Powerful landfall. The 11th hour on a monday night begins now. And good evening once again as we start off a new week from our nbcquarters here in new york. Journalist and author bob woodward, who has written 18 books and covered nine administrations, is speaking out and defending his latest work, which, as you may have heard, has to do with this administration. Woodwards new book on trump and his white house comes out tomorrow. Ever since the first anecdotes from this book were released a week ago, trump has been fighting back attacking the author. This morning on today on nbc, woodward pushed back with a genuine warning about this president. There is more untruth by him. He says, oh, these are unnamed sources, but these are not unnamed incidents. Well, ive never seen an instance when the president is so detached from the reality of whats going on. This has not been treated seriously enough, and the things some of the things trump did and does jeopardized the Real National attention. Quote, the woodward book is a joke, just another assault against me and a barrage of assaults using now disproven unnamed and anonymous sources. Many have already come forward saying the quotes by them, like the book, are fiction. Demes cant stand losing. Ill write the real book. And woodward has this to say about the denials of the accounts in his book by some of the president s top advisers. They are not telling the truth. Look, whats going on here, and my old boss at the washington post, ben bradley, the great editor, used to say the truth emerges. Sometimes it takes time. These people, these are political statements to protect their jobs, totally understandable. But this is as carefully done as you can do an excavation of the reality of what goes on. While trump was attacking woodward, his press secretary focused her outgoing fire on that anonymous oped in the New York Times which of course still wrinkles. Sanders says, no Lie Detector Test will be used to find the author, but she did back the assertion that they should get involved with whoever did write that piece. The individual, since we dont know who they are, if that individual are in meetings where National Security is being discussed or other important topics, and they are attempting to undermine the executive branch, that would certainly be problematic and something the department of justice should look into. Reporter jonathan lemere, who is standing by to join us, posted the concerns among staff, quote, there was fear among some trump advisers that if the president felt that his staff or the Justice Department was not carrying out his order to find the leakers, then he could feel compelled to make changes. Omarosa came out with her secret audio tape, secret no more from a White House Communications meeting in october 2017. Here was a portion that was released from her appearance on the view. I think hillarys getting killed now with russia. The real russia story is hillary and collusion. Somebody told me, hope you told me it was 9 million they spent on the phony report. Closer to six. Yeah, someone just said shes far worse for the country that we thought if she didnt know her own campaign was spending 9 million. Omarosa was asked about the depiction of the white house that we read about in Bob Woodwards book. Does what you heard from the author and what youve read, does it jibe with your experience in the white house . Absolutely. What were seeing are these themes emerging. You see these themes about his mental stability, about his ability to comprehend complex policies, his ability to lead. This hash tag you say you and other staffers used, tfa. What does that stand for . 25th amend many. Amendment. And you used that in the context of what . When donald trump would flip from one position to the next. And the open question about whether he and mueller will sit down for an interview, today ken starr, former independent counsel in the clinton investigation, was asked if he thought trump should speak with the special counsel. I think as the president of the United States, he should. My perspective is the president of the United States has an obligation to enforce and obey the law. We should tell you ken starr will be here in the studio with us on wednesday, and we will no doubt hear more from him on that front. With that, lets bring in our leadoff panel on a backtowork monday night. Ashley parker, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the washington post, Jonathan Mueller from the soesassociated press, and one who has worked in the past for robert mueller. Ashley, take us inside this west wing, inside this presidency, the mind of the president and those around him. Whats your latest reporting . So the president is deeply upset. As you can see from his Public Comment and his public tweets are not that dissimilar from the sense hes giving privately. Hes upset about the woodward book, hes upset about this anonymous oped in the New York Times. He feels like hes sort of being betrayed by someone incredibly close to him, so on the one hand there is a feeling of vindication, the sense that he couldnt trust Anyone Around him, and now he sort of believes hes correct. But he also feels this is a president who places himself at the center of every issue, so it feels deeply personal to him. Within the white house and within the president s orbit, its a little more mixed. There are people who, as jonathan writes in his great piece, are worried they may need to curb the president in, they need to focus him on this coming hurricane, they want to curb his impulses. This is also a white house thats used to careening from crisis to crisis, and there is a sense that this, too, shall pass. You remember the woodward book when it first came out, it was only a one or twoday story because the oped supplanted it. So another crazy comes and pushes it out of the news. And jonathan, mention of the hurricane is absolutely critical. While things like this are huge empathy challenges for an empathychallenged president and administration, and while every move they make will be correctly judged against puerto rico, we are kind of on the loose eve of a Natural Disaster predicted in this country. And is there anyone in the white house to turn and focus his attention to prevent what we can all predict is a weeklong obsession on a book and an oped otherwise . It began over the weekend. As the president , as we write in the piece, was still very angry about the oped, the story in the times, and he was sort of obsessed with this. Lets identify these leakers, lets get rid of them. Perhaps lets get the department of justice involved, and certainly there is some around him who suggested that would be inappropriate. There doesnt seem to be any sense that an actual crime was committed or a state secret revealed, classification disclosed in the piece or the woodward book. There are people around him suggesting then, lets focus on something else. Lets focus on the midterms. Lets focus on the economy. Lets talk about some good things here, and he didnt seem willing to do that. In fact, its been a struggle in the white house, according to our reporting, even this morning to get him on anything else. Note that the tweets about the hurricane only came this afternoon after the white house briefing. Which, mind you, began with a guest appearance which Sarah Sanders did before. A lot of people in the room thought it would be about the hurricane. Instead it was about the economy. And obama over the weekend claimed credit for the economic recovery, and of course President Trump wants that glory, if you will. There are people in there, though, who feel like in the last day or so theyve maybe managed to get the message across to the president that this is a major event coming. As you said, he has had challenges before, not just with the hurricane, but other moments. Hes not necessarily grasped for that moment of National Unity that some of his predecessors have done when there has been a tragedy. He hit some of the right notes in the las vegas shooting, he hit some of the right notes when it came to the baseball shooting. The paper towel toss. And this will be a significant test for him with everyone watching. Although in the short term at the white house, it does change the subject. Frank, i know youve been asked a lot about the oped piece, where we stand. It mounts to a National Security crisis, to take mr. Woodwards point. Tonight mr. Bannon went on fox news and had this comment for laura ingram. Ill get your comment when wii se weve seen it. Its quite evident that what was said in that anonymous letter was absolutely outrageous and i think the president ought to take immediate and direction action. I dont think it was any one author. I think it was probably six to a dozen people. Putting aside his argument there is a coup actively underway in this country, lets take his last point that it was somewhat the work of a committee. I will concede up front, brian, i know just enough about psyc psychol ing uistics to be dangerous. But in counterintelligence, ive had extensive exposure to this field and the experts in it. One thing they taught me is to look at the fact of different themes being inserted in a written product, different writing styles to look at. While, again, im not the expert on this, we cannot rule out if youre investigating this, if im assigned this case to investigate, im going to keep on my radar screen the possibility that this has multiple authors. What do i focus on in there . Imagine a group of people sitting around in a room and somebody saying, hey, for me its all about morality, so put something in there about him being amoral. Lets make sure people know he has done some good, that hes helped the military and bulked up the armed forces. I want that in there. And other people inserting other things. Let them know were trying to do our best. It is quite possible this is the work of multiple people. But it goes right back to the coup statement. Lets go to the definition of coup. By definition it means someone is trying to take over power, wrest power from someone in power. But here we have quite the opposite. Im here, many of us are here, to try and keep this man in power and from hurting others until he goes away. Thats not a coup. Thats not a National Security threat. Youve heard the president say and suggest, and i think hes going to get stronger in this, the doj or fbi should look at this as a National Security issue. Ive asked myself, are you a National Security threat if you expose a National Security threat . And in this case i would say no. And, frank, if that request comes in under the door of the fbi director, what do you think will happen . What do you think should happen . Hes going to ask two questions, which is what we ask when anything walks in the door, and that is, has a crime been committed . And the answer to that is no. And secondly, has some counterintelligence interest been raised here that we need to look at from a National Security perspective . And again, i would say no. Is this an hr issue for the white house . You bet. A personnel issue to be dealt with . Absolutely. Do i understand the president is upset . Of course. But there is no crime here. There is no counterintelligence or National Security threat here to be examined. Ashley parker, we take frank very seriously when he does comment on matters like this, and theres a lot there to get your attention. Certainly the note goes out of its way, the oped for the New York Times goes out of its way to say i speak for others. There are others like me. We are working inside the system to save it from this president. And at the end of the day, ashley, that really is could be viewed as a clear and present danger, and they are going to, despite all the fun the networks are having about this, despite the fact that all the sunday shows were predicated on this, theyre probably going to want to find this person or persons. They absolutely do, and that goes back to Steve Bannons point that you just played a little bit. Whether or not this oped was literally written by committee, it certainly was metaphorically in the sense that the sentiment expressed here is a sentiment that reporters who cover the white house have heard from a number of people both in the white house and in the president s general orbit. And thats what the real problem is for this president and this white house. Its that this oped, the stuff in Bob Woodwards book, even some of omarosas recordings, they all feed a narrative that has played out in news stories since just about the day that he took office. So even if it is just one person, they are sort of channelling a broader concern, and thats why the administration has an incredibly tough time pushing back on this. Because, yes, on the one hand it may just be one person, but it is one person expressing what a number of people in the president s orbit believe to sort of be, at this point, an incontrovertible truth. And its true the oped takes a turn late in the game and goes into almost speechwriter poetry. You could conceivably come up with two or three people in the business that write with that soaring a style and would quote john mccain. But point to, for you, you and maggie haber man man at the nek times are the first journalists in my memory that first started talking about president versus presidency. What do you mean in this case . Theres a couple ways to interpret it, but in this particular case, things happen at the white house on two different tracks. Donald trump wants something to happen and the administration is working in a different direction. In this case almost immediately, the president is looking for this leaker. Find him and fire him. Certainly there is an effort in the white house to do that. But there is no suggestion they are going to do anything at the department of justice. The department of justice is not going to comment publicly one way or the other, but people weve talked to around the white house does not suggest that the department of justice is going to step in. Theres nothing illegal here, theres no classified information being disclosed. Therefore, theyre going to try to slow walk this and take the steps the president wants. So many times weve seen that with russia where trump speaks very positively about putin and the need to have these great relations. At the same time his administration is putting tough sanctions on moscow and threatening more going forward. We see it with north korea where Sarah Sanders talked about this letter kim jongun sent to him. A very nice letter, a very kind letter. Lets talk about having another summit. And yet the administration has been warning that north korea has not held up its end of the deal in terms of denuclearizing. Thats where he is. He has broken so many conventions and so many norms that the very functions of the presidency dont work like were used to, because what he wants and what the people around him actually deliver can sometimes be very different things. And frank, ive asked you no fewer than 50 times on this broadcast whether youre colleagues in the security criminal justice National Security field will have the ability to put their heads down and do their work. You must find some perverse satisfaction from the oped that not only are they, theyre doing it at the highest levels of this government. People who raise their hand and take an oath to uphold the laws and protect the constitution of the United States, they know thats their first loyalty. Il its not to the president , its to the country and the constitution. I will say, though, brian, i have to alter my usual answer when you ask the usual question about the men and women of the justice and the bureau. Its getting to that. We have to separate this from their ability to do their job. Theyre doing their job maybe stronger than ever. But i am seeing signs that the morale is dipping, its grating, its getting to them. I know people are retiring earlier than they otherwise would. One who is retiring soon said the atmosphere is circuslike in the community. Its getting to them but its not stopping them from doing their job. A cautionary note to the big three. Thanks for joining us on a monday night. We appreciate it greatly. Coming up, as jonathan just mentioned, trumps warm words for kim jongun and plans in the works for another summit perhaps, but complicating things just a bit . The new nbc news reporting that north korea is still making Nuclear Weapons. The 11th hour just getting underway as we start a new week. Its not just easy. Itsbeingamasterofhypnotism easy. Hey, i got your text sleep doug, when i snap my fingers youre going to clean my gutters. Ooh i should clean your gutters great idea. 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They displayed none of their Ballistic Missiles on the trucks. Donald trump took a victory dance saying, this is a big and very positive statement from north korea. Thank you pho chairman kim. We will both prove everyone wrong. There is nothing like good dialogue from two people that like each other. Much better than before i took office. But yet there was a report from nbc news that said there was a steady stream of evidence that north korea is still making those Nuclear Weapons. Our byline says the newest intelligence shows kims regime has escalated efforts to conceal its nuclear activity, according to three u. S. Officials. During the three months since the historic singapore summit and trumps proclamation that north korea intends to denuclearize, north korea has built structures to obscure the entrance to at least one new storage facility. U. S. Intelligence assesses north korea could produce five to eight new Nuclear Weapons in just the year 2018. Well, during todays White House Press briefing, Sarah Huckabee sanders said the president had received another letter from kim jongun, and she said another summit could be on the horizon. The president has received the letter from kim jongun. It was a very warm, very positive letter. We wont release the full letter unless the north Korean Leader agrees that we should. The primary purpose of the letter was to request and look to schedule another meeting with the president , which we are open to and are already in the process of coordinating that. Here to talk about all of it, the aforementioned kory kuby, and from the center of strategic and international studies. Shes also a former analyst at the cia and was in charge of this entire region while on the white house National Security council. Courtney, by way of asking you how we know what we know, is this a twotrack world . Youve covered the pentagon for a long time. Is it the pentagon and what they do every day and viewing the north as a clear and present danger, and on this other track, whatever happens to come out of the white house . I think its actually more of an administration versus what comes out of President Trump. Ive heard it described as a very bifurcated business where you have the president praising this dictator and where theyre maximizing this Pressure Campaign that we were hearing a lot about when tensions were at their highest with north korea at the end of 2017 and early 2018. This is the same weve seen with russia candidnedidly where he ps Vladimir Putin and the same happens. He tweeted about this parade yesterday. It could be a good thing or a bad thing. Is it a good thing that north korea didnt advertise any new ic icbms. Probably. But analysts have said that kim jongun feels that with that sixth nuclear test that he has achieved a Nuclear Security and he now sees himself as a Nuclear World power and hes moving on to sort of the next line the next point of his diplomacy in Economic Development and he doesnt feel the need for this anymore. Its not necessarily a big win as President Trump has been saying. Sue, does it sound like the kim you have known and studied over here that he would invite trump to another summit right at this point where we and others in the civilized world are reporting their capability of making that they are actively making new weapons . Absolutely, this is kims play. I absolutely believe he wants to meet with President Trump again. I think he thinks there is an opportunity here for President Trump to give him what he wants, and what he wants is eventually start with a declaration, a peace declaration, declaring the end of the korean war, but he wants a peace treaty with the United States, and of course his real goal is to get an International Acceptance of north korea as a nuclear power. They already see themselves as a defective nuclear state. North korea wants to be like pakistan, and i think thats kims goal and he thinks he can get it if he can sit down with President Trump. I think kim jongun has found a way to deal with President Trump. He knows how to flatter him, hes not criticizing trump when he has criticized every other south Korean Leader, former president obama. I think he knows how to manipulate trump, and i think thats his goal. So, sue, this is why you hold for the American Team a second summit could be disastrous . Well, on this were really prepared unless we can get something out of north korea like declaration of all their nuclear and missile programs or agreement on some sort of timeline and verification regime, we should not hold a summit. We thought there was some sort of agreement before trump met with kim jongun the first time in singapore, but there wasnt any agreement. All we got was some aspirational statement, not any kind of agreement. So i dont think we should just meet for the sake of meeting unless we know this time we can get something out of north korea like declaration of all their Nuclear Missile program. And courtney, it bears repeating in the place where you cover for a living. Rule one at the pentagon is never, ever believe anything the north koreans say, right . And russians right now. And another thing thats interesting from our reporting, we had been reporting, of course, that north korea wanted to continue to conceal their program. Thats a big point of contention with the United States and the International Community. Sue was talking about the summit that was now three months ago. One thing the u. S. Hoped to get out of that was a declaration of the north Korean Missile and nuclear program, a list of all of the things that they have in their program. The fact that they are still actively working to conceal their program now, the extent of it, shows that they cannot be trusted, at least on that one point. Since the summit, since this big declaration of denuclearization, they still are working to actively deceive the United States and the International Community about their program. And luckily for us peaceloving nations, you cannot hide everything from satellite staring into outer space. Courtney and sue, thank you both for your time and educating our conversation tonight. 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And mike, by thanking you for coming on and putting on my mike murphy autograph model glass frames, im going to read you further pullouts from the qpac poll. 60 , hes not honest. 57 , doesnt have good leadership skills, 55 , doesnt care about average americans, 65 feel our president isnt levelheaded. 60 , doesnt share the same values that i as a voter have, 55 , not fit to serve as president. Mike, what would you do if you had to run this guy for congress . I would lock him in a skiff somewhere and hire a robot to impersonate him for the next 60 days because hes had no success of getting on an economic message of discipline to argue the one thing hes got going for him. These numbers are very important. Its what the political operators look at. The jobs numbers bounce around mostly in the margin of error. But if you look at these descriptives, almost every number, hes got a majority, in some cases a supermajority, with some hard numbers. That just shows the majority of the country to really punish him in the elections, and i wish he had something in the white house basement to do where he would not be heard or seen for the rest of the campaign, at least if i was in one of those 40 districts the most in trouble. What what would you find the most garden variety middle of the road republican running for a reelection in a middle of the road republican district, theyre still out there, both of those categories. What do you do in that case . Well, there are a few members who are on television now talking about when they stood up to their party. Theyre trying to get their own identity, either as the local fixer, i did the case work, i helped this lady, i stood up for the local issue. Theyre trying to get some distance. The problem is, the president , when these numbers are so heavily against him, and two, hes so ubiquitous all over tv. Right now hes trying to slap a polygraph on each cabinet member. This drama is 24 7 in the earn media, so your local ads for congress cant overcome that. Its extremely frustrating to these folks. I know a bunch of them. And they know in some ways their future is not really in their hands anymore. And i have to ask you about texas. Beto orourke has this thing almost even. Ted cruz probably should be leading. He was passed by what, 16 points. Beto orourke leading 3837 does not mean they can turn a red state blue. The laws of gravity there are still the same. It is a republican state, but over the last 15 years, it has become less republican, which has given hope to the democrats. This is the kind of year where if you have abnormal turnout surges and a lot of luck, beto, who is kind of the tiger beat charmer of the Democratic Party right now is raising so much money on line, he can slug it out with cruz who has been cruelly, i would say, described by a british newspaper as the sitcom dracula. 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As of tonight, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh appears appears poise the for confirmation. Thats despite a long week of testy confirmation hearings, and what you may have read over this past weekend, those allegations of perjury. Politico is reporting that se several liberal groups are urging senate dems to launch a formal investigation. They said five topics kavanaugh addressed with Judiciary Panel senators this week reveal inconsistents with statements he made during confirmation hearings for his current Appellate Court positions that rise to the level of perjury. Those documents dems say were stolen by a republican during the judicial nomination process which were then passed on to kavanaugh, and if you were watching, Patrick Leahy asked the judge to defend his objections. This is not unlike the russians did in hacking the dnc. During this, you worked hand in hand in the white house with ben miranda where he was stealing material. I dont really have a specific recollection of any of this, senator, but it would not have been at all unusual for and this happens all the time, i think, which is the leahy people are looking into this and the hatch people are looking into that. I think. Now, over the weekend, the liberal superpac called the Democratic Coalition filed an official complaint with the department of justice. According to that complaint the group is seeking, quote, an impartial investigation by the doa and ultimately an indictment. With us to talk about it and returning to our broadcast to do so is sue mun kim. Shes an editor for the washington post. The reason we wanted you on was perjury. The p word is a lot to say and accuse someone of, yet im guessing a lot of our audience saw it mentioned in a snnews sty or saw an email over the weekend if they are part of any alleged groups. Tell me where we stand and how far we are away from any allegations or penalties of perjury of all things. Youre absolutely right that we should be careful in using that word, but it essentially stems from what you mentioned earlier, these 2004 and 2006 testimonies that Brett Kavanaugh gave to the Senate Committee for his current job to the d. C. Court of appeals where on some of these issues such as his involvement with controversial bush judicial nominations, it appears he may not have been as accurate or as precise as he could have been in his testimony back then, and the reason were seeing this now is because we have these new emails, these new records from his time in the Bush White House counsels office that kind of lay out these discrepancies or show where he could have been probably more precise more than a dozen years ago. And one of the examples, you mentioned the Manny Miranda case that got a lot of attention during the judiciary hearing, and another one is judge william pryors confirmation to the 1 is 1th Circuit Court of appeals. Ef he was a controversial nomination. He called roe v. Wade an abomination. We saw some emails for the first time last week that talked a little bit about how Brett Kavanaugh may have had some knowledge of how an interview with pryor went, that efhe was these emails to strategize for pryors confirmation hearing. But at his own confirmation hearing more than a dozen years ago, judge kavanaugh, at the time just kavanaugh, said that he had no involvement in this. This wasnt one i was involved in personally. There did seem to be some discrepancies we got from those emails, and he did get a chance to explain that during the judiciary hearing last week, but as you know, youre getting these increasingly louder perjury calls. Now, i do want to point out that Senate Democrats for the most part have been careful not to use those words just yet, rather saying they are he appears to have misled the committee back with his testimony. Its difficult to see how far this goes, but again, these arguments yet havent seemed to have persuaded the two republican senators that opponents of kavanaugh really do need to persuade, and thats Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins. Thats where i wanted to go next, and you could make an easy argument this is the most consequential vote for each of them as senators. Their states, when you think about it, kind of anchor the northern United States. Their states are similar in that they are largely ruled. Their constituents are, in a way, similar. And these two women openly prochoice among republicans in the senate, how do they get to yes on this vote . I think first of all, theyre officially not decided, but i think youve seen signs that they are pretty much at a yes. I think Susan Collins in particular has made it clear that she that kavanaugh has told her in these private meetings that he says roe v. Wade is settled law. This is something she repeated after an extensive twohour meeting with him. But going back to those emails, we saw even more new emails that we hadnt seen yet before from kavanaugh, one back from 2003 where he did seem to cast some skepticism on the fact that roe v. Wade is settled law. He said in this new email where he said, im not sure all scholars believe roe v. Wade is settled law, particularly because it can be turned over by a Supreme Court. He again had to explain that email to the judiciary committee. When reporters asked Susan Collins about that new email, she didnt seem that concerned about it, but again, they havent yet made up their minds. Theyre hearing vociferously from their constituents for and against. But all throughout this process, they havent shown signs that theyre struggling to get to a yes. Thats whats giving Mitch Mcconnell and the white house confidence that those two very powerful swing voters will be a yes at the end of the day. We will end on this. 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Michael also posted the front page of the New York Times from that day, september 10th, featuring the usual stuff, stories about the economy, Stem Cell Research along with photos and an accompanying big story about the new york mayoral race to replace rudolph giuliani. That simple color photo we keep going back to one more time, september 10th, 2001. It might have been the last innocent day of the modern era. Life in our nation has never been the same. They said the same thing about pearl harbor and they were right. Every night here we talk about efforts to reshape the postworld war ii world, after all, as we live in the post9 11 world every moment of every day. That is our broadcast for this monday night, september 10th, 2018. That you so very much for being here with us. Good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Happy youre with us tonight. Hurricane florence was upgraded to a category 3 hurricane earlier today and within an hour it was upgraded from a category 3 to a category 4 storm. This is a big one and it really does look like it is aimed right at the american east coast. The governor of South Carolina, hennie mcmaster, has already ordered the evacuation of about 1 Million People. In eight coastal counties in South Carolina, everybody is under mandatory Evacuation Order as of noon tomorrow. State government announced two