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Who will put health insurance companies over patients. or put the federal government between a woman and her doctor? >> just because the full repeal and replace effort failed doesnt mean that the fight over whats left of obamacare is off the table for the mid-terms. leland. >> leland: democrats see it as a potential wedge issue. peter doocy in washington peter, thanks. >> sandra: fox news alert. president trump expected to pick his supreme court candidate on monday. former deputy assistant attor...

Hasnt everyone poured over their record? it is about the records. >> they very much have. and it becomes a question in an election year of firing up the bases. there are consequences. but there will be two judges then president trump has put on the bunch. >> and the most important thing for the conservatives we want the judges to be interpreting the laws as they were written and those are going to be the most important qualities to conservatives. and these judges all have it. >> melissa: okay. w...

In the mid-terms and beyond in 2020 the president and the republicans are going to need -- are going to need suburban women. and in this case the two big things and you see him attack several women today in his speech, you see him make fun of the me too movement. and there is concern whoever he appointed to the u.s. supreme court might be willing to overturn roe v. wade. these are all things that seem to be political against the president at this time. but hes doubling down and he seems to think...

With some justification that the left wing in the country on immigration has gone far to the left, abolish i.c.e.. hes going to make the point going into these mid-terms if you like democrats -- he said this on twitter. this is an open border pro ms-13 policy. >> at the same time as you know, even chuck schumer came out saying abolishing i.c.e. was a stupid thing to do and numbers on ms-13 are point what,.013% of the thousands of illegal immigrants that come here. >> look, i agree with you, joe....

Trust his own gut and people who he likes in making this pick. of course, hes selecting from a carefully honed list of people put together by the federalist society and the heritage foundation, conservatives that he knew, the evangelicals and the other conservative republicans would love. so its not a big stretch between them, but somebody who he seems to like. but, yes, youre right, this is the time the president should be talking about this and only this rather than going to where he seems to ...

Are driving more? >> exactly. some of the increase in oil. we can absorb it in our gas prices at the moment because the economy is doing so well. some others will say president trump is taking a stance because mid-terms are coming up and he wants to use that as an argument i kept gas prices now. >> leland: how much power really -- opec has the cartel and can decide how much they want to output or not but members opec not friends of the united states, iran, russia, venezuela just to name a couple...

Committed to spending $5 million to counter whoever the presidents pick is. it doesnt matter. and put pressure on susan collins and murcowski. how do republicans counter that? >> i think they have to talk about why its originalism matters. why were thankful that hillary clinton is not president. we dont want justices making up the law based on their own personal whims and preferences. again, i agree with the panelists, it is an embarrassment of riches here. i would love to see a woman on the cou...

And politics there after were seen as highly unusual factors that kept republicans from losing seats they might have otherwise been expected to lose in the 2002 mid-terms. with those extenuating circumstances, republicans really didnt lose ground in that first george w. bush midterm but republicans arguably paid double the next time around in 2006, after george w. bush got re-elected in 04, his party lost control of the house and senate in 2006. and thats the pattern of how it usually goes in mi...

Happened there, their theory, that race got nationalized in a way none of these others did. tens of millions of dollars came in. national media was there and trump was talking about it. it created this environment they say will prevail nationally in the mid-terms and get a version of georgia six everywhere. its a theory but by the evidence, democrats have more to point to right now. >> for a nationalized race you cants nationalize everybody in the country. when everybody in the house is up you c...

We are not finished with the 2018 mid-terms and president trump is already sizing up the competition we hear for 2020. who is coming at him? its not the politicians he fears, but the wild cards like oprah and even mark cuban. the presidents own candidacy set up a wave about speculation like bob eicher and mark zuckerberg and stormer starbucks ceo. he said i intent to think about a range of options and that could include public service. thats not exciting talk. we are back with charlie cook, jaso...