he s been with him on other things. when you look at the numbers, i think we could see as many as five seats flip but some of the seats we are not talking about, florida is probably the best chance for republicans. melissa: what strikes me as it s interesting we re having this conversation where you are talking about democrats who have proven they can be with the president. it tells you how popular he s become our how much his numbers have gone up although fortunately we are out of time.
capabilities, many other capabilities. they have in the past been duplicitous, the last time they gave a disclosure during the bush administration it contained inaccuracies. all of these governments have a habit of concealing their sensitive weapons programs, we don t put where all of our nuclear programs are. hopefully they ve made this decision to fundamentally change their country. melissa: let me ask you about the meeting with president putin. what do you think is the main goal? i would say two or three main goals, the first is just relationship building, that used to be the point of the g7 before he became ridiculous and they kicked out russia. you want these leaders to have a relationship. there are two or three practical things. the most important is agreeing with russia to exclude iran from syria, that our goal is not to displace russia, but we really both have a mutual interest in
thrilled, only the opposition party which includes a fake news. if not for me we would now be at war with north korea. it trumps national security advisor john bolton backing him up over the weekend, insisting no one in the administration is naive when it comes to dealing with this rogue regime. melissa: thank you so much. joining me now, former trump state department senior advisor at the center for national interest. what s your take on this? i think this is overhyped in the sense that north korea has broken some sort of agreement. the very minor changes, religious building hut there, also potential continued work on an experimental reactor is really not that significant. all of this could have been from before. more importantly perhaps, these leaked reports, classified production from the defense intelligence agencies and other parts of the intelligence bureaucracy saying north korea probably doesn t tend to give up
tonight. case in point, this upcoming supreme court nomination, one of the most important votes a u.s. senator could ever cast, a lifetime appointment that is so important to our country. i think you will hear a pretty strong message from the president. melissa: john roberts is live right now with more, john? melissa, good to talk to you. the president about to depart bound for andrews air force base, doing a campaign rally in montana for the senate candidate and the president may give a tilted not toward the candidate he s thinking about for the supreme court, at least the importance of picking the proper supreme court nominee. the president really likes how picking the right judge can resonate with his base. where are we now in this selection process?
he refused to answer fox s questions or any other media outlet on capitol hill last week, he gave an 11 hour transcribed interview behind closed doors. lawmakers say he refused to answer a lot of those questions, citing the r&b ongoing fbi prod advice from a lawyer. these recent images were shot of lisa page shopping at a washington, d.c., mall. his attorney also accused the house panel of laying trap with the intention of seizing on any inconsistencies between his transcribed interview and his public testimony. melissa: catherine herridge, terrific reporting as always, thank you. let s bring in robert driscoll, a former justice department official, thank you so much for joining us.