catch on on weekdays on after the bologna the fox business network at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. paul is back next week, we hope to see you then. ♪ >> and we begin with a fox news alert on a political tour of force as former president punches back at the current one in the midterm elections showdown, former president obama moments ago wrapping up campaign rally in southern california as he continues to stump for democrats. hello, everyone, welcome to brand-new inside america he's news headquarters, i'm live in los angeles, arthel neville. eric: on the other side in new york city i'm eric sean. well, the former president as arthel said, he's back in california, he's looking to boost 7 democratic house candidates to running on the state. jeff paul has more now from los angeles bureau, how did it go, jeff? >> well, yeah, eric, president

obama hitting the stage of chants to yes we can as he spoke in california, unlike yesterday's speech the former president did not mention trump by name nor take specific shots at the current commander in chief, instead obama focused on the current divisive climate of politics saying democrats and specifically those running for seats in california could be the solution. >> this is a government for everybody, it's not for sale, that's what we believe in. [cheers and applause] >> and the former president says we are in a challenging moment where there are those who want to bring people together and those are people that want to divide, obama says people can get cynical during these times, they turn out to vote and absence is filled with special interest groups and lobbyists, the former president says the only way to reverse the cycle is for voters to take it upon themselves to commit to do something different and fight the things they believe in. and while he didn't mention president trump by name, obama

did attack what he has often seen as the problem with the current state of politics. >> the biggest threat to our democracy i said yesterday is not -- [laughter] >> it's not one individual, it's not big super pac billionaires, it's us not doing what we were supposed to do. >> that was the closest that the president and the former president got to mention the current president. the current president said his words aren't just directed at democrats, he also called independents and also republicans who dent recognize or like what's going on in washington right now, eric. eric: jeff, thanks so much. tiffany joins us, cofounder and managing editor and cohost of the podcast and shawn noble, republican campaign consultant. tiffany, let me start with you, democrats need to flip 23 seats

to change the house, will president obama help or hurt that? >> i think president obama will definitely help in that effort, i think what he said yesterday and what he echoed today is very true, he's not making this about one person but he's calling on reasonable thinking people to engage -- or exercise civic engagement which we haven't seen, what we are seeing on the right the rhetoric coming out of the white house has certainly energized people on the left and even people, even republicans as you see, there's discord within the republican party not just within congress but even discord with the administration and the trump white house, so i definitely think president obama's call for unity and not making this about one person but making about people engaging in their responsibility as american citizens to vote, i think that can only help the house. >> what do you think, the president could be a lighting rod for republicans and trump supporters? >> well, i think he could be a

lighting rod. i think that the problem that president obama is going to have is he's going to talk about trying to be reasonable, we need to be serious and the hard left of the democrat party has gone off the rails. i mean, they are talking about impeachment, they are talking about -- you look at the kavanaugh hearings, the average american voter look at the democrats and say do we really want to give them power. i mean, that's going to be very motivational not only for republicans but for swing voters who are saying, do we really want to turn this over to democrats who are on this complete path of -- of, you know, left ward lurch or are we going to stick with the things that are working for us, tax cuts, the booming economy, job growth, i mean, those are the things that will play for republicans in november. eric: let's hear what former president obama said about the very thing. >> if we don't step up, things can't get worse. where there's a vacuum in our

democracy when we are not participating, we are not paying attention, we are not stepping up, other voices fill the void. but the good news is in two months we have a chance to restore some sanity in our politics. [cheers and applause] >> we have the chance to flip the house of representatives and make sure the real checks and balances of washington. eric: tiffany, he quotes, we have a chance to restore sanity in our politics. >> yeah, i think it's really challenging to have intelligent discussion with people that think that the current environment is sane, certainly there have been rollbacks and things that have happened in the obama administration that have impacted voters, there have been -- the tax cuts are a temporary relief to some people, however, the tax war -- the trade war that the president is starting is going to impact his base and when has his base been fired up,

they are his stronghold but you do have the swing voters who have seen the effects and impacts to have presidency and the dangerous shadow cast across nation and across the globe and i do think thinking republicans will start to look at other options. i don't think that anybody who is saying this administration is functioning it's great and we will keep things status quo, i don't think that really amounts to an intelligent argument to make in this environment. weeric: the president didn't really praise nazis -- >> he called them good people. there's no room for confusion there. eric: what about tiffany said and in terms of insanity not just what democrats see as policies but the whole tone and tenure is coming out of the white house? >> what the american people see right now is the insanity of the left in interrupting -- eric: wait a minute, tiffany. >> this total convulsion that

they've had over the kavanaugh hearing is people are looking at that saying, that's insanity, i mean, it's just a great -- gift that the president says we need to restore sanity while his wing of the party is acting like children. eric: and the democrats, though, sean, they call insanities some of the tweets and language and the tenure that's coming from the president himself. >> well, i mean, that is something that's baked into the cake, right, everybody knows what the president -- that the president is going to have tweets, that he speaks his mind and yet we have a booming economy, things are going well for the average american voter and when they look, do i want things to go the way they are going or do i want to try to turn it over to people that look like they are crazy when they are interrupting what's supposed to be the most deliverable body in the nation, in the senate, they -- eric: they would say they are being treated unfairly

and the fix was in for kavanaugh. >> i don't know how being treated unfairly when you walk into a hearing wearing a t-shirt and start screaming at the top of the lungs. eric: go ahead. >> but what's the difference? so you have american citizens exercising their first amendment rights as free speech and then with the president of the united states who tweets out racist ridiculous things all of the time, democrats don't control the house, the senate, the courts the white house or anything and you are saying the american people are looking at the left that are derrainged one, that's snl, not a rationale argument to make. look at the twitter feed and remarks that he makes, this men called nazis called good people. his administration in discord, you have people inside the own white house saying, yeah, we don't really agree with this guy, this is on the hills of him saying he hires only the best people, we have the bob woodward that people cannot refute,

omarosa and anonymous new york times op-ed, tell me how that's the left looking insane? >> so everything that you just mentioned tiffany is totally inside the bubble, the average american voter doesn't even pay attention to anything that you just talked about. they barely pay attention to the tweets the president trump's puts out, that's just spotter, he's baiting people and they are falling for it and the american -- and creating this reaction, this huge convulsion and reaction and it's making the left look crazy which is why the average american voters is going to say, i don't think it's time to turn the house back over to democrats and i don't think they will, i think republicans -- >> we can definitely agree, the american people certainly fell for donald trump once. eric: that's what we are facing, president against president. man, who a show. thank you. arthel. arthel: you're right about that, eric, your reaction now from

president trump after a strong job's report, the president today focusing on the booming economy amid the steernlg identify the unnamed senior white house officials who wrote the explosive new york times op-ed lambasting the president. ellison barber live from the white house with more, how extensive is the search for the author of this op-ed? >> well, arthel, president trump told reporters on air force one that he was exploring legal actions against "the new york times" and he also said it's something his attorney general jeff sessions should investigate so he can try and figure out who actually did author this. >> i think it's national security, i would just say jeff should be investigating the author of that piece was because i really believe it's national security. >> action be taken against "the new york times"? >> we will see, i'm looking at that right now.

>> "the new york times" says if the doj gets involved blatant abuse of government power, white house official told the associated press the president was expressing his frustration with the op-ed not ordering federal prosecutors to take action, more than 30 cabinet and cabinet-level administration officials have denied writing this op-ed, the president told a reporter in north dakota he could think of 4 or 5 potential authors, he did not name any of them but does mot believe it was a high-level official. this op-ed search for the author is overshadowing friday's job report, the special counsel investigation and the russia probe, because just the other day a federal judge sentenced george papadopoulos you -- 14 ds to lying to the fbi, first campaign aide to be sentenced,

he helped initiate the russia probe according to reports after night of drinking in may of 2016, papadopoulos told australian diplomat that russia had political dirt on hillary clinton. >> did you tell anyone on the campaign? >> as far as i remember i absolutely did not. >> you didn't tell corey lewendowsky. >> anyone. >> walid phares? >> anyone. >> the president has, of course, repeatedly denied collusion with russia. he told reporters on air force one the other day that he didn't really know papadopoulos. arthel. arthel: ellison, let's get back to the new job's report, this is something the president can celebrate about. >> and he is, this is a good thing for the administration, unemployment is at 18-year low

and president trump certainly wants to talk about it. this is the 95th month of job growth, the unemployment rate is under 4% on average hourly earnings increase by about 10 cents, former barack obama is saying that president trump is taking credit that really began during his administration, president trump, of course, disagrees, he says an he said that repeatedly that he thinks the economy is so good that's something that will lead republicans across the board to victory come november. arthel. arthel: ellison, barber, thank you very much. for more on this, let's bring in caitlin owen, let's start where ellison just left off with president obama officially back on the campaign trail reminding everyone that he handed off a good economy. the unemployment rate, take a look at, this unemployment rate in november 2016 was 4.6%, in december of 2016 it was 4.7%. in january of 2017 it was 4.8%,

then taking a look at job growth during that period, 172,000 jobs added in november of 2016. 180,000 jobs added in december of 2016 and at the start of new year and the new presidency 259,000 jobs added in january 2017, reminding everybody what ellison just reported, current unemployment rate 3.9% and in 2001, 1,201,000 jobs added in august, so the question is, how does president trump stay focused in adder articulate his contributions to the continued success of the american economy? >> i think that's a great question, republicans, congressional republicans especially have been trying to get president trump to stay on message for months now, ever since they've passed tax reform bill lowering the tax rate, they've been, you know, it's been this constant effort to try to get trump to focused on the

positive, stop getting pulled to drama, petty disagreements with people he doesn't like but just just talking about the economy, he does do it, it's not it's totally forgotten about it but it's very difficult to get him to stay on message. arthel: do you think enough working-class americans have seen enough benefits from the corporate tax rate decreases and adjustments and to be enthusiastic enough to continue voting for president trump's republican candidate? >> i don't think that the tax cut itself is going to be what they vote on. it's just not registering the same way republicans had hoped. now, that's not to say the view of the economy is very good right now and that does historically have translated with the party in power doing well but the thing that we've discovered at axios and looking at trends, this time is unique in that usually the positive

view of the economy correlates with positive view of the president and president trump's approval ratings are still under water, they always have been. it's funny, the two haven't changed and i don't think they will before november, the view of the economy is very positive right now and the view of the president and party is negative and so what happens when those two trends collide, it's hard to say, it looks like democrats are poised to do well in november. arthel: meanwhile i want to go back to what you were saying and some of the other leaders in the republican party concerned that president trump can't stay on message in terms of what he has done very well for the economy, how much, though, is really riding on what president trump tells his fans and supporters at the campaign rallies? i mean, aren't they on board no matter what? >> right, you know, the economy has been doing well. we are on a steady increase in the number of jobs added in these are trends that started before trump and continued under trump.

that doesn't mean that voters aren't feeling their effects, you know, i think that sometimes partisanship plays a role on this, the trump supporters argue that it's trump making lives better as democrats say no, this is already happening under obama, so it's not that either man is wrong, it's just that the trend, they are both enjoy -- they both enjoy strengthening economy under their own presidencies. arthel: good economy is good for all of us. >> that is true. arthel: thank you, good to see you. >> you too, thank you. arthel: be sure -- thank you, to tune in to fox news sunday tomorrow chris wallace interviews vice president mike pence on the economy, immigration and much more, it airs at 2:00 and 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on the fox news channel. eric. eric: arthel, while you were out west reporting from los angeles this afternoon, they're been hit by all the wild fires, here on the east coast millions are bracing for severe weather as

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>> tropical storm florence expect today strengthen into a hurricane as it approaches the east coast. north carolina governor roy cooper declaring state of emergency in his state calling on residents to be prepared. meteorologist adam klotz is tracking the path of the storm, he's in the fox news extreme weather center. adam, what can we expect. >> eric, now is the time to start paying attention to this because it'll start strengthening in the next couple of days, currently sitting at tropical storm, it will jump to category 1 or 2 storm tonight. you notice it continues in bermuda, category 4 and stays there as it gets close to storm, if you pay attention to time stamps, that's getting thursday morning, still hasn't reached the east coast, we have to pay

attention to it because it's so big but this one is a long ways off and there are still a lot of time to see where this thing is going to steer, the thing that we are certain of, it'll be running over warm water, that's what it takes for the storms to get strong and powerful. you need 80-degree water, water of 85-degree range, that's enough for this to grow the entire track as it works its way towards east coast which means it'll be powerful one with strong winds. here is our spaghetti plot, most of them -- most take all the way up to the coast but you notice by the time we get out 5 or 6 days, there can be pretty wide degree of indecision here. that's something that will become a little more clearer by monday or tuesday, two favorite models here u one runs right into the carolinas and on shore and perhaps running up the coast, that would be a challenge for a whole lot of states, this is no surprise, right around the

time of year it should be happening, september 10th is the peak of hurricane season. so there's going to be a lot to pay attention to, obviously we are focusing on florence now but does look like second half they'll be systems behind it. weeric: could it be cat 4 when t hits or cat 5, what happens if it runs up the coast as we saw with super storm sandy? >> well, we will be testing a lot of infrastructure we have, but, yeah, currently all of our models are bringing up to the coast with that strength. the decision, the indecision of where it moves is some of that but the strength will be there. we are we are we know that you'll be keeping an eye on it. arthel: eric, thank you, president trump praising lawmakers passing bill that makes easier to deport immigrants accused of violent crimes, this comes as the president seems to be backing off threats of shutting down the government if he does not get funding for the border wall, the

wall méxico was supposed to pay for. gillian turner in washington with more. gillian. >> the house passed vote that redefines criminals deported. much needed measure that furthers the president's goal of eliminating all criminal aliens from the united states. >> the community's safety and security act provides that clarity by precisely and legally defining the phrase crime of violence and related criminal acts that when combined with the element of force are, indeed, considered violence. >> the president lat -- house gop just passed a bill to increase our ability to deport violent felons, crazy dems op es, need to get the bill to my desk fast, democrats insist the

bill's provision aren't actually clear at all and accused republicans of purposely rushing for vote. >> it was introduced last week while members were out of town and rushed to the floor today without any hearings, without any mark-up, without any adequate opportunity for review by the public or legal experts or shake holders. >> aclu, immigrant research center and national association of criminal defense lawyers have already lined up in opposition that the bill unjustly expands criminal acts in order for the trump administration to ramp up deportations. the legislation's next stop is the senate. also this week the president's border wall was back in the spotlight and loomed large on washington's agenda. the president seem to go vacillate over the course of week saying he would or would not consider shutting down government before midterms over the wall's funding, arthel. arthel: gillian turner, thank you very much, gillian.

eric: as the tragedy continues as bashar al-assad's forces and the russian military are carrying out intense air strikes on syria's rebels, many civilians are being told, are being killed killed in latest, l have the latest from middle east bureau on this coming up. with all the drama in the senate judiciary committee hearings what is next for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh? we will have live report looking ahead to the next few weeks this afternoon, straight ahead live here on the fox news channel your mornings were made for better things than rheumatoid arthritis. before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you.

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eric: after 4 days of often

contentious confirmation hearings of supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, the senate judiciary committee is now expect today hold a vote 12 days from today, that'll be on thursday september 20th, garrett tenney live in washington with what we can expect. >> 11 republicans and 10 democrats on the senate judiciary committee and that vote is expected to follow party lines, a week after that likely wednesday september 26th is when we expect the full senate to vote on judge brett kavanaugh's nomination, at this point they feel he will be confirmed, the 53-year-old judge never lost his cool and refused to be baited into giving answers that could be used against him. on fox news at night senator ben lamented the political grand standing by democrats throughout the hearings. >> the senate as an institution is a joke too much of the time and those hearings were a circus and it's so much nonsense, just

consistent dishonesty in way people would ask the questions. >> a lot of the criticism was pointed at a number of democrats in the week's hearings who are considered potential candidates for 2020 and last night in south dakota president trump praised judge kavanaugh's performance and would relish the opportunity to take on those detractors. >> he's a great gentleman, he's a great scholar, he's a great mind, great intellect and a nice person and the screaming and the shouting and the the way they've treated him and the court system itself is horrible. now, they're all running for president, i hope, i hope. [laughter] we dream about them. >> republicans have enough vote as long as they don't have defects or, two republicans to keep on eye on is susan collins

and lisa motherkowski and kavanaugh said that case was important precedent of the supreme court. republicans are expecting a couple of democrats will come over as well. joe manchin, heidi heitkam and joe donnelly all facing tough reelection bids in states that president trump won and last year all three vote today confirm current justice neil gorsuch, if the timeline goes forward, september 26th is when we'll have the final vote and that will allow judge neil caf -- brett kavanaugh to be seated on the supreme court before they begin the next term october 1st and that's been the goal all along. >> exciting two weeks, arthel. arthel: that's for sure, eric, for more on this, we will bring in ed, he's the president of the ethics and public policy center, also former clerk of the late justice antonin scalia, first up, ed, what did you think of judge kavanaugh's overall performance and break it down to areas where he was especially

strong and where the judge could have been stronger? >> well, look, on substance it was a masterful performance from beginning to end, judge kavanaugh showed his outstanding legal mind, his incredible temperament and you can see from watching the hearing how it is that he earned the left-leaning bar association highest anonymous well-qualified rating and why he has earned such a claim from so many people across the ideological spectrum. so i think he did great and i think he gave republicans ample reasons to support him. there's lots of stunts and antics and senator harris of california played demagogue and judge kavanaugh treated her in good faith in a way that, i think, he perhaps shouldn't have, in the end, overall he had

an outstanding performance and, again, i think the white house and the judge kavanaugh had ample reason to feel good with it. arthel: i need to move forward and as you know the democratic senators called on john dean, former nixon white house counsel who went against his administration during watergate known as trump critic, dean predicted that with kavanaugh on the high court it would become, quote, weak check at best on presidential power calling the scenario, quote, deeply troubling and adding that there is much to fear from an unchecked president who is inclined to abuse his powers, do you agree with dean's assessment? >> no, that was empty rhetoric, judge kavanaugh's views on executive power are very conventional and no one has pointed anything that would be at all alarming, look, there are

liberal scholars who have said that most -- that most liberal scholars hold the view, for example, that presidents should not be -- may not be indicted while they are sitting, judge kavanaugh doesn't necessarily hold the view but it's odd that democrats are criticizing him for supposed view that's entirely mainstream. arthel: he did -- i don't want to stick on this, but judge kavanaugh did write in his -- in the minnesota law review that a sitting president should not be subjected to any sort of trial or subpoena -- >> as part of a policy -- as part of policy proposal for congress to adopt. obviously the very fact that he was offering that as a policy proposal which seems to suggest that he doesn't think the constitution requires it. arthel: okay, understood, we will move on because i want to talk about your former boss and as you all know the senate confirmed justice antonin scalia

nominated by reagan, that was 32 years ago, what would justice scalia and others involved in the confirmation process make of the current-day senate judiciary hearings. >> well, i think justice scalia would say, hey, i told you so, this is exactly what happens when judging collapses of the craft and becomes in the eyes of many especially advocates on the left of the living constitution, nothing more than disguise politics, he said as much in his decent in planned parenthood v. casey, he said so in speeches, if you don't understand judging to be a distinct craft and, of course, it's all going to be craft's politics and grand-standing, this unfortunately is the sorry state in which we have fallen, i think judge kavanaugh as justice kavanaugh along with justice gorsuch and others can help to build a court that justice scalia will be very proud of. arthel: what did you make of

senator grassley's continuing to just strike the gavel at the opening of the hearings when the other senators as you already mentioned were trying to jump in, not just the two other democratic senators as well, jumping in to say, wait, a minute we demand to see the documents, first of all, we need more time, we have 42,000 pages that were dumped on us last night and we want to see other documents revealed to the public, while that was happening senator grassley kept going with the gavel, do you think that senator grassley says why did you wait for this moment to do this, have you not have told me 30 minutes ago, i don't know, what do you make of that situation? >> well, actually i thought he was remarkably patient letting the first hour or hour and a half of the hearing be filled by senate democrats antics, i'm sure he would have wished that they had informed him that they would be doing that sort of tag-team clown show at the beginning but i think he was very patient and, look, when you

see throughout the hearing is that democrats couldn't score any points at all on judge kavanaugh and record and instead tried to distort things in his record and he answered them time after time, so, you know, they could have all the records in the world and nothing would change. arthel: back to decorum, senators booker and harris are not here to defend themselves but they would beg to differ that their process that they chose is not a clown show, but given the, you know, the political in the senate, do you think and to your point that maybe senator grassley says, hey, guys, you should have 30 minutes ago, an hour ago, do you think they would have gotten somewhere and the hearing would have been postponed or delayed? >> i'm not suggesting that. i think it was an effort of the entire democratic caucus on the

committee, no, look, i think you -- you seem to complain that senator grassley was banging gavel too much. frankly i didn't notice that -- >> no, no, i'm not complaining, listen to me, i'm not complaining, i'm simply saying that i noticed that because when we were first started, i've never heard as much as anything else that happened, but i noticed the gavel kept going -- >> you couldn't get a sentence out of his mouth, 5 words before he was interrupted. that's not the way the committee operates, if people had told him beforehand they were going to interrupt him at the beginning he would have prepared for anything, would that have changed anything, no, it wouldn't have. >> thank you for your comments and your expertise today, we have to go though, talk to you again, ed whalen. eric: syrian government in conjunction with russian war planes striking adlib province,

general -- benjamin following the story in jerusalem. >> the last rebel held and syrians have sights on it, growing fears for 3 million civilians inside the region and the syrian regime looking for the 10,000 al-qaeda linked fighters, today the syrian government and russian airplanes began targeting the area killing 4 civilians including two children and a woman, also reports of barrel bombs being dropped. attacks come a day after leader in iran met in tehran and putin and rohuni were going ahead arguing that turkey has troupes and rebel groups on opposing side of battle and also said they can't handle influx of

refugees, at people prepare for bombardment the u.s. warning and said there were signs syria was preparing to use them. final battle for idlib may signal end of syrian war and in fact, assad would have total victory but what comes next, the proxy war people fear could end up in direct confrontation, eric. eric: benjamin, lieutenant will be here to analyze the situation, arthel. arthel: another letter from kim jong un to president trump amid reports the north korean leader plans to denuclearize by the end of president trump's first term, how likely is that? we will hear from gordon chang talking to eric coming up next (music throughout)

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now, letter from kim jong un on its way to president trump. the state department confirming the letter was handed over in the demilitarized zone between north and south korea and is in the hands of secretary of state mike pompeo and all of this as north korea getting ready to mark its 70th anniversary, greg palcok in seoul. >> for of the letter in a moment, just north of here in pyongyang and what they could tell us about the state of the stalled nuclear talks, sunday marks the 70th anniversary, founding of north korea, it's all very carefully staged managed by the government, contact on the ground already sees regime is putting less emphasis on the nuclear program, propaganda against the united states, more on the economy and feel-good topics but observers will be seeing if icbm missiles are rolled out, big military

plan and also what korean leader kim jong un might say, the speech he's expected to make, will he make nice, as you mentioned, arthel, president trump now says he's been sent a letter from kim and he believed it is positive despite the nuclear talks trump and kim appear to have some good vibes left over from that summit they held in singapore in june and that could be important going forward otherwise here in south korea there's action on other fronts, u.s. and north korean generals met on friday at dmz to discuss joint excavations in the north, remains of 55 u.s. service air members were returned to the united states last month, 5300 americans are still missing and one more note planning also for yet another summit involving kim and south korean president moon, that'll be happening ten days, that could also give the talks a nudge, a lot of parts moving right here in the region, back

to you, arthel. arthel: that's for sure, thank you very much, eric, let's see what gordon chang has to say about this. >> gordon is here in new york and you are in los angeles, what could this mean with the negotiations? the author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes over the world. so gordon, the letter is on the way to the president, what do you think the letter could possibly say? >> i think that kim jong un is saying that he does want to give up nuclear weapons, he probably phrases that as the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. that's a little bit different -- eric: that means the u.s. forces. >> first of all, means the u.s. breaking the alliance with south korea, getting our 28,050 troops off the pe -- peninsula, taking forces out of japan and may very well mean that china and russia also give up their nukes because they are neighbors, so essentially what north korea is

saying, everybody else give up weapons first and then we will think -- eric: what a deal, oh, man, we will follow that more in a second, we have to break to pay some bills, we will be back to find out what kim jong un wants. were a little unorthodox. -keep going. stop. a little bit down. stop. back up again. is this adequate sunlight for a komodo dragon? -yeah. -sure, i want that discount on car insurance just for owning a home, but i'm not compromising. -you're taking a shower? -water pressure's crucial, scott! it's like they say -- location, location, koi pond. -they don't say that. and i don't add up the years. but what i do count on is boost®. delicious boost® high protein nuritional drink now has 33% more protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals boost® high protein. be up for life.

eric: we're back with gordon chang. kim jong-un's ultimate goal you think is removal of u.s. forces

from south korea? >> certainly. what kim wants to do. it is not just kim, it is his father and grandfather wanted to unify the peninsula under north korea's rule. they want u.s. off the peninsula so they can intimidate south korea into submission. now south korea has a president that does not pro-north korea. it doesn't have to be intimtation. he has to entice the south korean president to one federation, one country, two governments. eric: you think that could happen? >> i think it could happen. they say south korea taken over by the north. that is impossible. i think it is more probable that the south takes over the north than the north takes over the south. eric: really? >> the government in seoul agrees with many objectives in north korea the south korean wants to cut the human rights budget by 92%. they don't want criticism of north korea. eric: they would never acquiesce to kim jong-un completely?

>> you would hope so. a lot of conservative south koreans, more than half the population don't want any part of this but they don't really control and drive the political process right now. because it is moon jae-in's control the blue house and most elements of the government. eric: 20 seconds left. any decisions out the summit between moon and kim? >> what we'll see is south korea give more money to north korea in violation of u.n. sanctions and we're going to be very upset. eric: gordon chang, we'll get more on that. that is a frightening possibility. we'll be right back. ♪ meet george jetson. ♪ ♪ his boy elroy. with instant acceleration, electric cars are more fun to drive

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♪ arthel: we are watching two major headlines out of washington. as president trump continues his hunt for the writer of a blistering opinion piece in the "new york times." the president now saying he may be closer to learning the author's identity. meanwhile the commander-in-chief is praising the latest jobs report which shows a bustling u.s. economy. hello, everyone, i'm arthel neville live in los angeles. welcome to a brand new hour inside "america's news headquarters." eric: you're sitting next to me but all the the way across the country had. in i'm eric shawn in