Thursday on how to formalize the ground rules for an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. It defined the procedures that lawmakers will follow as they transition from weeks of closed door interviews to potentially public hearings and a possible future vote on articles of impeachment. Lets bring in kims strassel, assistant editorial page editor, James Freeman and colum columni, bill mcgern. What did you make of the vote this week and did it advance the democratic cause for impeachment. Its hard to say if it advanced it this is the first time in modern american political history that youve had an entirely partisan vote to proceed with an impeachment inquiry. If anything, you had two democrats who crude over to the republican crossed over to the republican side to vote with them in opposition. Again, impeachment is a political process. And the goal here is to convince significant majorities of americans that you are proceeding fairly and that you have the goods and this is its not succeeding in that regard on the basis of this vote and polls we see out in the country. Paul yeah, james, 4104 in the nixon impeachment inquiry vote, both parties overwhelmingly for it. 31 democrats voted for the inquiry, not ultimately impeachment but the inquiry against bill clinton. This time, zero. I was surprised. Ill be honest with you. I thought you would get some republicans who are retiring next year, dont face any more competition politically and theyre not fond of President Trump. I thought more would be there. Yeah, i think a setback for the cause of impeachment and i do it makes me wonder whether nancy pelosi really believes in this or whether she is essentially just pleasing the furtherrest left parts of her base, satisfying them to do this, because if you were serious and you actually thought there was a case to be made here, i think what you would first do if you were nancy pelosi is try to get some of those republicans onboard by negotiating, saying okay, no more closed hearings, okay, well allow republicans to call witnesses without our approval. Basically bringing it back to the traditional nixon or clinton process in an effort to make it bipartisan. I dont know if she tried to do they that or found no takers, but this is not a strong message for her side. Paul the other thing i would say, bill, is if you really want this to persuade the public, adam schiff is not your best spokesman. I say that in a purely analytical sense. He was writing he wrote an op ed for us calling for impeachment probably in 2017. Hes seen more than circumstantial evidence on russian collusion that somehow eluded bob mueller and his team of attorneys. Paul what does this mean, shes saying schiff is going to be able to continue, hes going to be able to hold private, secret hearings if he wants. Hes not obliged to turn over any of the transcripts of witnesses hes already interviewed. And in the end, the only thing he really has to make public is a final report whose contents he will decide. Right. Right. And remember, its unusual to have the Intell Committee heading an impeachment. Its not just that theyve chosen him. Theyve gone outside of precedent to do this. Your point about republicans joining this, i think if they had a real inquiry he vote, they might have got a few. A lot of republicans could say im not saying we should impeach but we should look into it. Mrs. Pelosi talks about the truth. The process is how you get to the truth. Paul this what is they say. They say process, shmosess, who cares. Process is a fundamental part of law, of justice, in some cases more important than outcome. Process is how you get to the truth. You dont just take an Opening Statement or some nugget adam schiff has leaked, you want to hear how a witness handles cross examination and so forth. Mrs. Pelosi had two problems. If she could have had an honest impeachment inquiry and probably got a few republican votes if she had done it in a kosher way, but then im not sure they would have gotten enough to hang trump. So she chose the other way, because she wants and impeachment, having committed to that vote, i think shes committed to actually impeaching the president. Paul the biggest rule difference between the nixon and clinton inquiries and this one, in my mind, is the fact that in this one the republicans can ask for a witness but theyre subject to veto by adam schiff or jerry nadler, the head of the judiciary committee. In those other impeachment inquiries, both parties, majority and minority, had equal power to call witnesses. Yeah, another big difference too is that even in the early proceedings in those prior impeachments, the president s counsel was allowed to be present and privy, part of the proceedings. Thats also different. This entire continuing early stage that adam schiff is doing, the white house still is not allowed to take part. And look, this really was a mistake of all of this, because it has allowed i mean, the republican now have a legitimate point that if youre going to cook this up this way from the beginning, then its all of it poisoned and tainted and thats going to have repercussions for the coming vote on impeachment and for how the senate may handle this as well. Paul this is what puzzles me, james. I think kim makes a good point. Made it easier for republicans. So how does this serve the cause of persuading the country to oust donald trump . I dont think it does. I dont think its persuasive at all. Paul then why do it . I think this is a question you would love to get nancy pelosi under oath to answer why is she really doing this. I think if youre an optimistic democrat, you cant think hes going to get convicted in the senate, so were going to taking hitaghim with impeachment and wl run against him next year, talking about how hes been disgraced and impeached. When this goes kno nowhere, he l claim vindication and i think rightly so. What the process is trying to do is prevent information, evidence that supports the president from coming out. They do not want hunter biden to be under oath, answering questions. Paul still ahead, as the house moves ahead with its impeachment inquiry, all eyes also on the senate where liberal groups are targeting some vulnerable republicans. Karl rove on the politics of karl rove on the politics of impeachment thud crash grunting whistle play it cool and escape heartburn fast with tums chewy bites cooling sensation. Tum tututum tums im working to treat every car like i treat mine. Adp helps airtech automotive streamline payroll and hr, so welby torres can achieve what hes working for. Paul as the house votes on its impeachment resolution, one Democratic Group has its sights set on the senate. The super pac need to impeach released a new ad pushing foreigfour republican senatorse donald trump. It is targeted Susan Collins, joanie erns, cory gardner and martha mcsally, all of whom face tough reelection fights next year. Take a look. Should a president pressure a foreign leader to intervene in our elections . I could have. I think it would probably, possibly have been okay if i did. He swore an oath to protect our democracy but ask his lawyer. You did ask ukraine to look into joe biden. Of course i did. Now his chief of staff says get over it. Tell senator collins it time to put country over party. Paul Fox News Contributor karl rove served as Senior Advisor to president george w. Bush. I want to get to this ad in a bit. First, how does the partisan nature of the house vote for an inquiry affect the politics of impeachment and the ability the to persuade the country . Well, look, one of the three big considerations that i think voters are going to have when they ultimately judge members of the house and senate for voting on this was do they believe the process was bipartisan in nature. That was the critical nature in the nixon impeachment and because it was missing in in the clinton impeachment it was important there as well. At the end of the day, the more partisan this looks, the worse off it is. I agree with the comments in the previous panel, you could not have picked from the position of being bipartisan, you couldnt have picked a worse person to lead this process than adam schiff who is not going to give the sense to all sides theyre being treated fairly and it will be communicated to the american people. Paul so is this process argument, the idea that the republicans are making that this is an unfair process, that it is not done to give equal rights to the minority and so on, is that enough, though, to defend the president . Ultimately, theyre going to come forward with articles of impeachment that claim a a, b, c. Right. Absolutely its not enough. But its essential not to move off of the process argument too quickly. People inside washington think that weve talked about this for a week or two so therefore its over. The points particularly that kim made that the president s not allowed to be present in the process through his attorney, as was done for Richard Nixon and bill clinton, that the point that was made that minoritys ability to call witnesses and ask questions is limited, its at the the fact that these have been private, these are important to keep driving home. Most person americans have not t absorbed this. We have a dichotomy in the New York Times poll on friday of six critical states of majorities being opposed to impeachment and majority being in favor of continuing the inquiry. So people are up for grabs and theyve got to drive home the procedural arguments. Youve got to start dealing with the merits of the charges. Paul on that point, the president is saying well, it was a perfect phone call, i did nothing wrong. I could have invited anybody to investigate corruption, any Foreign Government or joe biden. If im a republican senator, im not so sure thats the ground i want to stand on. No, i think rich lowry had an excellent piece that suggested that the argument be there was a quid but there was no quo. They raised the issue but there was no withholding of aid to ukraine based on it. The ukrainians are were not aware there was a delay in the decision to ray grantin grantin. The republicans make a mistake if they get into the assistance whether they receive assistance, if its worthy of impeachment. Hillary clinton gets elected president , we find about the role that the dossier played to get President Trump elected. Steele, a british former intelligence agent reaches out to his pals in moscow who are former kgb, fsb and gru agents and says got any dirt on trump. Would we be talking about itch peaching Hillary Clinton right now . Paul we would be. Some House Republicans would be. Maybe not make it that far. Well, certainly House Democrats wouldnt be. Thats the test. And one other example. We have it on tape, we have the president of the United States in 2012 saying to dimitri medev, with regard to Missile Defense and other issues, tell vladimir this my last election, ill have more flexibility after the election. That was a quid. Tell him to lay off and ill have more flexibility after the election. No democrat was talking about impeaching barack obama when he made those comments on tape in 2012. Paul lets talk about the ad that the group is running against these four vulnerable senators. Theyre in tough races and how effective is this ad likely to be and, i mean, is that when are republicans are they going to have to go on the air to fight back on this . First of all, lets remember, the ad is mounterred by a Committee Formed by tom steyer. The 3. 5 million sounds like a big number but spread across that number of states, four states, youre talking about less than 1 million each state. 1 million, 800 or 900,000 is a lot of money in maine. Its a pretty good sum in iowa. It begins to diminish in size the colorado and arizona. The principal purpose of this was to put together an effective, compelling ad and cause us to talk about it. Less the impact. And theyve succeeded. Were talking about it. Look, i think right now most voters who are up for grabs in those states want to see the process play out and theyre going to make the judgment. This is the second point i was going to make. The judgment about these individual senators is going to come as a result of the evidence that is presented and the individual response of the senators and the better known you are, like Susan Collins in maine, the more likely it is that people are going to make a judgment about you when they see you perform during this drama and what do you say, how do you say it, when do you say it. Do you look like youve been an iimpartial juror or are you a partisan rushing to judgment. Those four people youll notice all of them have stepped back from the process and are not either beating the drum for the president each and every day, theyre taking a measured approach. Paul all right. Thanks, very much. Be fun to follow this going forward. Still ahead, october jobs numbers, a fed rate cut and Third Quarter gdp, our panels take on what to make of this weeks big economic vo the flock blindly falls into formation. Flying south for the winter. They never stray from their predetermined path. 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You add all of this up, where are we in the economy right now . Are we kind of at that 2 growth rate . Well, i think it makes you think maybe were going to do a little better. This was a really surprisingly good report, not just paul the jobs report. The jobs report. Not just really exceeding expectations on the number created this month but upward revisions on previous months, more people working, more people coming into the labor force, hourly wages ticking up. Really just all kinds of good news in this report and i think it makes you think we can aim a little higher over the next few months here, looking at the economy. Paul yeah. Thats the good news, bill. And im a little surprised by it, particularly with gm. Now the bad news i guess is that we still seem to be in a manufacturing recession. The manufacturing jobs have been pretty bad. Right. Paul Global Growth is not great. And 1. 9 , now weve had two quarters of 2 . Thats what we used to call the obama doldrums and its not what trump donald trump promised, more than 3 . We spent eight years who was it that said 2 is the new normal . Paul larry summers. Trump campaigned against that. Thats the dichotomy thats interesting. The job numbers are stronger than i think anyone thought. That would seem to auger higher growth. Its hard to square the kind of anemic growth with this growth in jobs the way theyre doing. Maybe if we do get the new nafta deal passed and we do get the trade deal with china, maybe we get back to boosting the growth. Because trumps going to campaign on jobs, right. Hes going to say democrats are talking about i produce real jobs. We have record low unemployment for african americans, latinos, women, thats what hes going to campaign on. The pit ay is hes missing somef the growth argument. Under his years the Median Income for an American Family grew by 5,000. Thats because of the high growth. You hope he could make that argument. Paul kim, my argument for the reason for the slowdown has been that it was that its particularly in manufacturing, related to trade. It has created Business Uncertainty that reduced the investment that the business sector is making and the Business Investment is still down, Second Quarter it was really off, the last quarter it was off in a kind big way. So you i guess my view is if you get some trade truce, you get some trade peace here, calm things down, you have a chance to pop back up some. Yeah, absolutely, paul. If you dig into this gdp report, the heros of it as it were, Consumer Spending remains really strong, Consumer Confidence is still pretty strong. And thats in part wages have been going up. You saw an uptick in residential housing, some construction, probably a function of lower shortterm Interest Rates. But its a business sector, the investment has fallen off. People are incredibly nervous. And i think part of it as you said is trade uncertainty. So well see what progress gets made with china. Well see if congress ever manages to get past impeachment and perhaps pass the mexico trade agreement. But i also think, and this is important, paul, its Political Uncertainty as well too. I mean, there is an impeachment proceeding going on. We do have a number of Democratic Candidates up in these president ial primaries that are offering to make vast structural changes to the u. S. Economy. Those are also things that tend to give ceos the jitters and wonder and worry about the future. Paul james, given the good jobs report, do you worry at all that maybe the fed shouldnt have done that third rate cut this week . I didnt really see the argument for any of the three for this year. Weve been hes a hard money man. Weve been bumping along at mediocre growth the last couple quarters. But still growing and still a great job market. Now we find out it was an even better job market than we thought. So i think the hope is that finally the fed will get out of the way and the real economy will continue to assert itself. The other great news in this job report, by the way, is that were seeing even better numbers. Weve been talking about the great numbers and whats called the Establishment Survey of businesses. The household survey, theyre even better. And the job creation there, much above the Establishment Survey. Historically, that tells us weve got good times to come. Paul the overall job participation rate, the Labor Participation rate has been going up 0. 4 the last year where people thought it would go down 0. 2 or 0. 3 because of the baby boomers retiring. It is drawing people into the job market. When we come back, general jack keane on the fallout from the death of isis leader Abu Bakr Albaghdadi and the trump administrations evolving strategy in syria. Ah come on lets hide in the attic. No. In the basement. Why cant we just get in the running car . Are you crazy . 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This as turkey and russia began their first ground patrols in northeast syria on friday, part of a deal reached by the two countries last week. Lets bring in retired army general jack keane, a fox news senior strategic analyst and always happy to see you, general. Thanks for coming in. Lets try to break down this the factors that came into play here in the killing of baghdadi and i want to know what role did the u. S. Allies on the ground play, like the kurds and iraqis . It was pretty significant. We got some information from the iraqis in their Detention Center through interrogation about the potential general location of albaghdadi. And then we got more information, allegedly general maslum is telling us from one of his people. Hes the head of the syrian kurds and he had an informant who was working for baghdadi in the compound and if that is the case, that is nothing short of remarkable and from what i understand, this individual may indeed have provided the entire layout of the complex to include the tunnels that were in it and also identified baghdadis dna through some of his clothing. That is stunning. But it also brings to mind how important human intelligence is and how important partners in the region who are really in the fight, theyre the ones who are doing the fighting here. The Syrian Democratic forces have 70,000 people. And when were aligned with them, even with a modest group like we had, 1,000, it reasons huge benefits for us. Paul that seems one of the big lessons here. How important were the fact that american troops who could do this were Forward Deployed in the region instead of having to be flown in in a mission from much further away . Did you he see as you look at the logistics of how this happened, how crucial was that forward deployment . Well, it is absolutely crucial. And the forces that are doing this have been operating in the region for a number of years, so have a working familiarity with everything and particularly the pilots. Anybody can visualize having to fly at night, long distances, and have operational familiarity with the terrain, how things look at night, to be able to pinpoint those helicopters right to the target. Thats masterful work and when youre operating in the region for months and years, theres no replacing that operational experience. Paul some of the critics of the president have been saying well, he didnt inform congress first. He should have. Does that bother you at all . No, not much. I mean, Operational Security here is of the essence. Ill leave it to them, who they tell in doing Something Like that. But i think its absolutely critical, certainly once the operations been completed and i of do believe thed administration owes the congress and others some pretty specifics on what took place here. But this is remarkable operation in its achievement and success, not only with killing baghdadi but no casualties, saving children on the site, really quite stunning. Paul general, since you were last on the show and quite critical of the president s decision to withdraw the u. S. Forces from syria, he since said look, were going to keep some residual forces on the ground to protect the oil, where the oil is in parts of syriand a maybe the pentagon a leak said were going to send tanks to provide force protection there. Does this mean the president s essentially changed his mind about saying in syria . Well, i think the word that he uses is probably he revised the plan. Paul okay. Listen, weve got Ground Combat vehicles moving into Eastern Syria as you and i are talking. Theyre heading to a town called dirajure and theyre bradley fighting vehicles, theyre a National Guard unit out of south carolina. I believe what will likely take place is we have significant amount of oil fields here. 70 of the oil fields in syria are under u. S. Led coalition control. And thats what the president s talking about. And well probably likely set up multiple bases there to be able to do that. Whats also critical, so our audience understands, we control the air. Paul right. Right across the river, you can actually see them from the east side of the river, looking at the west side, are Iranian Proxy Forces assisted by russians. They were absolutely massing to go in there and take over the oil. Oil fields. When the president revised his decision, this is absolutely critical to making certain that those oil fields are going to stay in u. S. Led coalition hands and syrian hands in terms of the Syrian Democratic forces. Paul general, we dont have a lot of time but what changed the president s mind here . He seemed very intent on getting out. Well, i think just the realization that if the iranians got the oil fields, it would reduce the impact of his maximum Sanction Campaign on iran. That is one. I think there was a general realization im only speculating. Im not inside his mind. That since he made the decision, there was so much feedback that he got about the decision, i mean, were not just going to protect the oil fields, we are going to counter the resurgence of isis in the area as well. And by controlling Eastern Syria, gets us a seat at the table. Right now as we speak, negotiations are going on in geneva with the russians and the turks, et cetera, over syria. And that givens us leverage because gives us leverage because we are owning largely Eastern Syria. Paul thank you very much. Its really interesting insight. Still ahead, as voters across the country head to the polls on tuesday, our Panel Previews the races to watch and what they could tell us about the mood of the electorate heading into 2020. Our families know this race is not about who is in the white limu emu doug hour 36 in the stakeout. As soon as the homeowners arrive, well inform them that Liberty Mutual customizes home insurance, so theyll only pay for what they need. Your turn to keep watch, limu. Wake me up if you see anything. [ snoring ] [ loud squawking and siren blaring ] only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. thud crash grunting whistle play it cool and escape heartburn fast with tums chewy bites cooling sensation. Tum tututum tums paul as voters across the country head to the polls on tuesday, a look now at the races to watch and what they could say about the Political Landscape heading into 2020. We begin with a high stakes governors race in kentucky where matt bevin is locked in a dead heat with andy besheer. President trump is expected to hold an election eve rally in lexington on monday as bevin ties his political fortunes to the man in the white house. Were back with kim strassel, James Freeman and bill mcgern. Bilker tell us about the kentucky race. I think thats a big one. Because the governor is a trumplike figure. Hes actually tied himself to the president even though as a governor its not particularly linked. His primary opponent, this is about the teachers. The Teachers Unions are backing his opponent. They dont like his school reform,s his support for charters and the efforts to make teachers pay a little more on pensions and cut some of the benefits and so forth. So this is really the Teachers Union going after him. Theyre locked in. Well see. The governor is raw in his comments. He called his rival a hunter biden because his bad has been in politics. Its going to be a wild west dragout. Paul let me ask you about virginia where you know the politics very well. How important would it be if democrats now oust the republicans in the state senate and the state house of delegates . Yeah. Well, you know, republicans have just been having an increasingly harder time in virginia because the state is moving left. We have not had a republican win a statewide election there since 2009. So a decade. Paul wow. And yeah. And you see these changes happening out its mostly in the suburbs, around richmond and norfolk, outside of dc, getting a lot more liberal suburbia out there. Republicans have clung to one seat holds in the senate. Its going to be very hard for them to hold onto that. So it would be one of those things, i think the bigger surprise would be if they do manage to do that, theyve been trying to cater their message, change their focus to appeal more to the suburban voters. Its going to be a slog. Paul thats a big change if virgos totally blue, james, without he question. I mean, never mind the president ial but for the future. Theyll gerrymander the heck out of that if they run the house and the senate and have that type of governorship. Let he me ask you about the race in seattle where the city council did impose a head tax of 250 per hired employee on big companies. You know who that was aimed at. Amazon. Then they repealed it within a few days but now amazon is spending big with a lot of the rest of the businesses out there to try to turn to try to depose the lets face it the socialist city counselors who voted for this with merely liberals. Theyre not sort of deciding right or left. This is kind of left or the lunatic left and its kind of similar to the debates you see in california and in the big cities there, how hostile can had they be to the market economy without completely driving out all of these very enlightened, generally liberal tech workers that have made it their home and i think a Big Questions is they may succeed to some extent plung plundering am, but youre not going to get the next amazon built in this city if you continue this way. Paul and a the roots are in californias ballot initiative, about 20 years ago a, ward conely looking to abolish in the public sector, public schools, public contracts. Washington passed one at the same time. Now theres an effort to put it back. The legislature, the last minute earlier this year, literally the last minute put it through basically repeal or mostly repeal of the former your and then the paul that would allow the states to use race as a consideration in hiring in schools and other things. Right. They dont define, they say its not a full repeal. But whats interesting is Asian American opposition formed immediately and theyve got it put on the ballot. Thats been the case in california and so forth. Paul and the Asian American opposition, they feel theyre the losers. Theyre going to lose in this. You look at harvard, the discrimination suit. You look at new york city, the specialized schools. So the Asian American community is kind of awakening on this issue. Paul kim, lets talk about the Denver School board race which is kind of interesting. Youve got a slate of reforms put in by now senator, democratic senator michael bennett. Years ago. And now hes running for president of course. And yet the unions are running a slate of prounion officials who want to gut all of those reforms. Yeah, theyve been chipping away at this. If you look back at the School Board Even just a few years ago it was almost entire full of school reformers. These are people who supported a lot of these reforms including merit pay for teachers and obviously charters and school of choice. The unions made a little bit of headway the last time around. Now theres three of these reformers left and their goal this time is to try to take them out. Its become one of the biggest issues in denver, a big subject. Paul an important election for the future of all those students in colorado. When we come back Prime MinisterBoris Johnson finally gets the election he hes been asking for, setting up a december he showdown with december showdown with labor leader jeremy corbin. Will his brexit gamble pay off. Will his brexit gamble pay off. Its three andahalf as a doctor, i agree with cdc guidance. I recommend topical pain relievers first. Like salonpas patch large. Its powerful, fdaapproved to relieve moderate pain, yet nonaddictive and gentle on the body. Salonpas. Its good medicine. Hisamitsu. Now you can, with shipsticks. Com no more lugging your clubs through the airport or risk having your clubs lost or damaged by the airlines. Sending your own clubs ahead with shipsticks. Com makes it fast easy to get to your golf destination. With just a few clicks or a phone call, well pick up and deliver your clubs ontime, guaranteed, for as low as 39. 99. Shipsticks. Com saves you time and money. Make it simple. Make it ship sticks. Paul Prime MinisterBoris Johnson finally convinced a reluctant parliament to call a general election in december, allowing him to take his brexit deal directly to u. K. Voters as they choose between the tory leader and his labor party opponent, jeremy corbin. Will it pay off . Wall street Journal Editorial Board member Joe Sternberg joins us from london with the latest. Joe, why did labor finally agree to let this go ahead with the election. Theyre trailing in the polls by i think mostly double digits. Labor has gone ahead because they ran out of excuses not to do this. I mean, i think the pressure for this election, because people cant take the dead lock anymore. The dead lock rises because in 2016, 52 of the voters chose in a referendum on European Union member ship that they wanted to leave and the problems since then has been britain has not had a parliament where the majority of members representing those voters actually agreed with the voters. So i think that Boris Johnson is certainly hoping that finally he can use this election in december to break that logjam and if he is running ex mess exy on the hope that he can stir up a mandate for the deal that he has negotiated with the eu to affect brexit, that is finally going to end the misery. Paul so this is above all else going to be a referendum on his brexit deal, is that how you see the race . Well, at the moment that is certainly the kind of campaign that he is trying to run. But the problem is a lot of things can go wrong with that. It is several weeks between now and december 12th. Politics is unpredictable. General elections are unpredictable. The labor party is trying hard to not campaign on brexit as an issue. They want to talk about public services, such as the socialized medical system over here and funding for that. They want to talk about education, anything other than brexit. I think the danger is that Boris Johnson finds it difficult for him to keep the focus of the campaign on the brexit deal. I think that if he can do that, he has a shot of winning the mandate that hes seeking. I think if labor finds ways that they can cloud the issue with all of these other matters, theres a real danger that were going to end up with another Hung Parliament where no one will have a clear majority. Paul it seems to me, joe, that as you look at the polls and the torys were doing horribly when theresa may left because there was just this deadlock and she was getting punished because she couldnt deliver brexit. Now you look at the polling since Boris Johnson took over and it seems the tories are getting a benefit, a leadership dividend. Johnson was able to go to the eu as he promised, get a revised deal, however imperfect, willing to go back to parliament and shows through test votes he has some kind of majority for his deal and then hes been willing to say, look, lets take it to the voters. Thats leadership and hes getting some of a dividend for that would you agree or not . No, i think that that is definitely making a big difference here is that style. One of the big problems that theresa may had during her tenure as Prime Minister is she was trying to run her government in a very consensusdriven approach and i think that a big problem with brexit is that it was difficult for her to come up with some way of threading the needle so that all of the disparate factions within her own party let alone the country would fall along behind her. Boris johnson is prepared to say some will be happy with the outcome, some will have to learn to be unhappy but we have to make a decision. Voters may respond to that. But remember, before theresa may called an election be in 2017, she was also up in the polls by a wide margin and was expected to win a big majority and then that campaign kind of got away from her, the closer to election day they got and the result was the Hung Parliament weve been suffering through for the past couple years. So i think now that hes gone to a strong start, showing this leadership, johnson is going to figure out how to manage this campaign so he keeps voters focused on the big brexit question that is facing the country right now. Paul doesnt he also, though, we have about 30 seconds or so, doesnt he also have to offer a vision for what britain can be after brexit . Because corbin is going to be hes the most radical labor leader in at least 30 or 40 years. Hes going to be offering a vision of more public services, nor nationalizations, more we can give you of. Boris has to have an alternative doesnt he. Thats going to be part of it. I think in order to persuade people to agree with Boris Johnsons brexit plan, they also have to agree for the vision of what britain will look like after that and so that is going to be an important part of this campaign. Paul okay. Joe, thanks. Thanks for being here. Appreciate it. We have to take one more break. When we come back, hits and needles. Essential for the sea urchin, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. Because there are options. Like an unjection™. Xeljanz xr, a oncedaily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. Xeljanz xr can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. Xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections like tb; dont start xeljanz if you have an infection. 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It wasnt just the victory. It was this incredible almost miracle season in which featured just one come from he behind moment after the next. At a time when washington is not producing anything thats not less than ugly, it was a joy and thank you to the nats. Paul almost enough to make me get over my hostility to washington. Bill . A hit to the Young Journalist at the harvard crimson who took a good stand for basic journalistic fairness. In september there was a campus protest calling for the abolishment of i. C. E. Crimson reporters called i. C. E. To try to get a comment, couldnt reach them, that set off these activists who are now boycotting the crimson. The crazy thing is that 66 of College Students seem to support the activists according to a poll by the college polls. Paul unbelievable. Thats it for this weeks show. Thanks to my panel. Thanks to all of you for w exclusively New York Stock Exchange week. Have a great weekend, everyone. Next week. From the fox studios in new york city, this is maria bartiromos wall street. Maria hello and happy weekend. Welcome to the program that analyzes the week that was and helps position you for the week ahead. Im maria bartiromo, thanks for joining us. Coming up, the former ceo of ford motor is here, mark fields on the auto sec to. Along with Defense Company annual industrys family palmer lucky. Hell talk about the ethics around the use of Artificial Intelligence and drones. But first, it was another busy week of data here including the october jobs numbers, the First Reading of the gdp for the Third Quarter and the Federal Reserve cutting Interest Rates for a third time this year. Heres some reaction to that oc j