Particular story about kavanaugh, to continue to develop through the weekend. Republicans definitely want to steam ahead with voting on him as soon as next wednesday or thursday. Its hard to see how that happens while this story is still developing, but watch this space. That does it for us tonight. We will see you again on monday. Now its time for the last word with lawrence oh dodge. Good evening, lawrence. You know how this show starts at 10 00 or i should say is supposed to start at 10 00 . Mmhmm. And every once in a while it starts 15 seconds later, 30 seconds later. My fault, sorry. And its a pretty organized and ritdialistic thing, and thats the way its supposed to work. But we can change that. We can change that on the fly if we have to and if something happens and if there was some kind of giant breaking news event, we would deal with that whole concept differently, and the Senate Judiciary committee can do exactly the same thing. Ask that is what they did with anita hill when
Putin. Well see about today. Were looking for the United States to improve this computer glitch. That does it for us. Well see you right back here tomorrow. In the meantime, Stephanie Ruhle picks up the coverage. Good morning, everyone. Im Stephanie Ruhle with a lot to cover today. Starting with answers, emails and calls. Some of President Trumps response to Robert Muellers questions now revealed has new details on the investigation emerged. Latenight phone calls between donald trump and his associate roger stone and the president dangling a pardon for, guess who, Paul Manafort. Emission failure. The va says it will not reimburse all veterans who were paid less due to a technical glitch. Taking stock. Markets surge after the fed chair suggests interest rate
increases might slow down. Now an expected meeting between trump and the leader xi jinping over the weekend. Theres a possibility a deal can be made. Having said that, some caveats as always. We begin with some of the very fest deta
reaction to the ongoing george santos saga and his refusal to step down. yes, i think lindsey that somebody like george santos, we are treating right now as sort of an outlier year of the republican caucus. i don t think george santos is an outlier. i really think that his case is character, sort of the exemplar of what has happened with the maga wing of the republican party that is not so much a wink anymore. it really is the core of the party now in the house of representatives which has become in the sense, the house of trump. this idea about lying about your background, constantly trying to shift with new controversies and distractions has become a primary tool for people like george santos and the party at large. i really think he exemplifies what has happened in that place. i worked for years in the house of representatives when the republicans have the majority and you know, mitch mcconnell s words, you really seen a decline in candidate quality. i don t think there s a direct
official start to all of this. i saw an article in the guardian just this morning, and it was quoting you, the house of trump is crumbling. and in fact, i ve said to colleagues, michael, this week feels like the sand is quickly slipping through the trump hourglass. do you think he s running out of tactics and time to get out of situations like this? well, of course, what s his tactic? his tactic is to deny the existence of any wrongdoing over and over, and the more he thinks he s going to say that, the more people are going to believe it. i too read that article and i have to say i implore all of your watchers and all who will see this on twitter and other forms of social media to read that article because it lays out three examples that are so in your face obnoxious. for example, he bought this property called the many estate in 2006, and he bought it for $12.6 million, but by 2011, he
alliance between the house of saudi and the house of trump made intuitive sense with them, particularly after their intense relationship with president obama. have the saudis played trump here? they certainly got a pretty good deal. this saudi officer was a yemen officer and one of the travel band list of companies. president trump would have had a very different reaction. you know, he s given them a free ride in yemen. the block cade of qatar, the kidnapping of ha writer ra, jam an khashoggi to a large degree. the list goes on and on. you know, you can make it defensive in the sense that salm salman is leading his country into a number of big foreign policy problems that we have basically green lighted. yep. and seems to have directed the murder of a journalist in jamal khashoggi. another point you make is a bigger picture about president s relationship with his generals. oftentimes, the president not seeming to understand the