one theory was melania trump is not out there enough. hasn't formed an identity and her platform is be best and most people can't explain what that is. i'm not sure she can explain what that is. if her approval ratings start to rise. >> this is the first lengthy interview she has given. >> she is not in the room all the time, but she is a person for the president to bounce off ideas and called balls and strikes. she was a go around for john kelly. if you wanted to get to trump, melania would help him get the phone calls that were getting stuck. >> for those of you who covered the campaign, anyone who knows their relationship and knows her knows that she is a very astute political adviser that president trump trusts and apparently has good political instincts privately. we will see if that changes. michelle o bam a speaking of first ladies, she is scolding democrat who is say kick em. hey guys, up there. ...or to laugh out loud. ♪ but when it matters most, you count on tracfone to keep you connected for less. ♪ our smartphone plan gives y

it is challenging to see melania trump at a clinic hugging and kissing babies. here. you see mrs. trump announced that child welfare will be the focus of her trip to the mother land and ironic considering the husband's stance that keeping bro brown and migrant children in cages are just fine. the trump administration allowed that to happen in this country, what can you expect from children living in so-called s-hole countries. >> the trump administration cutting funding for many of the groups that mrs. trump visited it. solely because they provide family plans. allowing the import of elephant tusks from countries like kenya. in theory, melania trump's visit to africa is a step in the right direction but what does that matter if her husband will enact policies that'll take us many, many more steps in the wrong one? so mrs. trump, nice footage from the front mother land, it is beautiful. i look forward to seeing it in december. in the meantime, i got you forever. ( ♪ ) everybody wants a new, different, better world. here's to the people who do what it takes to buil

she just -- things are done in the east wing when melania trump likes to do them. >> because melania said. >> great reporting. pressure mounting on the trump administration after new evidence surfaces to suggest that a "washington post" contributor was tortured and killed in the saudi consulate in turkey. i spoke with his colleague and also his friend and she has a message for the president. >> source are telling cnn turkish authorities have video evidence that jamal khashoggi was tortured and killed in the consulate in istanbul. he was walking into the consulate over a week ago on that video and was there to get paperwork to allow him to marry his turkish fiance. they deny involvement in his disappearance, but explosive allegations are sparking a business backlash. several media companies including cnn have with drawn from an upcoming business conference known as davos in the desert with the allegations against saudi arabia. the global opinions editor for "the washington post" and a colleague and friend of jamal's. >> thank you so much for joining us. i'm sorry you are here under the

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i covered melania trump since beginning of the inauguration.t a surprise to me she walked off the plane with the jacket off again. in many ways, she's like her husband. if she's attacked, she punches back twice as hard. this is how she does it. she's wary of the press. this interview last night that aired was her first on camera sit down interview in almost a year that we heard from her. as to the border, i do believe she told her husband, the president, she was going down there. we asked how does the president feel about this. the answer was she told him she was going. she wanted to see it for herself. she wields some influence and power, does her own thing when it comes to some west wing policies, but the jacket was a real misstep. we remember afterwards her spokeswoman said it is just a jacket, there is no message. and last night it was a message to leftwing media. >> do you think there was an objective for melania trump to do the interview since this was her first sit down and she did not elaborate on much, she had a response for every ques

melania trump feeding baby elephants on her trip to africa. nding in front of an egyptian sphinx, she couldn't avoid questions about politics. >> reporter: melania spent the week a word away from washington, trekking through several african nations on her very first solo international trip. the often reserved and quiet first lady was as delighted as we have seen her when she fed baby elephants in kenya. and in contrast to her husband's tough talk on foreign policy, she took a softer approach, offering her thanks to countries offering her and promoting her campaign, be best. >> thank you for educating them to be best. >> reporter: in a rare q & a session before her tour of the egyptian pyramids, mrs. trump could not escape questions about her husband's political controversies, including comments he reportedly made earlier this year about, quote, shit hole countries to describe haiti and some african nations. >> nobody discussed that with me. i never heard him saying those comments. >> reporter: the first lady weighed in on the me too movement an

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melania trump represents us oversees. she is our first lady.ay hands off her son and be decent. the house is going to come down to 25 seats decided by two points or less. all razor edge. mob mentality and meanness has done nothing but help the republican cause. >> sean: thank you both. having met melania on a number of occasions, wonderful, loving, amazing person u english her fifth language. an amazing mom. one of the nicest people you will ever meet. thank you esm both. enough to when we come back g.p.s. co-founder following rosenstein's lead he is refusing to appear before the house jewish area committee next week. he wants to invong the vehicle the fifth. sara carter, gregg jarrett as we place, the xfinity xfi gateway. and it's strengthened by xfi pods, which plug in to extend the wifi even farther, past anything that stands in its way. ...well almost anything. leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. get stronger... get closer. start listening today to the world's largest selection of

howie: let me get to melania trump. she did a rare sit-down with abc news. e of the questions was whether donald trump's alleged infidelities put a strange on her marriage. >> i know the media likes to speculate about our marriage. and certainly the gossip. but i understand the gossip sells newspapers, magazines, getting advertisers. and unfortunately we live in this kind of world today. >> have you been hurt? >> media speculating, yeah, it's not always pleasant of course. howie: was it fair for him to ask about that? how do you think the first lady handled those questions? jessica: i think it was fair to ask by the and she handled it well. the number of times hillary clinton has been asked about bill clinton's i fidelity. she had to sit in a debate with anita broaddrick and paula jones right there in her face. there were allegations donald trump used campaign fund to pay off a woman he had an affair with. howie: when melania trump says the press is reporting gossip, she has a point. but there were stories about the president reimbursing payments. it's not al

melania trump represents us oversees. she is our first lady. her son and be decent. the house is going to come down to 25 seats decided by two points or less. all razor edge. mob mentality and meanness has done nothing but help the republican cause. >> sean: thank you both. having met melania on a number of occasions, wonderful, loving, amazing person u english her fifth language. an amazing mom. one of the nicest people you will ever meet. thank you esm both. enough to when we come back g.p.s. co-founder following rosenstein's lead he is refusing to appear before the house jewish area committee next week. he wants to invong the vehicle the fifth. sara carter, gregg jarrett as we continue this busy friday news night straight ahead. just one free hearing test at his local miracle ear helped andrew hear more of the joy in her voice. just one hearing test is all it took for him to hear more of her laugh... and less of the background noise around him. for helen, just one visit to her local miracle-ear is all it took to learn how she can share more

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. >>> breaking news involving first lady melania trump. her plane had to turn around and return to joint base andrews. >> there was some type of mechanical issue and the press on board says there was a smell like something was burning. it looks like we are looking at this live picture right now. a lot of folks are getting off the plane. it appears that everyone seems to be okay. we're also hearing from folks on board that people on the plane were brought wet towels and told to hold them over their faces if the smell became too strong. the pne did land safely back at joint base andrews a few minutes ago. we are waiting for information on what exactly that issue was for this air scare for the first lady. a situation no one wants to be in. >> sounds pretty serious given what they had to do with the towels. more as we get it in. >>> never more than 7 minutes away from my accuweather forecast. sfo up because it is partly cloudy. it is becoming partly cloudy down in san jose too. both of these areas, temperatures about 50 degrees right now. cool

borja: lo mismo le pasa a melania trump.que le ha pedido a su esposo que deje el telÉfono y lo hizo pÚblico en cuatro naciones africanas en donde agregÓ no estar siempre de acuerdo con lo que Él tuitea. [audio en inglÉs] carolina: melania es objeto de burlas en twitter por la forma en su viaje a egipto, incluso la comparan con michael jackson y personajes ficticios como carmen san diego e indiana jones. ella decÍa de beigh con bata negra y un sombrero. no sÓlo en estados unidos sino en todas partes han criticado. borja: las redes sociales siempre en seguida afinan su ingenio. yo personalmente pienso que iba muy guapa. carolina: yo la vi muy elegante y apropiada pero ustedes decidan. esto es prÁctico porque reciÉn casados son parte de las 20 vÍctimas de ese choque de una limosina el fin de semana cerca de albani. los reciÉn casados era un hombre de 34 aÑos y de 30 aÑos. las vÍctimas eran amigos y familiares incluyendo cuatro hermanas de una familia y dos hermanos de otra. todos iban a una fÁbrica de cervezas a festejar un cum

. >>> with the president's comments about women under scrutiny, staffers for melania trump are lashing out over a rap star's new video featuring a look-alike of mrs. trump doing something very suggestive in the oval office. nbc news white house correspondent kristin welker has that story. >> reporter: this viral video of a melania trump look-alike, has the real first lady's team fuming. the clip, part of a promotional rollout by rapper t.i., shows a fake mrs. trump stripping off a replica of that infamous green jacket, her spokpe of the rapper. these kinds of vulgar attacks only further the divisiveness and bias in our country. it needs to stop. t.i. didn't respond to our request for comment, but tweeted with the video, dear 45, i ate kanye. that, a reference to last week's controversial visit to the oval office by rap superstar kanye west. >> there was something about when i put this hat on, it made me feel like superman. >> reporter: t.i. blasted west as a puppet for president trump. but his online video is aimed at a first lady who has made her anti-bullying campaign her signature i

first lady melania trump one-on-one during her first solo trip overseas. the wide-ranging interview on her life in the white house and the me too movement. >> i support the women and they need to be heard. >> first on "gma" this morning. ♪ >>> and taylor swift making history at the american music awards as women ruled the night. ♪ and cardi b's epic performance. the reaction going viral. we're backstage for all the big moments right here on "gma." ♪ >>> good morning, america. hope you're well this wednesday morning. they are bracing for a big one in florida. >> hurricane michael strengthening overnight closing in on the florida panhandle. it could be the strongest storm ever to hit that area. florida all the way to north carolina on alert. >> and take a look at panama city beach. they're seeing the effects of the storm already and here's what michael looks like from space spanning some 300 miles. >> this is what we know right now, hurricane michael now a major category 4 storm. it is packing 140-mile-an-hour winds, around 375,000 people across florida have

we see that on the faces of the children greeting melania trump.n a couple of hours ago. the messages she's sending are where she goes, the gestures. she went to a school. the brutal math of the school shows you how difficult it is to generate, to educate the next generation of malawians. a student to teacher ratio of 111-1. these are class sizes they're dealing with. they have outdoor classes. when it rains, they have to dismiss the students we spoke to the head teacher there a few hours ago. she spoke about how incredibly proud, touched and honored she was to have the first lady come all this way to visit her. let's listen, hallie, to what we heard from melania. this was earlier. e? >> thank you for having me here and thank you for a beautiful, warm welcome. i wanted to be here to see the successful programs that the united states is providing to the children. and thank you for educating them to be best, be their best and to grow up being educated adults for generations to come. thank you very much. >> reporter: now, hallie, she is touting the am