The president sparked confusion and criticism with comments he made to reporters following a private meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin at the apec summit in vietnam on saturday. When asked if russias attempt to interfere in the u. S. Election came up in the conversation, trump responded every time he sees me he says i didnt do that and i believe, i really believe that when he tells me that, he means it. The president criticized members of the u. S. Intelligence community saying i mean, give me a break, theyre political hacks. You have brennan, you have clapper and you have comey. You look at that and you have president putin vehemently says he had nothing to do with that. Now youre not going to get into an argument. Youre going to Start Talking about syria and the ukraine. A day later trump appeared to walk back those comments after facing sharp criticism from republicans and democrats alike, clarifying his remarks during a press president with the vietnamese president sund
along. and so let me make it very clear, the time for endless delay and obstruction has come to a close. judge kavanaugh s nomination is out of committee. we re considering it here on the floor. and mr. president, we will be voting this week. mark judge, a witness to the alleged assault has been interviewed by the fbi. the senate democrats are concerned about the short initial witness list. they gave the names of 24 witnesses they want interviewed. let s bring in daniel l lippman. if you are going to have an fbi investigation, that means you have to wrap this up within the next day or two to be able to
our democratic colleagues have accused judge kavanaugh of being a rich, drunk, lying sexual predator. and the six fbi investigations that he s been through did not support that. all right. so are democrats, daniel, moving the goal post? if it is about his drinking and how much he partied in college, could this come back to back fire against democrats? i don t think it is whether he had too much to drink in college, it is more about whether he told thing truth to congress and the american people. he said multiple times he did not drink to excess that he blacked out. if you have college classmates and roommates of kavanaugh who
there s a big washington post story that trump and other republican men feel like they are under attack because of the me too moment. trump s son said he is afraid for his sons to face false allegations. i think there is a real concern that trump feels like the culture is changing and they are left behind. okay. daniel lippman. i appreciate you being here. thanks. melania trump on the way to africa. the first solo international trip as first lady. first stop is ghana and egypt. we go to johannesburg where we have david mckenzie. her first big solo international trip. interesting she chose africa after what her husband said about the continent. reporter: good morning,
statement of support for putin s position, saying that putin believes what he believes, which is, you know, i don t know in international relations when we take foreign leaders at their word. that s not how things work. daniell lippman live in nort carolina. putin is saying the president didn t ask him about the election so sort of walking that back as well. still ahead, what if former vice president joe biden gives a glimpse of how his campaign would have looked had he decided to run in 2016. and a live report from chris jansing traveling in manila. we re back in a moment. stay with us.