1982 where she was drugged and quote gang raped. She did not identify kavanaugh or judge as her attacker. But said both were at the party. All ten of the candidates on the panel were asked to reopen his Background Investigation. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley says the hearing will go forward this morning. His office releasing a timeline detailing the response to the allegations against kavanaugh. The timeline including a man who ford remembers may include him instead. The president said it is possible he could be swayed by todays hearing. They are giving the women a major chance to speak. Its possible. Ill hear that. And i would say hey, im changing my mind. That is possible. Ill see what happens tomorrow. Ill be watching. Believe it or not, ill see whats said. Its possible they will be convincing or they will have a big shot at speaking and making their case. You know what . I could be persuaded also. Susan collins, a critical swing vote, raised concerns at a private meeting about the new allegations. The senator from maine questioned why the senate Judiciary Committee has not subpoenaed mark judge. The only other person ford said was in the room. Cnns Phil Mattingly has more on what to expect today on capitol hill. Reporter christine and dave, the moment is very nearly here. The stakes are enormous. Senators have to decide to change the balance of the Supreme Court and change the balance of the institution and how people look at dealing with the Sexual Assault allegations. All of that this morning. This is going to be a small and contained hearing. They will limit the number of press and limit the number of visitors to watch the hearing. Dont expect the protests like we saw in the first Brett Kavanaugh hearing. Expect a high stakes drama. Here is why. Obviously Democratic Senators have made an clear they have a lot of questions for Brett Kavanaugh and a lot of questions for Christine Blasey ford. The republicans have hired an outside counsel. Bringing in a county prosecutor to ask questions. Somebody with sex crimes experience prosecution experience to ask the questions. Most republican senators plan to yield back their time. The reality looming above all of this is Brett Kavanaugh does not currently have the votes to be confirmed by the United States senate. I have been told that by several republican advisers. This means everything for his nomination. When you look at everything surrounding the hearing, it means so much more than that. Christine and dave. Phil mattingly, good cnns coverage starts at 10 00 a. M. With wolf blitzer and jake tapper. You can see it online at cnn. Com. A big fat con job. That is how President Trump describes the mounting allegations against his Supreme Court nominee. He admits his thinking is influenced by past allegations of Sexual Misconduct against him. I had a lot of false charges against me. I know friends who have had false charges. People want fame. They want money. They want whatever. When i see it, i view it differently than somebody at home watching television. When you say does it impact my thinking with respect to judge kavanaugh . Absolutely. The Opening Statements for Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey ford have been released ahead of the testimony. Kavanaugh calls the allegations against him last minute smears pure and simple. He said i never had any sexual or physical encounter of any kind with dr. Ford. Im not questioning she may have been assaulted by some person in some place at some time. I have never done that to her or to anyone. Im innocent of this charge. Fords testimony recounts the memory of kavanaughs alleged assault. She said i dont have all of the answers and dont remember all i would like to. The details about that night are ones i will never forget. It is not my responsibility to determine whether mr. Kavanaugh is to sit on the Supreme Court. My responsibility is to tell the truth. The president at the conference playing the George Washington card. Suggesting that it is the George Washington defense. Even that it is maligning the modern day democrats. Look, if we brought George Washington here and we said we have George Washington, the democrats would vote against him. Just so you understand. He may have had a bad past. I think he had accusations against him. Didnt he have a couple of things in his past . He was also a slave owner which would not fly today. President trump did not elaborate what he was talking about with George Washington. There were rumors of him chopping down a cherry tree. Fake news indeed. Founding father fake news. Good, romans. President trump trying to ease the tensions surrounding his upcoming meeting with Rod Rosenstein. He is suggesting that embattled Deputy Attorney general may not lose his job after all. At least not yet. Rosenstein thought he was out after a report claimed he would wear a wire with the president and trying to oust him from office using the 25th amendment last year. He said he never said it. He said he doesnt believe it. He said he has a lot of respect for me and he was very nice and well see. He is a member of the Trump Administration and in that sense, the justice department. I would certainly prefer not doing that. The president indicated he would postpone the meeting today with rosenstein in order to avoid competing with judge kavanaughs hearing. The meeting is not on the official white house schedule. President trump slamming canada. Donald trump claims he rejected the oneonone meeting with Prime Minister justin trudeau. Tariffs are too high and he doesnt want to move. I told him forget about it. I think we are going to tax cars coming in from canada. That is the mother lode. We are happy with the negotia negotiating style. Trudeau says no meeting was requested. This is not the first time he threatened tariffs on cars. This is over a deal made with the u. S. And mexico last month. The u. S. Says it will move ahead without canada. Imagine a north american trade pact without canada. They differ on access to the dairy market. Canada charges 249 tariff to protect the aeg industry. The u. S. And canada had agreement to lower these tariffs. That was part of the tpp. The president quit the tpp the first week in office. You know, the Republican Party has traditionally been a party of free trade and low taxes and no tariffs. Talking about taxing cars from canada. One of the things he did not like about health care. The former president s health ka care. The mandate to buy insurance is a tax. Some taxes are okay and some are not. That on top of the dairy surplus with our neighbors to the north. 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Cnns alexandra field is getting reaction for us. She joins us live from hong kong. This is not the kind of meddling we see like from russia or iran. He is talking about the Chinese Campaign to explain to American Voters to say guess what . Trade wars and tariffs are bad. Reporter he is using the same language. Meddling and interference. We saw it all day long yesterday. The president essentially saying chi chi china is meddling in the election. What is the evidence . The president did tweet something out later in the day. It was the image of the china daily insert in the iowa newspaper the china daily. The chinese run newspaper. It has articles supporting the beijing position on the trade war. The china daily has paid to put advertising in the papers in the past. Is that interference . A top official from the administration pointed to more evidence of interference from china. Targeting regions of the United States that supported trump in 2016. It also amounts to election meddling and interference. He went on to say Vice President pence would have more evidence of interference next week. As for china, the official representing the country at the u. N. General assembly will speak tomorrow. Thank you, alexandra. And the president putting forward information on the twostate solution from the palestinian and israeli conflict. He now supports it. I think the twostate will happen. I think it is in one way more difficult because it is a real estate deal. You need lots of carve outs and everything. It is a tougher deal. In another way it works better because you have people governing themselves. Early in the presidency, trump backed away from fully supporting a twostate solution. We have Oren Liebermann with the latest from jerusalem. Good morning, oren. Reporter trump has been calling this a real estate deal criticism from people. Now for the first time the Trump Administration and trump himself in black and white here endorsing the twostate solution. He first said it at the meeting with benjamin netanyahu. He was asked by the reporter. He said he liked the twostate solution. He was asked again. He said it again. Notably, netanyahu sitting a few feet away was silent during the exchange. Trump also said after recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel and moved the embassy to jerusalem, israel has to give something to the other side. Give Something Back to the palestinians in exchange. There were no details on that. Netanyahu himself was again silent. Trump said palestinians are coming back to the negotiating table. That confidence is not expressed by the palestinians. They froze contact with the Trump Administration when trump moved the embassy to jerusalem. That doesnt seem to show signs of changing the palestinian president and israeli Prime Minister speak today at the united nations. Oren, thank you, sir. 17 minutes past the hour. Not exactly jaws, but check this out. Whoa what made a seal launch an octopus at a kayaker in new zealand . And a fan interferes with Anthony Rizzo in the ninth inning of the crucial game. Are the cubs reliving the curse of bartman . Andy scholes has the answer in the bleacher report. Oh, no. How do you win at business . Stay at laquinta. Where were changing with contemporary makeovers. Then, use the ultimate power handshake, the upper hander with a double palm grab. Who has the upper hand now . Start winning today. Book now at lq. Com. Ok here we go guys, you ready . Hi cinturones por favor. Gracias. Opportunity is everywhere. Its gonna be fine. Its a door. Its doing a lot of kicking down there. Waiting to be opened. Whatever your ambition. Whatever your drive. Whatever youre chasing. Driver, are we almost there . Were gonna have a baby daddy daddy opportunity is everywhere. All you have to do to find it is get out. Here. Dono. 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There is a chicago fan thanking his lucky stars that the cubs won last night. If not, we would know his name and a new curse named after him. Top of the ninth and cubs two outs way from winning when Anthony Rizzo went to catch the foul ball and the fan goes for it as was well. Rizzo doesnt come up with it and he got upset about it. And then tying the game in the top of the ninth. The cubs did not implode like they did after the bartman ball. In the tenth, they win on a walkoff single. Cubs clinch a playoff spot for the fourth straight season. The brewers clinching a playoff spot for the First Time Since 2011. They will continue to battle the kux t battle the cubs for the last four games of the season. And bob ueker in the clubhouse. And and jake degrom closed the season to 1. 70. He gave up no more than three runs in the last 29 starts. Degrom is the second pitcher since 1913 with a sub2. 00 e. R. A. He only gott ten wins this year because the mets are so bad. He will likely be the n. L. Cy young winner. A woman in houston scolded a little girl because she was cheering too loudly. The 8yearold shutdown after that and did not cheer. Her mom posted this video to social media and said she was heart broken. She suffers from a rare disorder of disruptive mood disregulation disorder. She received support after the posting. And one post from the player said dont ever stop cheering. He offered her tickets to the post season. What are people doing . Kids cheering at the ballpark. If you dont want to listen to it, go home. I think we got a tear out of christine romans. That was a great story. Andy scholes, my rockies and your astros. World series . Rockies still have to clinch a spot. Romans, you doing all right . Those are the sports stories i Pay Attention to. I knew it would get you. Thanks, guys. One way or another history will be made today. Brett kavanaugh and Christine Blasey ford will testify. Will her accusations keep him off the Supreme Court . 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