Talked about the importance of the franchise. Im here to vote. All right. Were ready. The most Important Office in a democracy, the office of citizens. Thats what im doing right now. Exercising my right. But now the franchise is under attack like it hasnt been in a generation. I spoke to the president in an interview for my radio show, and i asked him about the importance of getting out the vote in the midterm elections. We cant afford to be sitting at home, thinking that the mid terms dont matter. Because ive got two years left in my presidency, and i want to make every single one of them count, and i need a partner in congress. And the truth is that in most of these states, and most of these congressional districts if he have high turn out, we win. If we have low turnout, we lose. Its as simple as that. What i need everybody to do is just go out there and vote. I also spoke to him about the democratic politicians who havent embraced him on the campaign trail. Heres the bottom line. W
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 from the fire. There was a marine that st
Evil can exist, how there can be such cruelty and such suffering. But we cannot be defined by the evil that threatens us or the violence that incites such terror. Words cannot describe the bravery that the whole world witnessed on sunday night. 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. Bill, what do you make of the president s response . I think it was right. It was the right tone. You know, a president needs to go and visit. Hes a national figure. I also think the tone of the people out there, you know, we saw incredible stories of bravery and its a very american story, people in official positions standing up and not running away from the fire. There was a marine that stole a car to drive people
it sounds good to people on the island. will puerto rico will need capital to rebuild and need access to the private markets and it will not do that if it defaults and wipes away all of the debt. plus, keep in mind, about 75% of that debt is held by moms and pops on the mainland who are, who own puerto rican debt through mutual funds and they re pensioners. it is not wall street. okay. fair enough. the, the debt load though is severe. going to be haircuts here for some of these lenders? oh, sure. i mean, they re already getting haircutted through this thing called permsso. washington idea to basically come in with a financial oversight board and tell two parties you need to negotiate. if you can t negotiate. then you re going to get haircut by a judge. they didn t negotiate. so, they are going to get that
texas. these are generally really very solid, conservative judges. some of them originalists in their interpretation of the constitution. in the mold of gorsuch and scalia. right. that is partly because he has used the federalists society as a clearinghouse. that allowed expedited selections. federalist society being, kind of it s a group of conservative judges, lawyers, not just judges, lawyers and so, trump has put them in a very prominent position, dan, on vetting judicial nominees. yeah. i think it is had very positive effect. if there is any criticism we ve heard that there could be more nominees that are from the law and economics school which is applies economic rationality to the law. in the way that say the very famous judge richard pozner, the 7th circuit just retired. pozner was one of the godfathers on law and economics. perhaps over time we ll see more of that introduced in the nominees.