supreme court nomination as republicans get more combative in their defense and more dismissive of his accusers. tonight senate judiciary committee republicans are again refusing to delay a thursday hearing with kavanaugh and christine blasey ford. they ve now hired an outside counsel to ask questions, something ford specifically opposed. this as the president is attacking the credibility of the second foaccuser, deborah ramir, suggesting she is part of a con game by democrats. lisa murkowski, a potential swing vote, urging them to take the accusers seriously. he will be confirmed possibly this weekend. i will get reaction from democratic senator merkley. our correspondents and analysts are standing by. first to our white house correspondent jim acosta. he is in new york covering the president. jim, the president s u.n. speech
there is a trump tweet for everything. when barack obama was president, mr. trump tweeted, we need a president who isn t a laughing stock to the entire world. we need a truly great leader. during the president s u.n. speech, german officials could be seen chuckling when mr. trump accused them of being dependent on russian energy. germany will become totally dependent on russian energy if it does not immediately change course. reporter: the president later insisted he didn t mind the laughter. it was meant to get some laughter, but it was great. reporter: and the trump administration is ramping up the rhetoric on iran s. the national security adviser earlier today, john bolton, said the iranians would have hell to pay if it crosses the u.s. that came after iranian president essentially accused the president of having what he called a, quote, nazi disposition. wolf, i think it can be argued those were not the most shocking comments of the day as the president once again in this b
exactly. and as well as the russians have studied us and we are the thing that they study, for them to get into these districts in wisconsin and michigan and figure out how to divide our country, how to divide our people, and he talked also about how it has divided our country. and it s hurt us domestically and internationally. north korea was another subject i was interested to hear what he said on that tonight. well, he said, in fact, that he is very concerned about the tweets, about hurlg insults back and forth because for the first time kim jong-un after the president s u.n. speech went on camera. no north korean leader, not his father, grandfather has ever gone on television and made a statement and answered directly to the united states. it s always the tv presenter, the propaganda lady in the pink dress, you know. yeah. you ve seen the image. so this is what he had to say about that and it was very ominous. i ve said that i think the prospects for military conflicts
diplomatically. i think he s going to take a very tough tone with those leaders and the other big question we ll be looking for is how are they going to respond to that message but to the president s u.n. speech earlier this week when he effectively said he s prepared to totally destroy north korea if it doesn t denuclearize? when he referred to kim jong-un as rocket man, who is that type of very heated were very fiery rhetoric playing with key allies in the region? is it making them more or less willing to work with president trump? those are the key questions as he prepares to have a significant meeting and give us more details about the north korean sanctions. we ll be watching for your report on that tonight on nbc. i want to bring in now pentagon correspondent for the new york times. it is time to have you on the show. thank you for joining us. and let s start with these north korean sanctions. it sounds as though for them to have real teeth behind them, these are going to hav
rhetoric is exactly what americans want to hear. donald trump went out talking about how much money we will invest in the military and the most powerful military we have ever been and went on to name names in calling out enemies and even criticized the un for failing in central parts of its mission. i cannot george w. bush was criticized for being a cowboy, delivered a speech like this, this is tough stuff and a lot of people are thrilled to hear it. rob: moving back to domestic issues, crunch time for republicans on capitol hill to find a way to repeal and replace obamacare. heather: a lot of opinions on this one, lawmakers on both sides making their case for and against the graham plan is time