House correspondent and before leaving the white house for florida, the president had plenty to say about saudi arabia and the disappearance of the Washington Post contributor, Jamal Khashoggi. Take us through that. Reporter thats right, wolf. The president answering questions on his way down to florida and georgia to take a look at the storm damage down there. He did tell reporters he spoke with the saudi king, king solomon about the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi. The president appears to be accepting the conclusion coming from the saudi government that they are not responsible for the disappearance or death of the Washington Post columnist. The president at one point told reporters that from what he is hearing at this point, it may have been what he called rogue killer who is killed Jamal Khashoggi. Heres what the president had to say. I just spoke with the king of saudi arabia who denies any knowledge of what took place with regard to as he said his Saudi Arabian citizen. It soun
To his right, the acting interior secretary. Thats in addition to the acting attorney general, the acting chief of staff, and acting epa administrator. Thats a lot of acting, considering they arent on a stage or in a movie, they are in real life. Oh, and speaking of movies, did you notice what was on the president s desk . Its a movietype poster of the president with the words sanctions are coming november 4th, apparently riffing on the first game of thrones episode and the idea that winter is coming. But whats weird is given its prominent placement is that the president didnt say anything about it during all his riffing. He didnt mention anything about the poster. Sad. The president did have a lot to say on other topics, a good deal of it factually questionable, some of it flatout false, and all of it a pretty good preview of what enjoy the ride could actually mean in the coming year. So were going to start our keeping em honest segment right now by going through point by point what t
Biggest stories, sourced by the best reporters now. Welcome to inside politics. Im phil mattingly. In today for john king. To our viewers in the United States and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. President trump warns of an invasion on the southern border and hes building his wall with or without permission from congress. Theres bipartisan concern on capitol hill that he is overstepping his authority. So im going to be signing a National Emergency, and its been signed many times before. Its been signed by other president s from 1977 or so it gave the president s the power. Theres rarely been a problem. They sign it. Nobody cares. I guess they werent very exciting. But nobody cares. They sign it. For far less important things in many cases. Plus, bill barr sworn into office as attorney general. That makes him Robert Muellers new boss and gives him the power to decide whether to release the special counsels final report to congress. We need to see a full report. This
Own to the democrats. Thats going to come in a speech later this afternoon. Weve got the reporter that broke the story about the additional billion dollars from the democrats, Julie Hirschfield davis on the phone with us. Good morning to you. We know theres no money for the wall. Tell us what the money is allocated for, why the strategic shift by the democrats. Reporter good morning. Well, so this is about a little over a billion that is in a package, a spending bill that House Democrats are planning to bring up next week. It would be about half of it for enhanced infrastructure essentially at the ports of entry, so places on the border where people come up and present themselves where the president talked a lot about needing more security and bolstering protections there. Thats about a little over 500 million for that. Theres another about 560 million for Immigration Judges. This is not Border Security per se but these are the judges that handle the claims of people that present thems
John . Thanks, aliysn. We heard this remarkable story, author e. Jean carroll tells the story of being rained by donald trump in a Department Store back in the 1990s. She didnt use that word rape but that is what she said happened. That is what she described. The question this morning is this, now that the story is out there and frankly its been out there a few days, how can this be another monday . Why is this a big deal . This is what e. Jean told aliysn a few moments ago. It was a fight. I want women to know, i did not stand there. I did not freeze. I was not pearlizerilized, whic reaction i could have had because it was so shocking. I fought. It was over very quickly, 100 , and i ran away. The president denies the allegations and accuses theager e. Jean carroll to sell her new book. To talk to us is Julie Hirschfield davis and correspondent for the New York Times and bianna gould. You are here in studio and watching e. Jean carroll tell her story, which is very, very intense. All o