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donald trump jr. released a string of is these during the presidential campaign. this follows a report about these exchanges. though most of the communications were one sided, trump junior did interact on a number of occasions. wikileaks told him, quote, a the r.a.c. is a recycled pro-iraq war pac. we have guessed the password, it is putintrump. done responded, off the record, i don t know who that is boo but i ll ask around, according to te atlantic he did ask around, including trump s son-in-law jared kushner, telling them wikileaks had reached out. we don t know in what context he was saying that, but kushner forwarded that e-mail onto hope hicks. in a separate exchange, done junior reached out october 23rd asking wikileaks about an impending release writing what s behind the wednesday leak i keep reading about? wikileaks didn t respond, but just four days later it released john podesta s e-mails on the same day as you ll recall the u.s. intelligence community condemned r ....
the president of the united states with nobody but the special prosecutor and perhaps the president of the united states knows what he has been up to. the way the media has been playing it up. either the obama administration lost its security clearance or didn t get security clearance and that wasn t big news back then. i think we may see the end of jared and ivanka. this is not normal. let s be clear. it is not normal to have a public spat with the attorney general over his independence. i agree with what the president said. the president should be telling the attorney general what he wants done. they tell me they are worried about it because they say this has a different feel and he s spiraling, kind of lashing out, out of control. howie: is the press overdramatizing these developments? and why are the purpose dids slamming ivanka trump for challenging a question about her father s accusers. the press remains sceptical over why so few journalists are giving this pr ....
immigration. as you pointed out, he spent a three-day weekend in mara large reminding the president that the midterms are coming up. on top of the vocal criticism from ann coulter. we are told that the president was already frustrated that there has been a lack of progress in his view in building the border wall. all of this was exacerbated with the reports on fox news with the caravans coming. it isn t just on the immigration issue as you pointed out. it is a myriad of topics the president is touching on. amazon, nafta, mexico. some may say he has lost some of his moderating forces in the white house including hope hicks former communication director who left last week and this is the first week the president was without her by his side. even when she was here, he still went through these fits of fury. at the bottom line here is this is the president being the president. it is obviously not the first time that the president has gone after multiple groups in just one day. ....
chairman of the senate jacket, he was in judiciary committee. none of them know exactly what senator collins is going to do. just to set the stakes here, wolf, you named senator jeff flake. that s 49. if he stays where he is, that s 49 senators, republicans need 50 and the tie breaking vote from vice president pence. if susan collins says she will vote yes on the nomination, that is the vote that they need. obviously we re still waiting to hear from senator joe manchin, whether he plans to maintain his vote as well. a senator who has been undecided for the last couple of weeks, who has been going through a very, very difficult and complex process, a senator who on some of her crucial issues, most notably health care, roe v. wade said she feels very comfortable. she spent a lot of time behind the scenes reviewing that fbi report and now she has to make the decision, guys. we ll find out soon enough, in the next few minutes. if she says she s going to vote yes in favor of co ....
thank you. what a busy afternoon we are about to have. you have the busiest hour of the day. lot of people asking why did susan collins decide 3:00 is when she is i don t have a good answer, but we will hear it moments from now. we don t have an answer, why are you asking the question. other people are asking me the question, that s our job to figure it out. it appears we will hear from her in moments. history is about to be made in the united states capitol. the final confirmation of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court count will come down to two undecided senators. one is about to make her decision public, republican senator susan collins is set to take the senate floor moments from now to announce how she will vote on brett kavanaugh. the stakes could not be higher. li lisa murkowski of alaska, republican, saying she will vote no. jeff flake from arizona, republican, not running for re-election says he will vote yes. if collins joins the yes column, this is a d ....