Colleagues that he was expecting that when he arrived at the white house he was going to be fired. Of course, it was nothing of the sort. President trump a short time ago meeting with moon jaein the president of south korea said he is looking forward to meeting with Rod Rosenstein and having the conversation with him about everything that happened last week on thursday. Listen here. Our meeting with Rod Rosenstein on thursday when i get back from all of these meetings. And well be meeting at the white house and well be determining whats going on. We want to have transparency. We want to have openness. And i look forward to meeting with rod at that time. Just a little bit of background to awful this after the story came out in the New York Times last week that Rod Rosenstein allegedly was trying to drum up support for a 25th amendment removal to the president even suggesting he might wear a wire when he met to meet with the president. Chief of staff john kelly pulled him in to the white house, asked him about it after that meeting on friday. Rod rosenstein issued a stronger denial than the statement he had previously issued he and kelly according to jake gibb son our department of justice producer had a couple of conversations over the weekend during one of which apparently this idea of resignation was floated Deputy Attorney general thursday when he has an opportunity to meet with the president. He said he spoke to rosenstein earlier today. If he hasnt fired him on the spot there is a chance that rosenstein might survive. You heard Trace Gallagher talk about the other he had line of the day judge Brett Kavanaugh and his wire ashley will be appearing on story with Martha Maccallum to talk about the many accusations leveled against kavanaugh. Kavanaugh earlier today sent another letter up to the Senate Judiciary committee in which he said among other things that these new allegations, all of the allegations in fact quote these are smears pure and simple and debase our Public Discourse will yous about a threat to any man or woman who wishes to serve our country. Such grotesque and obvious character assassination if allowed to proceed will dissuade confident and good people of all political persuasion from service. So, again tonight, with Martha Maccallum on the story. You know Martha Maccallum to be a tough interviewer. I imagine she is not going to let kavanaugh off the hook here. She will ask some very probative questions. Neil . Neil john, Mitch Mcconnell made it clear a vote will happen for the judge nay or yea. He didnt indicate the exact timing of that vote. What are you hearing . I dont know what the timing is he typically invoke a three day rule. Hearing thursday the earliest they could have a vote is probably on tuesday because its three business days. Certainly judge kavanaugh has said that he is not going to withdraw. They are going to fight this out before the Senate Judiciary committee and grassley said it last week, he said we will have to be the jury. We have to listen to the evidence, weigh the evidence and be the jury. I will not be surprised if mcconnells prediction comes to past and there is a vote and that would likely be early next week, neil . Neil john roberts, thank you very much to karl rove right now the former white house chief of staff bestselling author. Karl, where do you think this is going . Well, i think it is going to depend heavily upon the presentation of the two individuals on thursday. Dr. Ford first and Brett Kavanaugh. Im a little biased here because bret is a personal friend and i have great admiration for his intellect and character. I think at the end of the day look the Senate Judiciary committee is likely to bring him out and country will be unnecessarily divided over. This a country never become accepting of his nomination. But my sense is that at the end of the day he is sitting on the Supreme Court where over the years ahead he will do an exemplary job some look for democrats up for reflection in big trump winning states that they have a little more cover now to vote no. If that were the case, i dont know if you agree with that if that were the case he would have to rely, the judge every republican maybe could afford to do without one. Arch that its over. What do you think . Yeah. Look, im not certain i agree with the assumption that every democrat now has the ability to say in a state like West Virginia where President Trump won by 42 , 42 points that north dakota or missouri or indiana. I think its interesting. Claire mccaskill came out last friday and said she is against kavanaugh. She is in a red state. Trump won it by 18 points. She is in a terribly close race. But she didnt say in fact she went out of her way to say its not because of dr. Fords allegation. Its because of where im afraid where is he going to be on socalled dark money. I want a pledge in essence she was saying that he will overturn the pledge of citizens united. They not vote for him. They will find something in my opinion other than this current controversy. Neil all right. The reason why i mentioned then he can afford to lose only one republican, jeff flake comes to mind that he might forge out issue. You add Susan Collins to that conceivable intli over. A lot of people think that can be avoided with the Vice President breaking a tie. Would it ultimately come that close . It might because you are talking about a 5149 senate. But, my gut tells me that tefnteatthe end of the day thiss up be 5347, vote. I think it will be universal if not universal republican support and then with that when there are at least 50 republican votes then there will be a couple of democrats who say im in a red state. Im doug jones or im donnelly, joe donnelly of indiana or Heidi Heitkamp or joe manchin or im in a state that leans right and im going to go for it. Neil how much of an issue is this looking like its going to be in the midterm . Well, ironically enough, its which side loses . If republicans fail to confirm kavanaugh, then i think its goods to to desspirit a lot of republicans. They will be angry at the one or two republicans who didnt support him but they will take it out on everybody. Similarly if the democrats come up short. Their expectations have been raise sod high, they have been beginned up so much. I just got one from mazie hirono from hawaii on behalf of move on. Org. These things are so over the top they have ginned up their base and regardless of whether its justified or not if the democrats fail to block him this will anger some of their base and they may take it out on some democrats. We ought to be thinking about whats right for the country. And the fact of the matter is we have gone from a time when bill clinton nominated ruth bader againstburg 95 of republicans voted to confirm her, 75 voted to confirm steve breyer. Only 50 of democrats turned around and voted for judge roberts. 10 , only 10 of democrats voted for judge alito and then we saw with neil gorsuch, even though he was an incredibly accomplished individual almost every democrat voted against him. We are in a place that this hyper partisanship that was engendered first by ted kennedy in savaging robert bork and then further by harry flird tryin reid trying tp george w. Bush trying to stop him from nominating people. Is its not in the best interest of our country. Neil thank you very much. Thank you. Neil in the middle of this vacuum and craziness we had stocks selling off today. A lot more had to do with trade. Taking look it corner of wall and broad. Exploring this in more detail down 181 points. Again concern that the trade thing is accelerating here and you will be looking at more expensive shopping prices as a result during the busy Holiday Season. That was weighing on things. A whole lot weighing on things after this. Im ray and i quit smoking with chantix. In the movies, a lot of times, i tend to play the tough guy. But i wasnt tough enough to quit on my own. Not until i tried chantix. Chantix, along with support, helps you quit smoking. It reduced my urge to smoke to the point that i could stop. When you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. Some people had changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, or suicidal thoughts or actions with chantix. 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Neil, hello, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell on the other side is equally fired up. He says he is submitted t commio bringing judge Brett Kavanaughs confirmation up for a vote. Judge kavanaugh will be voted on here on the senate floor up or down. On the senate floor. This fine nominee to the Supreme Court will receive a vote in this senate in the near future. The republican senators to watch on this nomination Susan Collins of maine, jeff flake of arizona, and Lisa Murkowski of alaska. If they say they are no votes, the nomination would be in jeopardy. Chairman Chuck Grassley sent a letter to professor Christine Blasey ford today after she sent him a note over the weekend, chairman grassley writing quote im writing to say thyme committed to fair and respectful treatment of you as have you requested i work to make certain the committee i chair handles all individuals involved in hearings in that manner and you deserve the same. A red state democrat told u. S. Just moments ago is he looking forward to hearing from judge kavanaugh and his acruiser. Whoever or however many they ought to have a trite speak and relook forward to that as quickly as possible. He also has a right to clear his name. He truly does. Thats what im hoping we can get to that as quick as we can this week or whatever it takes. And with emotion and anger building here on capitol hill, a lot of republicans want to get through this quickly and get it up for a confirmation vote. Neil . Neil mike emanuel, thank you very much. A lot of questions now about this second woman and her charges of misconduct and worse on the part of judge kavanaugh at the time when they were college students. The New York Times was not able to corroborate these latest allegations so what are we to come make of where things stand right now. A former federal prosecutor. Where do you see this going . I dont think its going to go anywhere, neil. The woman herself said she wasnt even sure it was Brett Kavanaugh. So the new yorker scraped the bottom of the barrel to come up with this. The New York Times wouldnt publish it because it couldnt be corroborated. There is nothing there that can be believed whatsoever. When she doesnt even believe it herself. Neil this comes and the time Something Interesting because in all of the of course ahead of dr. Fords testimony later this week before congress, do you think that was deliberate . Yes, i do. In fact, i have heard that the senate had this information or at least some senators did a week ago. And, of course, we already know that senator feinstein withheld the other issue for as long as six weeks. None of that bodes well for either of the two women that claim to be making these allegations or the veracity of them. They there are not enough details of time, place, or anything else for these things to have been investigated if they have been reported when they occurred. Neil right, sinsdy. To corroborate what are dr. Ford is going to be alleging before senators on thursday, you have to have instances and names and individuals support what you are saying and charging. That has not come through. Maybe it might. What is your sense of what were looking at on thursday . Well, so far everybody thats been asked about it has said it didnt happen they know nothing of it Brett Kavanaugh is not a party to any of it i would expect thursday simply to be a plight questioning of dr. Ford and questioning of Brett Kavanaugh and there is not much he can say other than i dont know anything about this. They still havent worked outs the order of events and thousand is going to go. Lawyers insisting that the judge go first. That would be obviously difficult because he has to respond to charges that havent been formally made. I dont know how they sort it out there. Is a fear among a lot of republican senators that they look like old white men and interrogating a woman who is trying to recount events from decades ago. And they are in kind of a no win situation. Well, i think they might engage the services of a woman attorney, perhaps, who has been involved in this kind of case before to serve as the person questioning both witnesses. That would make a lot of sense to me. Neil all right. We shall see. Sidney powell, former federal prosecutor. I do want to take to you new york right now. Some developments concerning the president and he intimated as much with his meeting with the south korean leader. The south korean trade deal that he hopes would be like a model for other trade deals surrounded by his nic team and Vice President. Lets listen in. Vice president. Mr. President i would like to thank you very much. I would like to thank our great Vice President pence for joining us today for the ceremony u. S. Trade representative Bob Lighthizer for his incredible efforts. He has worked very hard on this. Thank you all as well to treasury secretary miewnchen and director of National Economic counsel larry kudlow for their tremendous work. Everybody has worked very, very hard. This is long and come many years actually i will say in coming. In a few moments we will sign a document pledging that our countries will take the additional necessary steps to implement the new United States korea trade agreement. I want to express my gratitude to president moon and his entire team for their dedicated efforts to reach really what we would call a historic milestone in trade. Something that most people thought was not going to be happening from. Day one i promised the American People that i would renegotiate our trade deals to ensure that our agreements were fair and reciprocal. For decades, politicians have talked about fixing broken trade deals only to do absolutely nothing about them. My administration is the first to keep our promise and deliver. In addition to this deal we have many in the works and they are fair deals, reciprocal deals. They make a difference to our companies and United States as a whole. The u. S. Korea agreement significant agreements to reduce our trade deficit and to expand opportunities to export American Products to south korea. In other words, we are now going to start sending products to south korea. These outcomes give the finest American Made automobiles, innovative medicines and agricultural crops much better access to korean markets. I think our farmers are going to be extremely happy. It was very limited as to what they could do and what they could send and now its a open market and they are going to be sending a lot more farm products. That makes me feel very good. I love our farmers. As a part of this agreement. We have also secured increased access to americas auto industry. South korea will double the annual number of american cars sold within in other words, we used to sell a maximum of 25. And we wouldnt even goat that number. And now were going to 50,000. Were doubling it proximate result manufacturer. Thats 50,000 per manufacturer cars. Thats each year. So thats a doubling of the cars per manufacturer that can enter its market meeting u. S. Safety standards. So were going with now a u. S. Safety standard, the standard was at a point that you couldnt get cars. In we are going to the u. S. Safety standard. Very important to understand. Disagreement will reduce and reduce prosperity in both of our countries. Workers in south korea and america will find new customers and new opportunities to expand and grow. Our teams will be working hard to ensure that the terms of the deal are fully implemented. President moon, i just want to tell you we have developed a great relationship on many different fronts. This one is on trade. But were working very well on north korea, a lot of very positive things are happening with chairman kim of north korea.