other women, perhaps on the run tonight, as we continue to cover this stunning story after north korea s provocation with that ballistic missile test. you are now looking at a live picture of the white house at this hour. president trump at this very moment, having dinner with campaign rival, marco rubio. the wives are there. here s jeanne moos. reporter: guess wloho s comi to dinner at the white house. the sooner we get it over, the better. reporter: it s the former rival donald trump used to miniaturize. i call him lil marco. he s always calling me lil marco. lil marco rubio. reporter: better not call him that when rubio and his wife join the president and his wife for dinner in the blue room. there is no orange room, yet. donald is not going to make america great, he s going to make america orange. reporter: and wait until president trump has to hand over the salt. and you know what they say about men with small hands. you can t trust them. look at those han
republican assessments of him and the assessments of the overall public. as you have noted, the republicans, the numbers are improving, would you be proud of him as president, and does he share your values and all of those are about up to 60% yes, but with the public overall, not getting in better and one-third of americans say for example that he shares their values or that he has the right experience to be president, and it is, i think that in those numbers that you will see the real cost of the way that he has approached the campaign and the language and the demeanor and the style, and the risk of course for republicans is being swept away by a candidate whose general e erectie reck election problems are an equal, and this is the first time that a shared me lil r lineli me le
there wasn t a place he wouldn t go. to argue the conservative message and advocate for conservative principles. and he got a lot of grief for it but he also, he won a lot of respect. it seems to me if we have republicans out there, maybe coming up through the ranks, who are concerned about going on rachel maddow s show or concern that she s going to get the better of him or her in a sit-down, then we have real problems. we have to be able to engage with these people. doesn t mean you re going to convince her. but it means you ll probably be a stronger advocate across the board to people who don t really know what conservatism even is. i couldn t agree with you more, laura. that s exactly right. you see if you can get rachel to set that up for me. i will siene her a note, for sure. i love that he calls me lil rachel. laura ingram and her producers did send me a note, which i do appreciate. we did call lil governor mcdonnell s office to set something up. i thought we were going
grief for it but he won a lot of respect seems to me if we have republicans out there coming up through the ranks who are concern about going rachel maddow s show or concerned she will get the better of him or her in a sit down we have real problems. we have to be able to engage with these people, doesn t mean you will convince her but means you will probably be a stronger advocate across the board to people who don t know what conservatism even is. i couldn t agree with you more, laura. that is exactly right. think you can get rachel to set that up for me? i ll send her a note. for sure. and she did. she sent me a note or her producer did, which was very nice. so laura ingram, thank you. bob mcdonnell, even though i think he called me lil rachel there, i m totally looking forward to it. so we re all above board and no suspicion of ambush because i want this to happen in the interest of full disclosure, governor mcdonnell, since we