Virginia as Hurricane Michael moves off of the atlantic coast, and while in florida, an entire coastline is being swept away. We thought that it was a cat 4 with a direct hit, it never would have stayed. We have no communication about the outside world and nobody knows about me. And how long will it take to clean all of this up . I dont know. I havent any idea. And the first family, the first lady is answer iing questions about her husbands alleged infidelity and if she loves him . Yes, it is fine. It is what the media speculates and it is gossip and it is not always correct stuff. And goodday, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. A shocking new report revealing horrific details about what may have happened to Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, and the turkish government has told the u. S. Officials they that have audio and video of what happened inside of the ko consulate. One said that you can hear how he was interrogated and tortured and then murdered. And then it sho
Whats going on. Everyone in washington and at this point across the country is now trying to figure out who is behind this anonymous oped in the New York Times describing socalled resistance inside the trump administration. The president is reportedly furious, calling the source gutless and a product of the deep state. But the author says theyre not alone. Citing a group of senior white house officials and trump appointees working to, quote, frustrate parts of the president agenda as well as the worst inclinations. Another source says there are dozens and dozens of likeminded officials. The oped writer says the administration has had successes on issues like deregulation and tax reform but insist they have come despite the president s petty and ineffective leadership, not the cause of it. Quote, meetings with President Trump veer off topic and off the rails. He engages in repetitive rants and his impulsiveness results in half baked, ill informed and occasionally reckless decisions that
Over documents pertaining to Supreme Court nominee, brett kavanaugh. With republicans accusing democrats of mob rule. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news. New questions tonight about President Trumps fitness for office amid a devastating newpo new portrait of the president painted by Top Administration officials. In a truly explosive new book by Washington Post journalist bob woodward, theyre quoted describing mr. Trump as an idiot and a liar with the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader. Well talk about it with top democrat in the house intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff, and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. First, lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. Jim, this book shows a white house truly gripped by chaos. Reporter fear and loathing over here at the white house, wolf. The white house relea
And closer to his inner circle. According to the wall street journal, allen, long term part of the white house, you may recognize him he was for a time a judge on the apprentice. The wall street journal broke the story, a former Trump Organization employee telling cnn that wihe knows every deal e president has been involved in, coat, every sale anything and everything hes done including a deal Michael Cohen talked about ip2016 and team trump has lied about. The deal was to buy the rights of Karen Mcdougals story. The rights had just been purchased a month before by david pecker who runs the company the national enquirer. Here is Michael Cohen talking with mr. Trump about stetting up a company to make the deal. I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david, you so so im going to do that right away. Give it to me i ive spoken with allen about how to set the whole thing up. You heard Michael Cohen say there that then candidate trump, so much f
Daniels . Prosecutors say trump directed illegal hush money to two women. When during the campaign i would say mexicos going to pay for it. Obviously i never said this and i never meant theyre going to write out a check. They may even write out a check by the time they see what happens. They may. Mr. President , did you know Paul Manafort was sharing polling data from your campaign with the russians . No, i didnt know anything about it. Nothing about it. So he denied knowing about the Stormy Daniels pay off. He denied knowing mexico would write a check for the wall and he did know that. And he denied knowing his campaign was sharing polling information with russia. It is friday. Along with joe, willie and me, we have National Affair analyst and msnbc cohost, executive producer of showtimes the circus, John Heilemann, republican strategist and msnbc contributor rick tyler is with us as well. Joe, this shutdown, it continues. Its getting painful. People are getting paychecks today with a