Democrats was a lot of them looked at the prospect of nominating Bernie Sanders, said you know what, thats a risk we dont want to take and they looked around and said, you know what, joe biden is the best alternative. We are going with him. Do you agree or not . I do. He had assist with that. It did help imthat you that folks like Pete Buttigieg and amy klobuchar. This is our guy, he has the best shot. The field is clear and he is the alternative to bernie. Paul so is that plausible to you, dan, do you think that that is my theory or Something Else . I guess he got an assist from Mike Bloomberg and that moved him out in the view of democrats as alternative. Yes, the Democrat Party is a big interconnected institution. There were significant endorsements, jim clyburn, congressman from south carolina. Susan rice, formerly Barack Obamas chief of staff. Harry reid, harry reid called chief of staff and told him im sorry its nothing personal, its like the godfather. Paul its strictly business
Escalating trade war sending stocks plunging with dow closing down more than 600 points friday following a barrage of tweets from the president threatening to retaliate against beijing attacking Federal Reserve Jarome Powell and ordering u. S. Companies to find alternatives to doing business in china. Lets bring in wall street journal assistant Editorial Page Editor James Freeman Allysia Finley and Columnist Bill mcgurn, james, your friend has a phrase he calls the edge of chaos with trade negotiation including china and the u. S. Where each side seeks to decide who can absorb the most pain. Are we there . [laughter] we should there, also said its like a drinking, you may win but you will get hurt too along with the other guy and thats where we are, you see that in the market reaction. These are taxes, the president interestingly acknowledging they are taxes in one of his recent tweets and big reason why we have seen reduced Corporate Investment in the u. S. And around the world. Paul
His 448page report on russian interference in the 2016 president ial election in front of two separate congressional committees. And frustrating lawmakers on both sides with his refusal to stray from the report or make any conclusions as to whether the president should be charged with obstruction of justice. What exactly if anything did we learn from former special Counsel Robert Mueller . Lets ask former Justice Department official and former counsel to the Senate Judiciary committee, greg nunsiata. Welcome, sir. Mess your t. Pleasure to have yo. Let me ask about the issue that was raised by the congressman which is the claim in the report that Robert Mueller issued which was that the president was not exonerated by the report. Is that a violation of traditional prosecutor prosecul behavior and discretion. Yeah, certainly in contrast, in tension with our general an glow american principles of angloamerican principles. Kind of a creation of special counsels statute. Theres been problem
Last month and a cnn poll released this week shows theres a big bum for harris as well. Lets bring in wall street journal columnist. To Big Development i think this week. Biden is back to the field of the polls number one and number two elizabeth were beginning to edge ahead of Bernie Sanders as the favorite of the left but lets take biden first. How much trouble is he in . He is in a lot of trouble. Here is why. If you look at the numbers after the debate what you see is that the people who were up there on the stage where the fighters and landing the punches are the ones that have come up on top and in particular, Kamali Harris who went after joe biden of this question of his position on busing and segregation. We do not come out of this doing much more about how a president harris would govern but the one thing that all democrats want is they want a fighter and someone will take it to trump and thats a warning for biden and for sanders who both came out of that looking. Paul jason,
Which i understood but the persistent singling out got to a point just outright disrespectful. Singling out women of color. Columnist and Deputy Editor dan henningjer, kim strassel and Editorial Board member kyle peterson, is to, kim, you devoted column to this subject is nancy pelosi he losing control of her caucus or reasserting it . Attempt the o rea certificate facing revolt since session began, and she is generally managed to keep together her members, i will give her credit for that but the risk for her here is that these four freshmen and others on very far left of the progressive wing are threatening to make it harder for hour to keep her people together, and begin having problem that john boehner had or paul ryan had in terms of actually governing getting votes across the line this was attempt to say knock it off you need to step back, we will see how she comes out of it. Paul kim, she singled out four people, and they call themselves the squad. And the more rad kale members i