yesterday the washington examiner s tim carnie joined us to discuss his new piece entitled it s time to create a conservative ecosystem that doesn t welcome racists. it was a great conversation and this morning there are two new columns that build on that argument. david french writes for time magazine my fellow republicans must stand against the alt-right virus infecting america which reads in part our political world s obsessive focus on trump can blind our nation to a larger problem. radicals of all kinds don t just seek to kill, threaten or harass. they also seek to influence and the measure of their influence is the measure of their success. to be clear, the vast majority of conservative or right-leaning
story from the new york times about the u.s. investigation into michael cohen, immigration, north korea and then, of course, bernie sanders. let s bring in tim carnie, opinion editor at the washington examiner. he was here to talk about his book, which i loved. but i want to ask you about this. new york times reporting the president called matthew whitaker and said, can you help me get this guy up in the southern district of investigate to be the one investigating then nothing happened. so, to me, this is like another one of these stories where the president raises the question. he was told it couldn t happen. and everybody moved on. our system works. donald trump doesn t come from politics so he often tries to do stuff that isn t quite the way things work, whether it s custom or legal. we ve seen so much in the trump administration that the american system is set up so robustly that it often acts as a check on power even when the president
free market stuff i think clears up a lot of the corruption where you say if you re not handing out subsidies, it s not that big of a deal. but on the global international stuff, those conflicts are always there. tim carnie, thanks for your time tonight. thank you. a boorish real estate man head of state. who most resembles donald trump. ya sleepin ? come on! what time is it? it s go time. come on. let s go, let s go, let s go. woooo hoooo!! yeah!! i feel like i went to bed an hour ago. i ll make the cocoa. get a great offer on the car of your grown-up dreams at the mercedes-benz winter event. it s the look on their faces that make it all worthwhile. thank you santa!!! now lease the 2017 c300 for $389 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer.
york post, josh barrel and tim carnie, senior political columnist for the washington examiner. visiting fellow at the enterprise institute. you re team paul in this one, i take it? what do you think why do you think this is a good fight for the republicans to have? i sense you do think it is. and why is paul the one that you re backing, that you feel speaks for the party the best. first let me say i do not accept rand paul s premise that eating bacon makes you gain weights, i think it s the carbs. in the foreign policy realm, what we need and in the national security realm, as far as nsa, spying and the great stuff that you and glenn were talking about earlier, what we need is a robust debate and there hasn t been that in the republican party for a long time. it s been close. in the democratic party today there s not a robust debate. what do you think i m doing
layup. bacon, talking about bacon, he s making a big mistake picking a fight with other republicansing. the republican party is shrinking in new england and the northeast part of our country. i m the one trying to grow the party. christie says he has nothing personal against paul, but paul may have something personal against him. seeing his response, he has something personal against me, that s okay, just get in line on that front. paul offered to share a beer with christie, in hopes of ironing out their differences. his rhetoric didn t seem to change all that much. those of us who are conservative and believe in a strong national defense, how do you have enough funding? i m willing to cut entire departments. my problem with some of the more liberal members of the republican party is, they re not willing to cut spending other places in order to preserve national defense. joining me now is robert george, editorial writer for new york post, josh barrel and tim