someone in someplace, but what i know is i ve never sexually assaulted anyone. i m not going to let false accusations drive us out of this process. were looking for a fair process where i can be heard in defending my integrity in my lifelong record, my lifelong record of promoting dignity and equality for women, starting with the women who knew me when i was 14 years old. i m not going anywhere. bret: judge brett kavanaugh and his wife speaking exclusively to martha maccallum. you will see that full interview in the next hour on the story. let s bring in our panel. chris stirewalt s politics editor here at fox news. mollie hemingway, senior editor inventing at the federalist. obviously the white house white house, judge kavanaugh saying this is a fight and they are engaged, which is why he s coming out.
and i get to do that. i get to provide that for them. bret: president trump will begin a bilateral meeting with his french counterpart shortly, part of a busy day on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly. the president will address the gathering tomorrow. today he made news with the next step in north korea denuclearization process. john roberts joins us now from the u.n. tonight. good evening, john. good evening to you.
i have written a lot of stories. i ve been in a process here and other places throughout my career. i was shocked when i read that new yorker story. that was a hot round and coming in at the time that it did, that was a mighty big matzoh ball to put out there, especially at this point. and then it occurred to me it never would have happened without the first accusation. that story, even the new yorker, even ronan farrow, there s no circumstance under which it that came to the new yorker without the first allegation that that ever would have been discussed in the fact that the way this is working out, it s stacking up in the democrats favor in this sense. at the longer it last, the longer it goes on, the more of these you get and you get the next one and that we are michael avenatti has one and there will be more of these that: in a desire will be by the time eager to to thursday won t really matter because there will just be this plume around him. bret: when you talk strictly polit
totally. this is not a legal proceeding that we are involved in, this is a political process, this is a confirmation hearing and that s what s going to play out this week. there are two courts of public opinion. one is the public at large and how they come away after thursday in determining which person they believe more, but it s also the court of public opinion of a handful of senators who ultimately will decide judge kavanaugh spate and i think that he is attempting to reach both of those audiences with what he did today with the interview with you all and more importantly, what he will do thursday when it s televised nationally for all the world to see. this has been a really interesting last couple of days. if you had an allegation that came out last week but didn t have any support for it, but seemed like it could be possible. and then in the last couple of days you had another accusation come out, one that is disputed by dozens of people, other media outlets each subsequen
director gina haspel outlined those concerns saying north korea believes nuclear weapons are essential to their regime s survival. there is also worry that improved relations between the south and north may undercut the urgency for kim to give up his nukes. sources say the president won t wait forever for action, but he is prepared to wait a while. how long do you leave the door open before you decide this isn t working? you have to remember this is a process that will move forwar forward. to set a date certain would be foolish, but make no mistake about it, the conversations that we are having are important. they re putting the opportunity to complete the denuclearization in place. are you optimistic that he will come through on this? yes. while north korea is getting platitudes this year, president trump will take a stick to iran on wednesday. he will call on every country to join our pressure campaign in