running around him bill in saying that. could if the elections in bavaria and hasn t turned out as bad as predicted that could resign from a post as party leader to focus on her post as german chancellor but this again would be seen as a sign of the deteriorating power of the ones most powerful woman in the world writes our correspondent privy to vote on the story for us tonight in berlin report thank you you re welcome. well tonight donald trump s pick for the u.s. supreme court brett kavanaugh is preparing to testify before a senate committee tomorrow now more women have come forward accusing kavanaugh of sexual misconduct tomorrow christine ford the initial accuser will also appear before that senate committee she s expected to describe how she was assaulted at a high school party in the one nine hundred eighty s.
from north korea, this particular threat is directed at the united states. yes, names president trump but isn t as specific as that last guam threat. any sign that north korea is readying another ballistic missile test or a nuclear test of some sort? you know, that s something everyone is watching for. it s a lot of hot air from north korea a lot of times. it s flowery, very big. as far as what is happening on the ground. that will be the real measure of whether or not the situation here is getting worse or it is getting better. last year after the drills took place, north korea launched a missile shortly after the drills ended. that s what all the military experts are looking for.
the majority of americans who did not want him to be in the white house that he still wants to be their president as well as those who come to his rallies. sarah, why do you think he s losing support among those states and the voters and the states that voted for him? i think when you look into the frustrations that members of his base who have spoke tonight media have expressed. it usually does not have to do with his inflammatory tweets or whatever controversy is preoccupying washington. people are frustrated that trump s agenda is not getting done. he s not making any progress on the border wall. the attempt to repeal obama care failed spectacularly. they re not making progress on the travel ban which got tied up in the courts. everything he promised has been stopped by his own party. because of that, you have seen a
there are no explicit signs that something is imminent. north korea taking away a lot of the u.s. military attention right now. president trump has made a big decision on afghanistan. we expect to find that out tomorrow night, when the president addresses the nation at 9:00 p.m. eastern. president trump wants the details to come straight from him. i was not willing to make significant troop lifts until we made certain we knew what was the strategy, what was the commitment going in. in that regard, the president has made a decision as he said, he wants to be the one to announce it to the american people, so i ll stand silent until then, until that point. our global affairs correspondent elise lab ott is here to pick all this apart. a decision has been made, but no word on what the decision is.
i mean, this as you point out is an annual event. it s something that triggers the north korean cycle all over again. as if on cue, north korea released a statement on the state run newspaper. here s one small statement. the trump s group declaration of the nuclear exercises against the dprk is a reckless behavior driving it into a nuclear war. if there s any sign of a preventative war, north korea would respond. these statements quite alarming, especially considering the drill is beginning today and going on for 10 days. this is fairly typical rhetoric