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>> they are 0 and 4 in heavy republican districts the question is when will they win. >> all right thank you very much. to our panel now. earlier sean spicer was down playing the significance of this congressional election. here he is. >> if you look historically, special elections generally don't foretell the outcome of races multiple years down the road. this is a district the president won by one point, obviously going to be competitive. >> then the results came in and donald trump put this out. those who want to make he american great again are 5-0. all the fake news all the money spent eq...

Spent equals zero. the gop has won four special elections, the fifth in california features two democrats. so it's unclear what the president meant by 5-0. the president says they would do better as a party if they got together with republicans on healthcare and tax cuts. the president down played the idea that the georgia election was a made you're test for the party. >> there's a special election today. is this election a referendum on the president in any way? >> i'd say i'm not going to comment on the political nature of an ongoing race. if you look historically, special elections generall...

Necessarily. >> spicer, david, also said that special elections generally don't foretell the outcome of races down the road. is he right? >> well, it does have a mixed history. it's not a sure fire way to tell us what's going to happen a year and a half from now in 2018. that being said, they are sometimes a harbinger of things to come. we saw in '94 special elections did give us a little hint. we saw the scott brown special election in 2009, 2010, the beginning of 2010 of what was to come in 2010. so, it's not as if they tell us nothing, but what they tell us is the current political environm...

Special elections generally don't foretell the outcome of races multiple years down the road. this is a race that the district and the president won by one point. obviously it is going to be competitive. porta mack on north korea, the president once said he would be open to meeting with kim jong-un. given what has happened with otto warmbier over the course of the 24 hours, is he still open to that? >> i believe the context in which he said that was if the conditions presented themselves, clearly we are moving further away, not closer to those conditions being intact. i would not suggest that ...

Look historically, special elections generally don't foretell the outcome of, you know, races multiple years down the road. this is a race that the president -- or a district that the president won by one point. it's obviously going to be competitive. but we'll have to see tonight. obviously that's up to the people of georgia's sixth district to decide. >> and then on north korea, i think the president once said that he'd be open to meeting with kim jong un. given what has happened with otto warmbier over the course of the past 24 hours, is he still open to that? >> well, i believe that the co...