Mourning. We struggle are to the words to explain to our children how such evil can exist. How there can be such cruelty and such suffering but we can not be defined by the evil that threatens us or the violence that incites such terror. Words can not describe the bravery that the whole world witnessed on sunday knight. Americans defied death and hatred with love and with courage. We will all have to wrestle with the horror of what has unfolded this week, but we will struggle through it together, and we will overcome together as americans. Lets bring in wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor Dan Henninger and columnist, mary ogrady and bill mcgurn. Bill, what do you make of the president s response . I think it was right. It was the right tone. A president needs to to and visit. He is a national figure. I also think the tone of the people out there, we saw incredible stories of bravery and its a very american story. People in official positions standing up and not running away
Days of a Trump Administration would look like. And the republican nominee promised once in a lifetime change if hes elected november 8th. So with just over two weeks to go, will the plan he laid out help him close the polling gap with Hillary Clinton . Lets ask wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor dan henining and mary an stay that ogrady, bill mcgurn and kim strassel. Dan, new contract with america, closing argument. They advertised this for a couple days. What did you make of it . He calls it the contract with donald j. Trump and it was not a hail mary. There were 15 or 20 hail marys. Let me say this on his behalf, there is more change in that speech than Hillary Clinton will ever produce for the rest of her life. No question about it. There was a lot. And there was a lot of good things at the end on taxes, on energy, on regulation, specific proposals for tax reform, for reforming the energy system. But i think lets cut to the chase, he doesnt have much time left, and not
Anastasia ogrady. Daniel well its not exactly clear whats behind it. Obviously people are being infected. People who have coronavirus are transmitting it to others and there are things we can correlate with, it could be the protests that, indeed, happened all over the country for the last month. These were people in close proximity to one another, in los angeles, texas, florida, other states, it could be the number of people who have gone to restaurants, bars without masks and despite new infections do involve younger people, not the older Vulnerable People above the age of 70 who tend to be have the highest death rates. Some of the younger people are being hospitalized not too many of them are dying. The case rate is very high, the case numbers are high. The death numbers are not high, if you look across the states they remain very flat, so at the moment the surge seems to be located, paul, mainly in the younger population who has quite frankly been exposing themselves to one another
Anastasia ogrady. Daniel well its not exactly clear whats behind it. Obviously people are being infected. People who have coronavirus are transmitting it to others and there are things we can correlate with, it could be the protests that, indeed, happened all over the country for the last month. These were people in close proximity to one another, in los angeles, texas, florida, other states, it could be the number of people who have gone to restaurants, bars without masks and despite new infections do involve younger people, not the older Vulnerable People above the age of 70 who tend to be have the highest death rates. Some of the younger people are being hospitalized not too many of them are dying. The case rate is very high, the case numbers are high. The death numbers are not high, if you look across the states they remain very flat, so at the moment the surge seems to be located, paul, mainly in the younger population who has quite frankly been exposing themselves to one another
Mary, what does ill tell us it tell us about the economy . Mary i think its good news and what we had to say in all of this is we are not getting back to february any time soon because unless we have the virus basically solved, there are lots of economies that are not going to open and the fact that we are doing better than just threading water here, make gains, thats good news. In the in the half halffull camp i would say theres less momentum. We had better momentum in june and may and we are still down 13 million jobs and as we try to get below 10 unemployment, now at 10. 2, thats where it becomes more difficult to restore those jobs short of a vaccine. Paul jason, it would seem on marys momentum point that the flareup in the summer to have virus in the south and South Western States did seem to slow the growth of of jobs, you did see a lot of restaurant jobs, a lot of Leisure Hospitality jobs come back but theres still millions that that are on the sidelines. Bill yeah, striking in