Sarah Sanders: Trump Focused on SCOTUS List

President Donald Trump is focused on his list of potential Supreme Court justices and for now, he'll continue to stick with the people on it, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday.

"The main thing that the president is looking for are people who will fit the qualifications you would want in a Supreme Court justice," Sanders told Fox News' "Fox & Friends," adding that the president is looking for a candidate with "tremendous intellect, someone who will stick to upholding the Constitution and somebody who has great judicial temperament."

Trump on Monday interviewed four prospective Supreme Court justices in his search for a replacement for retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. He plans to announce his pick on July 9, and said the people he interviewed Monday were "really incredible people in so many different ways, academically and in every other way. I had a very, very interesting morning."

Sanders said Trump has a "great group to choose from" and she knows he'll make the right decision. However, Democrats have made it clear they won't vote for Trump's eventual nominee, and Sanders said that is the party's message, to "oppose everything and do nothing."

"It's frankly gotten really sad that their party has no message no, leadership, no solution," said Sanders. "They want to fight a president who is trying to lead and doing amazing things for our country and things that are really hard to argue with.

"We have a booming economy. He has created job after job after job. ISIS is on the run one day after the next. Great things are happening across the globe and particularly in America and this president is leading that effort."

Democrats, she added, "should join him in all of the great things that are happening in this country instead of fighting them, particularly since they have no ideas of their own."

Sanders also on Tuesday hit back at Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, for saying during an MSNBC interview Sunday that Sanders "has no right to live a life of no fuss, no muss, after lying to the press, after inciting against the press. These people should be made uncomfortable, and I think that's a life sentence, frankly."

"I will do what I tell my kids to do, to treat everybody with respect whether I disagree with them or not and maybe Jennifer Rubin can learn a thing or two from that," Sanders said.

"I think it's sad, the situation and where politics have gotten. Look, we live in an amazing country and certainly people should be free to disagree, but I think that we can do that in a way that is much nicer that doesn't call for people to never be able to step foot in public."

Sanders added that she'll continue to do her job to the best of her ability and to treat people with respect.

"I think it's a sad day in America when Democrats' only message continue to support people who support this president and this country and here working hard every single day to try to make it better," she said.

"We show up with that goal in mind and I think, frankly, if Democrats started of thinking about it the same way we are, they would be a lot better off. I think it's honestly a sad day in America for Democrats and the Democrat party that they their only message is one of intolerance and one of attacking people who love this country and who are trying to do good things for it."

Sanders was recently asked to leave a Virginia restaurant because of her work with the president but said Tuesday she has been out to dinner again since then and had no issues.

On Tuesday, she also discussed letters Trump has written to NATO leaders, asking for more cash when it comes to national defense.

"I'm not going to get into the private correspondence of the president," Sanders said. "I will say that the president has been clear on this message for a long time. The United States puts over 4.5 percent of the GDP into NATO. He wants other country countries to step up. "