Deadly bombing at a concert in manchester, england. The Islamic State took credit for that attack carried out by a 22yearold britishborn muslim who recently returned from a three week trip to libya and may have had isis training. The assault came just one day after President Trump addressed arab leaders in saudi arabia, urging them to drive out terrorists and extremists in their midst. Drive them out. Drive them out of your places of worship. Drive them out of your communities. Drive them out of your holy land. And drive them out of this earth. Paul joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist and deputy editor, dan henninger. Editorial board member mary kiss el, and Columnist Bill mcgurn. So, bill, lets take a look at the whole trip. What do you think . Success or not, this first excursion abroad . I think hes been largely successful in getting his message across. You know, the first part was the middle east along with rome, trying to get the three big relations in the religions on the same page. Now, the greatest gift to donald trump is Barack Obama Paul especially in the middle east, israel and saudi arabia. [laughter] eight years without American Leadership, he was there basically to say American Leadership is back. And, look, i think the cities are have changed too. They recognize this threat against themselves paul you mean the sunniarab nations like egypt and saudi arabia, the gulf states. But there was just an attack on Coptic Christians and so forth. They understand that theyre not going to have a future unless they arrest this extremism and terrorism on their home soil. Paul the, mary, one of the big themes that the president offers was, look, you need to take on the radicals in your midst yourselves. Okay . Be we cant just do it, you have to root them out. Thats not a message that i dont think any previous president has addressed that directly to arab leaders. Well, thats because the last president thought that terrorism was a war that needed to be resolved in the muslim world, and americans were simply Collateral Damage in that war. He didnt want to take a leading role. I think President Trump is doing well in sending that message that they need to be involved, but he also made the point in saudi arabia, paul, that more than 95 of the victims of terrorism are muslims themselves. And thats why they have an interest here. And, look, these nations know it. Saudi arabias fighting a war on its Southern Front in yemen, fighting the Iranbacked Houthi militia. You have moderate nations like, for example, israel who are threatened to their north by whats going on in syria. The nations of europe understand this as well, theyre dealing with refugees. So its time to have this message come across. Paul go ahead, dan. You know, look, the press after this trip is making the point that when donald trump went to brussels and nato, that he didnt make a fullthroated commitment to nato in article v paul which is what . Which is an attack on one is an attack on all. Paul okay. As though the United States and europe were now threatened by the soviet union coming through the gap in germany. [laughter] no. The western world is threatened by Islamic State. Donald trump made a Campaign Promise to get rid of the Islamic State. This trip was the beginning of assembling a strategy to do exactly that. First, he goes to saudi arabia, gets a commitment from the saudis to create an arab coalition, the saudis are going to work with israel paul to fight Islamic State. Im sorry, then he goes to brussels, and the secretary of nato says we are now formally joining this coalition to fight Islamic State. This is done in the midst of the attack in manchester, so i think it was a very successful trip. Hes beginning to build a coalition to do exactly what the point of it was. Paul what about the charge, and weve heard the criticism that in tilting, going to saudi arabia and so overtly aligning with them, hes tilting too far to the sunniarabs, and that ignores the shiite persianings and the shiites in iran in particular. And that thats a strategic mistake. Once again [laughter] lets roll the clock back 40 years. And if iran were just sitting there pumping oil whether it was under [laughter] you know, the ayatollahs or under the shah, this would not that would be an issue. But iran is now a centrifugal force trying to project itself and subsidizing terrorists in the rest of the middle east. Thats the shiite problem. Iran is a thousandsyearold culture, a real nation with all this projection of power and surrogates and proxies. Look, i think that the president its welcome that the sunniarabs now say we want americas leadership in the region. They havent had it. And and i think it was welcomed to go to nato and shake them up. They dont pay their fair share, and they have been a little lax on terrorism. You know, jen keane was on fox general keane was on the other day calling them feckless. I think he said 32 attacks in eight nato countries, yet they wont commit be Ground Troops to going after the centers of isis and so forth paul go ahead, mary. It was also nice to see a little bit more discipline out of the president too. He wasnt on his twitter account, we didnt see scandals there. [laughter] he was reading from the teleprompter. The message was clear, and i think it was consistent during the trip. Paul but did he miss an opportunity to just say flat out, look, i endorse article v . His colleagues his aides were setting that up early. The europeans were saying they were disappointed he didnt say that overtly given the fact in the campaign hed said nato was obsolete. Hes worked that back, but did he miss an opportunity . What matters . Do words matter or do actions matter . Paul well, words matter. The president was there for the commemoration ceremony. He talked about the threat from russia which ises why the nato allies which is why the nato allies are would. He dropped a bomb in syria that obama didnt do, couldnt do for years. Hes taking action. So if theyre worried about, you know, the rhetoric, i think theyre worried about the wrong thing. Paul well, but, i mean, you do need to send a strong signal rhetorically to the russians, it seems to me. Dont go over that line. No, he hasnt used sanctions. Hes talked about the ukraine incursions. Id say thats a pretty good signal. Paul all right, thank you v. President trump adopting an aggressive approach on his first trip abroad, reviving old alliances in the middle east and sending a message to iran. Irans leaders routinely call for israels destruction. Not with donald j. Trump. Oscar mayer is making big changes to hot dogs. We went back to the drawing board. 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That speech in saudi arabia kicked off the president s first foreign trip which culminated this weekend at the g7 summit in sicily. Cliff may is the founder and president of the foundation for defense of democracies. He joins me now from washington. Cliff, welcome back. Good to see you. Good to see you. Paul so in the nato i want to ask, first, about this nato address where the leaders are all standing there, and the president really gets pretty blunt about saying you need to spend more money on defense. I dont think some of them liked it. Im just reading from the body language and some of their comments later. What do you think of that challenge to those leaders . I think its a necessary challenge. They need to spend more. They also need to do more. Too many of our nato allies do not have sufficient capabilities. Too many of the generals love hanging out in the more than billion dollar nato center drinking espresso [laughter] but they dont expect ever to see combat in their entire lives. Combat is so 19th century to them. We have real challenges and real threats, and nato will become obsolete. I dont think it is, but will become obsolete if nato doesnt face those challenges, and particularly the challenges represented by jihaddism and islamism, both in its shia or iranian form and its sunni form. Paul so you think it actually is an improvement that natos announced its going to join the coalition against Islamic State . Thats clearly a response to trump. That is a response to trump. Look, i think the its clear that the european leaders were not pleased by trump, they dont like him particularly. Paul right. They see him as gauche. I think his job was to send them a very clear message that they cant be free riders and thats also a word obama used they cant simply use nato to be protected by the u. S. While they disrespect the u. S. , they have to participate in mutual selfdeoffense or its not really a mutual selfdefense alliance. Paul do you think the press is making too much of this failure of the president to address specifically article v which was invoked once in nato history after 9 11 . The nato allies said after the attack on 9 11 this, they triggered article v, and they joined us in the alliance to fight afghanistan the taliban. Do you think trump should have stated more explicitly, look, i endorse that . I think that would have been a reasonable thing to consider,n mind he did mention article v paul yes, he did. And he praised article v. That sends a pretty good snag that he hasnt deviated or nullified article v. He still holds by it. But he didnt emphasize it as much as one might, but he also said and i think this is part of the carrots and stick approach you want me to be strong on protecting you, help me protect the free world. Dont make it my job alone. Paul lets talk about the middle east and and especially that visit to saudi arabia where the president really, i think, took the biggest change of direction from president obama in trying to revive the Traditional Alliance with the sunniarabs. Yet hes getting some criticism on that from some people who say, look, he was too hostile to iran. What do you think the president was up to there, and how do you see this, how do you see this moving ahead with his policy in the middle east . First of all, hes being very clear that he intends to be the corrective for the policy of appeasement that president obama understand took undertook. Paul towards iran. The leading sponsor of terrorism in the world, according to our government, is getting a patient pathway to Nuclear Weapons and billions of dollars that it does and can use for military purposes, for Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and to support terrorism. Hes making it clear that he doesnt accept that, that appeasement is now off the table. I think weve been talking a lot about the words, theres also symbolism that i think was very effective when he has the leaders or rulers to be more precise [laughter] dozens of sunni nations lined up behind him. That sends an important, symbolic message. When he flies, first president ever to do so, from saudi arabia to israel, that sends a message. When he also on the same trip visits the vatican, that sends an important message. And i think you have to give credit for these things x i think if this were a normal presidency, i think more journalists would. Paul all right. What do you think about the arms sales to the saudis . Were selling a lot of arms, and do you worry that that could potentially be a threat to Israeli Security . I do worry about that. The israelis have been promised by the u. S. That they will maintain a qualitative military edge, and its important that they do. I think the israelis worry about it, but theyre also not protesting it because they do know that the saudis are very much on the front lines, that the Islamic Republic of iran represents an existential threat not just to israel are, but also to the saudis and the gulf and most of the gulf sunni states. And, in fact, its a more imminent threat represented by iran. So they understand why the saudis are going to have that. Israel needs to stay ahead of the game. This is a tricky maneuver, everybodys walking on a tight rope. But at the end of the day, i think it is necessary. And by the way, from a trumpian perspective, selling lots of arms to the saudis so they can help defend themselves, we dont have to defend them entirely. Thats a good thing and perhaps a lot of jobs coming out of these sales as well. Paul well, and moving towards a policy, it sounds to me like, containment against irans regional ambitions even if he doesnt withdraw from the nuclear pact. Briefly, cliff. Containment for now, but i think we know that the Trump Administration is working on a coherent, comprehensive strategy towards iran. Doesnt have one yet, needs to have one and it gets that. Paul thank you, cliff may. Appreciate your coming. When we come back, the senate faces new hurdles in its effort to repeal and replace obamacare. After the Congressional Budget Office released its report on the house version of the bill. How to read those health care predictions, next. The unexpected. Doesnt happen by accident. That goes beyond assuming beingredients are safe. Ood to knowing they are. Going beyond expectations. Because our pets deserve it. Beyond. Natural pet food. Depression is a tangle of multiple symptoms. 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Now with xfinitys my account, you can figure things out easily, so you wont even have to call us. Change your wifi password to something you can actually remember, instantly. Add that premium channel, and watch the show everyones talking about, tonight. And the bill you need to pay . Do it in seconds. Because we should fit into your life, not the other way around. Go to xfinity. Com myaccount paul a muchanticipated report by the Congressional Budget Office was released this week outlining costs and coverage predictions for the house bill to repeal and replace obamacare. The cbo forecasting that the plan will cut taxes by 992 billion, cut spending by 1. 1 trillion and the deficit by 119 billion over ten years. But also estimating that 23 million fewer people would be insured by 2026. That headline raising the stakes for gop senators working on their own version of the legislation that passed the house earlier this month. Were back with dan henninger, columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow jason reilly and Editorial Board member joe rego. So, joe, how much stock should we put in these cbo estimates . What we should do is take these as an educated guess about what the future might hold but not treat them as some kind of holy writ carved in stone tablets. The cbo has a track record of overestimating the effects of governmentdirected policies, underestimating the effects of marketbased policies. So its one opinion, and take it with a grain of salt. Paul but do other people think therell be fewer people who will lose their insurance down the road here . Certainly, there may be some kind of erosion in coverage whether its in absolute numbers working off an imperfect cbo baseline, maybe different types of insurance that the Congressional Budget Office doesnt considered a adequate. But certainly, if you get a richer, more liquid market with more choices, more competition, youre likely to get a healthier market over time. Paul jason, the politics of this, what damage does it do . Thats the problem. I think joes absolutely right, but the gop still has a political problem with this number being out there and bandied about by democrats. Its going to impact how the senate tries to put together their version of this bill. You already see certain senators coming out citing this number, saying we have to come in under it whether its orrin hatch, susan collins, dean heller whos very vulnerable next year, they are worried about this number. So it does present a big political problem. Well, look, i mean, donald trump is getting more political sport from leaders in the middle east than he is from senate republicans, which is kind of pathetic commentary on the Republican Party right now. But they cannot be intimidated by this cbo report. The cbo is described as this nonpartisan, disinterested body, just the facts, maam. But the idea of the health bill, in great part, is to put money back in the hands of the state, allow governors and legislators to decide how paul particularly with medicaid. Particularly with medicaid. The cbo says they think onethird of the states will alter obamacare based on it. How do they know that . That is a political judgment. That is not based on any facts or data. So this is in great part a political document. I think, however, paul, that the strategy of the republicans should be to talk about the effects of obamacare in the real world right now. Theres been the obamacare is failing, we see the evidence of it week after week after week whether its insurers pulling out of exchanges or making plans to pull out of exchanges like kansas city, Blue Cross Blue Shield did recently, talk about the realworld effects that the status quo is not an option. This cannot this is not sustainable. Instead however, though, and this is why i think for democrats it was a good week, all the focus has been on that number. And republicans have been playing defense all week. They need to go on the offense here. Paul joe, our friends on the left are blaming trump and the republicans for whats happening, for the decline in the obamacare exchanges. That doesnt really add up. No. I mean, look, this process started in 2015, 2016 you started to see the insurers start to withdraw, you started to see premiums really start to spike. So unless you have a time machine going back to before trump was elected, what youre seeing is an acceleration of an alreadyexisting trend. Paul and that was something that a lot of critics predicted would happen. Right. Except for the congressional budget paul which way overestimated by millions of people how many people would now be covered by obamacare. What is it, i think they said 15, 16 million would be covered on the exchange . Right. Under their original prediction, it was 23, 25 million for this year. Were actually looking at 9. Paul wow. So just a huge overestimate. On the politics, republicans have to decide whether they want to defend an achievement that will fix some of these problems in the market or apologize for a failure. I think thats a pretty clear political decision. Paul and that achievement would be actually passing a bill and then saying, look, heres what we did to fix this problem and then defend it going into the election rather than saying, oh, well, we failed. Lets all go home, sorry. Right. We had this great opportunity and we wasted it on infighting and Congressional Budget Office scores. Paul all right. Thanks to you all. Still ahead, the white house unveils its 2018 budget, but critics say its Economic Forecast is far too optimistic. So is 3 growth really within reach . Ive found a permanent escape from monotony. 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Lets ask economist douglas holtzeakin, president of the American Action forum and former director of the Congressional Budget Office. Welcome, doug, good to see you. Thanks for having me. Paul so lets deal first with the 3 growth issue. Jason furman, foreman white house economist under president obama, wrote for us this week that you just cant really get there for any extended period anymore because population growth is too slow, and there are too many structural barriers. What do you think of that . I dont agree with that. I mean, a lot of the structural barriers were erected by jason furman and the president he served, barack obama. So if you got serious about tax reform, if you got serious about regulatory reform, if you had a sensible, targeted National Infrastructure program that enhanced National Connectivity with Economic Performance and if you took off the table the potential that the u. S. Itself would have a sovereign debt can crisis by getting the budget back to balanced as they promise, you could get the 3 growth. Thats certainly within the reasonable bounds. 4 or 5, no. But 3 is a sensible number. Paul well, but we had 4 growth over an extended period of years in the reagan years in the 1980s and the late 19ed 0s. Why cant that happen again . Is that just because the population growth isnt going to be as great . Right. Its the population. I mean, the Building Blocks of growth are simple. Youve got workers and productivity, and the growth in workers is slower now because of the demographics, and this is all about getting productivity growth back to where it should be. Its declined preci and to do that, you need some ability to start businesses. Weve seen business startups decline recently paul right. You need Capital Investment in new technologies. There are lots of pieces that we know go into better productivity growth, and we havent done those for a number of years. Paul well, and if you look at trumponomics, deregulation reduces the barriers to Capital Investment and business confidence. Then you have tax reform, if its done right and thats a big if [laughter] but if its done right, youre going to reduce the taxation on Corporate Income and Small Business income, and then you, thats going to help investment. And those things both would drive greater business and worker productivity. Sure. I mean, if you took, for example, the house proposed tax reform, thats a plan that taken as a whole would incentivize firms to invest, innovate and grow in america as opposed to elsewhere. Youd get a onetime pop from a lot of money coming back to the u. S. , youd get sustained better investment, better allocation of capitol. You let markets do it, not the tax code. All that can give you a half a percentage point, if you do that. As you said, its a big if, but remember, the president s budget is what will happen if the president gets everything he wants the way he wants it. So every president s budget is at some level an elaborate fantasy, but theyre trying to stake out policy. Paul all right, lets talk about some of the specifics. Whats your biggest disappointment in the budget . Ill tell you mine, its that theres no touching medicare or Social Security which takes a huge chunk off the table for any kind of fixes. Youve got it exactly right. That has to happen. We have Social Security, medicare and medicaid, the Affordable Care act, those programs are driving the everrising spending that fuels the red ink. If you take those two off the table, you cant really make sensible adjustments to the rest of the budget that add up. And you see that in the fact that they dont really have the outyear defense money that they need paul right. Made room for it, and they dont have a sensible strategy on cutting nondefense discretionary program. Theres some massive cuts in places Like National institutes of health, but they need that in the budget. Thats the problem. Paul so what do you like about the budget . Is there anything you really think is useful thats in there thats much needed . There is a medicaid reform. Were going to have to reform all of our entitlement programs, and critics dont like this one, but they are missing the point. There has to be one. So if you dont like this one, propose another one that you like better, but dont take medicaid reform off the table. Theyre doing that, theyre aiming for better growth, i think those are two big pluses in this budget. Paul and the medicaid budget, the big reform is sending the program back to the states in the sense that you take more responsibility for it, and if you have more stake in the game, the states, then reform it. And weve seen that in a lot of states. You know because you were watching that program. Sure. Paul a lot of states have done some very good things, democrat and republican governors, that get that program on a better footing and dont hurt the poor. Yeah. I mean, theres no substitute for putting something on a budget. Once somethings on a budget, and this puts it gives it to the states and says heres the money, they have every incentive to use that money more wisely, its way better than an openended draw on the treasury, and when weve done anytime the past, look at indiana and wisconsin, they have managed to cover those populations, get Better Health care and not spend as much money. Thats the key. Paul all right. General economic question here at the end. Why is the stock market doing so well here if theres so much uncertainty still in washington about the trump policies . I think the firm one thing is the fact number one thing is the fact that the regulatory freezes really worked. Obama was cruising along at 3. 2 billion a week in new regulatory costs, and now its zero. Paul wow. People notice that. If youre running a business, people are happy. [laughter] paul you think if you got tax reform, itd be even better. Yeah. I think the promise of tax reform is keeping peoples hopes up. I sincerely hope the president and congress deliver, its something this country needs. Paul thank you very much, doug. Still ahead, President Trump wraps up his first foreign trip and returns to the washington maelstrom. A look at where the russia probe heads next when we come back. Managing blood sugar is not a marathon. Its a series of smart choices. And when you replace one meal or snack a day with glucerna made with carbsteady to help minimize blood sugar spikes you can really feel it. Glucerna. Everyday progress. My belly pain i could build a small city with all the overthecounter products ive used. Enough ive tried enough laxatives to cover the eastern seaboard. 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Paul President Trump returns to washington this weekend, and the ongoing controversy over russian interference in the 2016 president ial campaign. Even in his absence, the dripdrip of stories continued with former National Security adviser Michael Flynn taking the fifth on monday and refusing to comply with a Senate Committees subpoena for documents. In his testimony tuesday, director of National Intelligence dan coats refused to comment on reports that President Trump asked him to publicly deny allegations of collusion between his campaign and russia. And the president himself has reportedly retained the services of new York Attorney mark cass wits to help him navigate the probe. Were back with dan henninger, mary kissel and bill mcgurn. One other detail, mary, jared kushner, the president s soninlaw, white house aide, is now a person of interest as the investigators want to ask him about meetings he had with russian officials. What do you make of that . Okay. Thats interesting, but its just part of this big what i think is becoming a blur to the American People of, you know, illusions and insinuations. Paul, the only thing that we know for sure that was a criminal act was the leak of classified information to the media. We know that for sure. Then let the special counsel go and figure out the facts of whats happened with other people. Personally, i find far more interesting a Washington Post story that came out this week that said that james comey may have acted, gone to the public with his findings about the clinton email investigation based on a russian document that might have been planted by russian intelligence sources. Now, why was paul this was last summer. Yep. And why was this document interesting . Because it claimed that somehow Loretta Lynch had talked to the Clinton Campaign and said, dont worry about that email server, were not going to investigate that. And then as the Washington Post reported, comey may have acted on that information. If thats true, that means the russians duped the fbi and doj, maybe not the trump campaign. Paul which is entirely possible, that that happened, although we havent seen that document, so we dont know what it is, bill, we dont know you know, theres so much of this, its all kind of murky right. Paul and i want to ask you has this probe now gotten any sharper focus in your mind . Any more clarity about what it is that were actually learning . Well, thats a good question because i think the purpose is not to have clarity. Its not to paul well, whose purpose . Well, i think democrats and the people that are pushing this. They dont want to reach a conclusion and find out what happened. I think what they would like is to create this constant stir around President Trump and hope something sticks and maybe theres an impeachment. Now, he doesnt help when he lobs a tweet or something in there or says something, you know, that he shouldnt say. I mean, i always thought he needed an editor, not a lawyer paul he needs both now. [laughter] a lot of this this is, you know, i worked in the white house when there was an investigation into Scooter Libby and karl rove, and it really is designed to handicap you and freeze you up and change a debate from what you want to talk about to russia. And weve had dni, fbi, cia and no, no conclusion. Paul on bills point that trump sometimes is his own worst enemy in this thing, the story about trump having asked dan coats and i think general rogers is it, the head of the nsa, please go out publicly and vouch for the fact that there was no collusion. You cant do that when youre president , ask those advisers to do that. And his general counsel should have been in the room telling him you cant do that or and been in the room when he asked them. Yeah. Paul and this is the problem with this president , because theres no selfdiscipline there to try to say, look, i want to try to contain this probe and this damage. Instead its im innocent, and he blurts things out that only create another week of stories. Right. Yeah, normally a president would be sitting with his advisers in the oval office and say why cant we get directors of National Intelligence to say that theres no collusion. That would be vetted, thered be a reason why you cant do it. This brings up the subject of the fact that mr. Trump has now hired an outside attorney to handle these investigations who is his personal lawyer, hes a new york corporate lawyer whos handled new york corporate cases. He is not a lawyer who specializes in these kinds of investigations you have in washington. I can understand mr. Trump wanting a lawyer who he personally trusts, but he mr. Cassowitz has got to add some lawyers who are expert in document retrieval, investigation, subpoenas in washington or hes going to remain vulnerable. Paul and hes known as a guy who really fights which you might want on the other hand, you want to have somebody that cooperates enough. You cant get anywhere in these things stonewalling. That just leads you down a terrible path, bill. Yeah. I think, look, a lot of it for President Trump is just dont feed the beast. Dont throw something into the mix that, you know, gasoline onto the fire that gives them more reason to scream and holler. And try to work with these guys to get conclusions. Lets look into these things and lets reach a conclusion about what happened and what didnt happen. Well, i think the other takeaway here was just the incredibly poor judgment that trump showed in hiring general Michael Flynn. This is a guy who was paid by Turkish Group during the campaign, he registered later as a foreign agent. We know that somehow he misled the Vice President , now were learning that he maybe didnt disclose everything that he should have disclosed when he was getting his security clearance renewed. So trump came out and defended him. I think at this point you start to distance yourself from a guy like that, but trump just cant seem to do that. Paul the question is, some people have suggested, that maybe he, you know, trump worried that flynn might be able to implicate trump in something. Im not saying he has any evidence, im just saying thats the scuttlebutt. Evidence is the right word. I dont disagree with mary, but lets look at what has been going on in this investigation for months. Everything is based on hearsay and insinuation. Things that any prosecutor would say to a detective give me something i can take into court, and they have not done that to this point. Paul all right. Thank you all very much. When we come back, state legislatures struggling for years with just how much they can or should consider race when redrawing political districts, so did this Weeks Supreme Court decision clear that question up or create more confusion . Ill never find a safe used car. Start at the new carfax. Com show me minivans with no reported accidents. Boom. Love it. [struggles] show me the carfax. Start your used car search at the allnew carfax. Com. I count on my dell small for tech advice. With one phone call, i get products that suit my needs and i get back to business. Paul the legislature in North Carolina improperly used race in redrawing the lines for two congressional districts resulting in boundaries that disadvantaged black voters. Wall street journal Editorial Board member col colin levy joins us with more. Whats the big takeaway from this decision . I think its that the Supreme Court has made things more complicated. You know, for years basically weve been telling state legislatures they have to use the 1965 Voting Rights act when drawing districts. They have to take some race into account to make sure that minority voters are able to elect a candidate of their choice. And what the Supreme Court basically said this week w okay, you do have to take the Voting Rights act into account, but you cant use that as a defense because if you put too many minority voters into a district, that violates equal protection. So this has actually gotten more confusing, i think for states, not less. Paul where do they draw the line between not enough and too much . Right, exactly. Thats sort of what people call the goldilocks problem here. This was a matter of moving just a few Percentage Points of minority voters into some of these districts. And, you know, republicans there who control the state legislatures said they were doing this because they wanted to sort of increase republican chances in surrounding districts. And, you know, what happens here, whats so difficult is that because about 90 of the Africanamerican Community votes democrat, moving black voters often means moving democrats. So it gets a little muddy. Paul well, and thats right. I mean, they have theres no question that republicans have used redistricting to pack some districts with more black voters which is legal. Paul theyre commanded to, in some as collin was saying, because here race can be a proxy for your political views because of the high percentages that blacks vote republican for democrats, they find themselves in Uncharted Waters here x. The Supreme Court has given them no guidance. They use the same language when it comes to affirmative action higher education. They tell schools race can be a factor but not the determinant factor. Now you go figure it out. [laughter] and its but, you know, Clarence Thomas paul thats what i wanted to can about. Yeah. Paul so Clarence Thomas was the fifth vote here. Now, youd say Clarence Thomas, ive looked at his jurisprudence for years, he abhors the use of race as a, in redistricting and anything else. He thinks the constitution is essentially raceneutral. Right. And thats why he voted paul why did he vote for the liberals because, again, its not whether race is a fact or or the factor, he says once youre talking about using race here, he thinks thats just an outdated notion, and that should not be and hes right. The thinking behind this gerrymandering is that we need to segregate voters by race in order for black elected, black figures to be elected x. This is nonsense in this world we live in. Under obama lots of whites voted for obama, and he wasnt the first black candidate to receive a lot of white votes. So i think this is just an outdated interpretation of the Voting Rights act. Paul but, collin, is Clarence Thomas with that vote for Different Reasons empowering the liberal interpretation of the Voting Rights act . Right. I think thats very interesting because i think whats happening here is the court has now acknowledged that there needs to be strict scrutiny on any use of race. And thats something that, you know, the whole court may consider again if theres another case that ever challenges section two of the Voting Rights act. Now, paul, one of the other interesting things here though is how much this is probably going to increase litigation, you know, on these Voting Rights cases. Paul right. As samuel alito said in his opinion, the danger here is that you actually have a situation where youre taking federal courts and empowering them as political weapons, you know, in these sort of local and state political battles, you know, where the states try to get through the courts what theyre unable to get through the political process. Paul yeah. Race again will become more of a partisan weapon exactly, and thats whats going on here. Political gerrymanders are legal, racial jerry mappedders are illegal, and the democrats have discovered when they can file lawsuits, generally they win. Its a complete act of hypocrisy paul racial gerrymanders are sometimes illegal. Sometimes, jason, theyre legal. Well, we look to the courts for some clarity on this. Again, they continue to punt as theyve done again in this case. Paul and as samuel alito in his dissent pointed this out to. Thank you all very much. We have to take one more break. When we come back, hits and misses of the week. Snuck. 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Paul, i think weve all had the impulse to strangle a journalist from time to time, but somehow we managed to resolve our differences civilly. So this is a miss to the montana republican who body slammed a reporter for the guardian ahead of a special Congressional Election on thursday. He went on to win, believe it or not, but only by about five or six points in a a state with an 11point republican advantage. This could be an ominous sign for the republican majority ahead of the 2018 midterms and certainly an ominous sign for decent behavior in congress. Paul all right. Collin. Paul, weve become sort of accustomed in recent years to mobs on College Campuses shutting down conservative speakers the way that Middlebury College did with conservative author Charles Murray this spring, but some legislatures are starting to look at laws that will make sure that College Campuses have free speech all over them, not just in designated freespeech zones, places like wisconsin and tennessee are are doing it. And some of them are better than others, but i think, you know, its a sign that these states have finally had enough and its a ten in the right direction. Step in the right direction. Paul jason. A hit for roger moore who has died at the age of 89. He was not my favorite james bond, but he did play the character in for your eyes only. I also thought he wore the celebrity well. He didnt complain about being typecast or this wrongs throngs of fans bothering him. He seemed to appreciate there are worse things in life than being rich and famous. Paul bill. The puerto rican day parade in new york coming up, the board of the parade announced that they were designating Oscar Lopez Rivera as a national hero, freedom hero. And thats backed by the speaker of the city council. Its provoked backlash. These people get a hit. The yankees, the nypd, Spanish Society for pulling out of the parade. Look, the truth is this guy is no different from the people who plotted manchester, no moral difference, and thered be no controversy if president obama hadnt commuted his sentence. Paul thank you all. Thats it for this weeks show. Thanks to my panel and to all of you for watching. Im paul gigot, hope to see you right here next week. President trumps first overseas trip since taking office now in the books. The president currently enroute to the white house departing italy earlier today where he praised his nineday trip as a great success. Hello, im laura ingle, welcome to a brand new hour of americas news headquarters. Gregg and im gregg jarrett, thanks for joining us. The president capping off his trip with a speech to u. S. Troops stationed in sicily, vowing to overcome and defeat the growing threat of global terror. Amy kellogg is live in italy with more on this. Amy, what was accomplished on this trip . Reporter well, gregg, lots of sweeping