they're covering the big lies, medium sized lies, all sorts of lies. we live in a time when our fellow citizens have all time low levels of trust in our institutions including the government. most politicians lie from time to time, but donald trump is different. he likes to sell himself as world class at everything. this is one area where he is world class. a president who seems to prefer to lie when the truth would be just fine. but most dangerously, he lies to hurt people. he lies to deceive voters into becoming enraged over a world of make believe. there are no rye yosts or massive immigrant voting in california, no democratic organizers of the honduran caravan. there is no evidence that trump is committed to protecting health insurance coverage for pre-existing conditions and no tax relief coming soon for middle class families. all lies. real world lies that trump freely repeats over and over again on twitter, at rallies, and right to the face of professional journalists who know they are lies and call him on them. we could spend our three hours wi

this guy lied. when he was the attorney general of connecticut, he lied. i do not mean a little bit. he dropped out of the race and one anyway, because democrats -- always win in connecticut. he won very close, the closest ever, but here is a guy that lives and now he is up there talking that he is holier than now. look at his record. and when he got out and his

last week and we don't know why he lied about it. because bart kavanaugh's high school drinking and brett kavanaugh's college drinking wasn't anything terribly strange. we all know guys who drank like that in high school and in college. i had friends who drank much more than that in high school, including one dear friend who drank himself to death in his 30s. and he started in high school like brett kavanaugh. drinking and raping are two very different things, but does brett kavanaugh think they're the same thing? does brett kavanaugh think they go together? why would he think that? why does brett kavanaugh feel so guilty about his drinking that he's willing to run the risk of lying about it under oath? you'll notice that he was not willing to run the risk of lying to senator leahy and say, no, he was not bart, because he knew there were dozens of witnesses from his high school who can testify that, oh, yeah, he was bart when he was in high school. and some of those witnesses have told that to "the new york times" now, and "the new y

he's lied about big things and he's lied about small things. if you saw that fox news interview -- >> what big things? >> if you look at the fox news interview of a week ago, where he talks about his high school experiences, did you believe that interview? i didn't believe the interview. >> is it material? if he lied about his partying, is it material? >> i think it is. because the man is supposedly under oath at points in time, testifying with his right hand raised to the senate judiciary committee -- >> right. >> why is he lying about these things? i mean, why does -- >> because he doesn't want to be framed for conduct that he knows is untrue. and he feels if he says i drank a lot, people will say, well, then, maybe you were drunk and that's why you're denying this? >> chris, if you asked me and someone asked me, did you drink too much in high school? yeah, i drank, i was a high school student. did you pass out. yeah, sometimes i did that. did you do that? >> absolutely. and then i say, michael, that's why you don't know whether or not ford i

they also know that little lies point to bigger lies. they know that obvious lies by the nominee about the meaning of words in a yearbook are flashing signal to dig deeper. agents can just do their work, find facts, speak truth to power, despite all the lies and all the attacks, there really are people who just want to figure out what's true. the fbi is full of them. joining the conversation, msnbc legal analyst and former federal prosecutor paul butler. let me start with you. your reaction to jim comey's words. >> you know, the fbi has 35,000 employees. if they are allowed to do their job, they can get this done in a week. this is a background investigation, not a criminal investigation. and so president trump is the fbi's client. he gets to dictate the terms. but i've never heard of an investigation being micromanaged in this way. originally four witnesses. one week. it creates the unsettling impression that the republicans in the senate and president trump don't want an objective investigation. they want one that will clear judge kava

you've got lies, damn lies and fake statistics. that's the mark twain line with my little twist. it's never been more relevant. the upcoming elections have our president in lie mode. he's hit the apex on a mountain of mendacity and we are at a critical moment, so we're going to spend our time tonight calling out the lies in the hopes of giving people out there somewhat of a more clear path to making choices in the midterms. and do not be misled about the truth on critical issues that are coming to a head right now. he's been so busy, we needed the whiteboard. yes, i had somebody else write it so you can read it. the biggie is the caravan. trump sees this as his big ticket to rallying the base, apparently. he can't seem to say anything truthful about it. he's also saying there are riots in california right now. did you know that? of course you didn't, because there aren't. and he pulled out an old favorite of his, fraudulent voting. he promised a tax cut that can't happen in days, as he promised. he keeps changing his story on the saudi arms deal. and all but claimed air pollution

but whether he lied about it. and the picture that is painted is that this is a person who drank a lot. not just in high school but also in college, and that when he drank, he would become very belligerent and aggressive. he said no, i never did any of that and there are plenty of people coming forward, even today saying that when they listened to him testifying before our committee to that effect, it's just so unbelievable that they are coming forward and these are all the people that need to be interviewed by the fbi. and one of the things james comey said was that of course -- >> in an op-ed that he wrote this weekend? >> yes. and it doesn't matter how long ago the traumatic event was, but significant events, we all remember, even when you're 5 years eold, whatever. and he said that when the nominee lies very obviously about the meaning of things in his yearbook, it just is a red light to dig deeper. >> peter alexander was one of the key questioners asking the president to explain his statement today, peter, in

they lied. they lied for two weeks. they let the secretary of state mike pompeo go over, stand next to the crown prince, they told him, the president of the united states and the world that he walked out of that consulate alive. they killed him. they lured him there. it was purposeful. it was intentional. that's what the facts will ev t eventually be, but we know one fact for sure. for two weeks the saudis lied and tried to get away with it and they knew he was dead. they're still wondering whether or not the saudis will be transporting. it's okay if you want to stop at my house. >> willingly in the pocket of the saudis this administration is for mysterious read. >> do you think it is naivete or if there is a part on the cover up. >> listen, i don't know. i think that we've got to start asking some questions why the trump family to let this idea that we can't really upset the saudis. they buy we7 pons from the united states or they sell us oil. this is ridiculous. much more dependent on the united states. yes, there are

the president may not think he lied. multiple people who knew brett kavanaugh are indicating he did just that. some senators tried to get to the issue of black out drinking. if you're black out drunk, you can't remember all of what you did. >> you're saying there's never been a case where you drank so much that you didn't remember what happened the night before or part of what happened? >> you're asking about black out. i don't know -- have you. >> could you answer the question, judge? that's not happened. is that your answer? >> i'm curious if you have. >> i have no drinking problem judge. >> more do i. >> the defensiveness and disrespect are not the issue although kavanaugh came back after break and apologized for that. the issue is potential lying. if he lied under oath, should he be on the supreme court. the president doesn't seem to think he lied. it won't be up to him to decide. it will be up to the senators. it's up to three undecided senators. senator lisa murkowski and senator jeff flake and susan collins. >> if

he lies about a lot of stuff about the caravan. he lies about it. we've proven it on this show. he even admitted it a little bit today saying there's no proof. but the caravan is real. >> he's also -- and we in the united states have dealt with this issue before and we've dealt with it effectively. there is a process in place to handle making other claims. and so what is new here? we can do this effectively. we have been able to do it effectively. this is just a scare tactic that donald trump is trying to pull out and this is why he's doing it, because he knows that people are tired of his lies, they're tired of his failed policies, whether it's on immigration or on the tax cuts that he's giving away to wealthy people like himself and his family. they're tired of a congress that is not holding him accountable for all of these scandals. they want a change. and this basically is him panicking, trying to do anything that he can knowing that if democrats take back the house, then he's actually going to have to be accountable to you, the american people, and he just can't take that i

do repeated lies matter? how about lies shouted with blij rens and disrespect to senators? how about lies cloaked in spurious political rationales like the clintons did it to cover for what he was covering? those could be relevant considerations, and those are for the senators. let's hope that their decision is made more easy by what the fbi finds out, but we will track it every night. cnn tonight with don lemon starts right now. what do you think? >> you know what i think? i think if you -- and i've said this to you before. if you lie about the small things, imagine what you're going to do about the big things. >> i can hear my pop looking at me and saying, [ speaking in forng language ] when i would lie about what time i came in, stupidly forgetting there were keeping a ledger. he would say you lied about when you came in because you don't want me to know where you are, so it's a real edict. it's a real thing in the law. will it be seen as beside the point of what matters, don? >> i don't know if it's going to change any -- i think most people's minds are already made up

and big lies.was life and law enforcement, if you want to lie about something small, many of us are not going to trust you when it comes to the larger issues. it's not what is happening today. today is going to be a very pivotal day, the next 36 hours will be crucial. we will move from an fbi investigation being turned over into the client and then senate, and then a vote. what happens in the next 36 hours will be key. we are going to start hearing what is in that report. i have no doubt as the senate reads it, we will hear the rumbleings good and bad. this is important because we talked about the vault and the -- >> there's no vault strong enough. >> one thing people have to understand is the report didn't go from the fbi directly to the senate. the white house knows what is it in. i have no idea the white house team, they are pouring through the reports and they are trying to figure out how they will respond to it. >> are you suggesting that's not a vault, the white house communications? i will m

he's lied but lied to important enough things to say no. even some of the further reporting that came out this evening was known to me -- it's demonstratively the case he's lied to some of these matters to the committee large and small. which are large enough essentially to cause you to vote against him. and he said i'm going to have to wait and see what is shown out. also perjury that may have arisen out of trying to explain away those allegations. and he said, look, we got to the drink -- maybe these things are related to word definitions would not be enough to keep judge kavanaugh off the court. but when we turn to the questions of drink, he tried to make a bit of a joke about it of not being a mormon and hard to judge for him matters of excessive drinking. but when i laid out all the claims that have been pouring in today about this, it looked to me if it was demonstratively true that judge kavanaugh had mischaracterized the drinking he was engaged in high school and college, and he lied to it to the committee, that would be a brig prob

he lied undergrowth, to the senate committee.professors in the entire united states, an unprecedented action, said he is not qualified to bejudge. this is someone action, said he is not qualified to be judge. this is someone who action, said he is not qualified to bejudge. this is someone who is going to decide the fundamentals of our democracy. the fundamentals of our democracy. the fundamentals of our rights, engaging in partisan, personal and completely inappropriate response to legitimate questions that were being asked, and a very thoughtful testimony that was being raised about actions he had taken. he lied about his drinking, he belonged to societies that i cannot even mention the names of, not on this television. they would be bleeped out. he used to sexual innuendoin be bleeped out. he used to sexual innuendo in his writings, these things should have been investigated and he lied about them. that is the most fundamental condemnation. i think it is a long healing process now. i think unfortunately the process will elevate

we have numerous instances in which he lied to the committee and he is unsuited to serve. at a minimum the president should withdraw this nominee. it is certainly an enormous, enormous, dark mark on the integrity of the court to take someone who misled the senate, democrats and republicans, about numerous topics. in those issues we mentioned, deception, issues related to stolen documents, he did. he said he didn't. was involved in proceedings for certain nominees? he said he wasn't. but he was. was he involved in conversations over torture? he said he wasn't but he was and that is with the limited information we have and then we have a hearing in which he said things like his friends together with doctor ford refuted her story, straight out lies, not a one of them refuted his story. it said they didn't remember, they didn't know, they certainly didn't refute. that is a lie. she wasn't in the same social circle, but we know she was, she dated his good friends, he said when asked did he find certain things like devils triangle, he lied to the committee about what those terms

that doesn't mean he lied in his testimony before the judiciary committee. but it also suggests that a thorough investigation of whether he lied would take some time. and there are going to be people you are going to want to identify and interview if you really care about whether he told the truth. >> carry, as a support of the judge, i'm wondering does this bar incident worry you at all and other former classmates who said he was a sloppy drunk and seen him staggering and the like? >> look, i think leader mcconnell put it really well today. said if you listen carefully you can almost see the goal posts moving. first they said we need a heavy hearing, they got a hearing and they said, no, no, no, we need the fbi to investigation. and now they're investigate. and now they're trying to figure out can they do something else. we're talking about a friend of his hit someone in a bar 30 years ago and questioning now whether we should launch a whole new investigation into his testimony? i mean, his testimony was pretty clear. he was like i drank beer. he says he dr

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we will all get lied about. you have been lied about and i have been lied about.id to judge kavanaugh, the democratic party systematically ignoriing presumption of innocence and due process. i believe her but you have not heard from the other side. you are not that person. but that is your party. reaction? >> well, i am trying to change that party. i am trying to make it into what it used to be when i was the national board member of the american civil liberties union and we believed in the presumption of innocence. when i was a harvard professor. we would not deny a professor the right to teach based on these allegations. i have a piece coming out tomorrow railing against harvard students who have employed mccarthyism to dissuade justice kavanaugh from teaching them. i will continue to fight within the democratic party to make sure that they return to their original roots as a liberal, not a radical left wingparty. in the meantime i congratulate justice kavanaugh. i await his decisions. i am sure i will disagree with some and agree with some. that's the nature of

you can't cheer on lies that you know to be lies and then go home and try to teach your child anything. you just can't. because they will see that you are the hypocrite standing behind the president cheering him on and laughing as he applauds assault and battery. >> yeah. >> as he lies about the most basic facts, as he tears to shreds one constitutional norm after another. this may seem like this is all above your children. it's not. i have four. they are a lot smarter than you think they are. i'm just wondering what do you do when you go home from that rally, applauding what's going -- applauding the lies, applauding the assaults, applauding the abuses, applauding the vulgarities. it's a very, mika, i think we need to start asking a lot more. >> it's fair enough. >> who are the people that continue to applaud things they know to be lies? >> i just don't know if they see it as lies or if they see it as a show. i'm not sure. but 15 days to go. 15 until the midterm elections, and with much at stake the new nbc news "wall street journal" poll suggests it is difficult to tell what the outc

in front of the united states senate, i believe those lies should have consequences.t is truth that is at stake, and i believe that the ability to speak the truth, even when it does not reflect well upon one's self, is a paramount quality we seek in our nation's most powerful judges. i can unequivocally say that in denying the possibility that he ever black out from drinking and in downplaying the degree and frequency of his drinking brett has not told the truth. i felt it was my civic duty to tell of my experience while drinking with brett, and i offer this statement to the press. i have no desire to speak further publicly and nothing more to say to the press at this time. i will, however, take my information to the fbi and on that note i contacted the fbi -- contacted me this morning, i contacted them. i have received the form. i filled it out with the details, but i can't give those to anybody right now. thank you very much. >> -- roommate said he never saw him blackout, he was with him when he got home at night and saw him when he woke up. your response to that? >

they lied. they lied for two weeks.hey let the secretary of state mike pompeo go over to saudi arabia, stand next to the crown prince as they told him, the president of the united states and the world that jamal khashoggi was still alive, that he walked out of that consulate alive, when they knew the entire time that he was dead. now, listen, they killed him, they lured him there. it was purposeful, intentional. this whole thing is a cover-up, i think that's what the facts will eventually be. but we know one fact for sure. and that was for two weeks the saudis lied and tried to get away with it when they knew he was dead. and the fact is the administration is still wondering whether or not the saudis are going to be transparent shows you how naive they are and how weak we are, sort of willingly in the pocket of the saudis this administration is for mysterious reasons. >> do you think it is just naivety on the part of the administration, or do you think they are in fact part of the cover-up, if in fact there's a cover-up

they also know little lies point too bigger lies.ious lies by the nominee about the meaning of words in a year book are a flashing signal to dig deeper. glenn, expand. >> unfortunately this is an artificial exercise because if you interview one person as an fbi agent, then that's going to lead you to two or three or four other people you're going to need to interview, not to mention you're going to need to get text message ands e-mails and information to corroborate what each of these people tell you. in order to cram this down the throats of the american people in one week or less really kind of shows it to be, i hate to say, the rigged set up that it is. >> when you write a book, i read a couple books, one by jack kennedy. he said the reason people read biographies, the simple question, what was he like? we were all want to know what somebody is like. the only answer to that and go to a close friend, somebody closer to him than me. another guy is closer. another guy knew him a different way. that's how you find out what a guy is li

he is he lied lied lied lied lid of alcohol he drank in college. >> it surprised me to hear him say he never blacked out. i was in the room when he came home. i talked to him. i saw him. some times he wasn't responsive. i was with him when we woke up. >> he says he also knew ramirez, the second accuser, he says he believes her allegations. one of kavanaugh's long-time friends vouched for him. she says she knew kavanaugh and has known him since high school. she says he is not the person blasey ford describes him to be. >> he is not that guy. i'm telling you. did he drink, yes. did he take it too far? no. he had aspirations even back then to get into an ivy league school, to follow in the footsteps of his mother. >> she believes something happened to ford but it likely did not involve kavanaugh. >>> people driving into san francisco saw this large black sign that said we believe survivors in obvious reference to the kavanaugh. we checked and the sign the no longer there now. it is not clear who hung that sign. be sure to enable push alerts on your phone or smart device for our app. >>> i

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he lied and said we will get to it eventually. if the current congress were in session today, could they pass a 10% tax cut? >> no, no, and no. they could maybe pass it through the house. not through the senate. democrats are not going to be on board with this. his a recognition that the president recognizes that the good economy is not going to save his party. they didn't save the democrats in 2014 and save the democrats in 1994. the economy is mostly irrelevant and that the tax law which was their signature achievement and was supposed to be the key thing has been a political flop. the super pacs are not running on it. the biggest spender has been about the tax law. they recognize it's not working and they are trying for the same issue. >> i don't know if it makes you laugh or cry. the president's advisers and the communications director said they are calling him a liar. it worked in 2016. get over it. >> when you guys are upset about it and listing all the lies and trying to explain you can't get a tax cut done in 10 days, peop

> bill clinton at the time. >> yeah. >> bill clinton lied and when clinton lied, nobody died and on andippery slope of the standard being put in place and we need to dlin ate clearly between accusations about his drinking in high school or college, and the alleged sexual assault. character witnesses are going to pile up and we're going to get this report. and then we're going to have to find a way to find common ground around it. to me, the more shocking thing that happened late last week is the outburst of not only emotion, which you can, you know, chalk up to righteous indignation. but the abandonment of not only judicial temperament but independence. he came out so hot and partisan, that to me raises a bigger question the senate needs to digest. allegations of drinking of in high school and college. >> overall, ultimately, we have to raids a question of is this person capable of being a jurist. is this person capable of being on the highest court in the land. and for me, things that should weigh in are temperament, character, disposition, and his background. so, yeah, we will never b

you say you are 100% sure that judge brett kavanaugh lied under oath to the u.s.eparate areas. i want to go after them one at a time, if i can. you say you are 100% sure that he lied under oath about not blacking out after drinking. explain. >> i was brett's college roommate. we shared a room. we had beds 12 feet apart. and i would see him leaving to go to parties. having had beers in our suit. i saw him coming home from parties, unable to speak coherently. i saw him when he was vomiting in the bedroom and in the bathroom in the suit, and i saw him the next morning when he couldn't get himself out of bed. i am not a doctor. i don't know how you define blacking out. but, you know, like a lot of people, i had some beer in college as well. and i would say that those things are consistent with blacking out. >> do you have specific memories of judge brett kavanaugh when he was your college roommate not remembering things after drinking? >> i did. >> can you tell us? >> it is a long time ago and it's hard to think of a specific story. but we had times we were sitting to

it's a party of lies. they are hiding what they will do in the hopes they can trick you into voting for them in 20 due days. you get the power and have the power to stop the world again. joining us now, fox news contributor sara carter and annie mccarthy is with us. what's particularly disturbing about kyrsten sinema, she thinks her state is the meth capital of the world and now we see this new tape that is inviting witches. the more important issue is the lawyer that she invited to arizona state university, you prosecuted the blind shake. who is lynn stewart? >> sean, lynn stewart was my chief adversary in that case. she was the defense lawyer for the blind shake. after she was convicted of a conspiracy involving a jihadist organization that he basically was the formative figure of a new york, which violates -- which bombed the world trade center in 1993, which plotted to bomb the new york city landmarks right after that, after he was convicted, after all of his process was run through and he was no longe

he lied about what the alumni was, he lied about the route was, he lied to congress. >> tucker: you'rehe lied about the ralph club? over, done. i agree. you lie about the ralph club and you're done, i feel that in my heart. let me just say. this is so crazy. [ >> why lie about it? my thing is why lie about that? it was something he could have just said i was a dumb kid. he could have just said that instead he lied. >> tucker: thank you very much. this is a fox news alert we promise to monitor the ongoing rally for some news and we have some. the president addressed the brett kavanaugh confirmation about 5 minutes ago he spoke about christine ford, nbc and the creepy lawyer at the center of all of this. here's what he said. >> president trump: how did you get home? i don't remember, where is the place? i don't remember, how many years ago was at? i don't remember. i don't know. i don't know. i don't know! what neighborhood was it in? i don't know. where's the house? i don't know. upstairs, downstairs, where was it? i had one beer, that's the only thing i remember. a man's life is in tat

and importantly, i never, ever lied about it. and i think the issue here is it really is -- it's not the drinking as such. it goes to the question about whether or not he's been honest about getting into this important, critically important public service job on the basis of being truthful with the senate, with the fbi, and with the american people. >> yeah. >> and that is an important thing for people to judge. >> yeah. stuart, i have you back now, so i'll ask you the same question because obviously, you know, there is some discrepancy about what he said when he was under oath by the way, or when he was talking to the senators last week in front of judiciary committee. will they be looking at whether he lied under oath? >> well, don, you have to understand we have to go back to the original premise with respect to what the fbi is here for. they are basically being contracted by the white house to go back out and conduct various interviews. generally speaking, the white house dictates the tempo of what they want as far as who to

howie: that's the drum beat, trump lies, he creates his own facts. you said sure he lies and you told him not to lie, but journalists and other opponents make a mistake if they think this is the way to beat him on that question. anthony: it's a little bit of puffery and exaj you racial. the president has an entertainment streak through his rallies. the hall monitors, they are making a big mistake. he said this, but here is the facts. if anything it galvanized the president's base. howie: sometimes he gets things wrong. but think about what you are saying. you are his friend, his former aide. you wrote a book praising him as a blue-collar president. you said he can 10,000 lies as far as you are concerned. are you giving him a giant pass? anthony: i didn't say it didn't matter. i think it's fine for the media to hold him accountable. i am saying his supporters have felt a vacuum. the middle class and lower middle class have never felt an advocate in the oval office at least for 30 or 40 years. some of my democratic friends will be mad at me to say that

. >> -- op-ed in the "usa today" filled with lies?e washington post" says, quote, almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood but it still got tweeted out 4 million times. the president as we head into these midterms continue to say democrats are going to continue us into venezuela. it's this progress ev movement. you know who's put $100 million into democrats running? mike bloomberg. yesterday, he reregistered as a democrat. >> you know why -- >> last time i checked -- >> what is mike bloomberg's number one issue? >> guns. >> right. >> okay. >> and the environment and the paris climate accord. >> i'm an environmentalist republican and i guarantee you the number one problem we have in terms of environmental policy, i would contend to you, is that this federal government spends too much of its time and efforts thanks to decades of legacy, i'm not talking about this administration per se, although they have this burden. they spend far too much time regulating our personal lives and businesses -- >> you think th

he said judge kavanaugh lied during his testimony last week.hasn't spoken publicly about this until now. tonight i asked him why. >> i saw him do this stuff he said under oath he didn't do. i saw him use words in a different way than he said under oath they were used. if a person isn't truthful about these little things, we ought to think very seriously about whether we should tell debbie that she's wrong or crazy and believe him. >> back now with david gergen, kirsten powers, jeff toobin, and michael caputo. david, you heard that letter -- does this in the end really just boil down to politics for the senators who have to make this choice? >> it seems to be boiling down to politics. that's exactly the way it shouldn't come down. and i, again, go back to the conversation you've been having with mr. roche tonight. you know, what strikes you is he's got a really credible story, but is it the complete story? isn't it fair to kavanaugh to hear other stories? the fact we're going to tomorrow morning before the deadline they closed down this so-calle

and more lies and lies and just goes on and on and thanks to the media we are able to pose the questions again and again find more facts and. push those petitions to keep changing the story line because eventually we're going to have to get to the truth now look it's really it's really not easy because you and i we sit here all the time and we just hear politicians lie because we expect politicians to lie but they lie for their national interest they lie for the good and well being of their citizens but we don't expect them and we don't accept that they lie to cover. a crime we don't expect them to lie for money and we certainly don't expect them and accept that they lie to cover up for the crime against their own citizens that's not what politicians are supposed to do but here we are in the midst of this tragic comedy where those who are clearly responsible for the crime committed against one of their own citizens because we also know that they've been responsible for so many other war for other crimes including war crimes in their neighboring country yemen and for countless diplomatic

rishaad: thank you so much, cui li. just going to tell you what we have to come.ooking at markets, on the way down once more. growth, 6.5%pected gdp read coming this third-quarter. 6.6% was the estimate. this is bloomberg. ♪ rishaad: president trump says "it certainly looks as though the missing saudi writer jamal khashoggi is dead." hedid not say on what basis based that conclusion, but said any punishment for saudi involvement would be severe. yvonne: severe consequences. does this mean the administration is preparing for a tougher stance? >> they are facing a lot of pressure, including from congress and a lot of their own party members in congress, to take a stance. the president was equivocating somewhat. he said there would be severe theequences, but that administration and congress should wait for the results of the investigation to find out what happened to mr. khashoggi. he is taking a somewhat tougher stance, but not saying what he would do. congress wants there to be an unequivocal stance on this, and they want action and soon. if not, they say they will

howie: that's the drum beat, trump lies, he creates his own facts.d sure he lies and you told him not to lie, but journalists and other opponents make a mistake if they think this is the way to beat him on that question. anthony: it's a little bit of puffery and exaj you racial. the president has an entertainment streak through his rallies. the hall monitors, they are making a big mistake. he said this, but here is the facts. if anything it galvanized the president's base. howie: sometimes he gets things wrong. but think about what you are saying. you are his friend, his former aide. you wrote a book praising him as a blue-collar president. you said he can 10,000 lies as far as you are concerned. are you giving him a giant pass? anthony: i didn't say it didn't matter. i think it's fine for the media to hold him accountable. i am saying his supporters have felt a vacuum. the middle class and lower middle class have never felt an advocate in the oval office at least for 30 or 40 years. some of my democratic friends will be mad at me to say that. he hij

you beat lies by telling the truth again and again and again. and you beat anger by giving it nothing to feed on. it will starve. we've seen it time and again. and then you've got the chance. you've got a chance to feed the same people, the same hunger, with something else. we will see what is offered up as sustenance because the need, the appetite, is clearly great. thank you for watching. "cnn tonight with don lemon" starts right now. >> we've had this discussion before. the people who tell you, why do you have that person on your show? i don't think they're always necessarily wrong, chris. >> i know you don't. >> i don't think they're wrong because i think that, number one, we have duties as journalists not to be fonts or platforms for propaganda. >> true. >> and if you have someone -- this is -- i struggle with this. as a matter of fact, i've been talking to co-workers about it. i struggle with how much attention, how much time to give to lies and inaccurate information because people will believe that just by putting it on television and po

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there have been a lot of people over the last year that have lied to congress, and to me that would not be acceptable. i don't want to do anything to interrupt what's happening with judge kavanaugh. and i think the process -- i must say i think, hopefully as mitch said, they'll have a vote by the end of the week and it will be a positive vote. i say that it's a very scary time for young men in america when you can be builty of somethi -- guilty of something you may not be guilty of. this is a very difficult time. what's happening here has much more to do than even the appointment of a supreme court justice. it really does. you could be somebody that was perfect your entire life, and somebody could accuse you of something. doesn't necessarily have to be a woman, as everybody is saying, but somebody could accuse you of something and you're automatically guilty. in this realm, you are truly guilty until proven innocent. >> let's talk about all that we just heard there. with me, david cattanese. and april ryan. david, you first. on the bit about what trump said, i don't think you should lie

what is being argued here is the question whether he lied on any subject and the scope of the subject matter is expanding to the point it defies definition. anything could be asked of a nominee now. any answer that is not openly and frankly embarrassing and disclosing of your past could be viewed as perjury. the question is this is what we want from the confirmation hearing is what people do we expect to get? if everything in your past can be brought up and you can be confronted and demand to answer. my gravest concern about all this is we are so far removed from the original allegations. they were asking about drinking and these terms because there was a reference to his being a blackout drunk but then it became clear that was an artificial excuse because they were asking details as to who he drank with, how he drank, whether he was belligerent and this is a perjury trap. heather: if they retake the house as many people think they will he would be heading up the house judiciary committee and he is talking about impeachment. >> if he is on the supreme court and the senate had been inv

they know that little lies point to bigger lies. they know that buys the no, ma'am -- they know the words in the yearbook are a flash to dig deeper. >> with the kavanaugh nomination in limbo and 36 days to the midterms, democrats are using this as a pitch to voters. former vice president joe biden rallied the party faithful in rhode island. >> a degree of invective. blind rage and brut partisanship that threatens the senate and the supreme court, but the basic faith of the american people have on our institutions. ♪ if you don't like who's in there vote them out ♪ ♪ vote them out ♪ vote them out when we're done and sing and dance and shout ♪ >> vote them out. willie nelson debuting a new election themed number in texas for candidate beto o'rourke saturday night. and in florida, michelle obama joining in the rally for voter registration. >> i'm tired of the daily chaos and pettiness and meanness that dominates the political discourse. we all are. it is exhausting and honestly depressing. >> and this from massachusetts senator elizabe

we know he lied about that. at some point you have to demonstrate leadership and except responsibly for what you have done. todd: mr. desantis, thank you. i would ask the audience not to applaud because we want to have these gentlemen get all of their time in and discuss the issues. the question is to you, mr. gillum. your opponent says you are corrupt. you were befriended with undercover fbi agents looking for corruption in your city. you socialized with them in the city. you said the fbi told you, you are not the target of their investigation. this week, we know the subpoenaed text messages from a lobbyist who was your longtime friend appeared to show a high-priced ticket to see the broadway show hamilton came from the undercover agent, not from our brother as you stated. the question for you is did you know when you took that ticket from your brother in the lobby of the richard rodgers theater in manhattan that an undercover agent had gifted it to you? mr. desantis: i know this has been a great theme of news

host: what has the president lied about? caller: are you ready? ? what has he lied about? to touch social security, we are not going to touch medicare. we are going to make it stronger. we are not going to take away disability. just three things i can think of right off and there are many more. republicans --he i'm not saying him only. he says that and the republicans say they are going to do this and that. debt. we have a heck of a he wants to say there is no global warming. what about these storms? where is this money going to go to? years, weirst two have seen unemployment drop to historic low levels. we have seen african-american, hispanic -- hispanic unemployment dropped to the lowest levels in recorded history. that is a good thing. is there more work to do? of course. give himy is, let's the opportunity to continue on creatingforward of jobs, over 4 million new jobs created. let's give him the opportunity to reassert our dominance and draw those red lines in the sand when our