so i told mr. gary water, i said, i cannot do that anymore. i cannot do two jobs. i would be finishing at the white house some night at 11:00 after a state dinner and them go home, sleep a couple of hours, and back to the white house the next day, and then that evening, probably to the school to teach for four, five horse.urs. so that was a very rough time for me, very rough time. so anyway, he said, yes, to the pastry kitchen and the raise. and after a while, i was not hearing from him and i said, you haven't come back to me about the money. are you paying me something? he said, you know, because i want to -- he said, yes, it's going to be good, substantial. it was, it was, he kept his promise. and then the pastry kitsch, he start saying to me, walk around the white house and try to find a spot where we can do it. and i'll help you do it. he kept his promise, he was a very good man. so the -- we did come to that. i so the -- we did come to that. i got a plan and then there was another usher at the white house, dennis freemeyer, his name was, and he was also an eng

mr. president, gary cohn said to trump, what would you need in the region to slaep well at night? wouldn't need a bleeping thing, the president said. and i'd sleep like a baby. after trump left the tank, secretary of state rex tillerson declare kd he's a bleeping moron. >> stunning. it also reminds me of what bob corker said last year. that if you removed kelly, removed mattis, and tillerson, who's no longer there, from this administration, this country could devolve into chaos. this suggests that in a lot of ways that those people and others in the administration took these steps to prevent the president from acting because they thought it would be a significant threat to this country, to the world. this is the president of the united states we're talking about and his most senior trusted aides and advisers. it's a remarkable thing. >> and just for context, a dangerous thing in today's world but a lot of this reporting is about earlier days of the administration. but we see just in the last three, four, five days the president's anger, his visceral response, his attack on institu

mr. trump a... "liar."the author also describes how former economic adviser gary cohn once removed a document from the president's desk to prevent mr. trump from exiting a trade agreement with south korea. cohn said: "i stole it off his desk... i wouldn't let him see it. he's never going to see that document. got to ptect the country..."one of a number of actions woodward describes as "no less than an administrative coup d'etat." woodward says other top officials were equally harsh.. from chief of staff john kelly who said... "he's an idiot. it's pointless to try to convince him of anything. he's gone off the rails. we're in crazytown... this is the worst job i've ever had..."the white house released a statement from kelly saying he never called the president an idiot. then, according to woodward, there's defense secretary james mattis who said the president has the understanding of a "fifth or sixth grader..."to former white house chief of staff reince priebus who said the presidential bedroom was "the devil's workshop."woodward also offers nasty comments from the president.. who says priebus is "like a little r

gary in opposition m.e.p. disagrees in contradiction with. what mr obama is saying this report is not about migration and refugees but i know five or five percent of this report is about. undermining the fundamental rights of hungary and citizenship hungary on wednesday m.e.p.a. zwar votes on whether to trigger article seven against hunger it's known here in a few circles as the nuclear option because of its seriousness it's a procedure which could lead to budapest being stripped of its council voting rights all banned supporters say he's defending hungary sovereignty his opponents say he's part of a populist wave that threatens the future of the block and must be reined in before european parliamentary elections next year natasha butler i'll.

mr. trump a liar. the author also describes how former economic adviser, gary cohn, once removed a document from the president's desk to prevent mr. trump from exiting a trade agreement with south korea. coh nsaid, i stole it off his desk, i wouldn't let him see it. he's never going to see that document. got to protect the country. one of a number of actions woodward describes as no less than administrative coup d'etat. chief of staff john kelly said, he's an i idiot, it's pointless to try to convince him of anything. he's going off the rails. we're in crazytown. this is the worst job i've ever had. the white house released a statement from kelly saying he never called the president an idiot. then according to woodward, there is defense secretary, james mattis, who said the president has the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader. to former chief of staff reince priebus who said he just scurries around and refers to attorney general jeff sessions as mentally retarded and a dumb southerner. according to woodward, the president once told guiliani, rudy, you're a baby. i've never seen a worse defense in my life.

shows that this is a white house that is very dysfunctional and individuals like gary cohn and others are trying to prevent mr. trump from doing things that could hurt all of us. >> after the north korean summit, we heard the president kind of question the need for the military exercises that are a huge built-in part of our forces serving overseas. i want to read you this other portion. this is via "the washington post" from the woodward book. one month into his presidency, trump asked general dunford for a plan for a pre-emptive military strike on north korea, which rattled the combat veteran. in the fall of 2017 as trump intensified a war of words with kim jong-un, dictating north korea's dictator little rocket man in a speech at the united nations, aides worried that the president might be provoking kim. but woodward writes, trump told porter, his staff secretary, that he saw the situation as a contest of wills. quote, this is all about leader versus leader, man versus man, me versus kim. what's missing from any of that in your experienced view? >> it's donald trump acting like a president, that's what's m

gary in opposition m.e.p. disagrees in contradiction with. what mr obama is saying this report is not about migration and refugees but i know five of percent of this report is about. undermining the fundamental rights of hungary and citizenship hungary on wednesday any pieces were voted on whether to trigger article seven against hunger it's known here in a new circles as the nuclear option because of its seriousness it's a procedure which could lead to budapest being stripped of its council voting rights. supporters say he's defending hungary solvency his opponents say yes part of a poll published wave threatens the future of the blog and must be reigned in before european parliamentary elections next year it's not just strasbourg france. but plenty more ahead of the news hour including the final stage of a ten year battle with palestinian activists refusing to leave a bedouin village that's expected to be demolished while the number of students in south africa has gone up those passing exams is down and the sports less than two months after appeari

i asked our washington correspondent gary 0'donoghue how significant this latest development is for mrential to be enormously significant in the sense depending on what he has to say to special counsel when he begins or continues the cooperation he's agreed to. in the plea agreement he said he will get over documents, interviews, briefings and he may testify in future proceedings in other words appearasa future proceedings in other words appear as a witness, it does run the gamut of cooperation. what we do not know exactly at this moment in time is what is the precise nature of the special counsel's interest in his is it to do with his experience with the campaign of and the famous meeting in the tower between the people connected to the russian government dad the organisation, including manafort. is it all the side of the investigation that he wa nts to side of the investigation that he wants to detail, or is it something else, is a something connected with these charges he's pleaded guilty to in terms of lobbying, is it about other lobbyists in washington, other people not obeying th

gary an opposition m.e.p. disagrees in contradiction with. what mr obama is saying this report is not about migration refugees but ninety five percent of this report is about. undermining the fundamental rights and should dissension for greed on wednesday m.e.p. votes on whether to trigger article seven against hunger it's known here in the e.u. circles as the nuclear option because of its seriousness it's a procedure which could lead to budapest being stripped of its e.u. council voting rights. supporters say he's defending hungary sovereignty his opponents say he's part of a populist wave that threatens the future of the block and must be reigned in before european parliamentary elections next year. i'll just strasburg france. are plenty more ahead on news hour including zimbabwe government declares an emergency in the capital after at least twenty people die in a cholera outbreak a new u.n. report says that one in nine people suffer from hunger around the world and the oldest man in formula one is settling for can a petition from france make him s

mr. mcleod, ms. garces, gary weintraub, olson, ms. baker, professor marie and professor mark. let's see. i would ask if you would stand and i should have said this before you sit down. i'm sorry. do you swear that the testimony you are about to give before this committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god. thank you. thank you for your affirmation. now, when the congressman comes this will be his introduction. cedric richmond is the us representative second district louisiana. currently serves as chairman of the congressional black caucus, luke mcleod serves as law clerk for judge kavanaugh. thirteen and 14 years. i mean, 13, 2014. he also served as law clerk for niedermayer us court of appeals court, justice sotomayor supreme court and is an associate williams and conley. rochelle serves as managing attorney of garza and garza law record located in texas. lisa teacher at friends academy. sally, is in new york and has known judge kavanaugh for 35 years. liz weintraub is an advocate socialist specialist at the association university ce

unfairly targeted by a pro migration liberal elite but this one gary in opposition in the piece disagrees in contradiction with. what mr obama is saying this report is not about migration and refugees but i know five percent of this report is about. undermining the fundamental rights of citizens and hungary on wednesday any peace will vote on whether to trigger article seven against hunger it's known here in e.u. circles as the nuclear option because of its seriousness it's a procedure which could lead to budapest being stripped of its council voting rights. supporters say he's defending hungary sovereignty he's opponents say he's part of a populist wave that threatens the future of the block and must be reined in before european parliamentary elections next year natasha butler i'll just sarah strasbourg france papua new guinea has launched an emergency vaccination campaign in an effort to contain an outbreak of polio ten people have been diagnosed since june first case in the capital port moresby was confirmed last week most of the cases are young children living in remote areas it's been eighteen years since the dise

gary in opposition m.e.p. disagrees in contradiction with. what mr obama is saying this report is not about migration and refugees but i know five percent of this report is about. undermining the fundamental rights of citizenship hungary on wednesday any piece for votes on whether to trigger article seven against hunger it's known here in east circles as the nuclear option because of its seriousness it's a procedure which could lead to budapest being stripped of its e.u. council voting rights. supporters say he's defending hungary sovereignty his opponents say he's part of a populist wave that threatens the future of the block and must be reigned in before european parliamentary elections next year natasha butler al jazeera strasberg france asian leaders at the world economic forum in vietnam have made thinly veiled criticisms of the united states which is what devolved in a west wing trade speed with china criticism is led by china's vice premier who said protectionism must be rejected tensions in the south china sea and the growing us china trade w

mr. trump. including one incident where former economic adviser gary cohen describes stealing a letter off the president's desk to prevent him from withdrawing from a trade agreement with south korea. >> i would fire a person so fast if he ever touches my desk. snatched from my desk. this woodward book is a total fraud. these people. libel laws. >> and inside the white house is president is only becoming more isolated, even from some of his senior staff. >> i think all of us have witnessed the fact that, you know, that people who work around the president do work constantly to keep things in the middle of the road. >> joining me now is counselor to president trump, kellyanne conway. ms. conway, welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you, chuck. >> let me just start with to get you to respond to the central allegation both in woodward's book and this anonymous op-ed that the president isn't fully in charge of his presidency how do you respond with that? >> i totally disagree with that, so do general kelly, general mattis and other people that have come out to push back on quotes attributed to them. i t

the court heard gary gardner, of medbourne, raised about £24,000 but only 4,000 made its way to any charity. mrattended by thousands of people including fusilier rigby‘s widow and son jack. british steel has announced its cutting 400 jobs from its worldwide operations — mostly managerial, professional and administrative roles. the steelmaker has blamed factors such as the weakening pound, which has fallen since britain voted to leave the european union. most redundancies will come from the uk, ireland, france and the netherlands. vital services — from social care to bin collections — could be run differently as part of a radical overhaul of some local authorities. the leader of leicestershire county council has suggested abolishing eight existing authorities in the area, and replacing them with one large council to save money. cash—strapped northamptonshire, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, is in the process of a similar restructure. 0ur political correspondent alex forsyth went to leicestershire to find out more. this baby might not know much about council services but his mum, anna, a gp

gary in opposition m.e.p. disagrees and contradiction with. what mr obama is saying this report is not about migration and refugees but i know five of percent of this report is about. undermining the fundamental rights of hungary and should ascension hungary on wednesday any peace or votes on whether to trigger article seven against hunger it's known here in east circles as the nuclear option because of its seriousness it's a procedure which could lead to budapest being stripped of its e.u. council voting rights. supporters say he's defending hungary sovereignty his opponents say he's part of a populist wave that threatens the future of the block and must be reined in before european parliamentary elections next year natasha butler i'll just sarah strasburg france. that's a variance of having a higher price than ever before in the war in afghanistan seventeen hundred civilians were killed in the first six months of this year the highest figure and started keeping records thousands more wounded and often would life changing injuries. reports from kabul

gary in opposition m.e.p. disagrees in contradiction with. what mr obama is saying this report is not about migration and refugees but i know five of a percent of this report is about. undermining the fundamental rights of citizenship hungary on wednesday m e p's will vote on whether to trigger article seven against hunger it's known here in a few circles as the nuclear option because of its seriousness it's a procedure which could lead to budapest being stripped of its e.u. council voting rights. supporters say he's defending hungary sovereignty he's opponents say he's part of a populist wave that threatens the future of the block and must be reigned in before european parliamentary elections next year natasha butler al-jazeera strasberg france. still ahead on the bulletin under pressure from the west russian president vladimir putin looks east for support and the final stage of a ten year battle with the palestinian activists refusing to leave a better one village that will soon be demolished. from a fresh coast to bring peace. to watching the suns

mr. trump a liar. the author also describes how former economic adviser gary cohn once removed a document from the president's desk to prevent him from executing a trade agreement with south korea. cohen said, i stole it off his desk. he's never going to see that document. got to protect the country. one of a number of actions woodward describes as a coup d' etat. we're in crazytown. this is the worst job i've ever had. the white house released a statement from kelly saying he never called the president an idiot. then according to woodward there's defense secretary james mattis who says the president has the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader. reince priebus who said the presidential bedroom was the devil's workshop. woodward offers nasty comments from the president that says priebus is like a little rat. he just scurries around and refers to jeff sessions as mentally retarded and a dumb southerner. the president wants told giuliani, you're a baby. i've never seen a worse defense of me in my life. you're like a little baby that needed to be changed. when are you going to be a man. woodward revisits the

mr. trump, don't testify. it's either that or an orange jumpsuit. the book a remarkable portrait of aides taking extreme measures to block their boss. former economic advisor, gary c prevent him from a trade agreement with south korea by swiping a letter off his desk and after the president told defense secretary james mattis he assassinate syrian dictator bashar al assad for a chemical attack on civilian, mattis told the president on the phone he would do it but then telling a senior aide quote we are not going to do any of that. the book describing extraordinary insults from the president's staff, woodward writing mattis described mr. trump as having the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader and chief of staff john kelly has called the president an idiot reported in the nbc news. tonight, kelly calling that accusation b.s. and another pathetic attempt to smear people close to president trump and distract from the administration's many successes. mattis calling the accusations the product of someone's rich imagination. woodward also describing a president lobbing his own insults, calling attorney general jeff sessions a traitor, mentally retarded and a dumb

mr chairman... i'm just sorry to see the committee descend this way. our washington correspondent garyrd for decades to come. that may sound esoteric, but it has a concrete impact on americans' lives. so bear in mind it is only the most important cases that get to the supreme court. things that touch on fundamental rights like the right to an abortion or gay marriage or the right to carry a gun. they're all supreme court decisions. the liberals believe this change in direction of court will chip away at some of those more liberal reforms if you like that have been brought in by that supreme court. thank you. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines: decision day for labour: the party's national executive meets to decide whether to accept in full an international definition of anti—semitism. the chief executive of tsb, paul pester, has stepped down in the wake of a major it failure that left customers locked out of their accounts. people over 30 are being urged to take an online test to find out if they are at an increased risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke. comin

mr. cramer, how are you? >> good. how about you? >> caller: mazor. >> medtronic got major much too cheap. i need to go to garyn florida. >> caller: hello, cramer well, when my father passed away recently in january, very high interest paid dividend stocks. and one i have been watching called etp energy transfer partners it looks like it is being taken over. >> it is a high risk well, it is merging with etp and it is a high risk situation. the balance sheet wasn't good. but you can hold on to it. it is not a great situation. >> let's go to hube in florida >> caller: booyah. how are you doing? hey, jimmy, i have a stock called walmart and have been doing some very, very good progress, okay >> look, i like walmart very much, it is expensive, but be careful. here is the one thing i would tell you because of the tariffs, probably guys cutting tariffs. and that, ladies and gentleman, concludes the "lightning round"" >> announcer: lightning round is sponsored by td ameritrade >> booyah, jim. >> maybe they are not my style, but they look good on some people, i'm sure. >> maybe we need to take these worries not with a

camp for them gary inside of also launched a campaign against the ruling last week to put article seven measures in place to sanction essentially hungry but there are some friends for mrr the polish leaders and the bulgarian leaders of all suppressed all expressed their support for hungary and their policies one other issue that isn't going anywhere and seems like it's been around forever is of course brags that theresa may the british prime minister had a chance to put out her vision for the future of northern ireland on wednesday evening after a working dinner insults burke i believe that i have put forward serious and workable proposals we will of course not agree on every detail but i hope that you will respond in kind if we're going to chief a successful conclusion than just of the u.k. has evolved its position the you will need to evolve its position to what we heard in the response that for junk lord young at the european commission president was that it was interesting polite and mrs may was just doing her job. hardly the greatest of praise for in the e.u. commission president we're also hearing that both the maltese and the czech leaders suggesting they would

the court heard gary gardner, of medbourne, raised about 2k thousand pounds but only 4 thousand made its way to any charity. mrn jack. a man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after being found guilty of conspiring with five others to con 170 investors out of nearly three million pounds. michael nascimento ran a call centre where investors were offered shares in fraudent companies. but instead he spent some of the proceeds of the crime on private school fees for his daughter, arsenal season tickets and a trip to thorpe park. andy verity reports. a cruel and callous swindler counts his ill gotten gains. putin about 115,000 between me and my mother. my mother sold the family home. dave was conned out of his life savings and his mother was also a victim. he was great at lying. he was really good at lying. they were promising investors a property development involving $20 and nick faldo designed golf course for four years michael neser men to run a so—called boiler room, a call centre or high—pressure tactics are used to get investors to buy shares in companies with plausible sounding names like morgan forbe

mr. nassar. >> today, on behalf of our president, ua president gary jones and our 1 million members and retirees. the vast majority of our members rely directly on the success of the u.s. auto industry, not just our active members but our retirees as well so this is a topic of great importance to us. and we're really welcome this discussion and thank the committee for having it. from our point of view, i just want to back up for a second and talk about what's -- what's the problem we're trying to fix. and in our view, the problem is that we have lost many manufacturing jobs, millions over recent years, and that wages and working conditions for auto workers has dropped considerably. in fact, for manufacturing workers across the board, you see a lot of manufacturers that don't even directly hire workers anymore. they use temp agencies to hire their workforce. we see companies that spend millions of dollars to try to intimidate workers into not joining unions. these are problems that have to be part of the solution here. we also think that we got to look at these policies in a wholistic way, so you

mr. trump tonight testify, it's either that or an orange jumpsuit. the book are portrait of aids taking extreme mesh showasures c their boss gary cohn reportedly swipingrt off t letter off his desk. and after the president told defense secretary james mattis he wanted to assassinate syrian dictator bashar al assad for a chemical attack on civilian, mattis told the president on the phone he would do it but then telling a senior aide quote we are not going to do any of that. the book describing extraordinary insults from the president's staff, woodward writing mattis described mr. trump as having the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader, and chief of staff john kelly has called the president an idiot reported in the nbc news tonight, kelly calling that accusation b.s. and another pathetic attempt to smear people close to president trump and distract from the administration's many successes. mattis calling the accusations the product of someone's rich imagination. woodward also describing a president lobbing his own insults, calling attorney general jeff sessions a traitor, mentally retarded and a dumb southerner woodward didn't talk to president tru

mr. navarro. john: you got to hate videotape. in the old days you could say whatever you wanted. i want to go to our market panel. gary b.mith and jonas, i created a felony in tv yesterday, you guys were cut short on your time. i apologize to you both. gary, i want to start with you on this trade war. this potential trade war worried me. it does not seem to be worrying the markets. does it worry you at all? >> it does not, and i will say, you can probably go back and find videotape where i was not worried for the simple reason that i think people thought of this as a trade war back in the smoot-hawley days in the '20s but now there are so many work-arounds. first of all, i think we have been saying you got to collect the taxes which is not easy. countries can shift through other countries, avoiding the tariffs. there are so many work-arounds to this. besides, our economy is, what, an $18 trillion economy. even if every tax was collected on the whole amount from china, it's still only .2% of our gdp. i think if people were smart, whenever they heard kind of like the market's going to go down with trump, if they heard the

gary cohn is quoted saying "i can stop this. i'lljust take the paper off his desk" — a reference to the practice of removing documents from the president's desk to keep mrward's repuation goes before him — his stories helped to bring down president nixon in the ‘70s and he's been chronicling washington ever since. here he is talking earlier. look at the operation of this white house and you have to say lets hope to god we don't have a crisis. people who work for him are worried that he will sign things or give orders that threaten the national security or financial security of the country. that was bob woodward talking about president trump. anthony zurcher, in washington. some of the details were pretty striking, like things about the presidential campaign and it recou nts presidential campaign and it recounts a story about how trump was told a story around the time the access hollywood take dropped that he had zero chance of winning and should withdraw entirely and let mike pence run instead of him. we heard rumours of that story again and here it was corroborated. it paints an interesting picture of donald trump's time in office and some of the chaos

mr kavanaugh is a conservative — and his nomination would tilt the court's balance to the right, if approved by the senate. today some democrats have demanded an adjournment to the hearing. 0ur washington correspondent gary the debate about his suitability has been disrupted this morning, notjust by those protesters, dozens of them eventually evicted from the hearing room but also by democrats attempting to postpone the whole process itself. they failed in doing that and now we're into the process of senators making their opening statements. and it will be tomorrow for the hear the to and fro between brett kava naugh for the hear the to and fro between brett kavanaugh and them over his record but be in no doubt that this hearing is significant. it is not a question of the supreme court justice who will be debating arcane jurisprudence, the supreme court justices decide key elements of american life for example, the right to gay marriage that was a supreme court decisionjust to gay marriage that was a supreme court decision just two years ago. 1973 the right to abortion. 0n the other end of the spectrum the right to carry a handgun is a supreme court decision so what they decide and the direction of the c

and mr death you can't have people with any medical knowledge treating animals and yet people do advertises his services online promising healing furphy ranging from ten to five hundred dollars. for gary he made this herbal. gives him a prayer wrapped in this belt. in eight days gary will regain his hearing he says telling him now go and tell your friends about me. still ahead on al-jazeera mess it is fake the front runner for the russian grand prix don't have all the formula one action coming up in shots. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. other stories . providing a glimpse into someone else's world. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. witness documentaries to open your eyes on al-jazeera. now. no. attempts what's his job. thanks very much what we start with the ryder cup and europe will take commanding lead into the final day singles a record breaking performance from francesco molinari and tommy fleetwood how the home side extend their advantage to four points over the united states david stokes rounds out the best of the action. another putt hold five another rule from the home crowd after winning five in a row on friday europe picked up where

my name is gary johnson, and i basically watched the both, everything that happened in yesterday's hearing. several things that struck me about mrsford's testimony that basically gave a little bit of, to me, that her story was not quite right. one was in the case of the polygraph. asked herl basically a question about the polygraph, she stated, how did you arrive to come to the polygraph? oh, i flew there from my home in ,alifornia to go to rehobeth and i was on my way to new hampshire and i was there to attend the funeral of my grandmother that day, or the next day. gaveeaction that rachel when she stated that that polygraph was actually given on that day, her mouth dropped open and her eyes got wide. i have actually been a contractor and has gone through polygraphs for my job. , whenhonestly tell you you go to these things, you trauma ofe no prior anything in your life. when you go to that. because the results of the polygraph are severely affected and not accurately recorded. and that goes back to the statement that was actually made , that when miss ford made her statement, she stated that i was there. supposed to be for a fe

mr. nelson, ninth circuit will be reported, the clerk will call the role on sullivan, second. [roll call vote] [roll call vote] [roll call vote] >> 17 yeas, 4 nays. the clerk will call the role on garywn eastern district new york. [roll call vote] [roll call vote] >> 20 yeas and 1 nay. >> gary brown will be reported. the clerk will call the roll on steven clark, eastern district missouri. [roll call vote] [roll call vote] >> votes are 11 yeas, 10 nays. >> by that vote announced steven clark will be reported to the floor, the clerk will call the role on diane, eastern district new york. [roll call vote] [roll call vote] >> the votes are 21 yeas, no nays. >> by that vote, diane is eastern district new york is reported. the clerk will call the role on committee. [roll call vote] [roll call vote] [roll call vote] >> mr. chairman, votes 21 yeas and no nays. >> by that overwhelming vote, eric is reported to the floor, the clerk will call the role on rachel cobner. [roll call vote] [roll call vote] >> 21 yeas and no nays. >> by that in a minute, -- unan, rachel cobner is reported to the floor. [roll call vote] [roll call vote] [roll call vote] >> mr. chairman, the votes are 17 yeas and 4 n

various when it comes to gary and others however all negotiations are being done thoughtfullylo looking at the long-term impacts. we also need to get them done so their certainty. mr. chairman you and i urge the administration administration get it right. american farmers cannot have collateral damage. their there are many actions this administration can and should take now that will help our farmers with long-term stability not just short-term relief from trade negotiations that affect exports and unfair competition from imports. i intend to raise several of these issues today as well as in writing to each of you. the bottom line is agriculture should not be an afterthought when it comes to trade which is why we are here and all of us care deeply about this. look forward to hearing from our witnesses and we are anxious to know how we can work with you to ensure our farmers are not left on line. thank you mr. chairman. >> i think the senator. welcome to our panel of witnesses before the committee. our first witnesses ambassador greg gauss who serves as a chief agricultural negotiator at the office of u.s. trade. representative. greg: was raised on a farm in kansas

mr. trump, don't testify. it's that or an orange jumpsuit. the book also a remarkable portrait of aides taking extreme measures to block their boss. former economic adviser gary cohen reportedly preventing the president? withdrawing from a trade agreement with south korea by swiping a letter off his desk and after the president told defense secretary james mattis he wanted to assassinate syrian dick cater bashar al assad for a chemical attack, president mat is said on the phone he would do it but then told a senior aide we're not going to do any of that and the book describing extraordinary insults from the president's staff writing mattis described mr. trump as having the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader and chief of staff john kelly called the president an idiot. kelling calling that b.s. and another pathetic attempt to smear people close to president trump and distract from the administration's many successes. mattis calls the accusations the product of someone's rich imagination. woodward describing a president lobbing his own insults calling jeff sessions retarded and a dumb souther. woodward didn't talk to president trump for the book saying his

mr kavanagh is socially conservative on issues like abortion and could tilt the balance of the court for decades to come. let's speak now to our washington correspondent gary details what she says happened in her first yorker and she details what she says happened in herfirst year of university at yale. this is 35 years ago. she says in a dormitory party there, she was present and brett kavanaugh there, she was present and brett kava naugh exposed himself there, she was present and brett kavanaugh exposed himself to her and it was unwanted contact between him and her. the difficulty with this is it is admitted in the article but this will woman, deborah ramirez, took time to recall the details and whether brett kava naugh took time to recall the details and whether brett kavanaugh was actually present or not. working on it and thinking about it and talking to her lawyer, she is clear she says that is what happened. it has been flatly denied by brett kavanaugh, he has called it a smear campaign against him. the second accuser is a big problem particularly because we are due to hearfrom problem particularly because we are due to hear from the first accuser,