strategy from dr. ford. she haes i agree. we have seen kavanaugh pontificate on fox news. i question the people around her, manipulating her. i want to change the subject, to rod rosenstein, and this big important meeting he s going to have with president trump on thursday where he and potentially the russia investigation, the fates of both of them hang in the balance. you have some new reporting. well, there s been so much confusion over why would rod rosenstein offer his resignation? did he? what was the confusion going back and forth on that? we re learning more behind the reasoning, and that s because rod rosenstein was under the impression that president trump is going to be a lot angrier about that new york times story that said he suggested secretly recording the president and discussed weighing invoking the 25th amendment to get him out of office. rod rosenstein thought when that story dropped, which they had a heads up on, obviously, because they reached out fo
defense secretary mattis said it was all going to be steady state. no big changes in the works. poppy? this is a huge change, significant change. a change that would likely be unwelcomed by moon jae-in and south korea or at least something they d want a heads up on. do you we know if south korea knew that the president was going to agree to this and vocalize that agreement? reporter: well, i think it s details. weav we ve seen the statement already out of the blue house, the presidential office in seoul. they re trying to figure it out. we re getting the same general word around the pentagon since early this morning. we ve been asking sources throughout the u.s. military and what they ar telling us is that they wl the u.s. military will now work with the white house, work with the state department and try and figureou rpret that other than this came as a surprise. a surprise of something kim jong-un really wanted and now he has at least in the near te
communicated to tillerson on pride while he was traveling abroad in africa. our understanding and certainly worth noting is that the president did not tell his secretary of state personally that-dismissing him. there s a certain irene any here, and there s one thing that we learned about president trump, this is one guy on the apprentice saying your friared, but he s quite bad doing the dirty work himself. from the state department, clearly there was not something the secretary of state wanted, it was something he didn t have a heads up on. top top top if you believes in the state department had no idea that this was coming and were telling us the secretary of state was planning on staying on the job, that they were planning long term not just for the weeks ahead but laying out on a schedule for the months ahead. so, he was caught quite off guard. ashley what a piece. i bet you were up all night, we
never heard anybody come up with a solution to stop a citizen from another nation from posting a message that talks about an american election other than drown it out with trillions of other tweets. facebook has been criticized for not taking it seriously enough. criticized for not taking it down. another point to bring it back to the point of the hearing the world wide threat hearing that was so wide ranging which we did get a heads-up on. there was a lot of talk about the national debt. director coats continued to bring up what a threat our surging national debt is to our national security. of course, because it gives other countries more of a hold on us if they share a part of our debt. we re indebted to them. of course that s a concern. we ve heard i forget the joint chiefs of staff previously who mentioned our national debt is the biggest
considerable amount of time given the amount of debris we see down here. but, it s going to be a seasonal thing. the rains are going to come. it s not very often we see rain in southern california but the level of rain that we saw yesterday was unprecedented. four to five inches within matter of an hour or so. these are types of things they ll have a two week, three week heads up on. whether or not they re in the clear is still yet to be seen. thanks very much for your great reporting from there. any second now president trump meets with his full cabinet at the white house. we re waiting to see if it will be like yesterday s open meeting. there s much more ahead for president trump. he s got a full agenda. after the cabinet meeting, he ll have lunch with vice president mike pence and rex tillerson. trump will be greeting norway s prime minister at 3:30 p.m. they will hold a joint news conference. at 4:00 p.m., trump will meet