toys this year. but it has been really remarkable to see the fallout of toys r us going bankrupt and how all of the stores and including party city is doing the pop-up stores for toys, because they want a piece of the real estate. i know. as the kid in me can t believe that toys r us has gone away in the context. how much i know. it is really sad, right? i was so excited every chris tms to go to toys r us. and how much of the bottom line is black friday performs when they are fighting on the online merchants? well, it is a good question, because we are seeing a cascading of the closings and the bankrupt sis throughout the k country with the different brands and the most recent casualty was david s bridal filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy and this holiday season is just as critical as before, and there is expected to be $1 trillion spent more this season when it
including as part of the crowned prince s new plan, will they actually sacrifice profits for principle here? i think it s not merely profits for principle. i think they also have a reputational damage that they re putting at risk here. i think their board of directors and shareholders will have a say in this. they need to be sure that they re doing business with the right people. if they wanted to have massive lucrative contracts with north korea, i don t think their shareholders and directors would stand for it. this may be cascading down into some kind of a similar situation. ambassador robert jordan, thank you very much for sharing your expertise and experience. thank you. that was a fascinating interview in his experience in saudi arabia after 9/11. same king denying. saying it was not us the 15 hijackers. ryan lizza and a.b. stoddard are here. in the same breath he said we ll
flood waters are expected to come from the gulf and start cascading from this direction. we will keep an eye on it to see when that does indeed happen. gary, thank you to you and your entire crew out there so we can see what s going on moment to moment. we will get back to the storm in a moment. but there is a stunning development in this story about the disappearance of the journalist jamal khashoggi who has been missing now for more than a week after he walked into the saudi embassy in turkey. u.s. intelligence intercepted intelligence of saudi high ranking officials talking about a plan to capture him before he went missing. he is a saudi national, but a u.s. resident. the children are u.s. residents here. the u.s. certainly has a responsibility. absolutely. to explore what really happen. turkish officials tell them his
hit a pause button on the cascading headlines one would imagine as you focus on this. i thought it was interesting in the clip you just played there, alisyn, that swetnick is taking a different approach than what ford is. you just heard her weigh in on whether kavanaugh should be sitting on the supreme court. professor ford makes clear in her statement, that s not her job whether or not to assess whether kavanaugh should sit on the supreme court, but today is to tell her story. doesn t it tell you how little the senate majority, the republicans, really want to examine the facts here when she is not going to be interviewed or give testimony, and the fbi is not going to test the credibility of her statements? here s a woman with a security clearance on the surface, a respectable person who makes this extraordinary detailed and
cascading down from the mountains and going to add stress and add to the possibility of flooding. that s why authorities here are still concerned and that s why south carolina, which managed to escape so much of the chaos and destruction of hurricane florence, is still really not out of the woods. david. my colleague matt bradley there in columbia, south carolina. we will continue to check in with you and to track the storm all night here on msnbc. after the break we will turn back to politics and an allegation of sexual misconduct being levied against brett kavanaugh that dates back to his days in high school. could it affect the senate judiciary committee s confirmation vote which is scheduled to take place in a few days? we re bae goigoing to discuss t next.