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kenya. here we are in egypt. i want to talk about my trip and not what i wear and that s very important, what i do, what we re doing with u.s. aid and what i do with my initiatives. and i wish people would focus on what i do, not what i wear. so let s talk to cnn white house reporter kate bennett who was on that trip to africa. and kate bennett, i read one quote from an historian, quoted that hat as she was wearing was comparing her hat to showing up on an alabama cotton farm in a confederate uniform. and she says, please don t focus on what i wear, how can we not? yeah, with that wthat was a . and melania trump, her gaffes seem to be clothes associated. we remember her i really don t care, do you jacket, and now she is wearing a hat that brought up some very bad memories of a time in this
facility in hawaii. the effected products were made there between september 6th and 21st. no illnesses have been reported. an indonesian teenager plucked from the sea after drifting for 49 days. the 19-year-old was working on a remote fishing trap off the coast near indonesia. he told cnn indonesia in mid-july strong waves caused the trap s anchor rope to break. the platform drifted to guam. more than 1,500 miles. he said many ships passed until he was able to attract the passing cargo ship. he has been treated by the japanese coast guard and returned home to indonesia. amazing. it is remarkable. the steelers survive a trip to tampa beating the bucs for the physician w the first win of the season. andy scholes is here. the unpredictability of the nfl
more now from cnn s phil mattingly on capitol hill. reporter: christine and dave, there may be more allegations, but there is no shift in posture. if anything, republicans have gotten more aggressive to move forward with the brett kavanaugh nomination. several republican senators and several top aides, one in particular saying, they are more angry than worried about the nomination. believing the allegations are related to a democratic smear campaign. the democrats on the other side of things saying this is more of a reason to have an expanded fbi background check and hold on the hearing with christine blasey ford, the initial accuser. this is a testimony with enormous stakes for the supreme court nomination and stakes for how the senate deals with allegations like this. stakes for the country given the moment we are in. what will happen after the hearing? senate majority leader mitch mcconnell made no bones about it. he said explicitly brett kavanaugh will get a vote no matter what
lost in the noise in washington is the president s appearance at the united nations. he addresses the general assembly at 10:15 this morning. president trump signaling plans to meet with kim jong-un again. he addressed efforts for denuclearization of the korean peninsula. i see tremendous enthusiasm on behalf of chairman kim toward making a deal. i think that is something that s very good. we are in no rush. there s no hurry. let s talk to cnn s will ripley joining us live from hong kong. he has become an expert on the korean peninsula. i think two headlines from the president is that he is open to or planning a second meeting with chairman kim as he calls him. two, there was a south korean