Donald trump. Paul gowdys remarking after meeting with ros stieb. The white house said wednesday that there are still cause for concern about the fbis actions leading up to the 2016 election. Lets bring many wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor Dan Henninger and kim strassel and bill mcgurn. All right, kim, what do you make of gowdys remarks there and where are we on the probe right now . Well, the first thing id note that theres a lot of different points when youre talking about the fbis mishandling of 2016 and while mr. Gowdy seems to be saying that he thinks this informant or spy is okay, we havent heard him renounce other areas like fisa abuse which we know hes had concerns with. But i think the bigger point here, is look, mr. Gowdy has always been clear, former federal prosecutor, he tends to have a lot of difference for the department of justice and fbi. Hes saying that they acted appropriately and that the informant was used to investigate russia, not the campaign, th
The house left town this weekend without moving on immigration legislation delaying a vote on a compromise measure until next week after failing to pass conservative bill on thursday, President Trump tweeting friday that the gop should stop wasting its time on immigration until after the november election saying, quote, we can pass great legislation after the red wave. Joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist and deputy editor, Columnist Bill mcgurn and columnist in Manhattan Institute senior fellow jason riley. So yeahson, i guess jason, i guess with policy retreat the administration that it was a mistake, political mistake, what do you take away from it . Paul, it reminded me of the bill early on. They had no plan for rollout, they looked like the right hand didnt know what the left hand was doing and similarly here, they were not prepared for the blowback they were going to get on both the left and the right and they werent prepared for those images that people wer
The house left town this weekend without moving on immigration legislation delaying a vote on a compromise measure until next week after failing to pass conservative bill on thursday, President Trump tweeting friday that the gop should stop wasting its time on immigration until after the november election saying, quote, we can pass great legislation after the red wave. Joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist and deputy editor, Columnist Bill mcgurn and columnist in Manhattan Institute senior fellow jason riley. So yeahson, i guess jason, i guess with policy retreat the administration that it was a mistake, political mistake, what do you take away from it . Paul, it reminded me of the bill early on. They had no plan for rollout, they looked like the right hand didnt know what the left hand was doing and similarly here, they were not prepared for the blowback they were going to get on both the left and t right and they werent prepared for those images that people were
Toronta. What difference without kennedy . He was the most heterodox, has strong views on subjects but they dont always line up with the traditional liberal conservative, very much in favor of gay rights, free speech, whether liberal or conservative free speech and he was sometimes wild card. Most likely new justice will be line up with the other four republican. Paul that could be the case, dan, its interesting, if you look at First Amendment Juris Prudence, kennedy was very strong, wrote the Citizens United decision, for example, on Campaign Finance and free speech and theres no guaranty that his replacement even if socalled conservative is going to be as strong on First Amendment or even on state rights. Well, thats right. All of these nominees in Supreme Court, intelligent person have their own mind, they are able to identify whether they will vote most of the time with conservatives or the liberals but theres no real predicting and a lot of the issues have been in play, i think, t
What you care about. That is why i believe if we are fortunate enough to win back the house and the senate, that is when civility can start again. Paul lets bring in wall street journal columnist and deputy editor, dan heninger. Editorial rater, kate odell and assistant Editorial Page Editor james freeman. Dan, your very civil person. Most of the time. [laughter] paul what is this message from democrats . This is in the wake of the kavanaugh defeat for them but is only one Supreme Court seat. Well, will level the message has been that because of the kavanaugh Supreme Court fight, democrats are enraged. And that it will animate the base, energize them, drive turnout in the november midterm election. We understand that. I think Something Else is going on here, paul. Which is that an aspect of the democratic left, the progressive movement, the ones that demonstrate in the galleries the ones that get themselves pulled out of senate hearings, what i call the code pink left have been taking