yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for "the news hour," and jonathan allen, nbc news national political reporter. ken thomas from the ap, let me start with the ap and its reporting this afternoon about donald trump's state of mind inside the white house, writing, the president is more volatile than ever, creating new challenges for both his communication and legal teams. trump built his professional empire on a foundation of secrecy, enforced by fixers, lawyers, hush payments and nondisclosure agreements. seeing that world collapse around him in recent weeks has yielded intense frustration in the president, who has angrily told confidants that he feels betrayed by former allies. does this suggest the confidence the president has brought to every bit of his political career, is that confidence in any way slipping because of recent events? >> well, it speaks to the concern that they have inside the white house about how they will be able to combat some of these issues they see on the horizon. we saw don mcgahn, he'll be leaving after the kavanaugh confirmation is wrapped up. he'

and we're back with our panel, yamiche alcindor and fatima goss graves, mike murphy.e trying to ask a question, go for it. your statement? >> oh, no, i was just -- i'm pushing back a little bit on the whole concept of anonymous accusations. i mean, the women who were brave enough -- and it's incredibly difficult -- to come forward ought to be respected and ought to be heard. but i've been in politics for 30 years and i know that an anonymous accusation that instantly gets sprayed over the media and instantly believed by a lot of people can often come close to a smear. so while it's difficult, i would encourage whoever sent the letter into the gardner staff in colorado, that they owe it to the country and the process to come forward. anonymous charges -- >> do you think governor gardner was wrong to share it? >> -- horrible -- >> well, i think it was leaked, not officially released, i think. i'm not sure. i just saw it before we went on the air. but for that to be considered seriously, and it might have to be, i think the accuser has to come forward. >> fatima, one thi

and, our own yamiche alcindor is here as well.'s been tracking reaction tol this at the white house. so, lisa, rst to you, where does this stand right now with the f.b.i., with what the senate is planning to do? >> just when you thought there couldn't be more surprises, we had another one today. the pl right now is for the f.b.i. to begin thisground investigation largely in equestioning witnesses, don't know who they're going to question, and the deal that has beenstruck here is that they can do no more than a weekas worth of worbefore republicans will move toward a final vote on this nominee. process marts here and we're going to talk a little bit out that. but first i want to mention the key witness democrats want be swear viewed is mark judge. she put out a statement saying he wants to corporate cooperate but he wants it to be a matter of can have detention aality. we have to find out what that means. so he still has a lieutenant of questions about that. let's talk about what happens now. the f.b.i. starts investigating tomorro

lisa desjardins, yamiche alcindor, thank you. >> woodruff: as the carolinas grapple with florence's destructiveces, president trump sparked a new political storm afterth questioninnumber of americans killed in puerto rico last year.th angeneral election for control of the house and senate has officially begun a perfect time for the analysis of shields and brooks.d that's syndicalumnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks.ot hello toof you. mark, i'm going to start with the paul manafort plea. he said for months he wasn't going to do this, but now he has, he's pled guilty, ands he' cooperating with robert mueller. there's so much we don't knobuw, what does this mean for the president, potentially? >> it meansad news. paul manafort is the person closest to the president, who was in the campaign, who was involved in a meeting at tower with the russia's, who was involved ultinimatelhe convention preparations, changing of the plaorm's position on ukraine. so there's a lot, plus he was the conduit to the degree there was one in the trump campaign to the tradition of theub rcan rt

for more on all of this, i'mit joined by our house correspondent, yamiche alcindor. so, ya to be deadline day, self-imposed that came up to the brink, butre now theoing to keep talk. why? >> they're going to keep talking because essentily this is really good economics for both countries. canada depends on nafta for a lot of their economic growth, so it would be really hard for canada to move forward without nafta. and the united states, one of their biggest trading partnersis canada, so they also want to continue to talk and get a deal done.de then pre trump made a promise to voters. he campaigned all across they counlking about nafta saying he was going to get something bert for workersso this extension allows more time to do that. >> woodruff: how are they going to do t how do they make this work? there is this deadline. >> now, essentially, the trump administration is saying to congress, we think that we can at least give you 90 days that we will have an. agreeme they are pushing to get this agreement done before the mexican government changes over. there's going

>> woodruff: we breakdown this explosive declaration now with our white house correspondent, yamiche alcindord jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. we welcome you. hello to both of you. i'm going to start ou, yamiche. i just read a couple of quotes from this extornary statement. what more should we know from this? >> well, judy, this llas rea an extraordinary, extraordinary statement. i've talked to republican sources who say this is unprecedented. i want to walk you through just two more things in the op-ed i'm going to read them because they're so stunning. the first is, there is a quiet resistance within the administration of eople choosing to put country first. waat's the first part of this. the second thing t to point out is the op-ed says the bigger concern is not what mr. trump has done to thsie prency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to to us, we have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to ed strif civility. this is someone who feels as though they need to speak out d almost is a call to the nation saying we as a people need to hook what esident tr

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yamiche alcindor, lisa desjardins, we thank you both. f woodruff: we will listen to more pivotal momenm the hearing throughout the program: in her opening testimony, ford described the alleged attack, and why she didn't tell her story publicly until years later. let's listen to what she told wmakers. >> brett's assault on me drastically altered my life. for a very long time, i was too afraid and ashamed to te anyone these details. i dinot want to tell my parents that i, at age 15, was in a house without any parents present, drinking beer with boys. i convinced myself that because brett did t rape me, i should be able to move on and just pretend that it didn't happen. over the years, i told very few friends that i had this traumatic experience.hu i told mand before we were married that i had experienced a sexu assault. i had never told the details to anyone, the specific details, until may 2012, during a couplen ling session. my husband recalls that i named my attacker as brett kavanaugh. after that may 2012 therapy session, i did my best

joining me tonight, yamiche alcindor of "pbsrk newshour," landler of the "new york times," julie hirschfeld davis of thes "new york t and erica werner of "the washington post." mark, you've been tracking the trade developments all day.wh a change from earlier in the week when the president was uting progress with mexico, trying to rewrite the whole north american free trade agreement. now talks have stalledca with da. where does the president go from here? mark: the canadiens will be back in washington next week to continue the negotiations so doesprocess, liket often with donald trump, despite various milestones, seems toe an endless negotiation so that continues. but i thinkhat was telling about the canadian episode these past two days is that even as the negotiators were closeted ig a room try to work out a deal, president trump was givinr an iew to bloomberg in which he had an off-the-record passage where he basically sounded off on what he aeally thoughut the kind of deal he wanted to do with the s and he said there wil be no compromises, i can't say this publicly because they'd be so

of white house counsel don mcgahn and ongoing special counsel investigation.in jo me tonight, yamiche alcindor of "pbs newshour," mark landler of the "new york times," julie hirsfeld davis of the "new york times" and erica werner of "the washington post." mark, you've been tcking the trade developments all day. what a change from earlier in the week when the president was touting progress with mexico, trying to rewrite the wholeno h american free trade agreement. now talksave stalled with canada. where does the president go from here? mark: the canadiens will be back in washington next week tohe continue negotiations so this process, like it often does despiteald trump, various milestones, seems to be ania endless negon so that continues. but i think what was telling about theso canadian e these past two days is that even as the negotiators were clo a room trying to work out a deal, president trump was giving interview to bloomberg in which he had an off-the-record passage where he basical sounded off on what he really thought about the kind of deal he wand to do with the canadians and he said

joining me now is yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for pbs "newshour." e, i want to talk to you also about president, former president obama coming out on the trail. but let me first go to this op-ed controversy. anonymous source, the president is a reportedly very upset and outraged by it. what do you get as covering the white house. what is going on in the white house in reaction to both the op-ed, the anonymous op-ed in "the new york times", saying there's an internal resistance movement, and this pending book, tuesday, coming out that has made a woodward book, that has really become a collection of interviews that he's done, that really validates and makes plain the same theory that it is bedlam in the white house with the chief officer of bedlam, the president himself. >> well, the president is fuming about this. and mainly it's because, in some ways, it's very clear now that there is a group of people who are working to, they think, protect the country against president trump's wills. i talked to one former trump official who told me that there were

yamiche alcindor reports. >> alcindor: applause, handshakes and smiles-- that marked the signing of ant agreement between the two leaders, and their most significant progress to date. after days of celebrations and carefully choreographed events,o kim jong-un an jae-in pledged a "new era" for the koreas. it could mean one withouton nuclear wesome day. >> ( translated ): today, chairman kim jong-un and i agreed on specific measures to remove the fear of war and possibility of armed clash. also, we promised to keep our land permanently free fromea nuthreats and war, and pass it down to our deendents. >> alcindor: kim agreed to dismantle his main tongchang-ri missile testing site. he also said he would allow experts from relevant countries to be present. satellite images, though, show work was already underway to decommission the site. kim also committed to permanently dismantle his main nuclear weons complex. but, he said he would only do so if the u.s. takes unspecified "corresponding measure" the u.s. has said it will ease economic sanctions only in exchange for complete denuclearizat

as yamiche alcindor reports, for one man in central america, it has meant months of separation from his daughter, andng liing, painful questions. >> alcindor: in a small bedroom in rural honduras, remders of an absent little girl. and a family separated, andan desperate foers. >> ( translated sometimes i don't eat. sometimes i don't sleep thinking about her. sh's something i wouldn't on anyone. you wouldn't understand it until you go through it. it's something tough, for her to be so far from me and thout us. >> alcindor: "r" is marianita, the six-year-old daughter of misael ponce herrera. the two were separated in june after they crossed the border from mexico into the united states illegally. they have not seen each otherre for and half months. misael, like hundreds of other immigrants, was deported a few s ys after the separation, without ughter. marianita remains in the united states in an children's shelter in new york. misael has tried immigrating tot the u.s. threees. this time, he left behind his wife ana and the couple's three s ar old son, jadiel. an was to find work in the un

our capitol hill correspondent lisa desjardins and white house correspondent yamiche alcindor have beenering both stories and join me now. a note, this andhe next conversation will contain some explicit language. hello to both of you. lisa, i'm going to start with you. summarize for us what these new allegations are against brett kavanaugh. >> it appeared in the new yorker last night and these are from a woman who deborah ramirez. she says she went to college with brett kavanaugh and at a party at a dorm. this is a quote.er she remekavanaugh had exposed himself at a drunken dormitory rty thrust his penis in her face and caused her to touch it without her consent. that is her accusation in this article. now there are no eye wit wnesses the able to corroborate that story. there is one person that weok with who said he remembers hearing about this incident. but the "new york times" after the new yorker is reporting came ry. with its own sto and the "new york times" wrote, quote, the times had interviewed r veral dozen people ohe past week in an attempt torr orate ms. ramirez's story and co

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor takes a look at the trump administration and labor unions.he trump administration recently ramped up pressure on figanized labor and federal workers. , the president issued executive orders limiting the activities of the unions trehat esent them. about a week ago, a federal judge blocked that action. then, last week, president trump issued a notice to congress, eliminate ago potetial pay hi for federal employees. that action is also expected to wind up in court. now, we take a labor day ltook a those stories, and the overall state of collective bargaining, with dmison who covers labor issues for "huffington post." thank you so much for being with me. if president said he's canceling pay hikes for government workers. oes that mean for workers and what's happening now? >> this isn't something the president can do unilaterally. in the pay schedule, there was supposed to be a 2.1% pay bump r federal workers. the president said he wants to see a zero percent pay increase, kicking the ball the congress. the senate said they think there rease, be 1.

. >> woodruff: jeff mason with reuters, our own yamiche alcindor, thank you both. >> thanks.. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, in afghanistan, twin bombings in kabul left at least 20 people dead and 70 wounded. nt happened at a training for wrestlers. a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the building, and a car bomb exploded minutes later, as emergency workers arrived.an currency is again in free fall, hitting new record lows against the dollar today. people waited in long lines at currency exchange shops in tehran, hoping to buy dollars. state media made no mention of the problem. the rial h lost a quarter of its value just sin saturday. it's down 140% since the united states quit the 2015 nlear deal, back in may. british prosecutors today charged two russians in the nerve agent attack on a former russian spy, sergei skripal, and his daughter yulia. they've both recovered, but another woman died, after finding the container that held the poison. rohit kachroo of independent televisionews has our report.in >> reporter:ly, the faces of the suspects. six months aft,er s

>> no, yamiche alcindor has reached out to her team and we have not receed a response yet. >> lisa desjardins on top of this fast-moving story. and finally tonight, hpiness in honduras, and an update to ae story eported on tuesday. tonight, marianita ponce herrera is back home with herents. these pictures are from the airport in san pedro sula, honduras, late this afternoon, where six-year-old marianita was gathered up in her fher's arms. she was reunited with her familf ter spending the last 3.5 months detained in the u.s.,s one of hundrof children held under the trump administration family separation policy. she and her father, misael, crossed illegally into south texas this past june, where they were separated. yo was deported; she was sent to a facility in new . her father told the newshour that there is a long road of healing ahead r the family, but that "everything is left to ld-- god's time is perfect." the american civerties union told the newshour that nothing had changed legally is week to compel her return. we will keep you updated asei story continues. and that's the newshour for

pennsylvania avenue with lisa desjardins, who continues her reporting from capitol hill and yamiche alcindors been tracking developments at the white house. lisa, we just heard your reporting and, in the last few minutes, we have heard senators are nowa confirmin public hearing next week. what do you know is this. >> that's right. wefican con the senate judiciary committee will hold a public hearing on this exact matter next week. we've confirmed it will be within a week. others are reporting it will be on monday. the reason we're finding out now, judy, is republican members to have the judiciary committee are just walking out of senator mcconnell's office after meeting together to figure out their plan and after, we're told, having a phone call. others very won the argument and say let's put thtis ou in the public. >>uff: the president at the white house, the president standing by judge kavanaugh, but, at the same time, he wants this story out. how do you explain their thinking right nowsi >> the pnt is trying to be reserved but frustrated in the fact that th the appointment is hampered. he

get a view fromis inside the admation and from a former white house chief of staff, but first, yamiche alcindor updates today's fallout. >> alcindor: an anonymous column.a and esident still fuming. at the white house today, president trump refused to comment about the firestorm following yesterday's anonymous op-ed in the "new york times." but on twitter, he didn't hold back. early this morning, the president went off, writing: "the deep state and the left, and their vehicle, the fake news media, are going crazy..." all this directed at yesterday's scathing column in the "new york times" written by an unnamed "senior official in ump administration." in it, the official described the president's style as "impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective," adding; "many trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve ourtu democratic insons while thwarting mr. trump's more misguided impulses until he is out of office..." the author also wrote some cabinet officials have even considered invoking the 25th icendment to remove the president from o throughout the day, senior officials rushed to

for more i'm joined by jennifer rubin opinion writer for the washington post, and yamiche alcindor for pbs news hour. it's one thing could cover up something you're embarrassed by, you try to forget or successfully forgot. it didn't happen. that's always a possibility. but for a president to stick by a nomination that he now believes may well be true a problem that may be true, serious problem, a serious problem with this nomination, how do you explain trump sticking with this thing if he does, knowing now that this woman is going to testify under oath, she's already passed a lie detector, she told her husband six years ago, she told people in family therapy six years ago. why would she ever make up a story like that if it wasn't true? your thoughts. jennifer, and if it's true why would trump stick with this nomination. >> trump always denies it, he always discredits women. this is a guy already an unindicted coconspirator thanks to michael cohen's testimony in open court. he has always disparaged women. he stuck by rob porter, said he was a fine guy. almost exactly the same term. why