have time to do any summer reading. is that accurate? >> fred: i cannot do any reading. just too busy. >> seth: and i was saying i feel d,so bad for you and you s don't, because you have developed a method, according to you, where you can look at the cover of a novel and know everything about it. [ light laughter ] t the entire story from st finish. all the characters, every detail, the writing style. is this true? >> fred: the different chapters, the title -- [ laughter ] , everything. >> seth: all right, well, we're going to put it to the test, once again. this is our new segment, "fred judges a book by its cover." ♪ [ cheers andpplause ] >> seth: ready freddie? >> fred: all set. >> seth: here we go. the book is "clock dance." >> fred: "clock dance." >> seth: by ann tyler. >> fred: "clock dance." >> seth: yeah. [ light laughter

he didn't say a word about fred guttenberg or fred's daughter jamie, but he did talk about some otherfutures. >> for the past seven years, i've coached my daughters' basketball teams. i love coaching. all the girls i've coached are awesome. and special congratulations to the girls on this year's sixth grade cyo championship team, anna, quinn, kelsi, shawnee, chloe, alex, ava, sofia and margaret. i love helping the girls grow into confident players. i know that confidence on the basketball court translates into confidence in other aspects of life. >> i love everything about that. i love that he loves coaching his daughters' team and i love that he gave a shout out to them and the other sixth graders on the team. i love everything he said there and i believe he means every single word of that. i know that confidence on the basketball court translates into confidence in other aspects of life. not if you don't get to have a life. not if a mass murderer walks into your school when you're 14 years old and takes your life away, and that's what happened to jamie guttenberg, and now her dad go

and fred did respond to every letter that came in. >> every letter?ve his critics, and there were myths. he had been a sniper and that he had tattoos. >> we tend to think that most of our cultural figures have some dark side, and we've seen so many of our cultural icons falling from grace. so you almost expect it at this point. >> i've got to be off, but i'll see you tomorrow. >> one of the most exceptional things about mr. rogers is that he was exactly who you think he was. in fact, he was even a better version of that person. >> reporter: fred rogers died in 2003. his gentle message of tolerance and love, says director morgan neville, is more necessary today than ever. >> what he left in the millions of us who grew up watching him and loving him, that's his legacy. >> you always make each day a special day by just your being >>> for a lot of people, a friday night out means getting together with friends at a bar or a restaurant, maybe a movie. well, jamie yuccas found some ladies in california who begin their weekend smashing into each other on a ro

all this week, back on drums, fred armisen, everybod give it up for fred. [ cheers ] and fred, you are on the show as well. >> yes. >> seth: and i just hope you've thought through how you're going to play yourself on while also moving from there to here. >> i think i have an idea. >> seth: okay, great. our first guests tonight are twf veny comedians and actors you know from their work on "saturday night live." they're producing and in the new show "forever," which begins streaming on amazon prime video, friday september 14th. letake a look. >> wow. how gorgeous is this? this is so beautiful. >> i know. >> such a good idea, honey. >> oh, thank you. jesus mother [ bleep ] christ, that's cold! [ laughter ] good lord. jesus. is it gonna be that cold everywhere? >> is it that bad? you're scaring me. >> seth: please welcome back to the show, two of my favorite people. n,ya rudolph and fred armi everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: well done. >> hi. >>h.eth: you thought it thro >> we did. >> seth: you really thought it through. i am

we'll see what the president says, fred. >> boris sanchez, thank you. joining me right now, cnn supreme court reporter ariane devo. larry sabito. and cnn legal analyst romano mariety. ford and her lawyer says this is bullying. the deadline for today is arbitrary. is this adding more undue pressure and stress to this alleged victim? >> well, i will tell you, in my experience, and i had many, many cases in which i interviewed victims, many times i had to prepare them for trial. at times where victims were crying and had trouble. just getting themselves together to sit with me and fbi agents for an interview. i would never treat somebody this way. i would never be trying to push them. larry can explain better than i can the political implications. it seems to me the election's 45 days off. you can wait a day or two or three for this lady. give her the time to get herself together. and prepare. and have her statement ready to go. i don't understand why they're trying to push things along in this manner. it's the sort of thing that would get me fired when i

>> reporter: definitely something to look for tonight, fred. the president has been uncharacteristically reserved. careful not to attack dr. christine blasey ford, the accuser of brett kavanaugh. remember, it was the white house that took the recommendation of the senate and ordered this investigation. what the president said op twitter about this. just started tonight of seventh investigation of judge brett kavanaugh. he will some day be recognized as a truly great justice of the united states supreme court. quote/unquote. the president making sure supporters know brett kavanaugh's background has been looked into many times by the fbi, but that he still supports him ultimately for this job. now, the circumstances tonight will be much different, fred. this is going to be in front of a raucous crowd of people that passionately support the president and his pick and also going into territory up for grabs in the midterm elections this fall. patrick morsi is the president's pick there running against joe manchin who is a democrat and among a small

fred. i think that the chinese really have the upper hand in the trade negotiations right now bart i think that while trump is is the bowl in the china shop as you say what they've done is they've pinpointed very specifically the most politically vulnerable sectors of the united states economy and they're saying mr trump if you want to play this game we're going to play the game you don't want us to play which is politics and fred a lot of chinese importers of soybeans have pulled out a lot of those beans are now being shifted to south america primarily brazil which has its own problems that we talked about but they're shifting there they don't want to buy u.s. u.s. products and we've seen a big big drop and soybean prices this year particularly if you look for a may i mean lost a couple of bucks in price so how are producers dealing with that particularly fred as in the us here in the northern hemisphere you know we're coming to harvest time now and for the next whatever six weeks maybe tw

>> yes, fred.t when he stands up and says that the fbi does not investigate potential supreme court justices that the i in fbi means investigation. once we get over that and grassley realizes that also, then we know they do the investigation. they haven't done it. they won't. this whole thing is an absolute farce. it's absurd. it's a blemish on the history of the united states. what's going to take place this week, because it's just like in the movie good fellas when they go to the phone booth and say the joe peshi get made, and the guy says he's gone and there's nothing you can do about it. the democrats can't do anything. it's a runaway freight train. if 26 years ago she was sexually assaulted, that's very sad, fred, but she's had a lot of opportunity during the 36 years to go to a district attorney and presented her case. she can do that even after this. i'm hoping maybe she will do that, but she's going to get nothing out of this hearing, fred, and the republicans in the committee, for them, th

no, it's not good. $400,000, fred, temptation, you know. cats don't chase dogs, fred.e what happened here. there's a forensic accounting due on monday. you can't hide from the numbers, fred. they don't have the money. they spent that money. this is a ruse that we're not -- >> you don't know that. >> -- because he's a drug addict? they spent it. they were court ordered to pay him and they defied the court order, fred. it's not good. they're in big trouble. they better make a deal now. >> so this is what was said on meghan kelly "today." >> during the course of us getting all his proper documents and everything, the red flags were popping up and right after christmas, we were going to my bank and we deposited $25,000 in his account. >> so you did create an account but you didn't feel comfortable giving the entire 400 -- >> yes, because we saw the pattern that was developing. >> that suggested what to you? >> that he was going to do something foolish and ended up right back where he was. >> what specifically? >> the drug use and every dollar he ever touched was used for d

: it was an odd version of fred, but i don't do a fred.was so enjoyable. >> that was really trippy. and if -- now, since we're doing each other, if i was to do maya -- maya is kind of -- she's in here, and why am i cold? [ laughter ] why? >> that sounds right. >> don't give me that. no. i don't want -- no. i don't want that. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you're making me cold. >> you know that's how i talk. [ cheers and applause ] that's an -- that's an extremely personal impression. >> jimmy: that's a real personal -- that's a rare maya. that's a real like -- that's a real, like, getting to know -- i've known maya for years. >> that's like a 9:00 p.m. maya. >> jimmy: yeah. that's not like an on t.v. maya. >> no. that's the private maya. >> jimmy: that's the private maya. >> can you do higgins? >> jimmy: oh, higgins? >> yeah. >> steve: can you do me? >> or -- or the joke. [ laughter ] or -- or -- >> or -- >> jimmy: or the joke. >> or the joke. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: oh, my god. dude, that is a really -- that hurt my hand right there. is that what

fred thank you bart. a report from the world economic forum is warning about the economic impact of robotics the report estimates one hundred thirty three million jobs could be eliminated by replacement of human workers with robots with sharply negative effects on wages and work conditions w.t.f. chairman laos shaab called the report quote a call to action to governments businesses educators and individuals alike to take advantage of a rapidly closing window to create a new future good work for all and speaking of robotics our teams rachel blevins looks at more research about how some americans and some in the u.k. fear the robot here's rachel. we hear about new advances in technology all of the time from driverless cars to artificial intelligence the research shows that americans are starting to fear robots taking over the workplace and eventually taking their jobs twenty seventeen told from the pew research center found that more than seventy percent of americans are concerned about a future where robot

fred guttenberg will be there today and through this week.hen we come back, amazon hits $1 trillion in value. his co jeff bezos is the richest man in the world. but what about the workersrs? stay with us. ♪ [music breaeak] amy: "work" by eileen torrez. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: amazon made headlines tuesday when it became the second american company after apple to reach $1 trillion in value. amazon's founder and chief executive jeff bezos is the richest man in the world with a net worth of more than $167 billion. but what's behind that wealth? what about its workers? amy: the working conditions in amazon's warehouses have been the focus of protests, union drives, and several investigations, including by student reporters. as students go back to school around the country, we're g goig to go to a report by y one of yr students at rutgers university. one gonzalez is also a professor at rutgers university in new jersey. can you introduce this? juan: this is a grou

where i come down on this, fred, these leaks have to stop.s are expected to come out of the white house. they're not expected out of department of justice and the fbi. those are nonpolitical people. civil servants that need to do their job and stop rushing out with a memo or snippets of a conversation. it is inappropriate, i think it is damaging the fbi and doj in the eyes of the public. >> and lis, how do you see this, there's reaction to reporting about what may or may not have happened last year, then the what next. if a rosenste-- if rosenstein i what happened to the bob mueller investigation, what happens to jeff sessions which the president has out loud expressed his displeasure of. how do you see this playing out? >> i don't think the mueller investigation goes anywhere. i think it strengthened if rosenstein is removed because i think the damage for trump politically would be devastating because it shows him looking weak if he would take this and fire rosenstein. look, we have to look back at what just happened in the last 24 hours and

surely, thought fred, she wouldn't have done away with him, would she?> it wouldn't make any sense, even for a dedicated pole cat, to do anything like that because he was the goose that laid the golden egg. it wouldn't make any sense whatsoever. >> it was a farm worker who noticed a flock of vultures drifting above one of these grape fields saw something sticking out of the ground. and soon, a missing person's case turned into something much, much worse and considerably more bizarre. >> "dateline" returns after the break. >> "dateline" returns after the break. new d-con. so d-licious mice risk their lives for it. now 10 times tastier to mice than the lead competitor. mice love it to death. ♪...from far away. but they ♪honly see his wrinkles.♪..♪ ♪he's gotta play it cool to seal the deal.♪ ♪better find a way to smooth things over.♪ ♪if only harry used some... ♪...bounce, to dry. ♪yeah! ♪he would be a less wrinkly, and winning at life.♪ >>> it was february 2002, a remote vineyard up in the central valley. a farm worker checking the outer reaches of grape c

>> no, we don't, fred. it will be very interesting to see how the president responds tonight in west virginia because this state is an example of a group of states where there are democrats who are up for re-election in states where president trump won. west virginia's a state that he won handily in 2016. the incumbent there, joe manchin, is in a tough race against patrick morrisey and you can bet that is who he's going to stump for. and use this supreme court battle as an example of how manchin isn't always on the same side as president trump. manchin has been a part of these discussions with a bipartisan group of senators to try and find some way forward through this process. and it is that process that led to the delay in judge kavanaugh's vote. in this week long extension in kavanaugh's -- the investigation by the fbi into kavanaugh. and the president is sticking by kavanaugh. he did tweet about him late last night. the president saying, quote, just started tonight on our seventh fbi investigation of ju

fred evans was a korean war veteran. all of them were black power black nationalists responding to what they called police abuses so the question i have been as i was reading this book was why are we here 50 years later? why is this happening 50 years later that we have somebody who gets upset that they would actually go out and deliberately shoot white policeman and why do we replay this. so in getting to understand this story, obviously racism in the united states goes back 400 years. but i wanted to understand in cleveland what happened. and it turns out that this church which is in cleveland is central. this church is a mile away from where the shootout in cleveland happened in july 1968 area and it's a magnificent church. it is originally built as a jewish synagogue in the 1920s. and then it was sold to an african-american methodist church in near 1950. and what i like about this is that this brings together the strands of the story. take a look at that cross their . look at that picture. that's martin luther king i

>> well, that's right, fred. what senator white house is saying there is that the cloud is going to remain on this. and kavanaugh for his part, he -- after these allegations came forward, he wanted to come forward and testify. because he wants to get his story out. on the other hand, this of course is a lifetime appointment, right, on the supreme court. no age limits there. su subject to impeachment. senator whitehouse is trying to say, look, this will continue to be a subject of a lot of controversy if this man makes the bench. and think of what a distraction that will be. keep in mind on the other side senator grassley thinks that he is being very accommodating on -- for his part. he's moved it. he's offered to move it. and lawyers for ford, they say look, we're not asking that much here. what's the rush. so that's the two sides. and some of the exchanges back and forth are really very ugly. >> fred, may i just add something. to ariane's point, judge kavanaugh has categorically denied the allegations. you would

fred di mercury could have turned 72 yesterday.ow rami malek is playing him in "bohemian rhapsody" and i got to rock with the cast in sin city ♪ is this the real life >> i would say this is probably your hardest role to train for? >> yeah, without a shadow of a doubt. to try to step into the shoes required, singing lessons, movement coaching -- >> the fashion. please indulge. the '70s and '80s. did you have a blast? >> we had a competition. usually fred di won, obviously. >> unique. that's me. i just like being -- i'm a big ham. >> "e.t." sat down with the then 36-year-old queen's frontman in 1982. his over the top stage performance was one thing -- effortless. >> i throw myself around, give them wardrobe, that's it. i don't try to analyze what i. the or anything. >> rami told me he had to wear a set of dentures to mimic fred di's teeth. >> what did that do to you? >> reporters would ask him, why don't you have your teeth fixed? a lot of people at school called him bucky. to me, it was necessary and helped understand how a man like

>> good morning, fred.ectation from obama aides is this speech will mirror the speech he gave in illinois. but if that was the professorial obama, this will be the more direct obama. this is going to be the distilled version of that. where he will be referencing that speech, the themes of that speech, but he also touts these candidates, these seven candidates that he will be stumping for here today in anaheim, california. now, these seven candidates are really the front line of democrat candidates here in california. they all come from districts that hillary clinton won in 2016. democratic operatives believe this is the best chance they have to flip districts red to blue. all these districts are represented by republicans in the house and these democrats are challenging those republicans for control of these districts. now, many democrats have been worried, frankly that obama has spent so much time away from the campaign trail. he has avoided criticizing president donald trump directly for, you know, the fi

let's bring in cnn's fred pleitgen live in damascus this morning. fred, good morning. >> reporter: dave, you are right, the developments from washington, d.c. with the u.s. apparently saying they could stay in syria indefinitely until iranian forces get out of syria and isis is defeated in syria. that could be a major development here. one. things, dave, we -- one of the things, dave, we have seen in the syrian conflict is the russians and iranians claim u.s. is a lame duck in the conflict. they know the u.s. at any point in time has the fire power to decisively change the conflict very quickly. at the same time, you have a summit going on in iran and tehran with the leaders of russia, turkey and the iranians trying to hammer out some situation around that last rebel held stronghold of idlib. the u.s. warned there can't be a bloodbath or chemical weapons not used or the u.s. would respond. so far, bashar al assad is unfazed. now all eyes are on the leaders in tehran to see whether or not they can stop massive bloodshed. you have 3 million people, ci

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>> reporter: well, that visit to west virginia is key, fred. he is heading to support that republican candidate, patrick morsey. manchin represents a state president trump won in 2016 that could be wavering, could be joined with republicans to support the nomination of brett kavanaugh. so you should expect the president to emphasize that in that speech tonight. meanwhile, the president today is at his golf course in northern virginia. it is a beautiful day here in the washington, d.c. area. and he is sticking by his man. about 14 hours ago, the president tweeting the following. quote, just starting our seventh fbi investigation of judge brett kavanaugh. he will someday be recognized as a truly great justice of the united states supreme court. there's a lot to unpack from the tweet. the president pointing out the fact that judge brett kavanaugh has been thoroughly vetted by the fbi on a number of different occasions. he is saying the seventh go around will anything new emerge, and making it clearest ready to stick by kavanaugh, regardless of wha

cnn's fred pleitgen has more from damascus. fred, a gas attack could be imminent there as well? >> reporter: that's what the u.s. seems to feel. it was interesting over the course of the weekend, vice president mike pence said if there is a gas attack, the u.s. will respond accordingly. that continues to be in the news. while on the other side, russians going out and saying they believe the rebels are finding a false flag gas attack to draw the united states in the conflict. a ton of escalation on that front. you have the air strikes you were talking about. it was remarkable to see over the weekend. you had that summit in tehran on friday that we covered in the show trying to find a way out of the crisis there in idlib province. on saturday, air strikes just started extremely escalating in idlib province. then conducted by the syrian government forces. syrians saying they were surgical air strikes. some civilian targets were hit and several people killed in the air strikes. whether or not the strikes were prelude to offensive is unclear at this at that time. the syrian governmen

>> well, not necessarily, fred. if the white house put parameters on the investigation, then it's just going to deal with the allegations made by ford to figure out when, where the party occurred, what happened at this party, who can verify the story, what happened at the party. then that story will take a lot less time to go after the other allegations by other people and expand it in that direction. we just don't know. i think, you know, "the new york times" may have reported that, but, you know, the president yesterday said it was going to be a very limited scope and he's the one that determined how wide that scope is. >> except that as you mentioned, ariane, these three senators helped to set the parameters really by recommendation of the white house, right, of the president saying, okay, what do we want to do, and it was their recommendation that, you know, there will be recent accusations that will be, you know, part of this scope. does that mean that, you know, the keys are in these three hands as well? if th

here's the thing, fred, facts did not add up. the female friend that she said was with her said she wasn't there. four five people dr. ford said were there citing them by name, cannot recall the party. and dr. ford, fred, still cannot recall the home where the assault allegedly took place, how she got there, got home. no witnesses to say she told them about the alleged assault at the time, until she spoke about it at therapy session years later. >> my reaction is she was a very sympathetic witness, but she didn't bring with her someone who could corroborate her story of being nearly raped, but at least assaulted. nor did she bring in any evidence that would change where the case was before she testified. so that still exists. and, look, the ball -- i don't mean to laugh, but the ball is in democratic courts now because they're going to -- look, their strategy has been to delay all along, now they have another week to find more reasons to delay. liz: looks like their strategy -- and to get a 4-4 deadlocked court until 2021 where t

brian stelter explains why this case takes on so much stature. >> reporter: hey, fred. yes, extraordinary developments for the entertainment industry and the business world as les moonves prepares to step down from cbs. we have heard a lot about me too cases this year, but this is the first case involving a fortune 500 ceo. and moonves is the subject of a brand new story in "the new yorker." as you just mentioned, they came six weeks after the original story by rodan farrow in "the new yorker." step back to understand what is going on here. moonves is the subject of a battle, a corporate tug of war between moonves and the controlling shareholder of cbs, sherry redstone, for more than six months now. redstone and moonves are battling over who was really going to control cbs in the future and whether cbs was going to be sold to a bigger company. this has been a battle that has been working its way through the courts. but with that as the backtrop, farrow's story came out at tend of july, the initial story came out at the end of july to create a lot of uncertainty about wh

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her co-star from her snl days fred armistan.of that and more with maya in the famed home of snl studio 8h. >> i love this studio. >> what is that, do you think? show coming >>together? een here for a while. >> it's been 11 years since maya rudolph spent long days and sleepless nights in the legendary studio 8h. >> all of this stuff is so familiar. >> but it still feels like home. >> this is also another smell i enjoy. >> for seven seasons rudolph lived and breathed the blitz, chaotic grind that is -- live from new york, it's "saturday night live." >> i feel like i can now because it's really like comedy army training. >> and rudolph trained with the best of them. her comedy platoon included thyme na faye, amy poehler, jimmy fallon. >> differen ma >> chippewa? >> most careers here kick off with the notorious snl audition. >> celebrityes imons. >> but rudolph skipped that step. >> i had a manager at the time who said, you know what, you shouldn't go. this wasn't aood time. i list jebd and i said, i'm waiting. what was i anything b

joining me, the weekly standard executive editor, fred barnes. me, anita hill had the fbi investigate her and had a big part of what happened going forward, whether you believe anita hill and clarence thomas got confirmed as a supreme court justice, this is the supreme court of the united states. why would the fbi not do an investigation in this? >> well, what's the crime? you know, they don't -- this is not on their menu of things the fbi is supposed to do. they do sort of background investigations of nominees, kavanaugh being one of them, but you know, it's not what they do. the rules are set here by the committee, the judiciary committee. why in the world she has to negotiate coming and testifying, and there's only one possible reason and that is to take time to stretch it out, because that's been the strategy of democrats the whole time here, to stretch it out so they can't have a vote of confirmation for the nominee before the election, the midterm election on november 6th. that's the strategy and look, you can watch on tv and see the commit

fred live for us in syria. thank you. >>> in an historic ruling, india supreme court striking down law that criminalizes consensual gay sex. the move overturning 150 years of antianti-lgbt legislation. this follows weeks of litigation in new delhi. this is in a country where homosexuality is misunderstoomi. >>> u.s. stock futures are slipping as the rocky start to september continues. the averages closing mixed wednesday. markets in europe and asia are falling as well. tech stocks are taking a beating following hearings on capitol hill. facebook shed 2% and twitter tumbled 6% after sandberg and dorsey faced lawmakers on capitol hill. investors are concerned regulations will be slammed on the social networks and could departme dent the bottom line of the tech stocks. look at the tech stocks. all posting losses. those stocks set to open mixed this morning. >>> the nfl season starts tonight and it is also the kickoff for a very busy season of legal sports betting in a number of states. new jersey, delaware, missis