Are donothing, they are declaring the deep hatred for the American Voter and this law is part of an impeachment and a political suicide march for the democrat party. Have you seen my polls in the last four weeks . [cheering] joining the panel wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor dan and columnist kim and bill. Dan, the largely along party lines nancy pelosi said impeachment to work has to be bipartisan. I guess she achieved that in a way and the only people that voted against one article and to voted against both and jesse andrew from new jersey is switching parties. Is that the outcome she expected . I think that is where she thought it was going but the party find surprising is the intensity of the democratic commitment to impeachment and they all drink the impeachment koolaid. Some of these democrats believe there is some constitutional crisis in making this great commitment to defending the constitution whereas the breakdown of the vote makes it clear it is broken down totally partisan political lines and this is a political exercise and not reached or achieved the level of a grave constitutional exercise that impeachment is supposed to be to be a political exercise. I think everyone in washington is beginning to see. Why did the republicans hold together. 20 of them now are retiring in 2020 and they have for not running for other office, they have no stake in the future election they can vote as they please and they voted against. I think this was Nancy Pelosis great achievement, she did something President Trump hasnt been able to do Mitch Mcconnell, paul ryan, she united the republican party. This was a Ruth Goldberg impeachment, it started off in a legitimate way without a boat and they change the rules to stack the deck and a lot of people who dont like donald trump dont like the democrats more for doing this. You throw all the warnings mrs. Pelosi and jerry nadler had said months ago about throwing the country into impeachment when its not bipartisan hard in the republican result. And i think the senate what senator mcconnell is getting back, however, they respond is important for them to respond in a way that conveys the illegitimacy of the way the democrats have proceeded. On that point, you have the speaker saying, maybe we will wait to turn over articles of impeachment to the senate we had to rush to get this done before christmas but now we will wait to see how the senate is going to set the rules of a trial echoing Chuck Schumer the minority leader demands to calmer witnesses. What is her rationale because it strikes me what it looks like, you really were not serious. Heres what theyre trying to do, nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer are attempting to suggest that the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is not taking this seriously. The senate is not doing its job and there you had schumers call for witnesses in her refusing to turn over the articles until there is a fair trial. I think the problem is it made it too easy for Mitch Mcconnell to hit those out of the park he pointed out no one heard from the witnesses is because the house gave up on that and what sloppy in its own impeachment inquiry. And also nancy pelosi has no right to dictate to the senate any of us. Its a very weak position and i think it hurts her politically and not really printable in a longterm to not send it over. One other one, one of the purpose of doing is supposed to be to pressure for Vulnerable Senate republicans, i think because the way the thing has become so politicized turning into something of the fiasco that pelosi has taken those for off the hook, i think their vote to acquit President Trump is going to be a pretty easy one in the teller can situate this was a mess and they will be right. As well they are making the upper Democratic Senators from West Virginia to acquit President Trump. I would not be surprised. Let me ask you about big picture question, does this impeachment in the way it was handled abuse the vagueness of the power charge . Print is this going to make impeachment for any president more likely . Sadly i think it does. Not just more likely, as we see i dont think people are taking this impeachment as is seriously assay topic before when president Clinton Andrew yang said where i go nobody asked about peach. As dan said with the senate, is giving republicans all sorts of arguments in the running ads in the districts where they think are vulnerable democrats and that tells you something, the democrats and be very surprised if they run on impeachment. They will try to get to other issues where they can criticize. Stop asking me about impeachment asked me about anything else. [laughter] in a few months will we be passed this, i tell you the press corps will not. When we come back a look at the democratic legal case against President Trump and how the process is to play out when and if it makes its way to the senate. I dont even have a crime, this is the first impeachment this is the first impeachment where there is nots be honest, quitting smoking is freaking hard. Like quitting every monday hard. Quitting feels so big. So, try making it smaller. And youll be surprised at how easily starting small. Can lead to something big. 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Do you recall, not long ago we would walk on the sidewalk all around the wind blows we would only hold on to let go blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun we needed somebody to lean on all we need is someone to lean on as a general matter we have to be careful about trivializing the process and they put in a hurdle of high crimes and of treason, bribery and other high crimes the articles of impeachment do not allege a violation of law. That was attorney general william barr arguing that the articles of impeachment passed by the house do not allege any violation of law. Entropy lies the impeachment process for partisan purposes. He served as Deputy Attorney general under mr. Barr in the george h. W. Bush administration. Welcome, nice to see you again. Lets talk before we get to impeachment lets talk about the senate trial, is easy suppose nl not turn over until how to like so they will conduct a. That is absurd and fundamental to the constitution that each house of the Congress Sets its own rules in the senate has its rules for impeachment and decides its own procedures. The idea that they would have to negotiate with the house as to what the process looks like is silly and it shows how unabashedly political and politically motivated the whole impeachment business is. With the senate and Mitch Mcconnell be justified if the articles never come over and say sorry we will not hold a trial because youre not sending anything over . I think they would and maybe different ways to approach this but i think the senate could take the position dismissed and want the prosecution. What about saying if you will not appoint the managers, we want to honor the constitution and do better than you did so we will appoint the managers for you and get somebody to argue the case on your behalf. I do not see a way under the constitution provisions or the existing senate rules for that to fly but the Senate Perhaps could amend rules and do Something Like that. But i would be surprised if they did, i think what is happened here is mrs. Pelosi and the leadership, the democrat leadership has demonstrated clearly this was all about affecting the 2020 election and has nothing to do with ukraine or 2016 or 2017 or 18 or 19, its about 2020. I want to get into the fisa court in the fisa rules when you are deputy ag that gave you some responsibility over the fbi and as you look at the horowitz report, is the behavior that it documents by the fbi and the submission to the court is not defensible in your view . No. Simply no. How could this happen, you have a wiretap approved by the court submitted by the fbi of an official who is advising a president ial campaign that strikes me as very Serious Business when its a normal course of affairs that kind of a decision with political invocations been alerted at the deputy ag or the ag level . One would certainly think so and i think one of the strongest points and recommendations that Michael Horowitz makes in that report is there needs to be some kind of a change to make sure that notification to the responsible Political Leadership with the Justice Department would occur in the circumstances in the future. Theres a lot more that needs to be done to fix this. Judge colliers rebuke of the fbi that came in what we heard so far from director ray has frankly been rather timid. Most extraordinary the judge collier issue that revealed public. One of the concerns i have, what took them so long. They had information in the real reason to doubt what had been submitted long ago because of submissions from the House Intelligence Committee and letters sent to the fisa court, isnt this too late here, dont the judges bear some responsibly . I think thats a legitimate question. Im not so sure the way things are set up that it would be a good idea for the court directly to respond to every sort of issue that Congress Might raise because in part that the larger problem for us to discuss another day but having article three judges perform what is an article to function to authorize the wiretaps and wages congressional oversight playing, does it have oversight of the judges in the Court Function or just the executive function. It is a mess and one thing i personally hope will come out as a complete reexamination of the legal regime that should be used to pursue whats necessary and intrusive investigative techniques. What kind of accountability do you think is in order. As i look at this the whole history of the fisa process was set up in the awake of the abuse of j edward huger hoover. Now we have a case where some people and evidence that there was a doctored email to a presentation to the court and if you can get away without consequences of the fbi are we setting ourselves up for this happening again . Yes very much so. I really trust that attorney general barr knows the fbi inside out and i trust he will make sure this gets fixed. I guess that includes john durham as a u. S. Attorney looking at this . I think what john durham is looking up is a much wider question than just problems that the fbi and the fisa application process. Thank you we really appreciate it. Still ahead the fallout continues from the Inspector General report from Trump Campaign surveillance as a percentage judge issues a review from the fbi. We will get the panels take only one things more exciting than than getting a lexus. Giving one. This is unbelievable it really is. 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The secret foreign Intelligence Surveillance issuing a rebuke of the fbi with rosemary call yorosemary collyee investigation into th Trump Campaign. Michael horowitz said the fbi made serious and repeated mistakes in the handling of application to wiretap former Trump Campaign advisor carter page, something former fbi james comey acknowledged as Chris Wallace last sunday. He is right, i was wrong, i was overconfident in the procedures that the fbi and justice had built over 20 years. I thought they were robust. Its incredibly hard to get a fisa and i was overconfident. Hes right there was real sloppiness. Were back with dan, kim and bill. It was a lot more than sloppiness was it not . Much, much more and by the way it is not really hard to get a fisa, we could go for a long time, this whole segment going through jim comeys weaselly work. I want to ask about your columnist week, you reported the fisa court had known a long time before the horowitz report came out that it had received false information from the fbi and its applications to travail carter page, explain what happened this is really important, we got a hold of two letters that the former House Intelligence Committee chair devin nunes had sent to the court and one in february of 2018 and one of junf the things that Michael Horowitz has now said. It was 18 months earlier, two years earlier and we got a hold of the responses from the court which were to blow all of this up and blow the committee off and say not even really respond. They had direct evidence of problems in the page application and this is not a separation of power issue or response to the House Committee the question is they had the information and did nothing. Thats interesting because the on significant the congressional Intelligence Committee does have oversight responsibility over the intelligence process, fisa is clearly part of the process. When you send the letter and the court says nevermind, that is a real serious issue in my mind of separation of power in a delusion of accountability on the executive branch because the court says dont come to me talk to the Justice Department and the Justice Department says talk to the court. Its what makes the rebuke from Rosemary Collyer disingenuous to say we are so surprised to find out there was problems in the process, they knew there was problems in the process and it puts a new spotlight on the court itself played in this and in this mess. I agree, one of the things judge raised at the time and fisa was being proposed and not being a judge but professor silverman, if judges mess up you cannot call the judge in, there one of the unaccountable parts. In this case the two things that stand out, how many people have gone to jail like Martha Stewart for lying to the fbi but then the fbi general flynn is facing sentencing for that. Then the fbi misrepresents itself to a court and the thing is tell us you bad boys how you will not do it again. That seems disproportionate. First to kims point in addition to the Intelligence Committee, admiral rogers came to a judge collier before the carter page warrant and he said we have a big problem with the spying and so forth and information from giving independent contractors, she issued a hundred page report so she knew there was president for this, then she had devin nunes in the committee telling them and now shes saying tell me how you will not do it again. No business that filed this information will be let off the hook that easy. One other point Robert Mueller who spent two years investigating the whole business, the russian collision story. He ignored all this. He did not look at it and he did not report on it. Or he did and said i dont want to tell anybody. How can he do that . Thats a question that will remain unanswered. Its a good question because lets recall carter page was a perfluoro figure and the Trump Campaign and he in the fisa investigation is a link in the russian collision narrative and that he built out of him and it shouldve been cleared as all the information came out in late 2016 that the original fisa application in the russian collision narrative was very, very weak. Yet the country was exposed to it for two long years in Robert Mueller in his investigation had to see it was going nowhere. Still ahead seven candidates still ahead seven candidates square off in los angeles thud crash grunting whistle play it cool and escape heartburn fast with tums chewy bites cooling sensation. Tum tututum tums the democrats held the sixth and final president ial debate of the year on thursday night was seven of the 2020 contenders taking the stage in los angeles. Only six weeks to go until the first votes are cast and fellow candidates took on i will front runner eight pewterunner mayor. He had a fundraiser that was held in a wine cave full of crystals and served 900dollar a bottle of wine. Billionaires and wine caves should not pick the next president of the united states. Im literally the only person on the state who is not a millionaire or billionaire. This is the problem with issuing purity test you yourself cannot pass. Were back with dan, kim and wall street journal assistant james freeman. What i want to know, have you ever consorted with billionaires . And is this disqualifying in a president ial race . Its such a potent attack or not . I wish i could. I want to be a billionaire. Mayor pete did get his purity point back. Knowing that senator warren made in the normas transfer of cash from her senate reelect fund which he got from billionaires. Her new purity is pretty new. But overall i think this signifies there was a big pylon pete on thursday night because he is doing so well in the iowa polls so you had senator warren going after him on campaignfinance, Amy Klobuchar on leadership and a bit of a test. I think he came out reasonably okay. I thought the klobuchar point was more potent because it got to his relative lack of experience and the fact he got trounced in indiana in 2010. This is his big weakness right now, his biggest liability. Fundamentally you have a guy who speaks well, has got some policy platform but does not have a lot of experience and we been through that before. Ill tell you my view the winners, biden, klobuchar number should enter number two. She made her case or be in the minnesota person who can get things done, progressive but not to progressive and biden held up well with the strongest debate. Other than acknowledging the plans will destroy a lot of jobs, i think it was a very strong night for joe biden and i would agree on klobuchar in ad to the list andrew yang who is unpredictable and these not the professional politician the others are so he does not feel the need to embrace every democratic myth including the 2016 election. I thought he was compelling and i expect he will get something out of that evening. I thought he held up pretty well, mayor pete showed the punch and he can return the punches where he was issuing the broadside about purity test which is a good point. I think hes going to be there he is occupying a strained space. No there is real tensions emerging between moderates between biden and klobuchar in warren and sanders and one of the best moments was in heat he literally ripped into medicare with unfeasible it was. Amy klobuchar was telling these people that Elizabeth Warren, your beef is with moderate democrats, a 31 who turned the house two years ago. Pete buttigieg is trying to have it both ways occupying the space. I think one of the interesting things it is obvious that warren and Pete Buttigieg are competing for the white gentry liberal vote, the ann arbor, massachusetts, ames iowa liberals. And Pete Buttigieg is gain is not just competing with bernie for the left vote, she is worried about what he is doing to her support. Absolutely. I would classify Elizabeth Warren as a loser of thursday night, she had a rough run because of the way she changed around her medicare for all pl plan, scaling that back made her look less strong and shes fallen in the polls because of Pete Buttigieg rise and she needed a big night and did not get it. She came back and seemed very defensive on her tax plan, how you pay for and combated and made her look angry. I dont think she got what she needed out of the debate. I think Amy Klobuchar could have something of a rise in iowa in the next month. Anybody disagree . I think she can but i think it was a good move going after Pete Buttigieg how he lost in the landslide when he ran statewide in indiana. She and the other competitors even as Pete Buttigieg has taken the lead in iowa are reluctant or unaware about his failures of self in indiana, thats valuable experience. I will tell you how that comes up. 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The mexican deal, is it better than nafta and how much will help the economy . I think the mexican deal is addition by subtraction. It takes off the table one potential source of trade turbulence and is not a dramatic change from the aggregate and has stepped forward and better on digital trade and better on ip protection and steps backwards, hired to trade in autos, its hard to say if its a dramatic trade deal but weve had enough turbulence and growth peaks in the middle of 2182. To percent yearoveryear. This is redundant 2. 1 which mirrors the problems with the trade sector so its time to stop hurting our Growth Prospects and this is a step in the direction. The other trade development the last couple of weeks is a china deal. First phase one as the president says relatively modest, a lot of purchases, 200 billion off of 2017 baseline over two years from china and changes to investor intellectual property protections and patents and so on. What you make of this deal . It has the white list of topics. We have not seen the deal yet, even since it was announced we heard skepticism on the ability of the chinese to buy all the things that they promised especially in the act sector 50 billion. There has been confusion on the chinese side on how much terror production looking on the united states. As of all relationships with china skepticism is in order and in january as a single piece of paper in which both parties can sign and make sure they comply. Progress but are we out of the woods, i dont think so. Lets assume for the sake of argument that this will be worked out in the details will be put on paper so everybody can see and we do get a truce for another year between china and the u. S. I would assume you would think that would be another blow against uncertainty from trade . I think that would be tremendous, the harm thats been inflicted by two large economies going at each other is hard to quantify but its really significant, the Worldwide Manufacturing slowdown is a chinese slowdown thats been back to our slowdown in Business Investment and hurt the u. S. Economy greatly. Taking that and reversing it will be fantastic. The Federal Reserve put a number saying on one study the trade uncertainty has cost one percentage point of gdp growth. Were one Percentage Points lower than we were before. Again for the sake of argument if we do get the trade truth i think white house advisers are saying the economy is worth maybe a half a point of gdp for 2020 increase improvement. How do you see it . I think thats a sensible number. I also see for the first time Residential Construction contributing to gdp growth and upside boot boost and were no lr relying on the household sector for the gdp growth. The unbalanced household was not going to last forever. These are steps toward an ability to sustain expansion past 2020 and into 21. One thing thats been concerning is declining Business Investment, we have a boost in a burst after the tax reform but then the trade turmoil we saw it fall off and the husband disappointing because as you know you will not get longterm growth in less you get the Business Investment. Do you see that bouncing back . I certainly do, it went from Something Like 7 and negative in the most gdp data, and part of that is a manufacturing cycle and thats beginning to turn, it is not possible to get continued productivity growth and rising real wages without the investment coming back and i think theres good reason to think trade tension it will. Do you see, lets say you get 2 2. 5 growth. Does that mean you will get tight labor markets continuing and Pretty Healthy wage gains are those fair predictions . I think those are fair, ive been astonished at the ability of the economy to create as many jobs as i have. The demographic say we should have fewer workers to put in jobs. Im a slave to the numbers so well have to see tiger labor markets next year and that will push wage growth higher in a good year for workers. You do think it will be a good year. Two years, tax reform whats the verdict annapolis for the economy or not . No question its a net plus, the question is how big over the longterm, we do not know. We have the trade tension which makes it hard to get a clean read on the data and be they finished the regulation that affect the largest u. S. Companies in the Global Companies that can do the capital planning. We will see how that turns out thanks a lot i appreciate it. When we come back Congress Leaves Town for the holidays but not before passing a year end spending law. 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Some things havent. Get ready for a reunion 3 million light years in the making. Woohoo yeah before heading home for the holidays Congress Passed a 1. 4 trillion spending view with the shutdown and funding the federal government through september. There was something for everyone in the 2000 plus page spending spree with President Trump getting 1. 2 trillion dollars for his border wall and democrat scoring 25 million for Gun Violence Research and 425 million for election security. We are back with dan, kim and james. This is the thing you love about government. Yes. It is depressing. I wish the president would take the justifiable anger toward Speaker Pelosi and channel it to opposing or Spending Priorities. He hopes he can mention the economies going 2. 1 . The government revenue are growing at 4 and spending growing at a percent. Were in an environment where its cheap for the government to borrow but the idea that you can grow your government four times as fast as your economy over time without increasing revenue there is a budget problem which is not revenue. The tax cut has not reduced spending from yeartoyear with only expectations of the revenues being higher. I think the basic problem is ideological. The two parties are so far apart in the Democratic Party stands for one thing, shoveling revenue coal into the spending furnace. Meanwhile they have differen dee spending hostage. There was a time when democrats believed in National Security and defense, not anymore. This is basically double bargain that the republicans always have to make with the democrats. This was done in a bill, will just throw it at the end and they introduced to on monday and they had to vote tuesday or wednesday so everybody looked at the details very closely before they cast their vote, they mightve looked at the top line. This is not the way to do the government but the budget process is so broken is there anything good in the bill that you like . No, how is that for an answer. Not even the tax cut or the repeal of the Obamacare Taxes . That would be one thing. What the bill does have is in and to the cadillac tax which was an Obamacare Tax on highcost health plans in the permanent repeal of tax on Health Providers in the permanent repeal of tax on medical devices. These were all very bad taxes and bad policy and what is nice were not just getting rid of them but they were repealed in perpetuity. That would be one highlight of this. You mentioned that you want the president to focus so why doesnt he . Good question. I think it comes down to what dan mentioned, the republicans have decided to keep getting defense spending increases in the lot except all the Spending Priorities and i would urge them to think and consider we cannot remain a military superpower if we dont remain an economic superpower. 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