panel of the new year is wall street journal columnist dan henninger, assistant editor james freeman and joe rago. let s start here at home where the new year means new speculation about the 2016 presidential field. who might knock hillary clinton from her perch as the democratic front-runner. i know this is one story you re following. well, sure, the big story for 2015, the 2016 presidential race. people will want to jump into it. the hillary clinton, the thing to watch i think hillary will get into two scorpions in a bottle with the democratic left. they own that party. they hate bill and hillary clinton but really have nowhere else to go. i think hillary will spend 2015 signing a blood oath to follow the democrats agenda and i don t think elizabeth warren will challenge her. i have a real dark horse who s going to lean in eventually, california governor jerry brown.
out the taliban in northern pakistan. this is where 9/11 began. it would be a very hopeful thing if they could actually go in there and start to root out and eliminate the taliban. joe? my person to watch is paul ryan who continues to be one of the most consequential politicians in washington. one area in particular this year he s taking other the tax writing, ways and means committee. i think there might be more consensus on tax reform than the media let s on corporate tax reform. corporate tax reform in particular. i think the white house wants the economy to grow. they ll find a willing partner in mr. ryan. mary? i m watching supreme court justice ruth badder ginsburg she s 81, will be 82 in march and very left wing. i think it s possible she ll step down this year because if she does that gives president obama a chance to nominate someone with similar politics for her seat.
panel of the new year is wall street journal columnist dan henninger, assistant editor james freeman and joe rago. let s start here at home where the new year means new speculation about the 2016 presidential field. who might knock hillary clinton from her perch as the democratic front-runner. i know this is one story you re following. well, sure, the big story for 2015, the 2016 presidential race. people will want to jump into it. the hillary clinton, the thing to watch i think hillary will get into two scorpions in a bottle with the democratic left. they own that party. they hate bill and hillary clinton but really have nowhere else to go. i think hillary will spend 2015 signing a blood oath to follow the democrats agenda and i don t think elizabeth warren will challenge her. i have a real dark horse who s going to lean in eventually, california governor jerry brown. he ran against bill clinton believe it or not in 1992 but i don t think anybody can beat her for the nom
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war. so america s retreat is directly responsible for this and remember, paul, in may of 2013, president obama gave a big speech at national defense university of washington in which he said that core al qaeda is on a path it defeat and threat we face come from essentially a smaller offshoot al qaeda group that really pose nothing worse than the kind of terrorism we used to face in the 1980s. isn t he right about core al qaeda in the pakistan/afghan border? it was always an ideology, a meth method, a network. yes, you re right. what we had in the northwest frontier for the time being has been diminished. but it is me taft sized? iraq, syria, north africa, yemen. and one of the points that joe makes at author of the ram study right.