North korea is calling trump, we have an exclusive live report coming up from inside north korea. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. Breaking news tonight, a just released cnn poll is offering even more evidence of the antitrump sent innocent that helped fuel the democratic sweep overnight. Exactly one year after the president won the white house, 63 of americans now say he doesnt deserve reelection. And in roughly equal numbers, they say mr. Trump is not honest or trust worthy, this as democrats celebrate their big win in virginias governors race and many other state and local contests across the nation. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says the results show that the door is open for democrats to retake control of the house in the midterms next year. The president s party is grappling with the fallout, with at least one gop member calling the election a referendum on mr. Trump. But the president isnt accepting blame. He argues that republican Ed Gillespies refusal to embrace him is the reason he lost the virginia governors race. Tonight President Trump is in china hoping to prod beijings government to isolate north korea. This comes just hours after trump delivered a speech on the Korean Peninsula warning kim jongun that his Nuclear Regime is putting his country in grave danger. T this hour, ill talk about all that and much more, with senator mitch markey, hes a democrat on the Senate ForeignRelations Committee. First, lets go to our senior washington correspondent Brianna Keeler with more on the democrats big election wins and what it means going forward. Polls show an antitrump sentiment ripping through this election . Reporter and there is a bipartisan feeling as well. Democrats cleaned up across the country. Tonight, one year after donald trump won the presidency, voters have delivered a sweeping and decisive victory for drath demo from virginia and across the country. In 2005, i was head of the dfcc and you could smell a wave coming, the results tonight, smell exactly the same way, our republican friends better look out. Reporter the virginia governors race was expected to be a nail biter, instead, northam won decisively. To end the divisiveness that we will not condone hatred and bigotry and to end the politics that have torn this country apart. Reporter northam defeating republican ed gillespie, who embraced the trump agenda but not trump himself. Gillespie blamed tweeting ed gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what i stand for. Republican scott taylor had a different assessment. With all due respect to the president , i profoundly disagree with that. I think its important that we come together as a country. Leadership matters and to me leading is bringing people together and achieving a purpose. Reporter new jersey picked democrat fill murphy to succeed republican governor chris christie. We are a progressive blue beacon state that other states used to look to us to like Womens Health and the environment and we have gotten away from that. Reporter picking up 13 states in the Virginia State legislature, poised to flip control of the state senate. The republican governor is refusing to enact the measure until its fully funded. The Democratic Party is back, my friends. President barack obama, joe biden and Hillary Clinton tweeting their jubilation, obama writing, this is what happens when the people vote. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer arguing for republicans to abandon their efforts to overall the tax system. The republicans should look at the elections last night and it should be a giant stop sign for their tax bill. Reporter but House Speaker paul ryan insisting tuesdays results provide extra motivation to deliver. It doesnt change my reading of the current moment, it just emphasizes my reading of the current moment, which is we have a promise to keep, if anything, this just puts more pressure on making sure we followthrough. Natur reporter nationally all eyes go back to the white house and democrats taking back the white house is higher tonight. An indication they may be well positioned to harness the power of the president s poor Approval Ratings during the midterms next year. Thanks very much. Tonight some republicans are publicly acknowledging that their have gotten a wakeup call, others are putting a more measured spin on the partys losses, but theres no doubt that behind the scenes, theres a lot of anxiety and maybe even some panic, lets bring in manu raju, youve been talking to a bunch of republican senators about the vote. Reporter some pointing the finger at the white house for these losses and the white house of course pointing the finger back at the candidate in the virginia governors race in particular, and some will say this was a local election and really doesnt have National Implications and others are saying this is the result of is failure to pass things in congress. And some like republican senator jeff flake told me you can only drill down on the base so hard and were seeing the limits of that. And others, wolf, are raising concerns about what it means for the agenda. Its not thehistorically the power loses seats during the midterm elections. But the most important thing is to recruit good candidates and run good campaigns. Reporter is donald trump a liability or an asset . I think it depends on the state. I think what we saw last night was democrats win expected democrat seats. We got to start delivering results or well have more results like that. If you look at midterm elections all the way back to the 80s, this is a typical cycle. The question is whether we reverse that trend next year. Are you worried about next year . No, i like a good fight. Reporter and john mccain said unless we get our act together, were going to lose heavily. Here on capitol hill, they need to get tax reform done in their eyes. If they cannot get a tax bill through, panic will really run through capitol hill in the next couple of weeks as a party tries to become united. Theres a lot ethanks a lot. Lets continue our conversation with democratic senator ed markey, senator, thank you for joining us. Thank you, youre welcome. When you look at the Democratic Candidates who won their elections last night, state wide local elections, what does it tell you about the future of your party . I think last night the big loser was intolerance, which saw that in the overwhelming numbers in new jersey and virginia, we saw it in cities and towns all across the country, the middle was basically rejecting this era of intolerance which has opened up, we saw it even in massachusetts in our mayors races. Marty walsh in boston, kim driscoll up in salem, they all ran that we have to democratize opportunity. This is really working, the republican message, where they want the tax break for the upper 1 percentile, where they want to take away health care from trump voters. None of that is resonating people. Trump won, he was on probation with a lot of those voters who did vote for change but not this kind of change, and i think last night the bill came due and we saw it in race after race across the country. How do democrats plan to translate last nights elections into 2018 and the midterm elections . We have to continue to fight the extremist policies with the republicans are trying to pushthroupush through the United States house and senate, and thus far, thats been a very clear insight into the soul of the Republican Party which is clearly troubling suburban swing voters and then the democrats have to have a plan that lays out what our vision is for infrastructure jobs in our country, for protecting the environment, for making College Affordable for every kid in our country. We have a job to do as well. But the republicans are giving us an opportunity to get that message out. And right now, i would say that the independent swing voters in the United States are open to the democratic message and gives us a big opportunity in 2018. What about 2020, senator . Did anything you saw last night change your view of the ideal next democratic president ial candidate . I would say that basically each one of our candidates was running on the same general message. We had different personalities in each state, but in general, they were each saying they were going to fight the agenda of donald trump, and they wanted to have a country, a state, a city, within which they wanted to live that was more open, more inclusive, less discriminatory, and i think that thats the message that worked. I just think this is an america that American People dont want to see be put in place and i think the democrats have poised now to have a good primary, they can select a candidate who can best deliver that message. But thats the message. In campaigns, the message is what wins. And right now, the republicans have a losing one and the democrats have a winning one, but an opportunity to really improve it and then to win in 2018 and to take the presidency in 2020. Let me calm you down a little bit, because despite all youre optimism, all the optimism coming from democrats, only 30 of americans right now have a positive image of democrats. But when youre talking about 2020, which is the subject right now, 64 of americans in your own poll say that they feel uncomfortable with donald trump as president. So thats an achilles heel that gives the real opportunity for the democrats then to fill in the details as to what we will be doing to substitute for the trump presidency. That 37 number, by the way, its a favorable only 37 of the American People have a favorable opinion of democrats. You can see that right now, and thats the lowest its been by the way in 25 years. So you got work to do as well. Stand by senator, were going to take a quick break, well resume this, there are other important issues as we speak. Well be right back. At ally, we offer a credit card with unlimited cash back. But if thats not enough, we offer a 10 deposit bonus into an ally account. And if thats not enough to help you save, we could help you cut the cord. Thats right. Cancel it. What about my reality shows . 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Jim, the president is suffering a political set back here at home. Reporter thats right, wolf, and the president has a whole series of very critical meetings later today with the chinese president xi jinping, hes asking president xi to help him rei rein in north korea. Heres what he had to say. Its our responsibility and our duty to confront this danger together because the longer we wait, the greater the danger grows. And the fewer the options become. Reporter now the president may also act unilaterally against north korea, White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders may decide to put north korea back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, he may do that at the end of this trip. But its a good thing that he can focus on foreign policy, because hes facing Major Political losses in virginia and elsewhere around the country. Heres how the president was responding, he responded on twitter by blaming the republican candidate in virginia gillespie, but his put out cong deplorables for giving them a landslide victory, hes neglecting the fact that he lost the popular vote in the 2016 election, and he has poll numbers that show that the public does not believe he deserves reelection, they dont trust him, and they have lost confidence in him since they elected him a year ago. Hes in china and hes facing a great wall of opposition back in the u. S. And hes going to continue that trip for several more days, lets get back to senator markey, senator, do you think President Trump truck the right tone in his message to kim jong jongun . Well, i am encouraged this afternoon that the Trump Administration is now saying they are dropping the precondition that kim has to have already givenin away all o his Nuclear Weapons before trump is willing to sit down with him. I think that is a much more reasonable position to take. So i think that President Trump has a chance to say to president xi, that if china would be willing to put a vice like zbgr on the oil that goes into north korea, from the revenue generated from slave labor to crypto currency, north korea would be willing to come to the table because we have an alliance between china and the United States to accomplish that goal. So my hope is the president who prides himself as a noeshtor, will find a way to get to the negotiating table because we have this threat of an icbm with a Hydrogen Bomb on it that can make it to north america. Do you think that north korea should be added to the list of state sponsored terror . I think that obviously north korea is a state sponsor of terrorism, from my perspective. But i think at the same time, it has to be done in the context of ultimately getting to the negotiating table to partnering with china and with russia if possible, which are the key economic apertures that north korea has in order to force a negotiation on the Nuclear Weapons program. Time will run out if the president doesnt get to the table soon. Because thats the only way we will end this threat. There is no military solution to this problem. It must come at the negotiating table. Senator, the head of the organization that represents u. S. Diplomats is now raising the alarm about the status of the state department. She writes this. And ill read it to you, our leadership ranks are being depleted at a dizzying speed. Were the u. S. Military to face such a decapitation of its leadership ranks, i would expect a public outcry. Do you agree with that assessment . Yes, i think that obviously there are people in the state department, there are people at the epa, there are people at Lawrence Livermore laboratories, there are people all across the federal government who are discouraged. Many are fearful for their employment. pe world. Right now we pretty much have a president and we have a president who has declared war on the deep state. Well, what we call the deep state are the Career State Department employees, epa employees who have dedicated their lives to protecting our country. So it is not a good message to be sending while hes in korea or in china or when the world is meeting. Right now on the Climate Change treaty in bohn in germany. The United States the last country in the world, that has to be discouraging to state Department Employee who is worked so hard to negotiate that agreement. Is it appropriate, senator, for President Trump to ask the cia director mike pompeo to meet with a conspiracy theorist who said that the political hack last year was an inside job and that russia had nothing to do with it . I think its very important for the cia, its very important for each and every one of the president s cabinet officials to not allow for a compromise of the integrity of the credibility of their agency. And it doesnt take a lot to discourage people, not just here in the United States, but all around the world, that something has gone awry at the highest levels of our government. So i would, if i were mr. Pompeo, i would cast an arched eyebrow that could hit the ceiling towards any request from the president that has him meeting with conspiracy theorists on any issue, much less the ones hes been requested to meet on. It do you think that compromise, mike pompeo, the cia directors integrity . I think it hurts whenever the president is seek toing to inje his conspiratorist theorists into the government and it has to apply to every single government official. And that goes by the way, when the president is asking for a reexamination of Nbc Television licenses because he calls it fake news and then equating nbc equals cnn and then in the very near future after that, in other words today, asking the justice department, questioning whether or not cnn has to be divested as part of the timewarner and at t mentaler, all of this just goes to whether or not theres a fundamental compromise of our institutions people have to have confidence in in order for them to be able to work effectively. Senator markey, thank you for joining us. Coming up, well have more on the democratic victories across the United States, do they give the democrats more f