To contact donors to try to get his wife a job. We have our team here covering it all this morning about the we want to start this hour with those new headlines from the singapore summit. President trump back in washington this morning with no shortage of things to say about his meeting with north korea. Blasting out nearly a dozen tweets on the subject since leaving asia. This morning, hes saying the world can feel much safer now than when he took office. Secrary of state mike pompeo remains in the region. Hes in south korea right now before heading to beijing. His goal, to keep seoul on board given the president s comments about the u. S. Military on the ninsula. And thats what has lawmakers on capitol hill nervous. Democrats and republicans worry President Trump offered up too much and got too little. Nbcs Geoff Bennett is at the white house. The president coming home with homework in tow with all the outstanding questions and decisions that are still to be made. Whats priority one
Plus, the dirt. Cnn has a copy of Stormy Daniels new book with intimate, frankly, tmi accounts of her alleged affair with the future president , mr. Trump. Could the details help prove that the president is lying . Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. President trump weighing in on the allegations by professor ford that in the early 1980s at a High School Party now Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. A charge that kavanaugh strongly denies ever happened. The president expressed deep sympathy for kavanaugh. Honestly, i feel terribly for him, for his wife who is an incredible, lovely woman and for his beautiful, young daughters. I feel terribly for them. No mr. Trump did not mention professor ford by name and did refer to the Senate Judiciary committees invitation for her to testify on monday. Hopefully the woman will come forward, state her case. He will state his case. Before representatives of the United States senate. We still do not know if professor ford i
Divisive. [inaudible] we will hear about that development and much more but first lets catch up with the latest from washington d. C. , National Correspondent ed henry who is hoping aliv hosting a live special right after this but he is able to join us right now. Whats going on. Tell us about this new allegation and catch us up on the fbi investigation. The Washington Post is now saying there is a male, a yellow classmate of Brett Kavanaugh who wants to come forward and tell the fbi what that he witnessed violent drunken behavior, that he threw up here at someone, got in a fight, someone got arrested and all kinds of shenanigans. The problem of courses we have no way of verifying, we have no evidence to support this. We have no corroboration. Its just being thrown out there. It is on the record and the Washington Post is talking about an hour talking about it. Its grossly unfair to Brett Kavanaugh. Its what the white house feared when they cut the steel. The republicans got nothing, ju
But first, a subcommittee chairman of the powerful House Oversight committee telling fox news there may be no evidence that the Clinton Foundation is engaged in illegal activity. Congressman mark meadows setting a decembers have it on my fifth hearing on the hill to see where they stand for the play to play allegations and say there may be some whistleblowers willing to testify as well. Fox treatment allergens reporter Catherine Herridge is here and has the story. Tonight House Republicans are trying to finish up their investigative work before they lose control of house committees, including the Clinton Center controversial charity. Why dont you give back the money . I think it would be a great gesture. On the campaign trail, candidate trump had harsh words for the cleanser. Foundation. Its a criminal enterprise, saudi arabia giving 25 million, qatar, all of these countries. Writing to Congress Last burn, then attorney general jeff suppressions tapped john hebert to probe the foundati
Mccabes forthcoming book is called the threat, that details his decision to launch the inquiry after the day of the firing. Mccabe describes his First Encounter with trump on the day he took over at the bureau. After comeys departure, quote, the president said, people are really happy about the fact that the directors gone, and its just remarkable what people are saying. Have you seen that . In that interview mccabe recounted his concerns about trump and the need to protect the larger investigation. I was speaking to the man who had just run for the presidency and won the election for the presidency and who might have done so with the aid of the government of russia, our most formidable adversary. That was something that troubled me greatly. I was concerned that i was able to put the russia case on absolutely solid ground in an indelible fashion that were i removed quickly or reassigned or fired that the case could not be closed or vanished in the night without a trace. I wanted to mak