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Indictment. Good evening, catherine. Thank you. Good evening, this 29 page indictment on the Russian Special counsel makes a direct connection between the 2016 election meddling and Vladimir Putin. The Deputy Attorney general made the announcement at main justice. The indictment charges 12 russian millry officers by name for conspireing to interfere with the 016 president ial election. During the 2016 campaign the defends all members of russian intelligence known as the gr ruchlt accused of hacking democrats emails and releasing them as well as targeting companies that supplied voter software. In some cases masquerading as u. S. Stenls the russian operatives flooded the web with emails from the clinton campaign, dnc and dccc. They created fictitious personas, dc likes. The defendants falsely claimed dc likes was a group of american hackers. And that goosifer2. 0 was a lone romanian hacker. The indictment says goosifer 2. 0 got a request for stolen documents from a canned fought for u. S. Congress who wanted records about his opponent. Not you draing a direct connection. The indictment states hackers targeted a company used by clintons personal office on or about the same day candidate trump said this. Russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. In a statement a white house spokesperson emphasized theres no allegation americans knew they were corresponding with russians. No allegation any american citizen committed a crime. And no allegation that the conspiracy changed the vote count. On capitol hill reaction is swift. This is the appropriate supervised goat, conservative or liberal, we should be concerned about Cyber Security whether they breach a system that has to do with the dnc or dccc or a republican network. It tells us what we already know. Russia hacked, russia spread false news. Russia was trying to help trump win the presidency. But it provides the Additional Details that make it even more difficult for putin to deny it . Lawmakers commended special counsel robert mooum mueller for the indictments providing granularity on the theft and release of political emails calling on the president to tone down the rhetoric. High hope is that the president and his allies would satisfies and desist from calling the Mueller Investigation a witch hunt. The indictment sends a strong message, legal experts say it is unlikely the russians will extradite military Intelligence Officers to the u. S. For prosecution. Catherine, former fbi attorney lisa page was on capitol hill testifying behind closed doors. What are you hearing about what went down . Well, lisa page got to capitol hill about four hours ago. We asked her whether she listened to the testimony yesterday from fbi agent peter strzok who was pressed on the antitrump text messages. Whether her legal team had coordinated with his legal team and whether she had any regrets. In the last few minutes we received new information from republican congressman mark meadows who said she is providing new information and it is credible. The session today should wrap up in the next hour, 90 minutes. We also anticipate she will have a second deposition, a second half of this interview on monday. They have the capability to go into classified if its needed. Catherine herridge, thank you. Before the indictments were announced President Trump said he would entering up the interference issue with putin but didnt expect a full confession. John roberts tells us the president also had a bit of a royal mess to clean up. John is in london tonight. Hello, john. And, mike, good evening to you. On both stops of the european trip the president has begun his visit by taking to task leaders on issues that irritate him. At nato it was german chancellor angela merkel. Here in the u. K. It was his host theresa may. At checkers the british Prime Minister retreat, a reset of sorts. President trump insisting he was not criticizing theresa may in an interview with the sun newspaper. I have a lot of respect for the Prime Minister. On wednesday President Trump told the sun mays plan for a soft brexit maintaining ties to the European Union would make impossible any bilateral trade deal with the United States sgluns itll definitely affect trade with the United States. Unfortunately in a negative way. I kid give her my views on how she should negotiate. And she didnt follow those views. Would i say she probably went the opposite way. Today the president walked that back, saying the u. Kr can do what it wants on brexit and hopes they can put together a trade deal. When i saw her, i said i want to apologize. I said such good things about you. She said dont worry, its only the press. President trump raised eyebrows in britain and europe at large with the pointed assessment of the impact of immigration. President trump i think the immigration allowing the immigration to take place in europe is a shape. I think it shame. This afternoon the president doubled down, saying uncheckled immigration has been bad for europe. President trump i think they better watch themselves. You are changing culture, are you changing a lot of things, you are changing security. You take a look at whats happening to Different Countries that never had difficulty or problems. Its a very sad situation. Mondays summit with russian president putin was front and center today. President trump outlining the issues theyll discuss. Nuclear proliferation. Syria, crimea, and meddling in the u. S. Election. I dont think you will have any gee i did it, i did it, you got me. Wont be A Perry Mason here. But you never know what happens. I will absolutely, firmly ask the question. Hopefully, will have a Good Relationship with russia. After the indictment of 12 russian intelligence agents for Hacking Computers today, democrats demanded President Trump scrap the summit. President trump should cancel his meeting with Vladimir Putin, Chuck Schumer said. Glad handing is an insult to our democracy. Prime minister may gave her blessing to the meeting, saying its better to talk than not. I welcome the meeting with president putin. But what is important is the president goes into this as he is doing, with a position of strength. Also from a position of unity in nato. Before leaving england for a golf weekend in scotland, President Trump and the first lady stopped by Windsor Castle for a visit with queen liz betdz. They reviewed the pal whats guard and had tea. For the moment doesnt appear to be any move to cancel mondays summit with putin. The press secretary, Sarah Huckabee sanders saying, sometime on. Mike . President trump also had a great deal of praise for Boris Johnson, britains former foreign secretary who resigned this week. Yeah, that was in that same interview in the sun newspaper. Boris johnson resigned because he didnt like Theresa Mays Brexit plan. President trump said he thought Boris Johnson would make a great Prime Minister. He said wasnt that a disof theresa may, the current Prime Minister . He said no, absolutely not. I was asked what i thought of Boris Johnson and would he make a good Prime Minister. I said yes. Some day he would make a good Prime Minister. Then he went on to praise theresa may. Looks like there were no hurt feelings, at least, over that particular episode. John roberts, another actionpacked day following the president. Many thanks. President trump received the royal welcome from the government, thousands of people are showing their displeasure with the visit by taking to the streets. Correspondent Benjamin Hall has that part of the story tonight. Thousands crammed the street of london today to vent their anger at President Trumps visit to the u. K. It was the largest protest in 15 years. Brought parts of Central London to a standstill. A show of strength that its been today. People campaigning against Donald Trumps visit to the u. K. [unintelligible] the protest was not just about the president s visit. There were also various fights for climate change, fight for palestinian rights, fight for socialist and fight for muslim rights. This is now the biggest protest the u. K. Has seen since 2003. Its more of an anticapitalist, antibrexit protest as it is about antiPresident Trump. Many of the protests against the report personal not political. Among them a blimp that depicted the president as a baby holding a cell phone which was the centerpiece for demonstrators. London mayor kahn gave his express permission for it to fly in Parliament Square citing freedom of speech. There was outcry from members of the public and the government who said the mayor condoning this was the worst way to welcome the u. K. s closest ally. Something President Trump reiterated in an interview, saying kahn has not been hospitable to a government that is very important. President trump never saw the protests in person, as this was a working visit. Instead he held bilateral working meetings with the government and met with the Prime Minister and the queen at checkers, windsor, and the palace. Where the red carpet was certainly rolled out for him. Benjamin hall reporting. As we told you earlier, Russian Election interference was going to be part of the trumpputin summit. Safe to say it moved up significantly on the agenda. But there are other matters to be discussed. Gillian turner looks at the list. Im not going in President Trump im not going in with High Expectations but we may have surprising things. President trump striking a take interest or leave it tone when asked about his upcoming summit with putin. The two arent strangers. They met at least three times and eight phone calls in the last 18 months. In the laundry lils 9 of items on the president s mind, hasnt changed president. President trump we will be talking to president putin about a number of things. Ukraine, syria, talking about other parts of the middle east. I will be talking about nuclear proliferation. The elephant in the room. President trump we will be talking about other things. Meddling, and i will absolutely bring that up. While most of these agenda items are highly contentious, policy experts point out one issue the two could potentially agree, on the Nuclear Treaty, new start. Nuclear arms control is the one place where the u. S. And russia are the two great powers. So the russians should want this, the u. S. Should want this. It limits the number of weapons each can maintain in their arsenal and allows washington and 340s could you to monitor one another. Neither side can have more than 700 intercontinental ballistic missiles, 1,550 Nuclear Warheads and 800 missile launchers. The treaty set to expire in 2021 but can be extended. When lawmakers on both sides of the aisle accuse the president of being soft on russia, experts say getting a revamped nung lar treaty Nuclear Treaty could be a home run. Doing an arms control deal with the russians is not a game changer but a good, solid act to stable liedz the relationship. Something is always better than nothing. Policy experts say both north korea and iran pose a greater threat than russia. That doesnt make the stakes any lower. Former bush and Obama Administration Officials Say if the president leaves helsinki with a new start deal, everyone will get behind it. Gillian turner live in washington on the next big summit. Thank you. Thanks, mike. Will have a special edition of special report sunday night, live from hell sinkie, join bret baer, 6 00 p. M. Eastern, right here on fox. The pen ta gone has identified the army ranger who died in afghanistan thursday. 3. Yearold Army Sergeant first class Christopher Soliz of summerville, South Carolina was killed by enemy small arms fire near the pakistan border. He was on his fifth deployment. He is a second american soldier to die in the past week. Four u. S. Service mens have been killed in action in afghanistan this year. A group of 18 women who served as law clerks for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is encouraging his confirmation. The women wrote a letter to the Senate Judiciary committee calling kavanaugh one of the strongest advocates in the federal judiciary for women lawyers. Whether that will have any effect on the confirmation process is an open question tonight, as more democrats line up against kavanaugh. Doug mcelway sells us where things stand right now. The latest attack on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh came from the democrat whose opportunity on reshape the high court was lost with her defeat in 2016. I used to worry that they wanted to turn the clock back to the 1950s. Now i worry they want to turn it back to the 1850s. It is part and parcel of the broadside against kavanaugh that began the moment his nomination was announceed. He even argued that sitting president s shouldnt face criminal investigation. That a reference to kavanaughs view that such an investigation would, quote, cripple the federal government. I was a prosecutor for eight years. I didnt think anybody was above the law. Cav in as belief left out, only the constitution provides the punishment for a misbehaving president by impeachment. Republicans were prepared for it a tax. This was in some cases quite literally a fill in the blank opposition. They wrote statements of opposition only to fill in the name later. The democrats death by a thousand cuts approach is unishly witt reolic. It was announced shes already a no vote stabbing away at what she says is kavanaughs rollback of rights to Reproductive Health and insurance. A far left group called untra violet is de commanding democrats investigate who kavanaugh knew 27 years ago when he clerked for alex cosin ski, he faced groping allegations. In a wall street journal op ed, aca league notes this observation. Hes been incredible mentor to me despite the fact im left of center woman. The op ed notes more than a quarter of his clerks have been minorities and more than half of them 25 out of 48 have been women. Mike . Doug mcelway on the kavanaugh process, thank you. Up next how the military plans to use a new facility to modern size its approach to warfare. Motorcycle revving motorcycle revving motorcycle revving motorcycle revving no matter who rides point, there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. 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National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin tells us what is supposed to be different about this new approach. Its the biggest reorganization of the u. S. Army in half a century. The pentagon announced austin, texas as the site of the new futures command to be run by a four star general. Some compare to it a modern day manhattan project, a reference to the government funded research that produced the First Nuclear weapon. Were in the midst of a change in the very character of war. And we dont and didnt have an organization solely dedicated to that. Thats important. Whoever gets there first, will have unmatched ability on the battle field for years to come. Hyper sonics or robotics and artificial intelligence. The goal to establish dominance in cutting edge war fighting technology, especially in cyberspace before the chinese and russians do. If we just sit back and dont react we will lose our technological superiors, the chinese are right. With the chinese you have to protect what you have because if they cant learn about it, theyll try to buy it. If they cant learn about it or buy it theyll try to steal it. The army wasted billions of dollars on future combat systems in the past skeptics say, that became while elephant procurement projects. Theyre less worried about problems with civilian companies. One insider can download millions of files on to a usb stick. Weve seen on it multiple occasions. I dont know going to austin increases that. Under the old bureaucracy it would take the government 10 to 15 years to field new technology. The hope is setting up a new techfocused command near an Innovation Hub like austin the army can shorten it to months rather than years. The first soldiers tasked with setting up the command landed in austin today. The question is whether Tech Companies and their engineers will work with the defense department. We have seen employees at google and elsewhere push back on helping the pentagon. Jennifer griffin on the future command, thank you. The Inspector General at the health and Human Services says the government wasted at least 341,000 dollars on travel by ousted secretary tom price. The report says that included booking charter flights without considering cheaper scheduled airlines. It says the government spent nearly 1. 2 million on prices travel during his seven months in office of the 21 official trips, only one fully complied with federal requirements. Stocks were up, the dow gained 94. 5, the s p finished ahead 3. Nasdaq inched up two. For the week the dow jumped 2 and 3 10, the snd p rose 1. 5 , nasdaq grew more than 1. 25. Whatever happened to joe the plumber . First beyond our borders tonight, the pakistani government sells at least 128 people were killed when a bomb exploded near a rally for a politician running for a seat in the provincial legislature. The candidate was among the dead 3678900 people injured. 300 people injured. 4 people were killed in another bombing near a rally for a different candidate. The Commerce Department lifted a ban on u. S. Companies selling goods to zte following the companys payment of a 1 billion it p penalty and placement of 400 million in escrow fos as part of a settlement reached last month. Counterterrorism detectives in Great Britain investigating the contamination of two people by a russianmade nerve agent believe they have found the course of the saidly substance. Scientists say it was a in bottle recovered during the search of the home of one of two people poisoned. One died, the other is in serious condition. Just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. Well be right back. Coppertone sport. Proven to protect street skaters and freestylers. Stops up to 97 uv. Lasts through heat. Through sweat. Coppertone. Proven to protect. 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Com in tonights america election headquarters a fierce battle for the republican congressional nomination that alabamas second district. Its a race voters there have seen before. Correspondent jonathan serry tells us from montgomery tonight. Good crowd here. In her bid for a fifth term in congress, alabama republican martha roby fashions a tough battle within her party. A gop primary runoff against bobby bright the former democratic representative she defeated in 2010 now running as a republican. Our people want a change and they want it now. Her supporters are soft, they feel like shes been compromised. I would love to have your vote. Robys troubles stem from her decision to withdraw support from donald trump during the 2016 campaign after he was heard talking about groping women in an old access hollywood tape. Would i like for you to step aside mr. Trump. She told donald trump to step aside and refused to vote for him for president. The campaign is over. We have been gomping. President donald trump is just that, hes president of the United States. Of course i want him to be successful. President trump has endorsed the incumbent describing her as a consistent and reliable vote for make America Great agenda. If he believes shes supporting his agenda that goes a long way with me. As the incumbent she enjoys strong support and funding from washington. Alabama voters are fiercely independent. I support the president and i can support bobby bright. Failing to win last months republican primary is a liability for roby. If you an incumbent and you outspend your opposition 31 and you only get 38 of the vote, youre in trouble. Both candidates bill themselves as conservative, antiabortion, pro gun, supportive of the military and farming. So for Republican Voters in the red district, the choice may come down to what they see as the greater sin, being a former democrat or a former critic of President Trump. In montgomery, alabama, fox news. In tons whatever happened to, joe the plumber. The ohio man shot to fame in the 2008 president ial election after he questioned barack obama during a Campaign Stop over the candidated Small Business tax policies. Where is he now . Correspondent matt sims has the answer. Today, joe the plumber is more joe the family and businessman. In the middle, ladies first. 44yearold samuel joe is remarried with four children in the front yard of his ohio home, joe points out where his sudden launch to fame began. With barack obama standing here. On a sunday morning he was tossing a football with his oldest son when then president ial candidate barack obama dropped by his neighborhood to campaign. The secret service patted me down, i walked up and said im thinking about buying a company. Your new tax plan is going to tax me more. Joe figured it was the perfect time to ask obama about his proposed man to increase taxes. My thinking was when barack obama was speaking if you work hard were going to penalize you. Thats why i asked that question. I was not trying to get into it. Cameras cap you are tured the encounter and joe the plumber became the face of Everyday Americans with similar concerns about taxes. The conversation i had with joe the plumber. Joe the plumber. Joe the plumber. Joes story was picked up by john mccains campaign and used as a political prop against obama. Of course they wanted to use me, only reason i came out for john mccain is a simple fact that i didnt want barack obama in office. After mccains loss, joe wrote a book. I think about as a war correspondent and ran for congress but lost. Today, joe still works with his hands but says he has a new calling, to protect students. You try to open doort. Executive for a company that makes a simple steel barricade designed to prevent shooters from opening classroom doors. 19 years from columbine and most schools dont have security to protect the kids. Ive decided to leave politics behind. Joe says he never asked to be a known person. And actually finds his sudden fame ironic. I didnt seek out barack obama, he came to my neighborhood. And i just say, i think joe the plumber, in a good way, shows that the guy has humor. There were bumps in the road, accusations of racism. Unsuccessful lawsuit he filed against the state of ohio alleging privacy violations. But joe doesnt have regrets. I got a beautiful wife, i got three brand new kids out of it, i mean, i couldnt be happier. Joe tells us he turned down some opportunities, perhaps to cash in on his sudden fame, he said they would have compromised his beliefs. He wanted to maintain respect from his family and friends. Mike . Joe the plumber, a decade later, thank you. 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In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. The name to remember. Charges 12 Russian Military officers by name for conspireing to interfere with the 2016 president ial election. The defendant accessed email accounts of volunteers and employees of a u. S. President ial Campaign Including the campaign chairman, they also hacked into the Computer Networks of a Congressional Campaign committee and a National Political committee. President trump i will be meeting with president putin on monday. We will will me be talking about meddling, i will absolutely bring that up. Its not like a trumpputin summit lacks for drama. All of a sudden you have Rod Rosenstein the friday before dropping a bombshell, indictments on 12 russian nationals w that lets bring in the panel. Matthew, editor in chief of the washington freebee con, karen, opinion writer for the Washington Post, and Molly Hemingway Senior Editor at the federalist. Welcome. Molly, your thoughts . Always good when you can hold people accountable for attacking a political party, when a born even if it has attacked a political party. Not sure how much new there is he. Here. Read like an unredacted report that came out of the nunez committee, the house intelligence committee. We knew sort of the means by which they had done these fishing atempts, about the Electoral Systems that were looked into. And also confirmed what we saw in that report, that this happened before donald trump was the nominee, it happened before super tuesday, before the florida, ohio, illinois primary, the russians intended to release it before he was the presumptive nominee. Its good to hold them accountable if you believe in the collusion theory, you didnt get a lot to go with. I think it was a major turn in the investigation. With these indictments, the Mueller Investigation goes actually right to the heart of Vladimir Putins government. Were not talking about russian troll farms here. Were not talking about sort of mischief makers. The fact these indictments werend hahhed up three days before the president s conversation with president putin, is highly significant. And one question here is the president knew that these indictments were coming before this trip. So his comments about witch hunts and the like have been sort of interesting. In lieflt the fact he knew something that we didnt on this trip. Speaking of which, theres been conversation about whether or not the Mueller Probe is a witch hunt. Listen to this. My hope and prayer this president and his allies will, again, cease and desist on calling this a witch hunt. President trump the rigged witch hunt. That hurts our country and really hurts our relationship with russia. There you go. Matthew . I think when trump calls it a witch hunt hes referring to the narrative of collusion between the russian agents and members of his campaign. Its important to know that weve charged the russians who are up to no good in terms of interfering with the election on social media. Today we charge the russians who are up to no good hacking and fishing the dnc, the dccc and john podesta. While there are americans who are mentioned in this 29pain indictment, so far we have had no americans charged in connection with that crime. So i think thats what the president is saying when hes calling it a witch hunt. Also talk about expectations going into the trumpputin summit. Listen to this. President trump we will be talking to president putin about a number of things. Ukraine. We will be talking about syria. We will be talking about other parts of the middle east. Imbe talking about nuclear proliferation. The strategic stability, and disarmament and control, number one. Number two, definitely combatting terrorism. Your thoughts heading into the big sum it . It is appropriate to have expectations be very low. Relations between two countries have been bad for a long time. Just even a slight softening could be achieve an for helping things. Theyre talking about the new stark preety, Vladimir Putin proposed that early on, and President Trump batted him away. He has the belief that all of the agreements that president obama arranged are bad deals. But sometimes thats true and sometimes thats not true. One of the things that our two countries have done a good job with are nuclear agreements. Its important to maintain those. Good if they Start Talking about that. Things have been so chilly, keep expectations low. We had a bunch of democrats on the hill call for cancelling the trumpputin summit today. Your thoughts . That is not surprising, but i dont know that that is, you know, anything more than Election Year posturing. One thing that i think of one should keep their eye on, is the fact if russia did this before theyre likely to be trying to do it again. And i would like to see what kind of guaranteeles the president can come out of this meeting with, that this is not going to happen this year in these midterm elections. I have to tell you, congress has been pretty much asleep at the switch in hardening our own election defenses. A lot of bickering but not a lot of action in terms of the folks behindous capitol hill there. s question about whether President Trump would be tough with the russians. Check this out. President trump we have been extremely tough on russia, including the fact that when the Prime Minister called when they had a horrible thing happen, right here, very close by, we expelled how many people . 60. 34 billion was raised since i became president in nato. That means that the other 28 countries have put in 34 billion more into nato. Do you think putin is happy about that . Certainly President Trump and putin are charming, but you expect tough talk in the summit matthew . I think so. I think the president and his team recognize a year ago when President Trump met with president to you pin, they arranged a ceasefire in south western syria, a ceasefire that was broken by syria, aided by the russian government last month. That goes a long way to tell us how much trust we should put in russian promises, which is not much. Thoughts, time thoughts on going into the summit on monday it is true that russians are bad people. But that is not sufficient for a Foreign Policy. We need to think through what we want to have, how we want to work with them, particularly respecting bad government, not all people. Theyre bad guys. But thats not sufficient. You need to have a goal. And you need to give them a reason to work with us particularly if we want to accomplish things in syria, ukraine, in the war on terror, they need to have a reason to work with us and just trying to rebuild a little bit of trust. Of which theres almost none. Keep your objectives low, trade, maybe extension of start on the imf treaty they have been in violation for over a year. Maybe you have a deal. Karen . It will also be, i think, the outcome maybe is going to be very important especially after all of the drama of the week, kind of reassuring our allies, too. There is a strategy. Right now, i think the president comes out of this european trip having left a lot of our closest allies very, very concerned about this meeting. All right, lets leave that there. Next up, the friday lightning round, President Trump and the british Prime Minister, the kavanaugh confirmation, and winners and losers. Before you can achieve a higher standard of craftsmanship you need a higher standard of craftsman. See for yourself at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. Touch shows how we really feel. But does psoriasis ever get in the way . Embrace the chance of 100 clear skin with taltz. 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The possibility of us doing trade deals around the world once we leave the European Union. Were back with our panel, matthew, karen, and molly. Molly, your thoughts, does this meeting between President Trump and Prime Minister may . Hes focused on trade and focused on getting good deals for the United States. Hes been saying this for many years. This is a continuation. It is interesting or even funny to see peoples reaction to his blunt talking in diplomatic scenarios. People usually people who are World Leaders are good at sort of not saying what they mean, or wandering around it. He says it straight out, like he thinks may did a bad job with brexit which is true. Other problems they face. He says it straightforward fashion, were not used to that. Although he tried to say he didnt say it and it was fake news. But there was an actual audio of him criticizing theresa may and specifically saying that she hadnt taken his advice on brexit and it would affect trade up fortunately in a negative way. Thats why we heard something that we rarely hear from donald trump, which is an apology. It seemed like the Charm Offensive today, that they seemed to get along pretty well in front of the cameras. I think the fact she was so gracious about, again, the president walking back his own negative comments about her probably is something that, you know, is going to play to her advantage as well at home. Matthew your thoughts on u. S. U. K. Relations after this meeting today . I think the entire week has been in display of what America First Foreign Policy looks like. What that means is our traditional alliances, the president views them as more of constraints than actual extensions of american power. So that puts a lot of foreign leaders who are traditionally, especially when democrats are in office, good leelations with the United States, puts them on their toes. Where it heads i dont think anyone knows. This week was the nomination of judge Brett Kavanaugh to the high court. Feels like so much news in between feels like it was a few weeks ago. But it was this week. President talked a bit about actually check that, we had some criticism coming from a former nominee for president , hillary clinton. It is a blatant attempt by this administration to shift the balance of the court for decades. And to reverse decades of progress. You know, i used to worry that they wanted to turn the clock back to the 1950s. Now i worry they want to turn it back to the 1850s. Matthew, your thoughts on the criticism we heard from democrats this week of the kavanaugh nomination i think the democrats have come up very short. And the oppo that weve seen has almost been contradictory. The Washington Post criticizes kavanaugh for credit card debt. And also having an elite background on the same day. Which shows how weak the arguments against him are in the opposition research. I think when you combine that with the red state democrats distancing themselves from Chuck Schumer and the democratic leadership you see that at the moment kavanaughs nomination is in a good place. Reality is 10 democrats, in states President Trump won are up for election in november, do the constituents want them to support Brett Kavanaugh or follow democratic leadership, right i think in many ways what is happening in the Senate Chamber is theater. We know how this is going to come out. Kavanaugh is going to get his seat on the Supreme Court. I think right now, the more interesting politics is to be looking at, and i wrote a column on in this week, looking at how this is playing in the state. In things like, roe versus wade if it gets rolled back, it is really becoming a big issue in things like governors races. Of how you would respond to this. Your thoughts on the kavanaugh nomination at this stage . When gorsuch was announced he electrified the base and angered people on the left n this case you have a nominee who very much excites the d. C. Establishment. The base is also pleased but theyre not having that same level of excitement. Without that its difficult to have the kind of cultural fight that youre hearing people on the left try to gin up by talking about abortion or other issues. Seems like it will be easier for him than if there were a big fight. Winners and losers, you want to start it off, molly peter strzok testified on the hill, all we knew about him before yesterday were the texts he sent call for trumps impeachment or insurance policy to keep him from getting elected. What was interesting is he somehow came off in his hearings even worse than those texts would indicate. But having said that, thanks to a lot of obstruction from the department of justice, theres very little chance he will be held accountable. Hes the winner of the week. My loser is that big giant trump baby balloon that flew over london. We were promised a blimplike balloon. Instead he was a tiny cute balloon. Karen . I was really impressed with Rod Rosensteins statement. I recommend people go back and read it. Really explaining that this investigation is all about, irrelevant of which party was getting atacked. All about maintaining the integrity of our democracy and electoral system. And if i had to pick a low moment of the hearing, and it was plenty to pick, from i think Louie Gohmert is the loser of the week. Matthew . Kiely ener about to become the youngest bill lon air is the win billionaire in history. When woe come back, notable quotes. 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You said omg this is fing terrifying. I think we know what fing means. Pretty sure we have omg down, too. So, i have nato. The United States is paying far too much and other countries are not paying enough. America appreciate your. After all you dont have that many. I have the u. K. Which is in somewhat turmoil. How can anyone have faith in the Prime Minister getting a good deal when she cant even broker a deal within her own cabinet. And i have putin. Frankly putin may be the easiest of them all. Who would think . Who would think . The ultimate winner this week, the Thai Soccer Team rescued from the cave. Thats it for special report tonight. Im mike emanuel in washington. A quick reminder sundays special edition of special report live bret baier will be anchoring from helsinki as we get ready for President Trumps meeting with Vladimir Putin. The story live from london starts right now. Hey, martha. Martha hi there, mike. Thank you very much. So, tonight, the president is now in scotland having schooled nato and given the brits a twopart trump lesson on brexit. The first was heavy handed and roundly criticized. The second today at checkers was the patchup effort but still left the door open for a later rebuke. I actually told theresa may how to do it she didnt agree she didnt listen to me. She wanted to different route. She probably went the opposite way. She probably went the opposite way. Thats fine, you know, she should negotiate the best