our challenge is coupled with our ability to overcome them and be anywhere else in the world. we begin tonight with the growing presidential primary fields. a former texas congressman and a former cia officer. congressman hurd represented a border district where reelection was always a tough fight. signing the so-called unity pledge and supporting the so-called nominee no matter he or she may be. what would he do if you were the president. let s find out. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. happy early july 4 to you. thank you, mr. chairman. it s good to be on with you. we are lucky to live where we live. alrighty. what did you see when you surveyed the existing candidates that led you to say i am jumping in. i will run to be the leader of the free world. i recognize the challenges that i have ahead of me. the reality is we are faced with a number of defining challenges. everything from china trying to surpass us as a global superpower to persisting. that wil
our challenge is coupled with our ability to overcome them and be anywhere else in the world. we begin tonight with the growing presidential primary fields. a former texas congressman and a former cia officer. congressman hurd represented a border district where reelection was always a tough fight. signing the so-called unity pledge and supporting the so-called nominee no matter he or she may be. what would he do if you were the president. let s find out. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. happy early july 4 to you. thank you, mr. chairman. it s good to be on with you. we are lucky to live where we live. alrighty. what did you see when you surveyed the existing candidates that led you to say i am jumping in. i will run to be the leader of the free world. i recognize the challenges that i have ahead of me. the reality is we are faced with a number of defining challenges. everything from china trying to surpass us as a global superpower to persisting. that wil
paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. as 2,024 presidential election year begins president biden s support among key voting ruse is slipping with the new suffolk university usa today poll showing the president drawing only 63% support from black voters down from 87% in 2020. donald trump now leading among hispanic voters and younger people in the same poll, the biden campaign hopes to turn those numbers around by attacking mr. trump as a threat to democracy, the president marking the third anniversary of the january 6th assault on the us capital with a speech in valley forge, pennsylvania, the release of his first television ad of the 2024 campaign. president biden: there is something dangerous happening in america. there s an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. all of us are being asked right now, what will we do to maintain our democracy? paul: doug shown was an advisor to president clinton and the presidential campaign of m
there is a lot going on right now. but the idea we are going to be able to flip a switch to bring down the cost of gasoline is not likely in the near term nor is regard with food. paul: joined the palace week also journal columnist dan henninger and kim strassel. at editorial page writer monet. before we get to inflation just want to take a quick word about the jobs report on friday at 390,000 new jobs, higher than many expected. the job market is pretty good, very solid. but there is still this unhappiness people have with the economy right now. how do you explain the disconnect? personally jobs numbers i think we can say guess they re a little stronger than a lot of people anticipated. but still this number represents a drop off at the pace of hardwood seen over the course of the past year or so. that is would been the biden administration only bragging point about the economy because inflation has run so high which means that wages actually down in real terms. that is
america at a breaking point with record levels of illegal immigration. less than three years that president biden took office, and in mitigated disaster, catastrophe and what is more tragic is disaster of the president s own design. paul: mike johnson in eagle pass, texas after leading a delegation of 60 republican lawmakers on a tour of the perceived southern border. for the record-breaking, and in the battle over the border is threatening not only future aid for ukraine, but funding for the us government. so kim, the members of the house clearly believe