Headquarters from washington. Im Leland Vittert. Get this, 60 days to the midterms, things this summer havent been exciting enough. Well, this week hasnt been exciting enough. Leland it was boring, what did we just talk about. Kristin the kavanaugh hearings, the anonymous oped. Kim kardashian was at the white house. Leland i missed that, happens. Kristin never a dull week and this was particularly wild. Hes Leland Vittert and im kristin fisher. President trump is talking about tariffs and impact on apple. Apple prices may increase, but there could be a solution where there would be zero tax and indeed a tax incentive. Make your products in the United States instead of china, build new plants now. Exciting. Hes tweeting about the growing economy and jobs. Weve got ellison barber live at the white house. Break it down for us. The Unemployment Rate is at a 18year low and on twitter President Trump says hes just getting started, but former president Barack Obama Says the president , President Trump and this administration are taking credit for something that they didnt really do. By the time i left office, Household Income was near its alltime high and the uninsured rate had hit an alltime low and wages were rising and poverty rates were falling. I mention all of this just so when you hear how great the economy is doing right now, lets just remember when this recovery started. He was trying to take credit for this incredible thing thats happening to our country. If the democrats got in with their agenda in november of almost two years ago, instead of having 4. 2 up, i believe honestly, youd have 4. 2 down. Youd be negative. The economy is doing well. The president wants to focus on that, but words written anonymously in New York Times editorial are overshadowing the numbers released by the labor department. Instead of just talking about the 95th month of job growth or Hourly Earnings increasing by an average of 10 cents, people, including the president are talking about the unnamed Senior Administration official who say they and many other Senior Administration officials are working from the inside to frustrate parts of trumps agenda and in their words, his worst inclinations. Were going to take a look at what he had, what he gave, what hes talking about, and also where he is right now. Supposing i have a high Level NationalSecurity Breach and hes got clearance. We talked about clearances a lot. And he goes into a high level meeting, concerning china or russia or north korea or something, and if this guy goes in, i dont want him at those meetings. The New York Times say they are confident that the department of justice understands the First Amendment protects all american citizens and would not participate in such a blatant abuse of power. And cabinet officials denied writing this oped with a news outlet in north dakota, President Trump said when he read this four or five people came to mind that could have written this. He did not that i am them he has confidence who wrote this. Kristin you know that President Trump is doing everything in his power to figure out who wrote the oped. Thank you. Leland more on trump and the economy. Lets bring in trade director peter navarro. Here is your opportunity. You talk about the economic numbers and democrats want to talk about the numbers. And president obama claims to have laid the groundwork. The obama thing, its interesting. I mean, i was on the campaign trail with the president and hillarys surrogates there were always saying how we could never grow over 2 . When Obama Left Office growth was 1. 6 . Here were hitting over 4 in the latest quarter and if you think about it, if you just look at obamas policies, right . Are you going to get more growth with higher taxes or lower taxes, right . Obama raised taxes. Are you going to get growth with more regulation or less regulation . Obama raised regulations faster than almost any other president in history. So theres no you know exactly why that economy was growing slow with obama, and of course, all the trade. He was sending jobs off shore just like his predecessors were at the rate. We lost over 70,000 factories and 5 million jobs since 2000 because of his policies and his predecessors policies. Leland are you viewing this economic message from the democrats as now running on the Trump Administrations success . What obama is trying to do is claim credit for the president s success which is absurd. Because this president is putting together a resume on the economy and National Security historically will rank the greatest president in modern history for the first two years of his term. Incredible. Leland the American People arent stupid. They dont need to be told how the economy is doing and they feel it in their pocket book. And its reflected in the industry. We have Consumer Confidence and Business Confidence at historic highs right now. Leland we do, but also, the recent polling about not just the president s approval numbers, but how hes handling the economy is even or underwater. Why is that . I think what were trying to do is communicate our message. Leland are you doing a good job of it . Well, what the left likes to do, what a lot of the fake news like to do is obfuscate things. And do you ever use a laser pointer and the cat okay, who is the cat and who is the laser pointer . The laser pointer is the news outlets that want to take us away from the economic news. Leland and the cat is. The cat is whoever is not watching. Leland common, doesnt the president have a little bit of, you could say blame or responsibility for also pointing a laser pointer . Not at all. Were here today. Think about whats going on here. Instead of talking about all the good economic numbers, were talking about why were not talking about the good economic numbers. Leland were talking about the good economic numbers. Lets do some of of the numbers. 3. 9 unemployment. Leland right. Right . And one of the most things that im most happy about is the fact that weve pulled almost a Million People into the work force that we said during campaign werent counted in the work force. These were ones discouraged by the obama policies. Leland you agreed with me earlier when i said that people dont need to be told whether the economy is good or not, they feel whether the economy is good or not. My question is, why arent we hearing the feedback from america in polling and in general, hey, the economy is great . The administration keeps telling us its great. Why hasnt that feeling permeated down . Im not connecting with you on that because if you look at Consumer Confidence, its over 80 . Leland fair point. Business confidence, highest levels. If you look at manufacturing confidence. As an economist, you can look at the numbers today, right, but what i like to do is look where the numbers are going to go. Leland okay. So if you combine high Business Confidence with high rates of investment and the ism Manufacturing Index coming out, which projects, that means that the investment driver of our economy is going to be pushing us, and if you combine high Consumer Confidence with growing wages, and were finally low regulation. Great numbers tomorrow. Leland and you have been an advocate of some of the president s tough trade policies and tariffs. This is running online by the National Retail federation. Take a look, well get your response. Class, what are tariffs . Anyone know . Im not sure, but my best friends sisters boyfriends brothers girlfriend says tariffs could raise prices on clothes to cars. I guess its pretty serious. Leland ben stein goes on to agree, and do tariffs and continued tariffs that President Trump talked about air force one yesterday, and tariffs on another 200 billion of chinese goods, the markets go down on that news. Do tariffs in a trade war have the ability to put cold water on everything you just talked about . What tariffs have done so far have stimulated tremendous amount of investment in this country and a tremendous amount of job growth. If you look where the tariffs are in place so far. Solar, dishwashers, steel, aluminum. In all of industries, weve seen investment off shore and coming in and creating new jobs. Here is the problem. Those who learned econ 101, theyre told tariffs are bad. If youre competing against china and china had auto tariffs at 25 and you have 2. 5 or competing against germany and their tariffs are 10 on autos and ours are 2. 5. What happens . What happens with germany is a huge so this deficit with germany and sell a lot more cars here. Leland this goes back to the president s argument zero tariffs and were happy. We want reciprocal tariffs and the president s dumping unfair trade practices is job inducing. Leland thanks for coming in on a saturday. As always. Kristin President Trump is on the hunt for the Senior Administration official who wrote the anonymous oped. He told he believes its narrowed down to four or five people, but he wants his attorney general to investigate. For more insight lets bring in dan palmer. Thanks for being with us. Thank you for having me. Kristin lets play the game that everyone in washington is playing. Who do you think wrote it . You know, i have no idea, but this whole week, kristin, reminds me that this is a National Power struggle. Weve been going at this since before the 2016 election, and the surprise election of donald trump shocked the establishment and so people who are loyal to the status quo, managing the decline, profiting at the expense of the American Public, are fighting tooth and nail, hammer and tong, every way they can to both restore themselves to power and to thwart this president s agenda. This is a confession of a dereliction of duty. Kristin dan, arguably this was not a good move for our democracy didnt make us look good. You cant deny this also does not make the Trump Administration look good as well. How is this going how much does this hurt his presidency . Im actually giddy over it. I mean, weve had a situation where trump has intuited that his offices are being wire tapped. Everyone discredited him and said, no, its not happening. And it turns out with the fisa court authorizations, it was happening. And now, hes been saying, look, im being thwarted by the deep state or whatever you want to call the entrenched bureaucracy that serves itself at the expense of the American Public and lo and behold we have a confession on the oped page of the New York Times. I think time and time again, in this epic struggle for power between the American People on the one hand and the selfserving culture of washington on the other, we found that trumps instincts are correct. I actually think this has backfired on this individual and when theyre outed, well find out theyre lower level than they claim to be and prepping for a book they want released or job resume. I think its really selfserving and dereliction of duty and appalling. Depending where the person sits in the bureaucracy, it could be a National Security issue. I doubt it, but its possible. Kristin and thats what President Trump is saying, its a National Security issue and a threat to our democracy. What do you make of President Trumps statement that he doesnt just want the white house to investigate, he wants his attorney general to look into this and find who wrote it . I think this is pointing, again, to this institutional problem we have where the department of justice is sitting on its hands. The fbi has been implicated in, frankly, their own interference with the 2016 election, and i think hes exasperated at the lack of action on the part of the attorney general and the department of justice and with good cause. I mean, lois lerner, for gods sake who approved the clinton foundations 501 c3 and gave away 6 of receipts and went on to thwart the Tea Party Movement in different election cycles, suffers no consequences. Theres a whole culture of no consequences for bad axe actions and i think thats driving this president nuts and frankly the American People. Kristin we could talk about this all day. Before you go i want to ask you one more thing. You used to work on senator ted cruzs campaign and senator cruz and President Trump had not very nice things to say on the campaign trail back in 2016, but now President Trump is going to be campaigning for senator cruz headed into the midterms. So how does that work . Im gratified to see that. Look, that was an extremely hard fought, bitter, primary fight. There was a lot of very nasty things said and you know, frankly it got under cruzs skin and i think that may be regrettable and i think he understands where the nations priorities are and hes been a very loyal and effective leader in the United States senate. And i think trump recognizes that and wants him to continue to serve in that capacity. I mean, what a disaster if we get orourke who wants to gut ice and have Health Care Free for everybody. Its that kind of madness on the left thats taken over the Democratic Party, really has to be checked. I think that trump recognizes that and so does ted cruz. Kristin trump has been able to turn out the base in the special elections and primaries. See if he can do it for senator cruz. I think he will. Kristin great to see you. Be sure to tune into Fox News Sunday with chris wallace, check your local listings for time and channel and howard kurtz will talk about the latest coverage of New York Timess oped, that and Bob Woodwards book. Dont miss it. Leland the new Supreme Court terms starts in a few months and that gives the senate time to approve Brett Kavanaugh. A lot to digest. It wasnt boring. To remember the goal of the democrats was to force Brett Kavanaugh to make some kind of an error. After several days of brutal hearings his supporters feel almost certain he will be confirmed. Throughout the hearings, democrats complained that they hadnt received all of the documents from judge kavanaughs records that they wanted and lake this week, senator cory booker made a show by releasing confidential documents that were not cleared for the public. This is an unjust sham rule to try to prevent documents being seen by the American People and im standing on this hill and if they want to kick me out of the senate, so be it, bring it. Republicans say thats the latest example of democrats grasping at straws trying to stop judge kavanaughs confi confirmati confirmation. The senate is is a joke much of the time. And that was consistently dishonesty if the way people would ask questions. And a number of democrats were considered possible candidates for 2020. And the president looked at judge kavanaughs, and hes a great scholar and great mind and intellect and a great personment and the screaming and the shouting, and the way theyve treated him and the court system and the system itself is shl who. Now, theyre all running for president , i hope. I hope. We dream about them. Two of the leading topics throughout the hearings were judge kavanaughs views on the Mueller Investigation and abortion. And the latter is takely important because the two republican senators are Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins who said they could not vote for a nominee who overturned roe vs wade and kavanaugh continued to say that case was decided and precedence. The republicans have enough votes to confirm on their own as long as in undefect. But they expect a few democrats as well. And last year, three confirmed neil gorsuch. And this coming up hearing, we expect to have a Senate JudiciaryCommittee Vote on september 20th and following week a vote for the full senate likely on the 26th enough time to be seated on october 1st when the new Supreme Court term begins. Leland whats amazing, throughout this whole time the names you just mentioned collins and murkowski on the republican side and heitkamp and donnelly and manchin on the democratic side. The same names we were talking before the hearings and after the hearings. We will have a panel with their take aways on the kavanaugh confirmation hearings. Were any minds changed . Thats coming up in a couple of minutes. Kristin coming up, bombarding the last rebel strong hol