Updates of the days news. Directly intersects with the news of the day about there being potentially a second premeeting for the russia trump tower meeting. Rick gates is one of the names that Rudy Guilliani slipped and revealed in the series of interviews yesterday. What is the significance of Paul Manafort dropping his case against robert mueller. He was trying to have this case dismissed in court, saying that Robert Muellers jurisdiction did not extend to what he is actually charging Paul Manafort with . As i understand, he dropped those charges yesterday. It just seems he is increasingly finding himself to be more cornered and he doesnt have a lot of options to fight back at this point, and this is all getting back to that original goal of trying to squeeze manafort and get as. Information as possible out of him as they move closer hopefully to doing an interview of the president himself. That is still very much on the table. Also, heidi, why is it that Paul Manafort you think hasn
talking about with john king. that is i talked to a source close to the president. president trump earlier this morning who said the bush family was very gracious in inviting president trump, first lady melania trump to the services this morning. there was another outreach in the truce between the bush and trump families. that is when president trump selected brett kavanaugh for the supreme court. one of the first people that he called to notify the world of this decision that he had made was the former president george w. bush, bush 43. bush 43, the bush family took that as something as an olive branch according to the source close to president trump. it was very well received. i think that also helped foster this truce that we are seeing today, although it may be uncomfortable to watch at times. i think the other thing we should point out, wolf, is that for all the talk of trump world, we are seeing president trump in the middle of bush world right now, sort of the greatest
allies seen as a rebuke of how he described things last month. maybe he did or maybe he didn t. reporter: now, jake, we know president trump had not spoken to president obama since his inauguration almost two years ago, but he had spoken to the late president bush two summers ago when he called him for his birthday, and george w. bush when he called him when he selected brett kavanaugh for the supreme court. but other than that, it does not seem that the newest member of the presidents club is very close with the rest of it. jake? not one of them voted for him, including the republicans in that club. kaitlan collins, thank you so much. let s talk about this. but first, i want to run this clip again of president trump and melania trump walking in and sitting next to the obamas. you see melania trump shakes hands with the obamas, with bill clinton, hillary clinton looks over and nods at melania. a handshake between obama and trump, michelle. but not warm.
texas stayed republican. democrats have lost missouri, north dakota and indiana. one might observe also, by the way, that all three of these senate democrats voted against brett kavanaugh for the supreme court. we still don t know what s going to happen with jon tester in montana. but that does perhaps say something about democrats in republican states or in trump-winning states. so right now republicans have they ve won control of the senate. so now the question is how big is the margin going to be? let s give let s say that the current vote totals hold up and republicans win florida. let s say the current vote totals hold up and republicans win arizona. let s give mississippi special election that s probably going to happen in a runoff. look at that. 54 votes and i m still not even factoring in what could happen in nevada or montana. i mean, republicans are having a very, very good night in the senate. mitch mcconnell is watching right now probably and smiling
they are going to get back some of their own territory. the question is how much of that they get. if nancy pelosi is to get that big gavel, if they get the majority and if she is to be their leader, ed, it s going to be because she cut some deal with those 40 candidates who wouldn t vote for her. that means she is going to sign up for impeachment of kavanaugh and impeachment of the president. it s the only way she will hang in there i still predict republicans have a chance to hold the majority. it s going to be a blue wave. it s going to be a blue wave. get ready. it s not a blue wave when you are winning blue seats. it will be a blue wave. ed: find out tuesday night. watch it here on the fox news channel. susan, matt, thank you. thank you. ed: reverend franklin graham, stuart varney and mike huckabee. all coming up: president trump has a message for alec baldwin after his latest arrest. we have that carley shimkus is here with the biggest trending stories online. a special