federal judge in louisiana. here s his exchange with republican congressman mike johnson on wednesday. the fbi made the social media platforms pull that information off the internet if it came from conservative sources. they did this under the guise that it was disinformation. can you, can you define what disinformation is? our focus is on malign, foreign disinformation; that is, foreign hostile actors who engage in mr. wray to use our social media platforms i have to stop you for time. that s not accurate. you need to read this court opinion, because you re in charge of enforcing it. paul: joining the panel, columnists dan henninger, kim strassel and bill mcgurn. so, bill, first, let s start with that exchange on disinformation. what do you make of the fbi director s answers? i think he answered very weakly. he came across as a man who either hadn t read the material as congressman johnson suggested, or he just didn t take the whole oversight process very
62020 presidential race with a promise with a return to decency. my next guest has a recent string of stories joe biden s temper, son hunter and the unacknowledged granddaughter or denting the president every man image and could undermine his reelection chances in 2024. wall street journal columnist fox news contributor karl rove joins us now for the surf seniod senior advisor to president george w. bush. welcome karl. good to see you. take this authenticity points and spell it out for our listeners. presidential races the authenticity of a candidate matters a lot. for two and a close race for 1980 the great communicator was able to convince people he would do in office when he was saying he would do on the campaign trail.
republican party actually want to somewhat increase the number of those specialized that do bring science and technology experts, keep people who go to graduate school here and give them incentive to stay. but the second part is, no matter what you re saying and how you re parsing it, this rhetoric does come across as anti-immigrant in an ethnic way that is bad for the republican party. whether or not you re specifically talking about them. even within the black voting cohort as the daughter of immigrants, i will tell you that there is a part of the black cohort that is caribbean based, that is african based that hears that and hears you talk about them. because you have a lot of caribbean and african immigrants who come to this country to go to school, to go to engineering school and, doctor school and that hurts republicans with the one piece of the black electorate and they won t even entertain talking to them. i m going to put authenticity points on joy. it isn t my pareb bmu$o w
rhetoric does come across as anti-immigrant in an ethnic way that is bad for the republican party. whether or not you re specifically talking about them. even within the black voting cohort as the daughter of immigrants, i will tell you that there is a part of the black cohort that is caribbean based, that is african based that hears that and hears you talk about them. because you have a lot of caribbean and african immigrants who come to this country to go to school to go to engineering school and, doctor school and that hurts republicans with the one piece of the black electorate and they won t even entertain talking to them. i m going to put authenticity points on joy. it isn t my parents who were born in the united states, it s me. i was born in canada. the united states is about to pass the highest level of foreign-born in the population in american history, higher than in 1913.