Question for me is what am i going to do about it . And ive decided im a candidate for president of the United States of america. Welcome to the journal editorial report. Well, hes finally in former Florida Governor jeb bush officially launched his president ial campaign monday pitching himself as a washington outsider and promising to get the nations capital, quote out of the bils of causeusiness of causing problems but can he ride his twoterm record in the Sunshine State all the way to the white house . Lets ask wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor dan heninger and Washington Column im kim straussle and wall street journal contributor jason riley, so jason, i think that most people thought that jeb bush needed this launch to reinvigorate his candidacy after a couple of lackluster months. Did he succeed . Well see. He certainly needed to do that. I think if youre a bush supporter. If youre part of his team theres some concern here that he, you know at this stage very early
Down almost 30 from last years alltime low. The city has seen its tiest shootings in two decades. Despite the progress, new York City Police department has come under fire for its stop, question and frisk poll schi opponents say it is tantamount to racial profiling. Last month the city Council Passed two bills that could restrain the controversial program. My guest this week says will be a setback for the city. New York Police Commissioner ray kelly here. Thank you for being here. Good morning. Good to be with you. Tell us how stop, question and frisk works in practice and why you do it. It is a practice that is integral to policing throughout america and indeed throughout the world. Police off verse authorized by statute and also validated by a Supreme Court decision terry versus ohio in 1968. They are authorized to stop and question someone who they reasonably believe has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime. It is a fundamental off verse given the right to inquire
And instead, we will begin to normalize relations between our two countries. Welcome to the journal editorial report. That was president obama unveiling sweeping changes to u. S. Policy towards cuba in the wake of a swap that freed American Contractor alan gross after five years in prison. The president announced the surprise deal wednesday and said his administration will take steps to normalize diplomatic relations with cuba and ease economic and travel restrictions and calling on congress about lifting the trade embar go which has been in place since 1962. Joining the panel wall street journal columnist dan. Americas columnist, mary and global view columnist brett. Mary, you covered cuba for years. Is this a better deal for cuba or the United States . Its a better deal for the cuban regime, not the people. Not only because we got one person who was spying for us who was in prison for cuba for almost 20 years in exchange for three cuban spies. And alan gross. And alan gross but the p
Racing california, racing to california. Maybe they think this campaign is not quite over. Joining the panel this week wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor dan henninger, jason ray reilly, James Freeman and washington columnist kim strasso. Kim, the race is close. Why is Hillary Clinton having such a hard time closing the deal . I would say three things, paul. Shes got a cloud over her head, given this ethics issue and the server problem. The Inspector General report that came out. Two, shes got an enthusiasm problem. People are flocking to Bernie Sanders and you see them running into the race. Finally shes got a trust problem. Voters dont necessarily think they can believe what she has to say. Those things are combining to give him a boost at the end of the race. This is a fascinating thing. 1. 5 million new voters registered in california since january. Something like 600,000 in the last 45 days, the bulk are democrats. Are they sanders voters . Many of them young voters.
Henninger, jason riley, and mary ogrady and bill mcgurn. Dan, i remember we had a visitor from the Counterterrorism Group in the white house a couple months ago telling us this person telling us on background that they were concerned about europe. Now we see it manifesting itself here at the christmas season. Absolutely, paul. I was thinking very much the same thing. It was just a month ago, recall, that the pentagon made it known that they were going to move on an invasion of raqqa which is the Islamic State Head Quarters in syria. This is a time when the iraq army and the Coalition Partners were trying to retake mosul. I thought thats a lot to bite off at the same time. But the pentagon said back then that they were concerned that the Islamic State was going to try to project terror into europe and elsewhere, and clearly they were right. Not merely europe. Yemen and jordan have both experienced terrorist attacks in the last week. Obviously the west has to be on alert. The german situ