i watched jake tapper interview tim kaine the other day. kaine struggled when he couldn t say whether the wikileaks data was accurate. to me, it s like a couple that, you know, they date for a while then they re married. they still have some disagreements about the way they look at life. now they just happen to be husband and wife. i think it would be healthy for presidential and vice presidential candidates to say, we don t see eye to eye on everything, but in the end, it ll be the top of the ticket that calls the shot. yeah, nothing wrong with that. he was right about one thing, although he was saying it in a nice way. he was still going after martha radditz. she s one of the best, hardest core journalists in the business respected by everybody around. he got that part right. he just got it wrong that she misquoted him because she didn t. michael smerconish, thank you very much. great to have you. good to see you guys. both candidates are trying to court millennials. but what
the nation s top elected republican paul ryan saying he ll in longer defend donald trump. instead, the house speaker says he ll focus on keeping control of congress and helping vulnerable republican members try to win. joining us now is cnn political commentator and host of cnn s smerconish, michael smercon h smerconish. good morning. good morning. tell us about what you think are the ramifications of paul ryan saying he can no longer defend donald trump. i think paul ryan believes donald trump is about to lose and lose badly. i m sure he s mindful of polls like those that have just come out, whether it s nbc news and the wall street journal or it s politico and the morning consult, which show that trump is now trailing by double digits in nationwide polls. and even more importantly, that in the battleground states, he s fallen behind and we still haven t seen the full impact, i don t think, of both the tape and the debate. so ryan is looking at the tea
stand up and point out that this candidate is unfit, unsuitable for the leadership of this country. mr. khan, i respect your stepping up, i just wish your motivation didn t come from such a place of loss and pain. again, we are sorry for the loss of your son. we thank all of you for your service. appreciate you being on new day, sir. thank you. alisyn? chris, house speaker paul ryan delivering a blow to donald trump s presidential bid. who has more to lose in this showdown? michael smerconish joins us to discuss this and more next. who says i shouldn t have a soda everyday? my doctor. my dentist. definitely my wife. wait, i know what i want. make sparkling water at home. and drink 43% more water every day.
money. what is your major concern right now being the financial writer for huffington post and knowing this game better than i do. the major concern is people are walking away from the stock market and pouring all of their own into a bond market at a time when they re at record lows and today the u.s. treasury will hit a record low and not getting money in cash or bonds and there is a risk that this contradiibu to the flight of confidence in the market and there is plenty of good reason not be to confident but they re taking on bigger risk by their behavior. michael, let me bring you in on this. the article with mark is that people at least this adds to the perception or the mistrust of wall street. what s your take here? i thought mark had great observations about the distrust this might fuel in wall street. what i hear from listeners is about internet stocks in particular. i think there is a difficulty that some of us have in wrapping our hands around whether there is any the
every facebook trade and will make price adjustments for retail customer that is paid too much during the debut last week. that s according to an internal memo out there. quickly before we let you, i know you have to get back on the radio. our gut check question is does this add to the mistrust some people have in wall street and what s your answer? my answer is it does, and in particular about internet stocks and whether they can hold value. all right, michael smercon h smerconish. mark, great pleasure having you on for the first time as well and for the first time since president obama vowed to continue attacking mitt romney s bain experience, romney responds. . i spent 25 years in the private sector. that obviously teaches you something that you don t learn if you haven t spent any time in the private sector. plus the pakistani doctor who helped the u.s. track down osama bin laden is now behind bars. we ll tell you what s going on there, and join our conversation on twitter.