And bill mcgurn, lets ask. Looks like the president s gearing up to make this a big Midterm Election issue, immigration. Thats pretty clear, paul. Hes making an issue that he campaigned on, the wall and influx of migrants and immigrants from mexico. I have to wonder a little bit, paul, whether its a political issue is one thing. The other question is whether it is a substantive problem on the border. The dreamers, the people connected to the daca issue, they came here in the 1980s and 1990s when there was an enormous surge of migrants from mexico. The surge has stopped, in no small part because mexicos birth rate has dropped to about 2. 5, like ours is 2. 1 per child bearing woman. There arent as many of them that are going to come as there were before. The dreamers, i expect hes going to blame that on the democrats. The democrats in turn will say President Trump has made a conscious decision to strand these people who are here under no fault of their own. Paul to dans point, the Border Apprehensions have been falling dramatically. They were way down last year. Theyve been up a little bit in march and february, i think you and i would probably agree probably because of the attractions of growth here in the United States. But what about the caravan, the caravan that was heading from Central America, thats the excuse the president made, the reason he made for sending the National Guard. I agree with dan. I think this is mostly a campaign issue. Hes getting ready for the next round. First of all, sending the National Guard is fine, but president bush did that, president obama did that, he initially said he was going to send the military. I think he realized hes not allowed to do that. But you also have to keep in mind that the most important thing he did was name more judges or say that hes going to put more judges there. Paul there is a huge backlog. When a lot of these people come across the border, they actually give themselves up. They give themselves up because they think they have a claim to asylum because theyre fleeing violence in Central America because of the gangs and rule of law problem that Central America has not been able to solve and the u. S. Has not managed to help them solve. The judges will allow them to process these people. The big complaint has been they get arrested and theyre told they have a hearing later and sometimes they dont show up. Paul the actual caravan vanished in mexico. It broke apart, right . It was sort of an urban legend. What was going on is every year right around this time theres this protest march, asking mexico to pay more attention to this problem, from people fleeing the violence in Central America. They march up to mexico city. Thats what they were doing. Some of them carry on to the u. S. Border. But many of them didnt have the plan to come to the u. S. In the first place. Paul do you think its smart for the president to give up on a daca deal this year . No. I think thats a big point. Look, if i step back a little, i think this is a proxy fight. There are some on the left that dont want any border, dont want anyone to come in at any time and they make all sort of excuses. Paul they want people to come in. They dont want there dont want any kind of rule or any kind of compromise. I think there are some in President Trumps camp who dont want any more Legal Immigration either. Theres a lot of that. In the middle is the possibility of a deal, the border wall trump wanted for daca paul funding for that. I think he made a political mistake. I dont have a problem with sending the National Guard to the border. When he offered the path to citizenship to these people here in exchange for some security, that finally was showing the democrat as not cooperating. Hes absolutely right on that that they dont want a deal. When he says no more deal, hes gets the fallout that should be going to them. So i think its a mistake. I think he should actually make a smaller deal on daca for his Border Security wall, just a straightup just make it clear that hes willing to trade something. Were not going to get the answer to the border isnt the National Guard or whatever. Its a regular immigration system that gives us a border like canada. Paul dan, we had a visit from eric paulson, the republican congressman from minneapolis in a district that donald trump lost by 10 points. And hes going to have a tough reelection. He told us he thought a daca deal would be great for him. He thought it would show we accomplished something, we solved a problem that democrats couldnt solve. The failure on daca may not help him. Thats right. I mean, most polls show that most americans are relatively similar pathetic certainly to the daca kids, the dreamers. Certainly they want the immigration problem somehow solved. Weve been arguing about this for at least 25 years. We will argue about it for another 25 years. As bill suggested, were in a light labor market right now. If we have Migrant Workers they need to be given work visas so they could come in, do their work, finish the jobs, go back where they came from and come back on visas when their work is over. As it is now, if they go back, they can never come back to the jobs so they sneak into the country. Most voters want that system stopped and rationalized. Paul President Trump pushing for a quick withdrawal of american troops from syria, ideally within the next six months. Does that give the u. S. Military the time it needs to complete its mission . Well ask senator Lindsey Graham next. I want to get out, i want to bring our troops back home, i want to start rebuilding our nation. Hey, sir losealot thou hast the patchy beard of a prepubescent squire thy armor was forged by a feeblefingered peasant woman. Your mom as long as hecklers love to heckle, you can count on geico saving folks money. 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A few people live very large in russia at the expense of others and hitting putins inner circle, making sure they cant take their ill gotten gain and buy houses and yachts is the first step. Paul would you recommend sanctions against putin himself . Absolutely. Paul you would sanction him personally . The british say they believe that the attempted assassination inside of britain of a former russian spy, british citizen, was orchestrated by putin. Our Intelligence Community believes putin approved of the hacking into the 2016 election. Intelligence Community Tells us hes up to it again. Nothing happens in russia of any consequence without him knowing it. Thats the upside of being a dictator. You know about everything. But heres what i would do even bolder. I would take all the customers that russia sells oil and gas to, all the major customers, and see if i could provide oil and gas to some alternative to russia. That would begin to cripple their economy. Paul we are increasing oil and gas exports. Lets turn to syria. You heard the president this week saying i want to get out, quote, unquote, thats a very direct signal. He has backed off from that immediately at the request of his advisors. On the other hand, everybody in the middle east heard what he said about i want to get out. Is that a smart strategy . I dont know if the damage is done to the point it cant be reversed. I hope not. The president really chided obama, president obama, for setting a timetable on when he was going to end military operations. We all lampooned obama because its a pretty dumb idea. So a general told me the hard part with isis is yet to come, its not just defeating them on the battlefield. You have to hold the territory. If we say six months from now were leaving syria, isis will come back with a vengeance and nobody would be happier with that decision than the iranians. Paul because what happens if we do decide weve cleaned up isis, you declare victory, you come home and say shar syria is somebody elses problem. What happens then . It changes everything President Trump said. He stood up in the arab world. He said they should do more in syria and other places. But i stand with you against two threats, against iranian expansion and i stand with you against radical suni islam, opposite of what obama did. Obama was seen as being more concerned about iran than the mideast. If we pull out of syria, it undercuts everything he told the arabs. Syria in short order becomes a safe haven for hezbollah. Iran and russia will dominate syria. Its a nightmare for israel. Isis will come back and there will be new attacks launched against western interests from syria and north korea will look at trump and say this guys all talk. Paul i guess the response to that would be, you know what, thats sort of a worst case scenario. But look, its other peoples responsibility to take care of that. Israel can take care of itself. The saudis should ante up. Why dont the french and germans and other people take care of the refugee problems. Thats not what i believe in. Thats the response you get from a lot of people. Heres what i tell those folks, who takes care of america . Are the israelis, the french and germans going to defend american interest. That argument falls apart if you believe isis is a threat to the United States. It falls apart if you believe iranian expansion in the middle east is hurtful t to our allies and hurtful to the United States. If you believe isis is of no concern, that the attacks that happened in paris cant happen in the United States, then leave. I cant think of a mid eastern country that i would outsource our National Security to. Building a border wall makes sense to me to deal with the threats coming from south of the border. What will we do to deal with mideast threats . Outsource them to other countries . I think we need a deployed force of americans to protect the homeland. Paul is that a recipe for a longterm deployment that costs anen for muse amount of money enormous amount of money and more troops than we have on the ground there and can we a afford that type of commitment. The last time we ignored the threats in the region was afghanistan. How much did it cost us from the 9 11 attacks . Heres what i think. I think you can take less than the number of troops we have in south korea, 28,000, put them in iraq, syria and afghanistan, less than 28,000 troops and keep the homeland protected. The only thing i can tell you, if you leave syria now, isis will come back like they did when we left iraq. How much money has the world spent, the United States spent due to the withdrawal from iraq . So if youre looking at this from dollars and cents, its going to cost 1,000 times more to leave and let isis come back than it will to hold the territory once we destroy them. Paul all right. Im sure youve made this argument to President Trump. We will follow this debate as it goes. Thank you, senator. Appreciate it. Thank you. Paul when we come back, beijing responds to the Trump Administrations tariffs targeting top u. S. Exports. So could trump voters bear the brunt of chinas trade retaliation . We intend to get along with china but we have to do something very substantial about the trade deficit and with that, nothing is easy. your heart doesnt only belong to you. Child bye, grandpa and if you have Heart Failure, entrusting your heart to entresto may help. Entresto is a Heart Failure medicine that helps improve your hearts ability to pump blood to the body. 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Get ready to binge with xfinity on demand or the Xfinity Stream app. Xfinity watchathon week starts april 16th. Paul trade tensions with china escalated this week after the Trump Administration announced plans to propose a an additional tariff on chinese made goods. China responded with its own list targeting american exports including soybeans, cars and airplanes. President trump threatened an additional 100 billion in tariffs on more chinese imports citing chinas unfair retaliation. The president responded to claims that hes stoking a trade war in a tweet saying, quote, we are not in a trade war with china. That war was lost many years ago by foolish or incompetent people who represented the u. S. Now we have a trade deficit of 500 billion a year. We cannot let this continue when youre already 500 billion down, you cant lose. Were back with Dan Henninger mary ogrady and James Freeman. Mary, we cant lose. Yeah, well, actually that goes right to the heart of my problem with the donald trump trade policy. That is that hes putting all this emphasis on the trade deficit and he keeps insisting that unless we get rid of the trade deficit were somehow harmed. The fact of the matter is we have a trade deficit and we will have a trade deficit as long as we are richer than china and the only way were going to get rid of that deficit is if you im pomakeit so American People cany all these things. Paul what about the argument and you hear it from a lot of people, larry kudlow advising the president this is not a trade war, this is a negotiating policy which will help china change their policies. Do you agree with this. This is the fifth trade policy weve had. Theyve all failed. Paul he would say south korea worked out just fine. We have a new deal with south korea. We raised tariffs on importing pickup trucks. We raised taxes on u. S. Consumers. The problem with President Trump is he doesnt understand the benefits of trade liberalization go to the bi liberalizer. If we are an open economy, we do better than the rest of the world. And he insists that there has to be this something for something and thats a manageable trade policy if you want to make americans better off. Paul the markets are down, no question, not a lot but theyre down some since the trade advance, trade poll say forays by the president. What are the Economic Risks here . There are a lot of risks. I think investors are reflecting that. I guess if you would see a hopeful sign here, its that the president does seem to be moving away from wanting to fight with the whole world on trade, wanting to fight with our friends in canada and mexico and hes focusing more on chinese intellectual property. I think that is the right focus if youre going to seek better deals in trade, if people were selling stolen copies of the wall street journal outside for a nickel, we wouldnt say thats good for consumers. So i think thats the right issue to focus on. But there are high stakes here. As far as is this a brilliant art of the deal thats about to come together paul do you think so . I think its a concern because hes not sitting across the table from what you might thinks of as a normal business person on the other side. This is an old style communist thug who runs china. This is not someone who is looking for a winwin deal. Maybe this is a way to bring that person around. Paul trump would say weve got all the leverage, they need us more than we need them, they need our market more than we need their market. Its true that we buy a much larger percentage of chinese Economic Production than they buy of american production. So in that sense, i suppose he does have some cards to play here. On the other hand, that is a dictatorship. You are not going to have a business class, a consumer class demanding a different approach because if they do, theyre thrown in prison and their families may also be thrown in prison. So in that way, xi jinping has a lot of leverage too. Paul one of the thing thats notable about the chinese retaliation, in addition to boeing aircraft and u. S. Automobiles, its really aimed at American Farm products whiz are priced competitively around the world. We have a competitive farm economy. Soybean exports for example are big in china. And the u. S. Farm belt has been struggling with its income in recent years because of low commodity prices. Could this go down to the detriment of the u. S. Farm belt . I think it could definitely do that. Last week a senator from iowa said its reaching the point where its not only hurting farmers but many of the farmers who voted for donald trump are beginning to have questions about whether he is acting in their best interest. I want to make one other point about whats going on here, paul. Roll the journal editorial back one month. What were we talking about . North korea and kim jong un and the threat of a Nuclear Missile and what was was important to getting something done, china and xi jinping. If we thought we had leverage, what do you think the chinese are thinking now if the United States needs them to do something about north korea and were threatening 150 billion of traves otariffs on them. Paul how worried are you about the economic fallout here from this . I think wilbur ross, the commerce secretary, keeps saying its only something happening at the march ism as you saw in the at the margin. As you saw in the last couple days, china keeps escalating and trump keeps escalating. We dont know where thats going. I think the uncertainty is costly no for economic decision making. Paul you could argue theyre in negotiations. Were going to talk it over and at the end of the day theyll come to some deal. If that happens maybe we have a happy ending here . You could argue that. Thats possible. The if trump other trade actions are any guideline, he ends up backing down and not much is accomplished. Thats what we can hope for. Paul when we come back, President Trump continuing his attacks on amazon this week. What it could mean for the retailing giants bottom line when we come back. Amazon is going to have to pay much more money to the post office, theres no doubt about that. How do you win at business . Stay at laquinta. Where were changing with contemporary makeovers. Then, use the ultimate power handshake, the upper hander with a double palm grab. Who has the upper hand now . 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And this will be changed. Also, our fully tax paying retailers are Closing Stores all over the country, not a level playing field. An dandy kessler is with velociy Capital Management based in palo alto. Andy, welcome. What do you make of the president s attacks on amazon . How big a threat are they to amazons business . My First Impression when i read the tweet that amazon was using the postal system as their delivery boy, causing tremendous losses for the us, my first thought was wait, we still have a postal service. They put stuff in my mailbox, i move it to the recycling bin. My sense is that what trump is doing is like a magicians miss misdirection. Theres a tariff induced trade war going on. The stock market is like a yoyo every day. This is a way to take peoples minds off of it. Maybe theres a billionaire boasting brawl going on. Jeff bezos is worth 100 billion and trump says im going to put 100 billion in tariffs on china. Will it affect amazon . If their costs go up, it could. What amazon is doing is theyre working on their own delivery system. Theres pilot programs going on, where if prices go up theyll bypass the post office and bypass ups and do it themselves. Paul a lot of people that think one of the president s motivations is that jeff bezos owns in his personal capacity the Washington Post. Its not an amazon ownership, its his. The Washington Post has been very, very negative about trump. If you were advising bezos, would you say take yourself away from being a political target like that and get rid of the Washington Post . Well, i agree. I dont think there is any reason for the richest person in the world to own a newspaper. I mean, its going to set up issues and conflicts of interest. As far as the trumps line, only a fool would think theyre not losing money, the post office must be a fool because they came out and said that all of their competitive package products, even those that amazon uses, have to cover their costs. This was from an august 2017 207 press release. Maybe the post office needs new accountants. What the post office needs is to loose their monopoly on first and third class mail and lets shut the thing. Do we need a post office anymore anyway. Paul its hard to know what the real costs and profit is because we dont know what the fixed costs are here for either of these companies and this kind of a circumstance. So in a way, we have to take the two partners at their word that its a mutually beneficial kind of transaction. But lets look at fixed costs paul go a ahead. Fixed costs per parcel or per piece are going up. Ten years ago they shipped 21 212 billion pieces, this year its 149 billion. Fixed cost per is definitely going up. Paul lets turn to facebook. Last time we talked about this you were saying all of the uproar over facebook and the privacy breach was a buying opportunity. Now theres been another greater data breach disclosed and Mark Zuckerberg is going to Congress Next week. Do you still think that facebook is going to is a buy . You know, what im saying is that their problems show up everywhere but their results. The usage seems to be steady and rising. The longterm concern is that they run out of users. But near term its the frenzy about people worried about their privacy and thats not going to stop. Congress, the congressional grandstanding is going to take place. What zuckerberg has to do is flip this whole thing, with the concerns over privacy or security, by flipping it, by having users own their own data. I have friends, i click likes, i own that data, not facebook. Facebook can rent is from me in exchange for me renting their servers and communications and all their software. But he really needs to turn this thing around and make it from he owns all the data and is a sinister guy sitting there deciding whats good and whats not to have users decide what they want to share and what they dont want to share. Paul and you do that by making it simple for saying i dont want anybody to share my data except for people i share it with myself, is that it . You could do that and facebook would turn around and say thats fine but then we cant do the magic we do. Your news feed wont be as robust as opposed to if you did share. So theres always tradeoffs. But by having users own their own data, it will change the whole paradigm of the internet around. It will change google, it will change amazon. I think it will help their business. It will give these guys additional Valueadded Services to sell if users own their own data. Paul briefly, what advice would you give zuckerberg next week when he goes before the congressional grandstanders on capitol hill. Wear a suit, not a hoodie. Second of all, dont be smug. I mean, this is important stuff. This is serious stuff and Congress Wants to feel like theyve won a battle. And so hes going to apologize. Hes going to fall on his sword and all those things. 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Its part of our commitment to being americas best first job. Youre going to have a chance to get a senator thats going to vote our program, thats going to help you in so many different ways and youre not getting that help right now. We didnt get one democrat vote for tax cuts. Paul President Trump touting the tax cuts and jobs act at a roundtable in West Virginia thursday. Republicans are hoping that will make the individual tax cuts permanent to help save congressional majorities in the midterms. A big republican loss in wisconsin has the states republican governor sounding the alarm with scott walker warning of a blue wave this november. Were back with Dan Henninger, James Freeman and allysia finley. Youve been looking at the wisconsin results. Is walker overstating things when he says theres a blue wave. Its probably understating things at this point. Democrats picked up a Supreme Court seat in wisconsin. They havent picked up an open seat in the court in 23 years. They won by 12 points. A huge turnout in dade county around madison, as well as in milwaukee and republicans just didnt turn out at all. Paul and shes a judge and its not a partisan they dont say republican and democrat. But biden went in there for her, eric holder, the former attorney general went in for her. It was clear, she made trump a big issue. She ran the election in part as a referendum on trump, that you need a Supreme Court judge to act a check on the president. Paul thats a little shot, a pool metaphor. She drove turnout with it. You had a high turnout, 22 for voter turnout, a compared to 20 in a normal spring election. Paul i was surprised, thats my hunting ground, where he grew up, and she won there big. Thats swing territory. Thats exactly it. This is a really this has got to make scott walker worried. Hes up for reelection in the fall. So is a lot of the state senate, assembly seats. You could use legislature and governorship this year. Paul so james, mr. Sunshine here, the taxes, the republicans looking at taxes, they want to make that the issue. Is that going to work for them . Its a good issue for them. I think american prosperity generally is the right issue. If you look what happened from december when they passed the tax cut, the generic ballot, who do you like, republicans or democrats for congress this fall, trumps Approval Rating, trumps Approval Rating on the economy, they all improved rapidly. Lately, not so good, tailing off a little and its because the first year of trump dominated by tax cuts and deregulation now were talking about the trade fights we were just describing earlier and then a huge Government Spending blowout. So i think what they have to do is focus on Economic Prosperity and thats round two of tax cuts and it also it wouldnt hurt to take kim strassels advice and take back some of the big spending they approved. Paul the second round of tax cuts, theyll attempt to make the tax rate cuts permanent for individuals and expensing for businesses at 100 permanent. Right now, both of those phase out. Theyll vote on that in the house but thats probably not going to get through the senate. The point there is in the senate you do achieve a political objective if youre republicans, even if it doesnt get enacted. The individual rate cuts which phase out years from now and everyone knows they wont actually end, that has become a talking point for democrats to pretend that the tax cuts are going away. For republicans, sending it to the senate is a way to get people on record and really expose whats kind of a sh char, the game of pretending that the tax cuts are going away. Paul it seems that the democrats and donald trump share one objective in this election, making this a referendum on donald trump. The republicans want to talk about something else, like tax cuts and the economy. Trump is going to make this all about trump isnt he . He was in West Virginia to give a speech about the tax cuts. He said i find this boring and then he proceeded to talk about the millions and millions of fraudulent votes in the 2016 election, that was the year before last and as well as his saving the country from all of the rapists coming across mexico. What does that do . It makes it about him. And lets say this. A lot of trumps voters love that sort of thing. They just love it. And that is great. Ithe big question in november is going to be will more trump lovers show up in these congressional districts or more trump haters. And the indication at the moment is that the trump haters are more energized than the trump voters. Maybe that will change. So long as the president is putting himself at the center of this, the election will come down to not the economy, not tax cuts, but trump lovers versus trump haters. Paul briefly, its that enthusiasm gap. Democrats are fired up. They want to come out and paste one on the president and say this is a vote against you. Republicans, some are saying im not all that fired up. Theyre not really campaigning on anything either. Theyre trying to avoid talking about trump. They need to put a forwardlooking agenda. What will they do for the next two years. Paul thank you. Still ahead, hundreds of teachers walking off the job in kentucky and oklahoma this week. A look at whats behind the wildcat strikes when we come back. Patrick woke up with a sore back. But hes got work to do. So he took aleve this morning. If hed taken tylenol, hed be stopping for more pills right now. Only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. Tylenol cant do that. Aleve. All day strong. All day long. And for pain relief and a good nights rest, try aleve pm for a better am. Paul one month after a teacher strike in West Virginia ended with a 5 pay raise, teachers in oklahoma and kentucky walked off the job this week, shutting down hundreds of schools with teachers calling for salary increases and more. Statstate funding or education. Jillian melchior has been looking into the walkout. She joins us now. Jillian, do the teachers have an argument here on the merits that they are underpaid and theres not enough spending on education . In oklahoma, i think they have had somewhat of an argument. Nearly 100 schooling have gone down to four days a week. Theyve gone a decade without a pay raise. In havent had no textbooks in several years. Paul thats because the politicians arent spending enough . Were seeing a lot of things, crowding the budget. The key one is medicaid, not just in oklahoma but in kentucky and West Virginia. Thats consuming a substantially growing part of the budget. That doesnt leave a lot of room for education unless you raise taxes. Paul what kind of magnitudes are we talking about here . Oklahoma is a state that did not expand medicaid under obamacare, unlike kentucky which did and i believe West Virginia did. And we know in states that expanded medicaid, they really increased their spending. Oklahoma didnt. Its still increasing medicaid spending . Its up t its up to about 25. Its a pretty substantial part of the budget. Were seeing in oklahoma they actually did try to remedy this by raising taxes on natural gas, on oil, on gasoline. Paul theyve got a 6,000 raise. 6,000 raise before the strike. Paul base pay across the board for all teachers. Its 14 to 18 . So that translates to 6,100 per teacher. Paul theyre not happy. Theyre saying thats not enough. They want 10,000. The senates debating raising taxes further. That will be difficult to do. In oklahoma you have to have a 75 approval. Paul this is surprising in a way because you dont think of oklahoma, West Virginia, kentucky and states with strong union presence. All right to work. Paul all right to work states. West virginia and kentucky relatively recently. Oklahoma has been a right to work state for years. Whats the political impetus to take on the to do this . I think first of all, they saw in West Virginia that there was cap iillitoin after nine da. I think theyre wanting to build off that momentum. I think theyre understanding that education is really important to a lot of voters. This is going to be a tough year for republicans and theyre hoping to make this a wedge issue. Paul theyre sensing weakness politically among the republicans and playing defense. So this is when we can drive our increases. And it cant be good politics in oklahoma for republicans to raise taxes. You would think not. You would think not. I think they feel like its a crisis. In kentucky the unfortunate thing is that the strike is about pensions, not pay. A very modest proposal to try to scale back their outofhand underfunded pension liabilities. They managed to pass legislation that makes a tiny dent in it and the teachers are going nuts down it. Paul one of the arguments is if they had big collective bargaining deals that banned strikes, some how these people wouldnt be able to strike because it would be illegal. Weve seen in chicago and elsewhere, just because you have a ban i think it is illegal. Its called a walkout. One of the interesting things is 35 years ago this coming tuesday the Reagan Administration put out a nation at risk about our mediocre Education System and all these years later you see the same thing. This has been a system geared to adults. Theres no discussion. Im all for letting teachers get more pay. Theres no discussion of how our students are doing. We have this crazy model. The only reason they have leverage is because they control this big quasimonopoly, right . Thats why all these Student Teachers can come out, lead their leave their students high and try. In any other industry, when you have a uniform state wage and everything, its crazy and not tied to any performance, its crazy. Paul merit pay and tenure. And about the kids. Lets hear something about the kids. Paul we have to take one more break. When we come back, hits and misses of the week. Dear foremothers, your society was led by a woman, who governed thousands. Commanded armies. Yielded to no one. When i found you in my dna, i learned where my strength comes from. My name is courtney mckinney, and this is my ancestrydna story. Now with 5 times more detail than other dna tests. Order your kit at ancestrydna. Com time now for hits and misses of the week. Jillian. Well George Washington university they have a seminar this week on christian privilege. To teach about how christians are getting institutional privileges that no one else gets. But they may want to look at montana where the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments this week on discrimination specifically against Christian Schools and the voucher program. I think that is a total miss. Alicia . This is a putin andrew cuomo. In his budget, about 50 million for olympic facilities state. 2 million for Industrial Hemp seed certification program. Meanwhile waving taxes on uber and new york city riders to find a broken subway. This is a very big thousands of google employees in the past we sent a letter to the google ceo saying that they objected to the involvement with the pentagon Artificial IntelligenceProgram Research because they say that violated their values and violated googles model, dont be evil. As far as i know russia and china are not slowing down their investment in Artificial Intelligence for military purposes. If these google employees in Silicon Valley think that can opt out of that reality they had to be the most nacve and gullible people on what they like to call, the planet. Alicia, andrew cuomo still going to run for president . Yes he is but he has a past reelection first thats what the budget is about. Remember, if you have your own hit or miss be sure to tweet it to us. That is it for this weeks show. Thank you to my panel and thank you for watching. I am paul gigot. I hope to see you here next week. A fox news alert on the deployment of National Guard troops to the southern border with mexico. Roughly 500 troops on the move right now as we speak. After President Trump said he wanted to send them thousands of troops to secure the border until he gets the wall built. However key questions remain unanswered including how much this all could cost and whether california governor will comply. Hello and good afternoon tea welcome to americas news headquarters. Good to be with all of you. 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