the white house reports that both president trump and vice president pence have phoned brett kavanaugh to offer him support. let s go to outside the hearing room. tell us what you are seeing there. well, jake, many senators, of course, arriving to this key hearing. we are seeing senators walk down the hallway. we just saw the chairman of this committee, chuck grassley, arrive and go into a back room of the committee hearing. he was asked what he is hoping for today, and he just said simply a fair hearing for everyone and certainly worth remembering that chuck grassley has so much pressure, over sized pressure on his shoulders today to construct a fair hearing as the chairman of this committee. he has at times over the last 48 hours shown signs of frustration as the back and forth and the fast moving developments have engulfed him at times. jeff flake is a key voice.
just last week we know president trump was talking about getting out of syria. now bashar al-assad is proving stronger than ever, so what is the plan? i think that s what you ll want to hear from president bush over the next week i mean, president trump. i know, we re all thinking of barbara bush. and maybe just knowing there is a strategy will reassure those critics. absolutely. coming up, the president s personal lawyer and the adult film star he paid off face to face in federal court. we will talk about what could happen as both president trump and stormy daniels attend a key hearing. child: bye, grandpa! and if you have heart failure, entrusting your heart to entresto may help. entresto is a heart failure medicine
story develops to do real damage. jon: just when the story was starting to die down on friday, eight outcomes nbc with a revelation, oh, yes, an ex-soviet intelligence officer in that meeting as well. exactly. jon: we have to leave it there. thank you both of you. speak to the bad public relations, bad optics is not illegal. coming up, a key hearing for oj simpson is just days away. could the juice to be a free man? weighing in on this week s parole hearing. plus you danger for people living in a area where a sinkhole has swallowed two homes. what emergency crews are now testing. we do not believe that it is safe, engineers are saying that it is not safe. we move the heavy equipment in and out of here with the sinkhole, we do not know where that safe edge is at. whoooo.
understand. except when it s tied to national security. when they ve said you missed this key hearing on the terror threat in the u.s. and of course you know the level of terror concern here. is that a concern for marco rubio? not particularly. i think that s background noise in the campaign. it s fair game to raise those issues, but in the end voters want a candidate who s going to be aspirational. he s going to talk about solutions, who isn t going to spends all their time on personal attacks but describe what they view as a vision for the future. and marco rubio is one of the most gifted candidates we have on our side to do that. so you look at when you look at the race where are you seeing those coming from in your view particularly when you look to the other side of the aisle? to go back to this really quick, one good case study bobby jindal when running for governor of louisiana, i was a homeland security staffer and he missed tons of hearings. tons of those hearings rela
on in these state legislatures. it s very, very serious. laura bassett from the huffington post, great reporting and thank you for your time tonight. thank you so much for having me. still ahead, donald rumsfeld s stunning admission about torture during the bush administration. you ll want to hear this one. plus, a big announcement about president obama s health care law. tonight there are three million more reasons why this law is here to stay. also, self-defense or murder? a key hearing. a michigan case that is drawing comparisons to the death of trayvon martin. stay with us.