ask my team to see some of the things she is taking criticism for. there is a little hypocrisy. there you have it. governor whitmer requested to get the family s boat out of the water before memorial day weekend. we ll leave it on the screen, your thoughts. do as i say not as i do. that s the governor s motto. i think she as well as several other democrat governors have proposed these draconian approaches the american people are tired of. open up your state and loosen your regulations and get people back to work and students back to school in person. that should be the priority not only of republican governors, many of them have done it successfully but also the democrat governors. harris: quickly roger. it is important to remember that a year ago the president trump was saying we re turning
on monday, senator joe manchin communicated with the dhs secretary and the va hospital director. he said these crimes shock the conscience and i m appalled that veterans were the victims. he promises to get to the bottom of this. shannon: doug mckelway, everyone will want those answers. thank you. the fight against racism becoming a core campaign issue for joe biden. and the former vice president laying the blame on white americans. biden telling a group of reporters, presidents can enrich a nation. they can in fact also appeal to the worse damn instinct and human nature. we possesses and sinks and it s overwhelmingly a white man s problem visited on people of color. here to talk about, roger fisk, former staffer for president obama. could be with us. thanks so much for having me. shannon: the former vice president has a long record
cognitive dissonance down the road. melissa: roger fisk, fixer coming on. we appreciate your time. thanks for having me. melissa: billionaire businessman stephen ross under fire for hosting a a trump fund-raiser today with calls of protests and boycotts. protests and boycotts. has this gone too? our power panel weighs in next. with accident forgiveness they guarantee your rates won t go up just because of an accident. smart kid. indeed. are you in good hands?
primary needs trying to impress progressives. neil: thank you very much. let s say that presidents tweets are all anyone is talking about. there s plenty of good economic news that folks today were not talking about, including retail sales soaring in june. company earnings, though still early in the process, handily beating estimates for the latest quarter. a string of records for the dow, even though we were denied one today. it s the tweets that everyone is focused on today. bad timing for president, the markets, the economy as his greatest strength. to ari fleischer, democratic charges roger fisk. courtney, how much is that sidetrack on the tweets, apart from the racist charges and all, hurting what would otherwise be a pretty solid message he could tweet about. to your point, neil, there s so much good data on the economy
so you are counting everybody. jessica: you are definitely not going to answer. katie: you are defining how people are just like with a number of other questions already on the census. harris: forgive me for a moment of lightness there, jessica. the real question here is whether or not people will participate in this in such a way that we get the right information. the president is saying that by utilizing some of the things that are already there, and then and backing that up even further with an executive order, he s hopeful that people participate at a higher level. jessica: that was actually the regulation of career census bureau officials that the get-go. when the justice department said they wanted to add this citizenship question, they recommended that they do this. this kind of data sharing process, that will cost $2 million versus $27 million for the question to be added. so the president is following the advice that he initially got. he just went on this terrible pa