Was described as the russian governments effort to help the Trump Campaign. You might think its okay. You might think its okay that their only disappointment after the meeting was the dirt they received on Hillary Clinton wasnt better. I dont think its okay. I think its immoral. I think its unethical. I think its unpatriotic. And yes, i think its corrupt. And evidence of collusion. Paul joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist, dan heniger and james free man and kim straws hell. What do you make of the hanging onto the idea that there really was collusion between the russians and trump despite mueller . Well, i guess you would have to say back to business as usual for the democrats. Nothing has changed. Which does suggest a couple things, paul. One, the democrats more than anybody defended Robert Mueller and the special prosecutor. And it now appears in retrospect that their support for the special prosecutor was an act of bad faith. They had no belief in the institution of the special prosecutor. What they were supporting was a result which they fully expected to get. And now that they did not get that result, theyre trying to discredit not only the special prosecutor, the attorney general, and the sis system itf and that seems to become their momodus operandi and theyre gog to revisit the whole idea of discrediting Donald Trumps election in 2016. They wont let it go. Paul is there some prospect, james, theyre making a big deal of the fact that barr used to turn this over, is there some prospect that barr hadnt cleared his four page letter with mueller in advance . Unless you want to start fainfaintedfantasizing that bare and made it up and is quoting mueller incorrectly here, but in the letter from barr, its a summary, it has the direct quote from muellers report saying no one in the Trump Campaign coordinated or conspired with the russian government to influence the election. Paul i assume barr understood he would be on capitol hill at some point to have to explain any difference between the letter and what the report said. Adam schiff said two years ago he had seen more than circumstantial evidence of collusion. Hes been playing the game with the media, hinting of some grand conspiracy to be unveiled. It turns out there wasnt one and thats why you see these calls for him to resign. Paul kim, where is adam schiff going with this with the Intelligence Committee . Is this going to fly at all . Is there a new place he can investigate . I think its incredibly dangerous, now that mueller has come out with his report. We know what direction hes going. He has taken yet some more accusations from the same organization, fusion gps, that has to do with the Trump Organization and its talks for a while to potentially build a highrise trump tower in moscow, so theyre looking into the financial questions there. Theres been allegations of Money Laundering and bank fraud. None of that has been ever established. But adam schiffs goal here is to have a phase two of russian collusion. Okay, so mueller didnt give us the goods. Were going to go down another road and keep this alive. The danger is mueller having reached this conclusion and essentially exonerated the president on the collusion charge, i think schiff definitely risks some backlash from voters if he wont let it go. Paul what about the obstruction of justice point, dan, a separate point where mueller was less definitive and the ultimate conclusion was made by mr. Barr and his colleagues in the Justice Department. Is that some place where the democrats could possibly elevate again this charge for impeachment . Well, i think thats exactly right. They will elevate it for political reasons. Paul theyre going to try to. Theyre going to try to. Paul is it going to fly . No, i dont think its going to fly. Obstruction of justice is a judgment call, its a process crime. Yes, lying to the court is a crime and, say, contempt of court is something that judges enforce. But whether it was obstruction of justice is something prosecutors decide and Rod Rosenstein and attorney general barr decided there was no underlying crime here. So its difficult to cite obstruction of justice. The only thing the democrats presumably are doing is to find something suggesting it and take it impeachment. I doubt theyre going to do it. They want to raise the issue, trying of to appeal for somes piece of the electorate that still has its doubts about donald trump. Its wholly a political enterprise. Paul if you read between the lines of what Speaker Pelosi is saying and jim kliburn, i dont know if that agree with schiff and some of these other democrats. They kind of want to change the conversation. Thats right. You can bet that those more moderate democrats who got elected in 2018 in swing districts and are looking toward a reelection effort do not want this to be all about schiff and all about the continuing collusion claims. I think as kim noted, i think there may be a voter pushback, not just not necessarily in his own district but in the districts of other democratic colleagues, saying enough. Paul when democrats put so much credibility on the shoulders of mueller and mueller came down with his conclusions, i think it doesnt really leave much political room for them to go, unless theres some new bomb shell. When we come back, with the Mueller Probe concluded the focus now turns to just how the fbis investigation into the Trump Campaign began, with President Trump saying hell finally release some key fisa documents. Will it feel like the wheend of a journey . P working, or the beginning of something even better . 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Well, were finally going to get some answers about how these incredible allegations, which seem pretty clearly to be false, untrue, because of the mueller report, saying that the evidence did not establish collusion, were going to find out how those allegations came to be lodged at the top echelons of the fbi and given enough credibility by the fbi to actually start a counterintelligence investigation into a president ial candidate and were also going to learn about the methods that the fbi used, the surveillance tools that were used against american citizens, in particular the fisa warrants, what socalled evidence they used to justify that and whether or not they were straight up throughout this process. Because this is a failing of our Law Enforcement that we have gone through this for two years and well finally get some answers. Paul do you have any reason to suspect the fbis origin story here, which is they started the counterintelligence probe against papadopoulos in july 2016, is there any reason to think it might have started earlier . Oh, yeah, absolutely. Theres plenty of reason to believe that because we have all kinds of very mysterious interactions between individuals who have relationships with the cia or other intelligence services, who were interacting with members of the Trump Campaign way earlier than july and the fbi has never Given Congress the documents that explain those circumstances and that hopefully is something we will get to. Paul the steele dossier, christopher steele, that was solicited by fusion gps, paid for by People Associated with the clinton campaign, is that totally discredited now in your view, james . Well, i think its you cant prove everything in it is false. You can say its discredited in that a number of things have been found to be false and the outrageous claims were never corroborated. I think how did this incredibly thin partisan document become a tool to allow the government to conduct surveillance on political adversaries and i think weve looked at this sort of amazing claim from jim comey, former fbi director, saying he really didnt know much about the where this thing came from and kims column recently pointed out how that doesnt really square with lawyer james bakers analysis or testimony on ot about where it was coming from. But we need to know who made the decisions and what communications there were with the Political Leadership of this country. Paul james baker was the general counsel under comey at the fbi. Right, right. And the question is how do we get this information, how do we get to the bottom of it. President declassifying all these underlying documents is a big start. Lindsey graham intends to hold hearings in the Senate Judiciary committee to try to get to the bottom of it. Senator graham is proposing that we appoint a special prosecutor. I think thats a bad idea, paul. Its a bad idea primarily because it underminings the credibility of attorney general bill barr and weve got an Inspector General at the Justice Department looking into this and i think in terms of cleaning up the fbi and even the cia, bill barr looks like somebody who is determined to go in there and use his time in the a. G. s office to restore the credibility of those institutions. Paul kim, we have a prosecutor from utah that Jeff Sessions appointed, mr. Hubber, thats been looking into this. You name a special counsel to look into this, you have to start the clock all over again. He or she will have to get uptospeed on everything and it buries it for another two years. What we want is public accountability here. We dont want necessarily people to go to jail. But we want to know what happened. Yeah, the countrys already been waiting two years to get this information because of the First Special counsel, right. And that was one of the problems all along, is with the president according to him was told that you cant release any of these documents, you cant put anything out there because it might interfere with the special counsels work. So everyone has had to wait for that to finish in order to get their answers. You appoint another special counsel, its a black hole again, probably for the space of years. We need to get the information out of. Americans can make some of their own judgments on what after they see what the documents say. Paul james, last question, 30 seconds. What about the role of obama intelligence people here, john brennan, former cia director, james clapper, director of national intelligence. They were fanning the narrative using words like treason in brennans case. What account able foability form should we get. Its the adam schiff problem. People essentially abusing their access to classified data to then go out i in public, with pe assuming they know all the facts, make allegations that didnt prove to be true. I think there should be accountability there and above that level we have to know where did this go. You look at the decision to investigate a political rifle that doesnt look like a middle manager decision. Who made it. Paul when we come back the battle over obamacare heats up again as the Trump Administration reverses course and says the entire Affordable Care act should be thrown out. So is that a winning political strategy heading into the 2020 strategy heading into the 2020 campaign . So how are you enjoying your its just lovely. Ament . Im here to let all these folks know how easy it is to save money on their Car Insurance with geico oi oi oi set the pick kick it outside shoot the three shoot the three yessssssss are you. Ok . No, no im not. I think i pulled a hammy. 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Paul that was President Trump declaring republicans the party of Great Health Care after his administration reversed course this week and said the entire Affordable Care act should be struck down. In a filing with the fifth Circuit Court of appeals, the Justice Department said it agreed with the ruling of a federal judge in texas that invalidated the health care law. A high risk political strategy heading into the 2020 campaign. Were back with Dan Henninger and kim strassel and kate odell. Is this a smart legal strategy for the administration . No, i dont think this is a smart legal strategy for the administration i think its unlikely to prevail at the appellate level and the Supreme Court. They might decline to take the case if the Appellate Court overturned the constitutional at constitutionality. One of the big issues is whether the law is severeable. I think it clearly is. And that means that the rest of the law can stand and operate even if the mandate is found unconstitutional. I would say this has zero percent chance of success. Paul when you say the mandate, you mean the individual mandate to buy Health Insurance that was as a penalty zeroed out by the Republican Congress in 2017 under the tax law. The rest of the law, though, they didnt repeal. So its standing, its still working. Right. I mean, the logic here by the state attorney general is just try to hoist up chief Justice John Roberts on his own thinking that the individual mandate was a fair exercise of Congress Power to tax. Now, that was always sort of a political invention in my view to save the law, not really a robust legal theory. So thats why i dont think the Supreme Court will be eager to revisit the issue in light of already having made that decision in 2012. Paul kim, what about the politics of this, because my reporting suggests that house and Senate Republicans are maybe furious is too strong a word but just short of furious about this. They were surprised. They were definitely blindsided, because as you pointed out, this is a high risk strategy. For this reason. Look, you go back, why did democrats win the house back last year . And it was because they talked about issues like this. They generally had proposals for how they would improve obamacare. We can argue about whether or not they would actually work but they were presenting an idea to voters. You know, republicans, it would be great if they had an idea and an idea that was better than that and they were willing to run on it in the coming president ial election. But what those members of Congress Know is that they dont really have a plan, the white house doesnt necessarily have a plan and the risk here is that you go out and you say youre going to fix all this, no ones on the same page and, worse, what if the Supreme Court did strike down the law and somebody knew no one had health care and republicans didnt have a plan. To be precise, 20 Million People wouldnt have it, 15 million on obamacare, 5 million through medicaid, politically, paul, health care is the great white shark of american politics. It is big. We know its out there and its really dangerous to get near it and the question is which party wants to get near it. Look, democrats were talking about medicare for all. It polled well until you asked people if theyre willing to pay the cost or lose r their their insurance. Support dropped to about 30 . Democrats were on defense. Now, donald trump this is kind of typical for the art of the deal. Make a decision, force everybody to react to it and come up with a solution. As kim was describing, the republicans at this point dont have a solution and what could be put at risk here really, given the importance of the health care issue, is control of the senate in 2020, because some of those Senate Republicans like cory gardner and Susan Collins do not want to have to run on health care but have nothing to say about health care. Paul kate, what about the idea that the republicans in 2018 were in a defensive crouch, they had nothing much to say about health care and the democrats took them to school on it. Shouldnt republicans at least have some kind of plan, argument, vision on Health Care Going into 2020 . Whats wrong with that . They absolutely should, paul. Weve been arguing that, fighting medicare for all is not enough especially since it makes medicare look like some great program. But yes, i do think that republicans should be working to coaless around ideas. I think theyve been working on different approaches, one of which would try to block grant some of the funding to the states so they would have more flexibility on how to use it. What i dont think republicans should do and what the lawsuit is risking is having another fight that surrounds around whether people with preexisting conditions should be able to get insurance in the individual market. And by using this lawsuit that basically would strike down some of these provisions, thats what republicans are setting them up for right now in 2020. Paul all right. Thank you all. Still ahead, signs of recession in the bond market. So are they real . White house Economic Advisor larry kudlow is here, next. Minimums and fees seem to be the foundation of your typical bank. Capital one is anything but typical. Thats why we designed savings and checking accounts with no fees or minimums. This is banking reimagined. Whats in your wallet . Now im wondering if yourool i loves still strong. 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The last two years, weve embarked on an unprecedented economic reviral, unprecedented. America is now the hottest economy anywhere on the planet earth. Theres nobody close. Paul that was President Trump thursday night, touting the strength of the u. S. Economy at a rally in grand rapids, michigan. The president hoping to make his economic record a cornerstone of the Reelection Campaign but are there signs of a slowdown heading into 2020. Lets ask larry kudlow, the chairman of the National Economic council. Welcome. We know the economy is slowing, Fourth Quarter revised down to 2. 2 from 2. 6. How do you explain whats going on . You know, its tricky business right now on the data. Because first of all, you always have lousy seasonal adjustments in wintertime. Commerce department, i wish they would get their act together. You did have a Government Shutdown which did impact some of the numbers. But, but, but, but, let me say, inside that report cap goods, Business Investment spending looked good. Thats a keystone of our lower tax rates and deregulation, continues to pay off, cap ex, productivity, jobs and wages, thats the strongest part of the story. All that h creates plenty of income. So i think were going to get all that back and then some once we get into the second quarter. Weve got to get through the First Quarter. Historically, the First Quarter is always the low ball quarter. I cant help it if the commerce department, maybe they should do condominiums there instead of the economic analysis. Paul come on, so youre going to see a low number in the First Quarter. But heres another signal, its the bond market. Okay. And now the 10 year i think is 10 year treasury is lower than the fed funds rate. Thats telling us something. What is it telling us, if not recession . I dont know if it tells us it is a warning, no question. Second point, i think it tells us the fed is probably too tight in its policy. Paul really . Cut again . You asked my view. I would say that my view is coinciding with President Trumps view on this. I think market people, you see it everywhere now, believe that their actions in the Fourth Quarter were much too stringent. Thats what its telling us. I speak to fed people, of course. They believe that thats something they have to watch very carefully. Paul you could see, you think, actually a 25 basis point cut here coming up . You would not be surprised if you saw that . I d dont know the timing of. Im reading it in the market. Im looking at the fed funds futures market, commodity market, tips market, wouldnt surprise me. To tell you the truth, probably make me quite happy. Paul all right. So we also have problems overseas. Europe is not doing well. Italy maybe already in recession, maybe germany too. And of course the brexit woes and china has slowed considerably. How much is that going to wash up into u. S. Growth . Look, it affects us, theres no question. But you can overplay that card too. I mean, our incentive structure with lower taxes and regulations in energy and trade reform, incentive structure is in very good shape. The president is rebuilding the economy. So i dont deny that these overseas weaknesses will have an impact. But you know, on the trade basis, its really not a large part of gdp. Were a homegrown economy. Were the strongest economy in the world. As the clip said. The president is still bragging on the economy. Hes right to do so. Money is pouring into the United States for direct investment which is what we really want in autos and manufacturing and whatnot. So im not going to deny the overseas weakness, but i dont want to overplay that card either. I dont see any reason why we cant get back to a 3 growth path by the spring. Paul . Okay. The one reason i would suggest maybe we wouldnt would be trade and weve got these tariffs that are on the economy, on imports, and we also have retaliation thats hitting the farm belt in particular as you h know. How close are we to a china trade deal that would release some of this uncertainty . Well, the early reports from the Lighthizer Mnuchin trip, theyre on the plane back, so i havent talked to them, more progress was made. Thats been a pretty steady drumbeat, more progress is being made. Paul is it true that 70, 80 of this thing is already written and youre waiting for the toughest end game here . Were coming down to the final strokes. I want to try to make a point. I havent really been successful about making this point to the media. Im going to try you. [ laughter ] the deal as the president has said has to be a great deal for the United States, structurally, i. P. Protections. Paul take on the tough issues. Transfer of technology, ownership, cyber hacking, et cetera, et cetera, and enforcement along with the commodity purchases and so forth. Look, its not time sensitive. Its never been time sensitive. Now, you ive been saying that, however unsuccessfully, for the past week. Youre an exception to the rule regarding the media. [ laughter ] paul larry, my view, it is time sensitive because the economy needs this uncertainty lifted off its shoulders. We will have to have a great deal for this to work and if that takes a little longer, it will take a little longer. I have spoken to ambassador lighthizer on this many times. Federal reserve is datadependent. The china deal is not timedependent. For another few weeks, i was quoted as saying a few weeks or a month, i dont know. Im just saying its got to be the right deal and, look, you know the enforcement aspects of this are crucial and we have a very good multitiered enforcement plan. It will be backed up by tariffs and we believe if complaints are registered and we accept them, we will use tariffs and china cannot retaliate. That should fix the complaint. Paul it will be fascinating. The i if these things take me days, a week or a month, so be it. It could be the most historic important progrowth trade deal. We have to get it right and be patient. We have to be patient. Paul were going to be patient by necessity. One thing were not impatient about, but when are you going to lift the steel tariffs on mexico and canada. You promised to do it if we got a new nafta. You still have them tied on. Tied up with the usmca vote in congress which i think the outlook there is pretty good. Again, i dont know the timing of. Speaker pelosis been very good to lighthizer, shes given him complete access to the democratic side. Hes talking to canada and mexico. He wants to shift this away from tariffs and towards some sort of quota system. Hes gaining on it. Its not easy. Were working hard on it. Im going to play that from the optimistic side also. You know, for the Administration Paul weve got to go. Highly protectionist and so forth, were close to a major deal with north america and china and were talking to japan and were talking to europe, sir. I think things are looking okay. Paul well be watching that, thank you, mr. Cud kudlow. Still ahead, democrats vote present on Climate Change as the Green New Deal is put to a vote. Instead of confronting this generational challenge, Senate Republicans and their leader, Mitch Mcconnell, have scheduled a sham vote. I cant tell you who i am or what i witnessed, but i can tell you Liberty Mutual customized my Car Insurance so i only pay for what i need. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Wgreat tasting, hearthealthys the california walnuts. Ever . So simple, so good. Get the recipes at walnuts. Org. About 50 of people with evesevere asthma k . 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We need to pass a Green New Deal. This should be our nations moon shot. Paul that was new york senator and 2020 democratic hopeful, Kirsten Gillibrand tuesday, ahead of a procedural vote on the Green New Deal that failed zero thats zero to 57. Gillibrand and all Senate Colleagues making a president ial run voted present on the measure with democrats accusing Mitch Mcconnell of staging a sham vote in an effort to make Climate Change a wedge issue in the 2020 election. So kate, how do you vote present on a threat that should be our generations moon shot . Sure, paul. I mean, that was sort of the amusement piece of a press conference on tuesday. Hes saying we must act now, this is a threat, but also please vote present on this sham vote on a bill that i introduced. So it is a confusing concept. Democrats have been saying for months that we only have 10 years left on the planet. It does seem pretty urgent to argue that Mitch Mcconnell shouldnt bring it up without first having hearings which is a an argument we heard from markey and those that support the bill. Paul i guess they voted present because they didnt want to vote no, but they also didnt want to really didnt sound like they want to take full responsibility for what the Green New Deal represents. Well, who wants to take full responsibility for claiming that youre going to get rid of all fossil fuels in the next however many years and all of the consequences that would come from that. You know, shoulding down every energy shutting down every energy job that is out there, shipping the remaining manufacturing jobs we have back overseas, destroying millions of acres of grounds for solar panels and windmills. This is crazying crazy, crazy sy some estimates, 94 trillion in cost over the next 10 years. The senators, it sounds good to go there and say weve got to do something urgently on climate and look, we have a plan, but actually committing themselves to it and putting themselves on record, they know there could be real voter blowback from Something Like that. I completely agree with everything kim said, except for one thing. Im not sure this is such a tremendous political setback. It sounds good. Theres a lot of public sentiment in favor of doing things for the environment. They will be back, breaking a lot of this up into pieces, making it more sensible and then they will present to it a lot of republicans who i think are intimidated by the environmental issue. This is the way democrats do things, piecemeal and so theyve gotten a lot of publicity for the issue of greenness right now, through ocasiocortez, shes going to raise money off of this issue going forward. Theyll be back and they may win. Paul heres the par paraox of this issue. Its great for democrats and people that want to be associated with the cause, doing something about climate, makes millennial voters feel good, sort of we need to do something. But then they run into trouble when you actually see the specific things that have to be done to do something about it a and thats where it always fails. Right. I mean, because the americans understand it means radically lower Living Standards for them and theyre not willing to make that tradeoff. What i think is interesting here is that as you mentioned, the six president ial candidates that voted against it are all cosponsors of the original bill. I do think politically its going of to be hard to put that back in the bottle. So i wonder if politically this benefits 2020 hopefuls like beto orourke who tried to say i really admire the Green New Deals passion without trying to get bogged down in the specifics. Paul kate, kim, rather, break this henninger, odell split here on the political cause, damage for democrats or no . Yes, damage for democrats. I dont think theres any question about that. [ laughter ] paul all right. When we come back, President Trump warns moscow that all options are open as Russian Troops land in ca caracas, genel jack keane on the escalating jack keane on the escalating crisis in ven kickstart my heart by motley crue truck honks wheels screeching clapping sound of can hitting bag and bowl clapping always there in crunch time. Russia has to get out. Whats your next question . Paul a blunt demand to Moscow Wednesday as President Trump met in the oval office with the white of venezuelas interim president , juan guaido, the president saying all options are open after two Russian Air Force planes landed outside of caracas last weekend, carrying nearly 100 Russian Troops. General jack keane is a fox news senior strategic analyst. General, welcome. What do you make of this russian intrusion, so overt into venezuela . Yeah, its a bold yet dangerous move and further complicates the standoff we have with maduro, to be sure. I think putin is bouyed by the mill you tri intervention in syria and the success theyve enjoyed as a result of it. Their motivation was to prop up a regime that was in trouble and they have largely succeeded in doing that along with the iranians. Here they are in the western hemisphere, certainly are a partner to ma did your he row a ma dimaduro, as they are to anyg ranicaraguaand cuba. I think 100 soldiers on two airplanes doesnt make a serious military intervention in itself. Paul this isnt syria and the middle east. This isnt ukraine. This is our backyard. To do that, can we allow that to continue to happen and particularly with the president making such a blunt statement . I dont think were in a place to conduct a military intervention ourselves. Theres no consensus for that in the region and i dont believe we would act unilaterally. However, we should do more than calling out putin on it which is what we are doing. We should go to his backyard, ukraine, increase the significant amount of lethal aid to the ukrainians. We should also the russians are in violation of the u. N. Resolution of sanctions dealing with north korea. Paul for sure, for sure. Theyve never complied with it. I think we have evidence of that. Expose it and call them out on that. And at the same time, tell them once again to get out of south america. Paul well, but it seems to me that this is i thought that the intervention in crimea was a test of president obama, when president obama didnt stand up enough to that, they escalated in ukraine and went into syria. They havent paid any real price for certainly the syrian side of that. Now i think putin is testing donald trump. Do you agree with that . I agree. As i suggest, there are things that we can do other than just rhetoric. And hopefully theyll move in that direction. Paul why dont you think that we could act militarily if they dont leave . And we know the cubans are there as well. We certainly could do something to topple maduro if we wanted to. Theres no doubt about that, in terms of military action and would be successful. But i think what the president and i think this is the right strategy, along with the allies in the region, are waiting to let sanctions play out. Squeeze this regime a little bit more, before we start taking military action. Just like every military action weve ever taken, paul, the way it starts is usually not the way it winds up. There are always consequences. Paul okay. All right. Well be watching that closely. Lets turn to the decision by the president to recognize formally the israeli control over the Golan Heights on the border with syria, the right move . I think it is. Its largely due to one reason and one reason only. And thats called iran. If iran had not established syria as its strategic anchor in the middle east and from where they fully intend to encroach on the sovereignity and security of israel which they have been doing for the last two to three years, this probably would not have happened. But i a absolutely believe its the right move. We have got to counter the iranians and their significant regional ambitions that they have. The israelis conducted 100 plus air strikes in the last couple years alone, dealing with the iranian proxies that are operating in syria. And people in our audience may not have been to the Golan Heights. Paul i have been there. Its a strategic piece of land. Paul of look at the d damascus plane there. You can see the proxies where the pro h Regime Forces are tod. They dont intend to give up that strategic piece of land. Paul what about the International Law argument, if you sanction the fact that israel has taken this territory in war, which it did 52 years ago and hasnt returned it, that this allows putin to do what he did in crimea and we wont have a legal leg to stand on to criticize that or the chinese, that theyre doing in the South China Sea with those islands, do you see the comparison . I see the comparison. I think its legitimate for us to do this. We voiced opposition to annexation of cry mer crimea, hd absolutely no impact on putin. We voiced opposition to the militaryization of the South China Sea, no impact on the chinese. I think this is in israels National Interest and were supporting it. Paul do you agree with the president s decision recently to keep some u. S. Troops, different numbers you hear, 400, 1,000 in syria. Absolutely. We have three missions there. Make certain that the syrian kurds dont get slaughtered by the tuckers and establish a safe zone. Second, even though the territory has been removed from isis, the ability for them to reemerge is real, 10 to 20,000 of them between iraq and syria, so the advisers with the Syrian Democratic forces have got to do that and we have to counter the iranian land bridge in the south. Those are the three things. Paul we have to take one more break. When we come back, hits and misses of the week. Building a better bank starts with looking at something old, and saying, really . So we built capital one cafes, with savings and checking accounts you can open from here in 5 minutes. This is banking reimagined. Whats in your wallet . So lets promote our spring ftravel deals, on choicehotels. Com like this sneezes earn one free night when you stay just twice this spring. Allergies. Or. Badda book. Badda boom. Book now at choicehotels. Com. Paul time now for our hits and misses of the week. Kim, first to you. An enormous miss to those cook county prosecutors who charges against Actor Jussie Smollett whos been accused of filing a false claim of a hate crime. Look, the Chicago Police department did a remarkable investigation, a grand jury returned 16 indictments. The prosecutors themselves continue to say hes guilty, and yet they let him off with a fine, and they even got to say claim he was innocent. So this is an enormous kick in the teeth to equal justice under the law. Lets hope the feds are doing their own investigation. Paul kate. Paul, my miss this week is for a set of bills, a bill introduced this week that would allow americans to tap into Social Security as a way to finance paid family leave after theyve had a child. Now, marco rubio says hes going to preach the gospel of this to skeptics in his own party, but i dont think its the good news to expand an entitlement thats already going bankrupt which will make it that much harder to reform when the bill comes due. Paul all right, kate, thank you very much. Dan. Paul, im going to give a miss this week to facebook which announced its going to ban white separatist and white nationalistt content on its sit. Let us admit theres a difficult issue here. There are issue of speech and ideas that are abhorrent to all of us, but theres also a real tension here between First Amendment free speech guarantees and hate speech. And i think if i had to trust facebook to protect the First Amendment, i dont think i woulden trust them with that obligation. Paul all right. Thats it for this weeks show. Dan, thank you. Thanks to my panel. Thanks to all of you for watching. Im paul gigot, hope to see you right here next week. Arthel border Officials Say migrants are coming in record numbers, and President Trump doubles down on his threat to close the border this week if mexico does not step in to curb the influx. Hello, im arthel neville. Welcome to a brand new hour of americas news headquarters. Mike im Mike Emmanuel in for eric sharon. On Fox News Sunday counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway on mr. Trump saying hes not kidding around about closing the border. It certainly isnt a bluff. You can take the president seriously, and heres why