red bull in his cart. we will following that story wherever it leads us. [laughter] ainsley: can t make it up. we have been telling you about that judge in paul manafort s case accusing prosecutors of gunning for president trump s impeachment and questioning mueller s authority. steve: judge napolitano now pointing out a troubling question how independent are these so-called independent prosecutors handling the probe? the answer is. good morning, guys. the answer is they do have a measure of independence as do all prosecutors. so, think about this. when judge ellis said the other day look, we all know why you are prosecuting paul manafort for financial crimes that, according to you, the indictment, began and ended before donald trump even ran for president. you want to squeeze manafort to testify against the president. that is repellant but that is the process that the federal government uses in every courthouse in nearly every prosecution almost every day. so, if judge ellis throws
korea and the phillipine president, there are our allies but they were moving in directions we didn t like. in beijing, he sort wilted in terms of the public comments but behind the scenes american policy was very good. we told the chinese where to get off on a number of issues including sales to taiwan and actually chinese agents operating on u.s. soil. we told them to stop it. that s a very good thing because they ve been here a long time, been doing a lot of things just in consistent and violation of american sovereignty, so the president s trip was really good laid the ground work for some important things that have to go on. what goes on now is really difficult. he laid the ground work. maria: i m wondering what the sanctions mean though, really, because somebody mentioned to me the other day look who cares about sanctions against north korea? the leader does not care about his people, so what does he care he s getsing sanctioned? are they effective and do they work? well they
republican side. it will happen this time as well. i have to say, last week he was asked about some of the attacks of democrats. he embraced the front-runner s label. you wouldn t normally see a candidate in that position do it. ron, let me ask you about that, too. this idea, one thing i think might be going on here is bush fatigue is working two ways in the republican party. one is at a pragmatic level. day look at bush and say i don t know if the rest of the country is ready to elect another bush. maybe we re better off having somebody up there whose last name isn t bush. the other thing is the republican party moved so far to the right since bush s presidency, that s the rise of the tea party and all that sort of thing, that they look at jeb bush and say, well, the reason we got into the whole mess we have with president obama and all that is because of the bush. we need somebody more conservative than that. it s a different party right now. well, i think you re absolutely right
was asked about some of the attacks of democrats. he embraced the front-runner s label. you wouldn t normally see a candidate in that position do it. ron, let me ask you about that too. this idea one thing i think might be going on here is bush fatigue is working two ways in the republican party. one is at a pragmatic level. day look at bush and say i don t know if the rest of the country is ready to elect another bush. maybe we re better off having somebody up there whose last name isn t bush. the other thing is the republican party moved so far to the right since bush s presidency, that s the rise of the tea party and all that sort of thing, that they look at jeb bush and say, well, the reason we got into the whole mess we have with president obama and all that is because of the bush. we need somebody more conservative than that. it s a different party right now. well, i think you re absolutely right. listen, we re talking about this because jeb bush and scott walker represent the