Attorney general says, the malfeasance and misfeasance detailed in the inspector general s report reflects clear abuse, and of this campaign, this intrusive investigation of the u.s. presidential campaign was done on the thinnest suspicions of suspicions. they were insufficient in his view to justify the steps taken. the u.s. prosecutor, john durham, says that he does not agree with the inspector general on some of the report s conclusion for alaska master the beginning of how this case opens. with all that said, let s bring in our panel. byron york, chief political correspondent of the washington examiner. mara liasson, national political correspondent of national public radio. chris stirewalt, politics editor at fox news. your take of the 437 page report. there is a giant disconnect with this. we are seeing reports that it shows that the trump investigation was legally justified, there was no political bias involved. yet at the same time, it just has this devastating list of wha
This is like the 14th test, they are they re not just testing more, they re testing at a faster pace, if you think sanctions are going to solve this, you re deluding yourself. there s a giant disconnect between their ability to quickly advance their capabilities versus our ability to enforce sanctions that would even matter. they re clearly winning that race. doing more of the same ain t going to change the fundamental problem. and there has been progress in advancements. that s exactly what dianne feinstein was talking about today, when asked about north korea s missile. i m convinced that north korea has never moved at the speed that this leader has to develop an icbm, to put solid fuel, to have an interesting launch device. and to have a trajectory which as of the latest analysis would
Grilled at the grill. in case you haven t noticed, ground beef prices are sizzling and at a record high and this coming with a big jump in wholesale food prices. this is a giant disconnect between main street and the government number crunchers. one of the tricks i think they do is let s say ribeye goes up in price, a year later they ll say you can still have chuck. so technically, there s no inflation. why are you crying? don t worry about it. but people will go to a cheaper cut of meat. there s no inflation or it doesn t hit our pocketbooks. you say it s good inflation. yeah, chuck is good for meatballs. this does speak to the disconnect between wall street and main street. wall street loves the fact that we have 0% interest rates and all of this. it s propped up the stock market but mt. conte in the contrast of that you create commodity inflation.
You have a giant disconnect between the national interest and local interest of the small but very vocal, and at the moment, very important group of house republicans. i wonder how many people are government workers that aren t getting a paycheck today. that will be interesting to understand. anything in the numbers, anything in your perspective to give some sense of how, what seems like political pandering is playing? it s great they re paying the military families. we have to respect them and their families. it seems like pandering. people who are victims of building 197 where the navy shooting was, we want to protect them as victims, is this playings apandering or congress doing the right thing? you can call it either way. much of this, how you view this depends on your political perspective. democrats did not want to take that stake. the most important person in this debate right now, chris, as we talked this morning is the house speaker john boehner.
Bad and when asked about obama s handling of the economy, 44% approved. 48% disapproved. and, you know, that just tells us right there that the economy is essentially e the cement is poured around the economy that s number one issue and what is really a big problem another white house and for democrats, that are running for re-election, is that there is a giant disconnect between their rhetoric and the reality that people are feeling and there is all the empirical and anecdotal evidence, that suggest people are anxious about the state of the economy and angry at the way washington responded. but, i think what you are seeing now is, the recovery it is not only a policy disaster in the fact that show cases the biggest mistake the democrats made which was the trillion dollar stimulus, but, it is a terrible political message to bring to people, that they are actually enduring a recovery when people just don t feel it out there. chris: juan. well i think a couple of things to say