i believe we as republicans i wasn t in office yet should have done more when we had the majority. i hear that back home all the time. they say in president s first term, the first two years when we had majority in congress, republicans should have done more to execute on the president s plan for border security. we didn t. i think we played it too safe. and we lost in the midterms because of it. neil: do you think the delayed response is going to hurt you for 2020? i don t think so because i think the democrats are doing such a bad deal on the house that americans will wake up once again, but i suspect that in 2021, when we retake both houses in congress, we won t make the same mistake twice. neil: so you take the house. you take the white house. you hold on to the senate. absolutely. neil: we shall see. congressman, thank you very much. thank you. neil: it s almost as hot as texas here right now. it is. and d.c. is as swampy as [laughter] neil: it is living up to it. thank
how they re going about doing that. there you go. you have all of these worries about china and whether a deal comes to fruition in iran and north korea, but say what you will. we closed off a banner month for the dow, the kind of performance we ve not seen since 1938. i remember covering that one. how those 80 years flew by. and gas was selling and sea biscuit captured the world s attention and record time, three days and 19 hours, which is about the time you wait at laguardia airport for a typical flight. and orson well created panic war of the worlds about martians invading the earth and by the way, the dow stood at 133, that s 133. that was then, what to make of what s going on right now, our august panel rejoins us. the cvs market analyst, and also
of us, a long negotiating path, but 2020 candidates are happy this is going on. neil: you could switch it around and just say he will argue back i m the guy who brought them to this. right. neil: and you guys did not. i was just going to say, president trump has escalated the major concerns that we are having with china, the theft, the stealing, the intellectual property, the cheating, the list goes on and on. 500 billion dollars a year that the u.s. was losing, so because of the tariffs, the president has flipped this around and now people are paying attention and watching what is going on with china and what will be done with china going down the road. neil: you know, looking at the markets, and i talk to these guys all the time, and one of the things they always say better any deal than no deal. even if it s a bad deal. but to jessica s point, it better be a deal that given the
delay here or the long wait, that s got substance to it. what do you think? president trump can t risk having an iran nuclear deal moment with the chinese. he can t risk having a bad deal. huawei at least conceding on that is pretty big. at the very least, if things go awry in trade negotiations, he can at least nix that and put another band on huawei, for example if the chinese are trying to renege at the last minute. if china is going to make these public demands, which gordon chang was mentioning should be affront to all the american citizens, president trump should go after the chinese in their human rights issues, in addition to the re-education camps that they have set up in the province for [inaudible]. that s the way the chinese are dealing. they don t care about the interest of american. they want to elevate themselves
that particular bunch should look at those who are trying to get into this country and not treat them as criminals. texas republican congressman lance gooden here right now saying be careful what you wish for here. congressman, good to see you. thank you. neil: what do you think, at least the second bunch, saying no, decriminalize it, what do you think? i think if we re going down that route, why have a border at all? using their logic, we shouldn t have a border. let everyone come in. take down the gates and get rid of the border patrol. that s what we re hearing from the other side. they want to open our borders and let lawlessness reign. neil: i can imagine that obviously accelerate the problem at the border, migrants trying to get to the border. a lot of them were trying to clarify the next day that there s a distinction between decriminalizing and still, you know, slapping a civil offense, but a civil offense is a lot better than a criminal charge. yeah, this isn t like decr